Cleaning Tips

[SaturdaySummer]

Hi
Just wondering if anyone had any really useful cleaning tips for keeping on top of the house with a little one? I've been using the 'one touch' method which works a treat. So simple but basically if you pick something up, you try and only touch it once so in theory you're putting things right away and not just moving them round. This has been really easy to follow and has made my house tidier. Any other easy to follow tips please?

Get everyone in the house to pull their weight
TOMM
Declutter

keep the floor clean an clutter free; no matter how much mess there is your house will look cleaner!

@Fallagain

Get everyone in the house to pull their weight TOMM Declutter

All of this. Also get a robot vacuum as you have to completely clear the floor to be able to use it.

@Fallagain

Get everyone in the house to pull their weight TOMM Declutter

We've not got a lot of stuff thankfully as I'm quite minimalist it's more the constant procession of baby things there seems to be bibs, bottles and blankets all round the place!

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

keep the floor clean an clutter free; no matter how much mess there is your house will look cleaner!

Love this

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it's brilliant

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I recommend this book. it's brilliant

Lovely thanks, I will have a look

Stick with 1 dc
.. Never get any pets..

@Pumpkinsonparade

Stick with 1 dc .. Never get any pets..

Haha sounds reasonable to me....

10 minute 'power' tidy once/twice per day. Use a timer, makes it almost fun. 🙂
Make bed as soon as get up.
Sort out paper clutter (post) once a day.
You might not need this if you are a minimalist but once a month, go round the house and pick up 20 things for throw away/ give away.
2 minutes per day clear off 'hot spot' - anywhere where clutter might build up.

@Pumpkinsonparade

Stick with 1 dc .. Never get any pets..

Bit late for me I have four. Mostly grown up but we still have quite a bit of DDs stuff. Our dining room is full of her art work. Large print which came back from a gallery, three lampshades, a box of prints which are sent to a gallery when they are low on stock and a basket of cards which also get packed up and sent too. Upstairs are some more and her sewing machine which I might just use. It shouldn't be sat idle and it is way better than mine. It does embroidery and all sorts of fancy stitches. We bought it for her. Then she has half a large attic room at her brothers’s house. She went off travelling. I have loads of art and craft stuff in her old bedroom. If I didn’t have that interest it would be a spare room instead of my craft room. I try to do certain jobs on a Saturday so that they are priority. I clean the fridge on a Monday morning as we going shopping either Monday or Tuesday. I only buy one spare. I keep all my baking stuff in one cupboard. I had it made when we had to replace the kitchen. The drawer under it is double in width and all the icing bags, rolling pins etc go in there. The mixer sits on the worktop inside folding doors. This stops it cluttering other areas and means everything is to hand. I wipe the wash basin and toilet every morning before I go downstairs.

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheebaZing

That book is brilliant

Put things away, right away.... things like the remote for the TV - put it next to the TV when you've turned the TV off.
Scissors, put them in the scissor place as soon as used. Same for things like sticky tape, torch, magnifying glass, pens, sewing things.

With baby bottles, bibs etc.. - put them to soak straight after use.

It's a trick to get the habit but it pays off.

Baskets! Basket downstairs for bibs etc and same upstairs. When they come out the wash put them straight into the baskets. Then have a laundry bag/basket upstairs AND downstairs (our downstairs one is a bag on a hook on the back of a cupboard door) so you can pop dirty baby things straight in easily.
Make sure kids help tidy before they go up to bed so once you’ve done bedtime routine you come down to a reasonably tidy space.

Never leave a room without something.

I have a cleaning rota. I clean one room a day, the rest I just tidy. Over a week the whole house gets cleaned. I never spend more than an hour per room unless it’s an annual kinda deep clean.