Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you my
simple morning cleaning routine. As a busy family of five, I really need to be cleaning
as I go, so in today's video, I'm going to show you all of the cleaning tasks that I
get done on an average morning. I'm also going to be telling you any tips or products that
I love, that make my cleaning tasks that little bit easier. So yes, I hope you really enjoy
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and let's get into our cleaning routine. So when we come down in the morning, our kitchen
and living area is normally quite clean, because we really like to leave it this way before
we go up to bed. If you want to see my evening cleaning routine, I will link it in the description
down below, but it's pretty much having everything washed up, everything in the dishwasher, and
surfaces wiped down. I can't think of nothing worse than coming down to a messy house, so
I really like to keep it this way. But when our dishwasher has finished a cycle, it will
pop open, as you can probably see here. So the first thing I'm going to do when I
come down, is put some toast on for my boys. I have three boys, and they're always starving,
so I'm going to stick that in, and I don't know if anyone else does this or if it's just
me being a little bit sad, but sometimes I will challenge myself to empty the entire
dishwasher before the toast pops up, or empty the whole thing before the kettle boils, just
because I find it speeds me up a bit. I don't know. You have to set yourself these little
challenges, but I'm just going to get on and put everything away.
Once my children have finished breakfast, they're going to clear their plates and put
them into the dishwasher. This is one of their morning chores. They really don't have many,
but it's putting their plates into the dishwasher is one of them, also to make their bed, get
ready, brush their teeth, do their hair, all of that kind of stuff. So they're just going
to stick those into the dishwasher. Sometimes watching them do this, you so want to just
do it yourself because you know it would be quicker, but I'm really trying to train the
boys on how to help around the house, and they're definitely getting the hang of it.
As I've been making the boys breakfast, I've just noticed that the Cheerios have run out.
I tend to keep the Cheerios in these little Tupperware containers. So I buy a huge pack
of cereal, and then I put it into here, because I just feel like it fits in the cupboard a
bit better. So I'm just going to replenish them and then put them back into our pantry.
I'm going to clear away our three year old's things. He can't quite reach the bin just
yet or open the dishwasher, so I'm just going to put the utensils in there. I don't know
why, but when it comes to plastic bowls or their plastic cups, anything like that, I
really prefer to wash it by hand. I just feel like it doesn't take a minute, so I'm just
going to wash those plastic things and then leave them on the side, and now that everyone
has eaten, I'm also going to wipe down the surfaces. I've talked about this cloth, it's
the Marigold Squeaky Clean cloth, and I really love it. It cleans my surfaces so well. It
doesn't leave any smear marks. It works on glass, it also really works well on our mirror
splashback, so I really enjoy using it, and I'm not using any product with it today. I'm
literally just going to wipe it down, and just give everything a once over, because
they definitely do make a little bit of mess when they're eating their breakfast.
And after breakfast, the boys are going to play for a bit while I go and get ready for
the day. I just got them these paint pens which they are really loving using, and they're
great if you don't like mess, because they're paint but they're in a pen, and they dry really
quickly. But anyway, I'm going to go upstairs and get ready, and I wanted to show you this
kind of random thing that I do. When I wash my face in the morning, I tend to wash it
using one side of the cloth, and then on the other side of the cloth, once I'm finished
I will just quickly wipe down the sink and the faucet, and just around, just to clean
it up a bit. I don't know if this is worth telling you, but I thought because I was doing
it on the morning, I thought I would just show you, because it's something I normally
do, because you don't have any makeup on the cloth or anything, because it's just your
morning face. But anyway, after that, the boys have made
quite the mess in the play area, so they are going to help me pick up some of the toys.
We really need to have another toy clear out or even better, I should rotate the toys.
So just take a load of their toys and put them into the garage, and then bring them
out again in a few months' time, so that they're really interesting again. But anyway, the
boys did a great job of putting some of their things away, and then I would normally go
upstairs and make my bed. The boys also make their beds, but today, I'm actually going
to change all of the sheets on our beds, because it's been a little while and I currently have
no laundry, I'm pretty up to date. So I was like, "Quick! Put the sheets into the washing
machine," and for some reason, I tend to do the sheets on a Thursday.
So that's my bed all cleared, and then I'm going to move on to Caleb's bedroom and Fraser's
bedroom as well. Then
I'm going to start the sheets off in the washing machine. This is probably going to be about
two loads of laundry, but whatever happens, whatever day it is, I will always do something
to do with laundry every morning, because that's the only way I can stay on top of it.
So I'm throwing in some Unstoppables, because I normally put them in with sheets and towels
as well. Then I'm also putting in a little bit of Vanish, and some [inaudible 00:08:29]
as well. So I'm just going to leave that running, and hopefully once I've done the school run,
and then also nipped out and did a few errands, I can come back, and that load will be done
and then I can do the other one. But anyway, then I'm just going to clear away
a few more bits from breakfast, like the stuff that I used, and the blender as well. I actually
saw a really cool hack the other day as a way to clean your blender, if you put in a
little bit of Fairy liquid and water and then blend it again, that is supposed to work amazingly
well. Let me know if any of you guys have tried that before. Then my husband took my
two older boys off to school, so I have a minute to straighten out a few things, before
I really need to get out of the house with my youngest son to make it to his playgroup.
But as you can see, the floor is quite messy, so many crumbs and bits of their breakfast,
especially under where they eat, so I've got into the routine of turning on our robot vacuum
as we go out, so then I can come back to a nice, clean house, but basically, you need
to get any rugs or toys off of the floor, otherwise it will get caught on those. I also
took a minute just to straighten out our couch and fluff up some of the pillows, and when
our floor is really bad, I'll even put the chairs up. The Roborock can get through chair
legs, but I just think it's so much easier, and it doesn't take a second to put these
chairs up. It can be running around while we're out and just cleaning the floor, it
just hoovers up all of the little bits that get everywhere.
But anyway, that is pretty much everything that I did this morning in terms of cleaning.
I really hope you enjoyed this video. Let me know what you thought in the comments below,
and thanks for watching. I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.