How do you keep your house clean with an energetic LO

[Hope54321]

I seem to find it impossible to keep the house clean with my almost 2 year old constantly undoing all my efforts. It doesn’t take him long to mess everything again.

How do you guys manage to keep your house clean?

Keep her limited to 1-2 rooms at a time so she can’t run through the house causing havoc
Have a play room / space where the mess doesn’t matter
Get her to tidy up after herself making it a game
Have a cleaner - more than anything motivates us to tidy before she comes to clean

I don't.

a) You don't worry about it.

b) You give him a cloth/brush/whatever and make it into a game so that he 'cleans' alongside you.

c) You get a cleaner.

d) You don't worry about it.

I don’t. I’ve just accepted things will be untidy until my toddler is a bit older.

Let your standards drop! The only person stressing about this is you, if you can accept your house won't be spotless for a long time is truly liberating. X

I didn’t. It’s only a season of life and it passes.

What @Dilbertian said.
Untidy really doesn’t matter. if you really care reduce the toys and have a basket to chuck them into at the end of the day.
Clean - as long as main surfaces are not filthy it’s ok.
Babywipes by the front and back door to quickly wipe grubby hands and faces.
Taking shoes off when coming in from outside really does make a difference

I don't, beyond a weekly mop of the kitchen and a daily wipe down of tables/surfaces. Everything gets chucked into baskets at the end of the day when he's gone to bed.

When he was 2 I'd do things like clean the toilet on a weekend when DH could watch him, or we'd tidy on an evening.

1. get a cleaner who comes when the house is empty (when I’m working)
2. encourage the kids to pack one activity away before starting a new one
3. make cleaning a game. My two love getting a cloth and helping.

I have a cleaner who does all floors and bathrooms and in between I just do my best. I know my house will one day be pristine again but I'll long for the messy days!

As above really. Embrace it for a while. And i always encourage/model putting something away before getting the next thing out (assuming it's something that warrants it - not just like a pair of teddies for example). A lot of nurseries teach tidying up together and play/sing a tidy up song...saw somewhere recently parents didn't know, played the song and it was like child was a sleeper agent, suddenly started tidying up 😂
Anyway, point is, keep modelling it, add some fun (can you throw the teddies into the basket? Can you put more in than me? Who can pick up all the red blocks first?) and it comes with time

I have 3 kids ages 3 to 10 and this is what helps me.

1. kallax or trofats toy storage units for toys. They store loads and I have everything in boxes so for example peppa pig toys in one box, Bluey in another it means they don’t pull every toy out looking for one and have learned to put things back in the right box with help.
2. keep toy mess to a couple of rooms
3. have days for cleaning certain rooms though tidy up mess as you go. For example in certain days I clean mop the floors, strip the kids beds, dust, clean bathroom etc. I tend to follow this generally though now with the cost of energy try strip and wash beds and towels based around the weather forecast as much as possible.
4. put on a load of washing every morning and hang it to dry.
5. remember it’s a phase and will pass as once they start nursery they become a little more independent and do learn to tidy up toys etc