Secrets to a tidy & clean house

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I'm a childminder but also teach a baby massage class from home once a week every week it's like a mission to get house sorted. So what's the secret to a beautiful house?

For me it's dropping the need for perfection and doing little and often, aswell as having routines

A cleaner!

Plenty of storage helps.

I essentially try to always keep it tidy and don't sit down in the evening until it's done.

Actual hoovering and dusting, bathroom cleaning etc only happens once a week as we both work ft and don't dirty it much.

Have a small laundry basket and it don''t let it overflow.

Less clutter. The less stuff you have, the easier it is to keep everything clean and tidy. Not sure how this works if you're a childminder though.

Following with interest I've got a 2yo and have recently stopped work after a year of working f/t and letting every go to rack and ruin at home.

Just started up as an airbnb host as an alternative means of income and while the room I'm letting out is lovely and tidy, I'm getting v stressed at the prospect of keeping the rest of the house looking nice!

I've made a start by throwing out tons and tons of stuff, but it's still a struggle. Think I will have to make myself a rota!

Tidy as you go. I never let it run away from me in the first place so it never takes long to sort out ie as I cook, pans then go straight into dishwasher. Plus multi tasking. I'll clean the sink as I boil the kettle for a cuppa.

Also, DCs are 7 so old enough to do tidying etc too.

1. routines.
2. little and often.
3. don't let dirt or mess get established in the first place.
4. everyone contributes to the first three.

Spend more time on it than I do.

For us I think it's an accumulation of never tidying the last 5% away at the end of the day, or end of the activity. When I make an effort to do those last scraps it makes such a difference, but I never keep it up because it's never a high enough priority for me.nthen suddenly it's a huge overwhelming horror.

Someone on here recommended tidying '10 more things' even when you don't much fancy it, and I think day on day that could make a huge difference.

I considered myself to be a ruthless-decluttering-none-hoarder so was very scepital about the Marie Kondo book, however following the book has changed the house. It is much easier and faster to look after.

Keeping the DCs toys in thier bedrooms is a big one for me, they bring stuff down in the day but take it back up at night. The only things kept downstairs are colouring pens etc and jigsaw puzzles.

On line grocery shopping helps too imo it just saves time that you could use to sit and drink tea while on MN get jobs done.