How can you keep your house clean?

Everything needs to have a place. Put it back when you use it. Schedule 15 min end of day for tidying up. Better if a couple times a days

It really takes me alot of effort😬😐😒😶 Because I am a mother for 4 kids and they are small they ages is 8,5,3,11 months Soo i try to do and trying to learn my kids to clean and save the place that they sitting in clean too and that recommend more effort ,energy and alot alot of patient

Preface: my house was rarely clean as a kid. I have been out of the house for 13 years and only in the past year have I actually done better. We have been setting a timer and every evening, we spend 10 minutes cleaning. That’s it! Between the 4 of us, that’s 40 minutes of cleaning every night. Our house has never looked better and it’s so easy to maintain.

Put everything back when you’re finished with it, practice daily maintenance and routine, do a 15-20 minute tidy up session every day, make sure that everything you own has a “home”, and continually ask yourself whether or not you need an item whenever you are putting it away. Keep cleaning supplies in each division of the house so that it’s easier to pick up necessities and spot clean.

I couldn’t help but to laugh when I read that. Only because I literally FEEL like I can’t! I live with my sister, her 3 kids and my 3 kids. Ages are 17, 8, 6, 5, 3 and 6mo She works more than 40 hours a week. And I am the stay at home mom/aunt. I am constantly cleaning up after the kids. I feel like by the time I get to the kitchen done and start the livingroom, they made their way to kitchen to eat something. It’s a never ending battle. I THINK the solution is making it a team effort. Everyone has to play their part with not only picking up after themselves but also working together to deep clean an area maybe 3 times a week. I am hoping to accomplish that by making a daily routine for the kids as well.

I did a Marie Kondo complete declutter so now my house doesn’t accumulate clutter faster than I can manage. After that, I started making a habit of cleaning in small batches and more frequently. For example, I HATE doing laundry but, because I work out, my dirty laundry tends to pile up pretty quickly. I found that it was easier to get myself to do multiple small loads of laundry every few days rather than a few large loads of laundry once a week. Also, if something takes less than 5 minutes to clean or organize I do it immediately. For example, when I come home I used to drop my stuff by the door, kick my shoes of, throw my jewelry on the dresser, and tell myself I’d straighten it up later. I’d get distracted or forget and end up with piles of stuff thrown everywhere. Now I make myself pause and put everything where it goes. It’s not as immediately gratifying as just dropping everything and forgetting about it, but it really helps keep things tidy and cuts down on stress. I actually find that I rush around less. I never realized how much energy I spent stressing about cleaning and trying to remember where I put things. In fact, I never realized how much time I spent running around picking up after myself before work in the morning, just trying to pick up all of my stuff and making sure I have everything and then rushing out the door. I have so much more time to myself in the morning now!

First, I dust off all around the place, then get a wet cloth to just wipe off the surfaces. Finally finish off with sweeping the place.

I use a basket as I go through each room putting stuff that doesn’t belong in that room into the basket. As I go through the house I put stuff any from the basket in it’s right spot. Helps to keep down on the clutter and keeps me from bouncing from room to room .

I’ve had great success with an app called Tody recently. You put in your rooms, the tasks that need to be done in those rooms and customise the frequency in which you do those tasks (so for example I put in to hoover my lounge and kitchen daily because I have lots of pets and 3 children, or if you lived alone you could enter in the app that you’d like to hoover every week, for example). It then gives you a list with coloured bars that go from green to red to see how urgent the task is so you can see exactly what needs doing. I find that this visual cue is good for motivating me to do the tasks, and it’s very satisfying to hit the 'just did it' button! Another tip is to chunk your time when you clean, so set a timer, go as fast as you can on a cleaning task, then either take a break or move onto another task. Remember that 80% of the results are achieved in 20% of the time, so a small amount of work will make the room look much better! Keep in mind too that you can’t clean clutter. Clutter makes it very very difficult to clean so maybe your first focus can be to declutter the house.

Listening to audiobooks really helps. That and not thinking of messiness as a failure but a natural part of life, one that can be remedied without a lot of negative self talk.