Hi guys welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you our
daily evening cleaning routine and all of the tasks and chores that I do on an average
day to get our house looking nice and clean by about 8:00 PM. I swear I sleep better when
our house is nice and tidy so I'll show you everything I do to get the kids involved dishes,
laundry, you name it. And this video has also been kindly sponsored by Fairy Liquid so I
can't wait to show you a product from them in this as well. But without further ado let's
get into my daily evening clean.
Okay. So the first thing that I'm going to do today is sort through any post and packaging
from deliveries that we've received. Being a family of five means we have so much life
admin and I tried to sort things as soon as they come through the door. So if I ever receive
a letter saying I need to book a doctor's appointment or pay a bill I do it as soon
as possible so that I can then chuck it and move on with my day. I also love online shopping
the only downside is having to break down all of the packaging so I really try and keep
on top of it as much as I can. So I've just taken out the recycling.
And also every evening I need to do something to do with the laundry. We have so much laundry
in this house it's insane but whether it's just moving something to the tumble dryer,
folding it, putting away it's a constant cycle. And I personally prefer to do a little bit
of laundry every evening and every morning rather than have one big laundry day. I just
find it easier to manage this way. So I'm just going to fold everything up and I tend
to do this out on our dining table or our breakfast bar just because it means I can
be near the kids and keep an eye on what they're doing and I have lots of space as well. So
I'm just going to fold everything up.
Jackson normally has the biggest pile of clothes because he is the youngest. I also tend to
leave socks to the very end so that it's really easy to pair them up and I have also started
doing little things to help make sorting laundry that bit easier. For instance, all of Caleb's
socks are just a solid gray for school whereas Fraser's will always have a pattern on the
bottom. Same with pants, Fraser has stripey pants now and Caleb has solid colors. So because
they're catching each other up in size I find that that is making it a little bit easier.
So I'm just going to get these all to the rooms. I won't actually put them away but
as long as I put them in their rooms it's something that I can deal with later. Once
everyone is done with dinner I'm going to get on and do the washing up. We have a dishwasher
but there are always going to be things I prefer to wash by hand like our baking trays,
our sharp knives, pots and pans and the boys plastic cups as well. And this video has been
sponsored by Fairy Liquid and as a long time user of the brand I'm super excited to be
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So tonight we had roast chicken and I could clean that pan so very quickly and I personally
like to get the dishes and all of the pots and pans washed up as quickly as possible.
We have a very open plan living space and if the breakfast bar is messy it makes the
whole room look messy and I also like to get the dishes put away really quickly for the
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The boys have also had quite a few toys out this afternoon. Jackson is still loving his
play mags which are these little magnetic tiles so he tends to tip them all out and
then build loads of towers with them. So we need to get them put away. There was also
some coloring. Also jackson's cafe is pretty much completely in that little trolley so
I wanted to put that back. So I'm going to get the boys to help me out. They're really
good at this and it doesn't take a minute. These are from the snowflakes that Caleb's
been making, those little bits of paper. And yeah, they're going to help me out. I normally
put the tidy up song on our Google Home and we'll run around and it literally takes five
minutes. It doesn't take very long at all. So we like to do this before we let the boys
go upstairs for a bath.
So, the big boys are getting those play mags put away and then I'm just putting Jackson's
cafe back from the little trolley. He likes to go shopping for everything every day. So
I'm putting it all back so he can start it all again tomorrow. But it does keep him busy
so I don't mind him doing that. So just going to put back all of the little cakes and all
of his little play food. And then once the boys have gone up for a bath if Matt is home
for that we normally split it so that one of us does the bath and the other one tidies
up downstairs. To be honest it's normally me who does the bath and Matt will quickly
tidy up. But because I was filming today I was like, "I'll do it. Don't worry." So once
everything is put away I'm just going to straighten out our dining table and then also the kitchen
as well. Get any last little bits that need to get off of the surfaces like the ketchup,
any dishes that were left out. And then wipe down all of the surfaces.
And then because the boys are still happily playing in the bath with Matt I'm going to
quickly try and get their laundry actually put away in their drawers. I recently redid
Jackson's drawers so they're nice and tidy now. And I've also just bought him the next
size up in little pants. How adorable are these you guys? I've got him his first little
set of briefs. I can't believe how big he's getting. But anyway I'm going to put those
all the way in his drawers and then also try and get all of the rest of the laundry put
away.
And once the boys are all in bed and asleep as you can see on the clock it's about eight
o'clock now but I'm just quickly going to vacuum under their chairs because I've spotted
quite a few crumbs from when they eat dinner. Some people ask me how I can Hoover once they're
in bed but honestly the first couple of hours of the boys being asleep they are dead to
the world. They would not wake up for anything. I could cut their toenails, I can Hoover,
I could probably Hoover their room and they wouldn't wake up at all. So I'm just going
to quickly run around with my little cordless Hoover. And then the last thing that I do
every single day is just turn the dishwasher on and then I empty it first thing in the
morning.
And that is it, that is everything that I do all the tasks and chores. And now I can
actually relax and we can watch TV and we don't have to worry about any mess around
us. And then, yeah it's all done. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so
much for watching and I'll see you in my next video. Bye guys.