Name: 又到了一年一度大掃除的時候了！想知道該如何將房間打掃得亮晶晶的，快來看！ (How to Deep Clean Your Home, With Rajiv Surendra | Life Skills With Rajiv)
Uploaded: 2024-02-07T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 12 min 42 s

今天，我們將回到最基本的話題。

And what's your version of a thorough cleaning?

Today, I'm gonna show you how I clean my place when I want it super clean.

今天，我要告訴你，當我想把我的地方打掃得超級乾淨時，我是怎麼做的。

So the secret of a deep cleaning is in this box right here.

所以，深度清潔的祕密就在這個盒子裡。

No, it's not... cleaning is not in this box, but there is something very special in this box.

不，這個盒子裡沒有清潔劑，但盒子裡有非常特別的東西。

And that's why I'm cleaning my place today.

這就是我今天打掃房間的原因。

Whenever I get something for my apartment that I have been waiting for that has been commissioned, something that's going to be put on display, I do a deep clean.

每當我得到一些我一直在等待的為我的公寓定制的東西，一些將要展示的東西，我就會進行深度清潔。

And today something has arrived from my friend Deborah that has been in the works for two years.

今天，我朋友黛博拉的東西終於到了，這個東西已經準備了兩年。

Deborah told me once that a coverlet, traditionally a 19th-century wool Coverlet was something that was used in the winter and the fall.

黛博拉曾告訴我，傳統上，19世紀的小被單是在冬天和秋天使用的。

But in the summertime, early American and Canadian settlers, they had summer coverlets, summer weight coverlets which were made out of wool but were very thin.

但在夏天，早期的美國和加拿大移民使用夏季小被單，這些床罩由羊毛製成，但非常薄。

And a couple of years ago, I designed a logo for Deborah's company, Upper Canada Weaving, and in return as payment, she said she would make me a summer coverlet.

在幾年前，我為黛博拉的公司Upper Canada Weaving設計了一個商標，作為回報，她說她會為我製作一個夏季小被單。

She was going to pick out the sheep from a certain farm in Ontario.

她打算從安大略省的某個農場挑選羊毛。

Have them shorn, have the wool spun to her specifications.

給它們剪毛，按照她的要求紡羊毛。

I asked her if she could make the coverlet yellow and gray.

我問她能否把蓋毯做成黃色和灰色。

And she had her friend Liam dye the wool with golden rod and Sumac.

然後，她的朋友Liam用金線和醋栗染色羊毛。

So he needed to wait until the fall to harvest those flowers and berries.

所以他需要等到秋天才能收穫這些花朵和漿果。

And as I said, two years later, the coverlet was finished and it is in this box.

正如我所說，兩年後，小被單完成了，就放在這個盒子裡。

So before I could open up this box and put that coverlet on the bed, I want my place to be super clean.

所以，在我打開這個盒子，把小被單放到床上之前，我希望我的房間能超級乾淨。

I think everybody has a version of what super clean is and everybody's version is different.

我想每個人都有自己對深度清潔的理解，而且每個人的理解都不一樣。

So today I'm doing my version of a thorough deep clean and that begins with clearing this whole room of any stuff that shouldn't be on the ground or on the tables.

所以，今天我要做一次徹底的大掃除，首先要把整個房間裡不該放在地上或桌子上的東西清理乾淨。

If you use a feather duster, you're just really moving dust around, you're not picking it up.

如果你使用雞毛撣子，你只是把灰塵弄走，而不是把它撿起來。

And the whole point of dusting is to collect the dust and to try to get rid of it.

而除塵的目的就是收集灰塵，並設法將其清除。

So I use a cloth and if you use a cloth like this, as you're picking up the dirt, you can see it on the cloth and you can just fold it in different ways to get a new clean surface and I try to dust everything I do this once a week.

所以我使用一塊抹布，如果你使用一塊這樣的抹布，當你拾起汙垢時，你可以在抹布上看到汙垢，你可以用不同的方式摺疊抹布，以獲得一個新的清潔表面。

I don't know where it comes from, but there's always dust.

我不知道它是從哪裡來的，但總是有灰塵。

There is dust in a lot of places that you don't even think of looking.

很多地方都有灰塵，你甚至想都沒想過要去看看。

And these are the places where dust loves to hide because it goes, "Oh, I know he's not gonna look there. So I'll go sit there forever."

這些地方是灰塵喜歡藏匿的地方，因為它會想：「哦，我知道他不會在那兒看。所以我就會在那兒坐上一輩子。」

Look, look at this. That's from three little strokes of dusting.

看，看這個。 這是透過輕輕掃幾下灰塵產生的。

So you might think, "Well, he's crazy. That was crazy.

所以你可能會想，「好吧，他瘋了。那太瘋狂了。

But ok, first of all, yes. Secondly, for good reason.

不過，好吧，首先，是的。第二，是出於很好的原因。

They're so happy now. You can just see them smiling.

他們太幸福了。現在你可以看到他們在微笑。

Look at this. The top of this lamp, the base of this lamp. Over here.

看看這個，這盞燈的頂端，這盞燈的底座。這邊。

When you're dusting, it's actually smart to work from the top down.

當你除塵的時候，從上往下除塵其實是很聰明的。

So if you have shelves and there's stuff on the shelves and you're gonna dust the shelves, do the shelves before you do the table tops.

如果你有架子，並且架子上有東西，而你要除塵架子上的灰塵，請先清理架子，然後再清理桌面。

The dust from the shelves is gonna fall down and as it falls down, then you can dust the tables underneath or anything underneath it and collect the dust as it's falling down.

架子上的灰塵會掉下來，當它下落時，你可以擦掉下面的桌子或任何東西，將下落的灰塵收集起來。

So, start at the top and work your way down.

所以，要從上開始，逐級向下。

And that's why I don't have any wall-to-wall carpeting in here because I don't want it.

這就是為什麼我這裡沒有鋪滿牆的地毯，因為我不想鋪。

I especially love those little Persian rugs, but they collect so much dust and you can vacuum them, but they still hold dust.

我特別喜歡那些小波斯地毯，但它們會積聚很多灰塵，你可以用吸塵器吸，但還是會有灰塵。

The most effective way of getting rid of dust from a Persian rug is really the old, the old image that you have of a grandma leaning out of a window, shaking a rug.

清除波斯地毯上的灰塵的最有效方法實際上是像一個老奶奶探出窗戶，甩地毯。

Shaking a rug is very effective and it always blows my mind how much dust comes out of a rug when I'm shaking it.

甩地毯非常有效，當我甩地毯時，地毯都會掉出超級多灰塵，總是讓我大吃一驚。

I vacuum the rugs before I shake them and then I shake them and there's still so much dust.

我在甩地毯時，已經先用吸塵器把地毯吸乾淨，然後再甩，結果還是有很多灰塵。

Don't have a cameraman sitting in your open window while you're doing this.

在拍攝時，不要讓攝影師坐在敞開的窗戶邊上。

So I've shaken my rugs outside, but before I bring them back in, I am going to vacuum this room completely.

所以我在外面甩過地毯了，但在把它們拿回來之前，我要把這個房間徹底吸一遍。

If you have allergies or you sneeze a lot or your eyes are itchy, it never hurts to try to eliminate as much dust as possible in your home.

如果妳有過敏或經常打噴嚏或眼睛發癢，儘量消除家中的灰塵永遠不會有壞處。

用拖把、海綿刮板之類的東西？不。

Yeah, you can take it over to the sink and squeeze it out.

是的，你可以把它拿到水槽邊擠出來。

But the true test of whether a floor is really clean, the test is white socks.

但真正檢驗地板是否真正乾淨的標準是白襪子。

You wash the floors, you walk around in some white socks, if there's stuff on the bottom of your socks at the end of the night, your floors aren't as clean as they can be.

你洗地板，穿著白襪子走來走去，如果晚上結束時你的襪子底部有東西，那麼你的地板就沒有那麼乾淨。

This method, the old Cinderella method, this is the best way to clean floors.

這個方法，即古老的灰姑娘方法，是清潔地板的最佳方法。

You wring out the cloth every few swipes you get back in there, you scrub, you come into contact with every bit of molding and floor.

每隔幾次擦拭，你就會把布擰乾，然後擦洗，接觸到每個裝飾條和地板。

So bucket, hot water, nice hot water (or) warm water and some soap specifically for washing floors.

所以要準備水桶、熱水、溫水也可以和一些洗地板專用的清潔劑。

You can use dish detergent, that's fine too.

But I like to use specific floor washing soap and put some of this into the water.

但我喜歡用專門的地板清洗劑，並加入水中。

So when I lived in Germany, I was learning German any way that I could learn it.

當我住在德國時，我想盡一切辦法學習德語。

I started taking guitar lessons and I asked my teacher Hermann Schmidt to please speak to me only in German.

我開始上吉他課，並請求我的老師赫爾曼-施密特只用德語和我交流。

And one day I was just telling him about how dusty my apartment was.

有一天，我跟他說我的公寓灰塵非常多。

And he said there was a German joke where a little girl, the little girl asks her mother, "Mama what happens to people when they die?"

他說有一個德國笑話，一個小女孩問她的媽媽：「媽媽，人死後會怎麼樣？」

And the mother says, "They turn into dust."

母親說：「他們會化為塵土。」

And then the little girl looked at her mother and says, "Mama, there's many dead people under my bed."

小女孩看著媽媽說：「媽媽，我的床底下有很多死人。」

There is something therapeutic about doing this.

Knowing that at the end of the day you worked, you actually worked physically hard to achieve something.

在一天的努力結束後，你知道自己確實付出了艱辛的體力，取得了一定的成績。

And you can look at your apartment and you can feel like I did something today and I accomplished something and you can see it.

看著你的公寓，你會覺得我今天做了些什麼，我完成了些什麼，你可以看到它。

So I said it before, when I told you about making your bed and I'll say it again about washing the floors.

所以，我之前說過，當我告訴你整理床鋪的時候，現在我再說一遍洗地板。

Washing the floors is great to keep your place clean, but it is also great for your mind.

洗地板對保持你的地方乾淨很有好處，但對你的心靈也很有好處。

It is a little exercise in strengthening your mind, giving you a physical task that has an end in sight.

這是一項小小的運動，它能強化你的思維，讓你完成一項有始有終的體力任務。

And when you reach that end, it's this genuine feeling of accomplishment.

當你到達終點時，會有一種由衷的成就感。

It's not painting a watercolor or knitting a sweater.

這不是畫一幅水彩畫，也不是織一件毛衣。

It's washing a floor and there is something to be said for the sense of self worth that you get when you do things like this.

清洗地板時，這樣做能給人一種自尊心的滿足感。

This room just kind of smiles when it's clean.

只有這樣才能形容它的乾淨程度。

When it's all clean and I step out into the doorway and I look back at it with the sun shining on the floorboards, it just seems like the room is smiling back at me.

我走到門口，回頭看了一眼，陽光照在地板上，整個房間都在對我微笑。

This apartment's 100 years old this year, and I think it likes that it's being taken care of.

這間公寓今年已經 100 歲了，我覺得它能被照顧得很好是我的榮幸。

Deborah, Deborah, if you're watching this, I am so excited to be opening this box.

黛博拉。黛博拉，如果你正在看這個影片，我很高興能打開這個盒子。

The first thing that greets me, some lavender and a note.

首先迎接我的是一些薰衣草和一張紙條。

"Dear Rajeev, I'm so excited to be finally sending you your summer coverlet.

「親愛的Rajeev，我很高興終於能把你的夏天小被單寄給你了。

Thank you for inspiring me to create this very special textile so rooted in the land.

感謝你激發了我的靈感，讓我創作出這種根植於土地的非常特別的紡織品。