Hi guys and welcome back to my channel, and to today's video, which is going to be an
after dark clean with me. These are all of the cleaning tasks that I did once the kids
were in bed. We're currently on lockdown here in the UK, which has meant that I am now homeschooling
my three children, and I'm also trying to work from home alongside that. Today we actually
had such a lovely day, but it actually meant that some of the cleaning tasks didn't happen,
so once the kids were in bed and I came downstairs, I just decided to take an hour from 8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM to blitz our living area. I really didn't feel like doing it, but I just knew
that I would feel so much better coming down in the morning to a clean house and starting
the day off again with the kids.
So yeah, I hope you really enjoy this. I hope it motivates you guys to do the same. Obviously,
I was filming while I did this, so it would probably be even quicker for you at home.
But yeah, I hope you guys are all doing well. If you're new to my channel, I would love
you to subscribe. I post so much cleaning content and I would love to have you as a
viewer.
But first off, let me show you what we were dealing with at the end of the day. Our dining
table is a complete mess because we did origami today and they really did love it, but it
went absolutely everywhere. Then there's still some cups and bowls and plates and things,
a recycling bag, random shoe and all of that so I need to just quickly tidy up, Hoover
and mop as well but first off, I'm just going to move our laundry around and also put away
some of our laundry products. I was trying to do laundry alongside everything today,
so they've all been left out, so I'm just going to move our laundry into the tumble
dryer and turn that on.
Next up I'm going to move on to the kitchen which is looking very messy. There's quite
a few plates and bits of cutlery to get into the dishwasher and then I'm going to turn
it on. And I also have quite a few dishes to wash up by hand. I normally wash these
up while the boys are still eating or just straight after dinner, but we were in the
garden so much tonight. It's actually been such a blessing that the weather has been
really good here so we were playing outside, so I didn't do it.
I just let everything build up so I just need to wash all of that up now, turn the dishwasher
on, get everything then put away, and I really need to wipe down the sides. They're quite
messy where we're now using them for schoolwork and then to eat on and to play on sometimes
so I want to wipe that down. And yeah, I'm just finding that I have got more dishes nowadays
because we're all home for all meals. It's like 15 meals a day, I guess, between all
of us so I have put the dishwasher on a couple of times during the day so far this week,
but today I'm just going to wash up quite a few bits by hand.
(singing)
Now I'm just going to clear out the boys snack boxes. Every morning I will fill up these
boxes with their drink for the day and all of the snacks that they're allowed to have
throughout the day, so it's normally full of fruit, yogurt, cheese, crisps, granola
bars or stuff like that. That way they don't have to keep asking me for snacks, they can
just help themselves. And I've really loved having this while they've been at home because
when they're constantly asking for snacks, it can feel like you do run a cafe and you're
just constantly having to go and get stuff.
Now I'm also going to get all of the dishes put away. I always feel because our living
area is so very open, if the sides are messy, then the whole kitchen looks messy so normally
as soon as I wash them up, I tend to put them away and I'm also going to wash the little
drying rack that I usually put our dishes on. We've got this little one, I've shown
it before that looks like grass. It's actually for baby bottles, but it works really well
for utensils or any other dishes you want to dry, but sometimes itself needs a good
clean, so I'm going to wash it down and let it dry thoroughly as well.
Then I'm going to run around and pick up some of the random debris that has built up in
this room. The recycling bag needs to go out, there's also some shoes and coats all over
the place where we've been in and out all day. There're some stickers stuck to the table
and just toys everywhere where we're stuck in the house. We've literally had every single
toy out I think and I've bought this whiteboard for homeschooling, I've put the schedule on
it and a little rainbow chart for the kids. If you want to see how we're using it, you
can check out my latest video, which was a homeschooling video.
Yes. I'm just going to run around and get everything off of the floor because I wanted
to turn on our little Roborock vacuum. This just runs around on its own and it vacuums
up any little bits of crumbs and dust, and it is really quite messy today, but I love
having this because I can just turn it on and it can be running around while I clean
up other things. Sometimes when I turn it on I find it makes me speed up because I'm
racing against it reaching me.
I should say that this vacuum was gifted to me, but I do genuinely love using it. I turn
it on a lot when I go up to take the boys to the bath, I tend to put it on then and
then I can come down to a vacuumed home so I like having it. While it's going around,
it tends to do all the edges first and then it will do all the middle of the room, so
I'm just running around getting the carpet up, getting the puzzles. As you can see, they
were left on the floor and it's getting dangerously close, so I'm just going to run around and
just make sure everything's off of
the floor.
(singing)
Now I'm just tackling our dining area, which as I said at the beginning, is just covered
in this origami set. I'm so glad that they loved playing with them, but I never know
what to do with their creations. I'm like, will they use these again? Do I recycle them?
Do I keep them? I just don't know. Anyway, I've moved it all into the utility room in
the hopes that we'll play with it all again tomorrow. I'm just going to wipe down our
table. I've said it so many times on this channel, but I just love it so I've got to
say it again. We had a piece of glass cut to go on top of our dining table because we
found our table was just getting marked with crayons and markers and things so we had that
put on, and it's just been the best thing ever because it's really protected our table
and the kids can draw and paint and do whatever they want on it now.
I'm also wiping down our Fleck flower vases. We have these artificial flowers and I noticed
that there were some splashes on them and some fingerprints and stuff so I'm just going
to wipe them down with the glass cleaner as well, and while I'm on a roll, I am also going
to do our mirror splash back. I'm using the Marigold squeaky clean cloth. I've talked
about this before. I really like using it. I find that it doesn't smear or leave streaks,
it's just really good when you're doing things like glass or mirror as well.
(singing)
Now that all the crumbs are off of the floor, I'm going to run around with my little ADIs
mop. I've talked about it before, but I really love it because it has this little bottle
on it that you can fill up with cleaning solution or like I am, I'm putting some water in there
and there's a cap full of Zoflora as well, so it cleans disinfects and just smells really
nice. I'm just going to put it back on and then you can change the mop head on it and
all you have to do to use it is squeeze the handle and then the water or cleaning solution
sprays out so it's really quick to mop, I've always loved using this. I'm just going to
run around because the floor is actually quite grubby tonight. It's not really showing up
on camera, but there are bits of lolly and shoe prints and stuff like that, so I just
quickly need to run around and mop.
(singing)
As
soon as I've finished mopping, I tend to take the mop head off and just chuck it straight
into the laundry, because I'm doing laundry every single day, it just makes sense and
then that will be cleaned and ready to use again. Then I'm just going to put the little
rug back out and that is pretty much all I'm going to do tonight. As you can see, it is
looking so much cleaner. I'm exhausted, but now I feel like we can just sit on the couch,
we can watch an hour of TV and just relax, chill out. And then tomorrow morning when
we wake up and we come downstairs, we will just be ready to face the day again. I know
it sounds silly, but coming down to a clean house puts me in a much better mood.
So anyway, I really hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching and
I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.