AIBU to ask how you keep your house clean??

[Kat256M]

Cleaning is just not one of my many great qualities! I am trying to keep our new place clean and already feel like I am losing the battle. I need:

1. A POWERFUL lighweight cordless vacuum. Looked at Shark but reviews seem iffy-please recommend specific models if you can. I havr Henry and it is a pain to move around so I don'xt do it often enough
2. Tips on how to keep the bathroom clean-the slowly creeping mould around the bathtub/shower is killing me

I know you have secrets because there are some lovely houses out there...I can't believe everyone spend their nights scrubbing floors with toothbrushes or something😂

Haha I'm having fun imagining lining up both cats + the husband and lint rolling them all in one big batch

Do you have a window in your bathroom? I have seriously never had mould in any house, but we always leave the bathroom window open, even a small crack will help.

No shoes in the house so not much hoovering needed, we dry swiffy the wooden floors downstairs once a week, mostly cat hair.

No windows in the bathrooms only fans unfortunately(it is a flat)...I think that is what is killing me. I will try a few tips from here and let you all know how it goes!

We don’t have a cleaner but my house always looks good, it’s a newer build, so everything is newish, very minimal and clutter free which obviously helps massively.

I do the dishes and put away after every meal, wipe down sink and worktops too. So the kitchen basically always looks clean.

Hoover most days, doesn’t take too long.

Wipe down bathroom sink if dirty, toilets/shower/bath deep cleaned once a fortnight.

Keep on top of laundry as much as I can, beds are changed once a week on a Sunday.

I like to use a carpet freshener and wax melts/candles to make the house smell fresh and clean too.

The key is to never let it get that bad I think as once it does you need to do a massive tidy/deepclean.

No idea. I feel like I spend an awful lot of time cleaning and tidying and my house is never better than passable. Maybe I’m just shit at it

People with very clean homes and no cleaners do A LOT of cleaning. They may not register it as such because they enjoy it, or its second nature, but I've watched them and seen it, and they are up and at it all the time.
My friend has a beautiful home, but when I stayed with her, I noticed just how much she did. After dinner, rather than just load the dishes and relax, kitchen floor was swept and mopped, oven wiped out, surfaces cleaned. She did all this while chatting, so didn't even consider it part of her cleaning, which is a much more laborious affair involving furniture shifting, done weekly. She also cleans things that to my slovenly eye don't 'need' it, as in preventative before they look dirty, such as dusting every day so no dust is ever there. Which was a revelation to me. Personally I've settled on keeping my stuff to a minimum, avoiding hard to clean things no matter how attractive, and trying to clean up mess I make as I go.

Came back to this just to say THANK YOU. I tried bleach on cotton pads overnught and it actually worked. Did it twice on a few stubborn spots.

No scrubbing at all. This is why I love the internet sometimes.