My house is spotless from top to bottom

[upandmumming]

Now how the bloody hell do I keep it like this?

I do this every 5/6 weeks, blitz every room, I mean every little corner every appliance all bathrooms all floors hoovered and mopped so the house is like a show home and I tell myself right now you've done it, all you have to do is keep it like this, which will never take more than just putting away what you're doing and doing a little tidy in every room before you leave it

Yet within 5 days the house is a bomb site again and I just feel grim and it all gets on top of me until it becomes unbearable and I snap and spend another whole day cleaning and the cycle repeats

So anyone wiser than me - how do I maintain this?!

Go and live somewhere else.
Seriously. Or get a cleaner in every day.
You've got to live and that means mess!

Maintain it? Maintain it? Never mind that, how do you acquire it in the first place?!

(People are going to say little and often, a place for everything and all that but I’m honestly just impressed with anyone who manages to get to a state of spotless mess without at least one room of doom where you shove all the crap)

Show homes don't have anyone living in them. Or any stuff in the drawers and cupboards!

I don't think you can maintain that level of perfection.

But can you declutter?

Spotlessness, not spotless mess

Do little jobs daily.

And a place for everything does actually help.

I'd love to know the secret as I have had another meltdown today as there are house jobs to do and it feels like it's all I do. Its our only free weekend and I feel like ive ruined It by moaning about housework....again x

Respect OP

Only 2 solutions I know of:

• daily cleaner
• live alone

What's the opposite of spotless? Spotmore? That's what my house is right now. Unless you go out for every meal, never read a book or a newspaper or eat biscuits on the sofa, spotless is almost unattainable.

Yes perhaps spotless all the time is unattainable, but I'd like it to always be at a level I wouldn't be absolutely mortified if someone popped round unannounced, which at the moment is only for around 3 days every 6 weeks. It took basically the whole day yesterday but I honestly woke up this morning feeling lighter, I come downstairs this morning and I feel calmer. I just feel so much more content when it's nice and tidy here. It winds me up as I know how much happier I am when I stay on top of it yet I always without fail let it get bad again so quickly.

Getting rid of stuff makes a huge difference, much easier to clean as you don't need to move all the clutter first. Find a home for everything, so it has a designated place to live. And try and accomplish small jobs each day/week instead of doing a massive blitz in one day of the whole house

We do have so much stuff. Maybe a ruthless de clutter is the way!

Do you live with a man?
If so, what is his role in all this...

Minimalism

Decorate your house beiges , whites , creams 'light and clean colour'

Always have it smelling fresh

These will help

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You have to do a bit every day, always clear up after every meal and wipe down. When you leave a room don't leave empty handed, take cups to the kitchen with you etc. Straighten the front room before you go up for bed. Soon becomes habit. What you describe seems too much hard work, I couldn't bear to do a 6 week blitz,I'd be exhausted.

Can confirm, second option is not the answer to your problem 😅

My parents house is usually spotless.

They declutter regularly, do small cleaning jobs daily, and every few weeks they do a deep clean.

I do not live up to their high standards 😳

I am exhausted! Especially as I'm getting quite heavily pregnant and I know it's going to be impossible in just a few more weeks and for a year or so after so I want this to be the time I stay on top of it!

Get a cleaner.

My house is always somewhere between spotless and very clean. I’m not a naturally tidy person but having a great cleaner in once a week means all the big cleaning jobs are done, and then we just have to take care of tidying and keeping on top of things.

Sell your children, maybe your partner and live alone.

Getting rid of the family probably helps. Do you have a driveway big enough for a caravan? Or a shed at the bottom of the garden? I think if I moved mine out to something like this then my house would be beautiful.

My husband is good, we've always sort of had our unspoken jobs, certain things we share - cooking, dishwasher etc but loos, bins, laundry and garden are sort of his jobs and I tend to do most of the cooking, general cleaning, putting clothes away. Its never been an official agreement just how it tends to go. It's still somehow becoming a shit hole on the reg!

Amazing OP, at least you can achieve spotless in one massive effort. Most of us can't.

TOMM the organised mum method might be perfect for you. It's essentially a rota of which room / tasks to do in a shortish period of time on which day of the week.

That seems to me perfect for maintaining what you've achieved.

I think if you're more like me and far far off spotless , you're meant to gradually get there cos every time you return to a room you'll get a bit further.

I can only achieve spotless in a day because our house was only built a year ago, so it's very easy to get it back looking like a show home and it's so satisfying when it's clean because we put so much effort into decorating and getting it to our tastes and it's so lovely here when it's clean. Our old house didn't look clean even when it was spotless so I thought a new house would solve the problem as I'd always keep it clean because it was easy to keep clean - didn't quite work out that way!

I would only do a blitz like that once or twice a year, I just clean as I go and it's good enough. The idea of a completely spotless house isn't on my horizon, clean enough is my goal.

Or lower your impossible standards