When do you ever get housework done?

Crack on with children there. I have 4 children, work full time. I will admit I like perfection so my house is always immaculate.

I achieve this by everything having a place, I have zero clutter and minimalistic approach. I have an entire cupboard with shoe racks and coat pegs for all jackets and shoes. Clothing in all rooms including children’s is organised into tops/tshirts, leggings, then jeans etc children’s rooms all are organised and have a place they have always known where things go. Kitchen I only have what I need on counter zero clutter and cupboards/drawers all have certain things.

I clean every single day before work, deep cleans like cleaning skirting boards, lights etc done at weekend. I do dump runs every few months and go through all clothing to donate to charity or sell when done.

I was at the dump on Friday so zero Christmas rubbish now.

I think people’s biggest issue is they have crazy amounts of crap and clutter I could not and would not live like that. When I moved here 3.5 years ago, its a 5 bedroom house I was fully unpacked in one day.

But declutter, clean every day, bathroom can do in the evening. Deeper cleans every weekend and your house will be perfect and easy to maintain. Must add no babysitters ever even had our oldest on our wedding night and honeymoon. Your toddler can follow you around while you do it no problem I had 3 under 3 who’d follow me still got eveyrthing done.

Make it easy, in each room have two rubbish bags sitting in the corner, one for charity/vinted one for rubbish. Open the wardrobe, spot something you need to get rid of, in the bag.
Finding hours on end can be tricky, finding some moments can add up and be easier.

The way we did it was DH would declutter DD’s wardrobe whilst I took DC’s to swimming and then I’d clear DS’s wardrobe whilst DH did bath and bedtime - tag team.

I just used to clean with them there! Mine are three years apart and I don’t remember struggling to keep the house clean at all really, but I am a minimalist so there’s very little tidying needed. You just need a good routine, and to split it into little jobs you can do whilst the toddler plays.