Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel and to an After Dark Clean With Me. Today,
I need to tackle this mess because as you can see, my house is a little bit trashed. The kids
actually have two weeks off of school at the moment, so we've had a few days out,
but we've also had a few days in if it's been rainy and they've been getting super creative,
which I love. But this is the aftermath of that. So tonight I thought I'm going to just do a power
hour clean as much as I possibly can. So I thought I would film it and share it with you
guys as well. I feel like, at the moment, because the kids are around, it's really difficult to stay
on top of the housework and actual work as well. So tonight I'm going to try and motivate myself
and set a timer. I've also got my Air Pods in. I'm going to listen to my favorite podcast.
It also means I can't talk to her. And my husband is also going to help me because
we're going to try and tackle this together so that then, once the kids are actually in bed,
we can just sit on the couch and chill out. So I'm going to set a timer, as I said,
for an hour. I love to do this on my Google Home or my actual phone as well. Just feel like it
really speeds me up and I always feel like... Or even sometimes I'll set it for 10 minutes,
15 minutes and just try and get as much as I possibly can done in that time.
But yeah, let's do this and I hope you enjoy this video. Thank you so much for coming back
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would absolutely love to have you as a viewer. So first off, I'm just clearing away everything
that is on our kitchen island. We're also going to put a few things in the dishwasher and tidy away a
few dishes that we washed by hand as well. Matt is also going to take the bins out because they
were really quite full. And while he does that, I noticed that there was quite a bit of mess around
the bin. So I'm going to spray it and I'm going to wipe it. And we've actually got two bins in our
kitchen, which is really convenient, so I'm going to do that to both of them while he actually takes
them out. And also put in some new rubbish bags. I actually showed a bin hack the other day on my
Instagram, and it was such a simple hack, but it's gone viral. I think it's got nearly 10
million views, which is just insane. It was one that I saw on TikTok and then I kind of showed him
doing it and then showed me doing it and people just seem to love it. So you haven't seen that,
or if you don't follow me on Instagram, I would love you guys to come over, check it out. I'm
always sharing little hacks over there as well. But now the bins are done, I'm going to run around
and wipe down the surfaces and also clean my kitchen sink. I've talked about this before. It's
something that I try to do in my evening routine every evening. For me, once the sink is done,
like cleaned, it's like the kitchen is shut. No one can ask for anything. It's almost my signal to
relax for the evening. And some nights it's worse than others. Tonight it really wasn't that messy
at all, so I'm just going to give it a really quick wipe down and our drying rack as well.
And I have this little pot that holds utensils if you wash them by hand, so I thought I may as well
wash that as well. And now I'm just going to run around, wipe down the surfaces and the stove top
as well. I'm using Spray Wipe Done; it's one of my favorite products. It's just so quick. It's great
on grease and I just love how quick and easy it is to use. I feel like you don't need to leave it to
sit very long at all. It really does work well. So I'm going to give all of that a good wipe.
(singing) Then Matt is going to run around
with the vacuum quickly. I love this vacuum. It's a Dyson one. I think I've shown it before.
It's called Omni Glide and it's really good for quick cleans like this. It's really good on dust,
crumbs. I find some of my other Dysons don't pick it up quite as well, but I absolutely love
it and it's really tiny, really lightweight, so perfect for kitchen cleans like this.
While he's doing that, I'm going to clean up the dog's food area. I've talked about it before.
She's really fussy and we tend to have to leave food out for her all day long. And then sometimes
she eats it, sometimes she doesn't. Like today she hasn't really, but then she comes back to it
later. So I just wanted to tidy up that area. Also, Jackson's been building Lego for a few
days now. It's like his favorite thing to do. I swear he is going to be some kind
of architect or builder or something. So I thought I would just clear all of that away,
put it in the playroom, and then I'm going to light this candle, which I got from Neon. It's my
favorite candle. It smells so good. As soon as you light it, you can really, really smell it. It was
one that I got from Mother's Day, so I thought I would light that. Get the ambience going,
even if the kids are watching a film. And then we're going to just go into the
playroom. The kids do help me with the playroom; whenever people see me cleaning this, they say,
"You know, you've got to get the kids to help," but they really do, and to be honest,
they're just chilling out. So I'm just going to put a few things away in the cupboards.
I'm also going to tidy up this pen pot because it just gets really messy. They are constantly
doodling and using it so it doesn't take a sec to just kind of reorganize it a little bit. I
got this caddy on Amazon and it's been great. It's like a little homework caddy. So whenever
they're doing homework or they want to color, I just grab it and it works really well. I'm also
going to wipe down the sides in here because it was getting a little bit dusty. And then I'm also
quickly going to vacuum in this area as well. This little vacuum that we have... Oh yeah, I
should have said, there's little beads coming out of some of our bean bags, so we're going to vacuum
that up, and this sort of vacuum works really well on the floor. But also this carpet,
we've got a rug from Ruggable. I get asked that a lot, but because it's quite like a thin rug,
this vacuum works quite well on it. (singing)
We already only have 19 minutes to go, that has gone so quickly, but we've pretty much done the
kitchen and the playroom as well. Now I'm going to shake out Kiki's bed. She brought this huge stick
in from outside, put it in her bed. So I'm sure she won't be happy about that. But I'm just going
to take it outside, vacuum things. Now she's got a nice clean bed. I'll put some of her toys on it.
And then I'm going to move on to the living area. I have a little happy Easter bunting
up. And actually Easter is done now, so I'm just going to put it away in the garage until
next year. And then I wanted to organize this sofa area. Gets really messy where the kids and
the dog love to sit on the cushions. We have blankets on it to protect it because we have
a cream sofa because we are crazy. So I'm just going to straighten it out. Matt's going to wipe
down the black coffee tables. I really love them, but they show up so much dust and mess, so we do
tend to just give them quick wipe down most days. But now that area is looking so much better for
this evening. Also going to vacuum here as well, because it's just a few bits of crumbs. People are
constantly in and out all day. Look at the dog looking at me, like, "What are you doing to my
couch?" So I'm just going to vacuum this area. And now I think we've only got 15 minutes left,
but I'm going to keep vacuuming. And then another area that I really
wanted to tackle tonight is our dining table, which is pretty much like an arts and crafts
table while the kids are at home. So I'm also going to give that a good wipe down. I'm having
to move the kids because they're still using it, bless them, but it is nearly bedtime.
(singing) I really wanted to get
that load of laundry on it tonight. So now that can be running while we're chilling out watching
TV and then I can hang it out a bit later. And that is the power hour all done. Our timer
is going off, going to make a cup of tea, but I feel so much better for it now. We're
going to put the kids to bed and then we can come down to a nice clean house. And the best thing is
we can also come down in the morning and not feel completely overwhelmed with everything we already
have to do. So we're going to chill out on the sofa, watch a show, Matt's little fire, which
makes it so cozy and I'm just going to relax. So thank you so much for watching. I hope you
enjoyed this video and I'll see you soon. Bye, guys!