Daily goals, motivation and check in

I don’t mean to confuse you @frog, but my approach to housekeeping is really laid back. I had three children under 2yo at one stage, one of them very sick and hispitalised frequently, and my husband working such long hours the neighbours didn’t realise I was married. My MIL was highly controlling, critical and sabotaging ......

So ......

Accept that housework is like eating ....,, it’s something that you perpetually do ..... it just carries on, but for me, it belongs in the background, not front and centre.

I trained myself to fold everything before I put it down cos anything that is folded automatically looks neater ...... kudos if you can get the kids to do the same.

I trained myself I pile things neatly cos neat piles automatically look, well, neater ...... kudos again if you can get the kids to do the same.

I trained myself to keep moving things from where they had been put down to the room they belong in as I was going that way ..... eg pick up dirty tea towels as I was headed to the laundry to hang washing anyway, and put them into the machine and start it straight after taking out the load to hang.

Fold clothes into the basket from the line to save double handling ......leaving the items for ironing to s cons last ......take the folded washing inside with the ironing items draped loosely over the top, turn the iron on and iron the half dozen items on the spot and hang them on one of those handy-dandy over-the-door hanger holders ...... and you will never have an ironing pile ...... then return to the line and match up all the socks that you have left till last cos they are easy to pair when they are all hanging up in front of you .......

I take the folded washing in it’s basket to the kitchen and put everybody’s washing on the chair that they sit in at the table, and ask them to take it from there once a day and put it away.

I spray out the shower stall ahead of my shower and keep a wash-cloth for sloshing around in there as I wash myself. The shower stays clean. Same, I keep a wash cloth under the bathroom sink and wipe over the bench whenever I see it’s dirty ...... wipe the fogged up mirror with your damp shower towel or bathroom hand towel - it comes up really clean and cos it’s done all the time, the mirror stays clean and so does the towel.