Need help to get house under control with 2 under 3s....

[evergreen7]

Posting for traffic and hopefully some good tips.

We live in a terraced house which in all honesty is too small for us but we have to make do.
Takes me ages to clean but gets cluttered in 0.1 seconds. It's getting silly now and needs reigning in.

DCs are just over 2 and 5months. 2yo can entertain themselves for a while but 5mo is very needy and needs constant attention and doesn't like to be put down at all which I suppose is understandable but very limiting.

First order of business is sorting out the bedroom as we are getting new wardrobes soon. I need to massively declutter and sort through clothes/donate etc as well as box them to one side so we can get rid of old wardrobes.
I attempted this only to be met with an overexcited toddler jumping all over the bed and freshly made clothes to the baby screaming their head off as I'm not holding them.
I'm just in a bit of a rut.

Anyone has any practical advice/tips/tricks to be able to get stuff done?

Unfortunately a lot will have to be done after the kids are in bed.
Have you tried baby wearing the 5 month to make it a bit easier?

My house is a mess because this is practically impossible. Nearly 3 year old and 6 month old. I get the basics done every day, but big jobs are slipping. The baby has started to take longer naps and the toddler goes to nursery 2 mornings a week, so I have an hour or 2 (sometimes) on those days. Otherwise it’s after bedtime or weekends. Mostly I’m just so exhausted that any child free break I do get I just want to sit down with a cup of tea and not launch into housework.

Also things improved when we started weaning. DD can be sat in high chair with some Cheerios or something to chase around the tray and I can do the washing up or tidy the kitchen, which frees up nap time! She also now loves the jumperoo which she hated a few weeks ago

I feel your pain op! I have a two year old and a three month old and am similarly struggling to keep any sense of order. I am trying hard to declutter one room at a time. So the main thing I'm trying to implement in our flat is to put something away rather than down. To do this I'm spending a lot of time (while glued to sofa breastfeeding) working out what should go where. Eg, am in the process of making sure the cupboards by the front door are ruthlessly cleared out and only things we use daily at front. I've also boxed up winter clothes..this might be premature. We both used to be lazy during the week and then clean at the weekend but don't really have that option at the moment. My tip would be to make lists of micro tasks and tick them off as you go. I've also bought some nice boxes for storage and I've found that that makes you more likely to throw things away, ie I have one basket of toiletries and cosmetics so it needs to all fit in there. The nuclear option on rainy Fridays is to empty all toys onto the floor and while toddler is playing try to discreetly dispose of any rubbish mixed in and earmark old and broken for bin and charity shop. Good luck!!!

I used to get a lot done during their daytime naps. I had three under three so I feel your pain, my house didn’t look great until they were at school tbh and I just accepted that.

I'm glad I'm not alone!

I have a pile of washing up to do but the baby monitor is broken ordered a new one but in the meantime so I'm scared I won't hear the LO wake up if I have the water running and dishes being flung about

I think I need to start being really ruthless with clutter and stuff we don't use anymore...
Good news though DP will be back from work at 5ish and he said he will stick baby in the sling and take them both for a walk to give me an hour to do whatever I need to do after I complained to him today that I can't get anything done with the 2 of them so the plan is to blitz as much of the wardrobes as I can, bag up clothes for charity, tackle the dishes (put away and dried) and get the DCs stuff ready for bedtime and then see where we are after they've been wrestled to bed.