I regularly do all the basic bits of cleaning - hoover, wash floors, clean bathrooms, do dusting etc. but I'm feeling utterly overwhelmed at the other stuff that I can't seem to keep up with. Things like marks on skirting boards, fingerprints up the stairwell (we don't have a handrail so DS puts his hands on the walls to steady himself), splashes on wallpaper by the cooker, dusty wallpaper in the kitchen, toys permanently filthy from Child Grime, marks on bookshelves (why did I paint the shelves white?! WHY?!), marks all over kitchen cupboards, all that sort of stuff... I swear I could clean all day, every day and it would still be the same :( Is anyone else's house like this? How do I stop it happening? How do I motivate myself to deal with it?!