Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going to be filming a complete disaster
speed clean with me, because my house is the worst it's been in a very long time. But it's
actually boxing day today, so it's kind of the aftermath of Christmas. All of the cooking,
and all of the toys, and all of the packaging, and all of the stuff, so it's really, really
messy. The floor is dirty. I need to vacuum. I need to mop. I need to tidy things away,
find places for things. So I'll show you how bad it is. I'll show you the before. But before
I do that, I also wanted to show you this random cleaning task that I'm doing that I
don't think I've ever showed on my channel before. I am cleaning the boys toothbrushes?
Yeah, so I thought I would share this with you because it's something I do quite often.
They use electric toothbrushes, so whenever they start to get really gunky or the heads
look really dirty as well, I will wash them rather than just switch out the heads, because
obviously that's quite wasteful. So I'll show you how I do that.
So all I do is boil the boys' toothbrush heads and sometimes ours as well, in boiling water
on the stove for about three minutes. And that has just finished and you can see all
of the toothpaste and stuff that is around the sauce pan, that has come off of the heads.
And then to wash these bits of the toothbrushes because sometimes they get really, really
gunky as well. So then I'll put a little bit of boiling water into a cup like this. Because
obviously they're electric, I don't want to completely submerge them. So I'll just do
that. And then I'll just put that like this. And I will leave that for about three to five
minutes. And then I just give them a quick rinse and
leave them to dry on the side. And it honestly works wonders, makes them so much cleaner
and it's really quick and easy to do. Whenever I think, "Oh they're looking a bit dirty."
I just quickly do that. And it also works for manual toothbrushes as well. So give it
a try rather than switch out your toothbrushes or your toothbrush heads. You can just boil
them like that and it works. But now I will show you the rest of the house.
So this is our dining table where the boys have been doing loads of coloring. They've
had Play-doh out. They've had Playmags out, new soft toys. Caleb's here just chilling,
watching a film, aren't you Bub? Jackson's upstairs having a little sleep. But Matt's
dad actually slept on our couch last night cause he stayed over. So all of the blankets
and everything are there, very messy, toys everywhere. I mean our kitchen is just...
Honestly yesterday on Christmas day I felt like all I did was clean but it's still really
messy. So I just need to like clear up some of the
toys and the front room as well, which looks like this. There's still some recycling to
go out, a few coats and toys. A toolbox that Matt got for Christmas. And our utility room
is a complete mess as well, so I definitely need to tidy this up.
I'm also going to do this clean with two children in tow. My eldest son is out at a football
game at the moment, but I have my six year old and my three year old at home as well.
At the moment they're occupied, but I know that probably won't last very long. So I'll
be trying to do this clean with them as well. So yeah, so wish me luck and let's do this.
(singing)
I thought I would just play you a song then, but I know some of you really like me talking
through what I'm doing. And I wanted to mention because I get a lot of questions about that
little grassy drier there. I just got it on Amazon and it's actually for baby bottles,
but even though my boys are older, I find it so useful for their cups and utensils.
It's just really handy. But now I'm going to clean out our sink because it is really
quite messy. It doesn't look that bad on the video, but it was really quite messy after
Christmas. There were loads of bits in the sink. So I've given it a good wash. I'm using
Bar Keepers Friend, and now I'm just going to put away the last bit of the dishes, and
then wipe down all of the surfaces. And because it is quite mucky, I'm using this
microfiber cloth and then I'm going to also use some surface spray. I try not to use surface
spray every time because I know it can create a bit of a residue in your kitchen. But today
as you can see, it really did need it. And one thing I love about this area of the kitchen
is I can just open up the bin and shove all the crumbs into it from there. And that's
kind of why we put the bin by the toaster. And while I'm doing this, little Jackson is
playing with one of his Christmas presents. He got this doll's house for Christmas and
he really loves using it. It came with a few little dolls and he's also put his Shopkins
in there. So while he's happy and Caleb is still watching a movie, I'm going to try and
tackle this area. The boys love to color on this table and they've
got lots of new art supplies for Christmas, like coloring books and a few new pens and
stuff in their stockings. So I'm going to try and tidy all of that away and a few other
things. Give the table a good wipe using a glass cleaner because it has a glass tabletop
on it. But I'm going to wipe that down, and as I'm wiping I'm also checking the chairs
as well because they can get loads of crumbs on there, or sometimes there's pens in the
creases of the chairs as well. And while I have the glass cleaner out, I'm
also going to quickly wipe down our glass splashback which is a mirror. And I'm also
going to turn on the overhead light just to make sure that I'm not missing any bits of
food that are on the mirror splashback, because we've been cooking a lot lately. But by now
the dishwasher is done. I did a quick cycle when I loaded it, which is really handy and
works well when we have dishes that aren't too dirty, like breakfast dishes. So I'm going
to put all of that away. And then that is the kitchen completely done and looking a
lot cleaner. So now I'm going to tackle the play area,
which is so chaotic. And as you can see, the boys are chilling out on the sofa together.
They're being so cute. They've had their lunch and now they're having a lolly. So I'm going
to try and tidy up some of the toys while they're relaxing.
The boys are really good at helping me tidy up, especially at the end of every day before
we go up for a bath. They'll help me put their toys away. But I'm not going to ask them to
help me now. I'm going to let them just chill out and be kids and watch a film, because
they are so tired from yesterday's festivities. So as I'm tidying away the bedding that Matt's
dad used last night to sleep on the couch, I'm just going to fluff up the cushions, and
just straighten out all of the throws and things like that.
And while I'm doing this, I'm also trying to get as much off of the floor as I can because
I'm now going to vacuum and mop with my Roborock vacuum. It has this little water compartment
on it. And you can fill it up, and I actually put some floor cleaner in it as well, just
because I think it makes the room smell really nice. So this vacuum, I was gifted because
I worked with them, so please note that this was just given to me, but I really do like
using it. I was given it to review, but I love it because you can just turn it on and
let it be cleaning while you're doing other things.
So I'm going to turn that on and I'm going to try and get all of these toys away and
off of the floor before it reaches these toys. And I swear whenever I turn this thing on,
it makes me clean even faster because it's like a race against time before it reaches
certain areas. But it basically goes on the outside of a room, and then it will start
cleaning the inside of a room. But while that's going, I'm also going to go into the utility
room and do some laundry before tackling the front room, which has even more presents in
it.
(singing)
Yay. It's looking so much better now. And I've been playing on and off with the kids.
But now the laundry in the tumble dryer is all dry, so I'm just going to fold that, put
it into piles and then take that upstairs and try and organize it. I'm feeling a bit
deflated now, that it's just never ending laundry. I do find folding it quite therapeutic.
I just hate the putting it away part. But anyway, I'm going to fold this. I normally
turn on some music, and fold that. Leave all the socks till the end, and then match all
of the socks up. And now I'm going to Hoover the front room.
There, I don't know if you guys find this as well with Christmas decorations, but even
though our trees are fake, I find little bits of trees and glitter all the time on our floors.
I also tidied up our laundry room when I got all of the laundry out of there. So I'm just
going to quickly wipe down the sides, just a little bit dusty. Yeah, and just make that
look a little bit cleaner. All right guys. So I think I'm going to stop
cleaning there. I've been cleaning on and off for about two hours. Obviously stopping
to play with the boys, and then carrying on again. But I feel like things are a lot more
under control and really smelling nice and looking clean. So yes, I need to find some
more homes for the toys they got for Christmas. At the moment I've put some of the new toys
that they haven't quite opened yet or played with yet... Because they only got it yesterday,
I put them under the Christmas tree so that when they're asking for the new toys, we will
know where to find them. Yeah, but anyway, I hope you enjoyed this
clean with me and it's given you some inspiration on how you can tackle your after Christmas
craziness. And thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.