- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you
my top 10 tips on how to keep a clean home.
These are habits that I do
to make my house look clean and organized.
It's very difficult to keep it clean
with young children.
I have three boys under the age of six
so sometimes as I'm cleaning
it feels like they're literally behind me,
messing up my good work.
But there are 10 things that I do that I think
keep my house looking clean and organized.
So I'm gonna share them with you today.
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and yeah I hope you like these tips.
Please add any of your own tips in the comments below.
I swear my viewers have the best ideas
but anyway, enough from me.
Let's get into it.
So my first tip is a really quick and easy one
but it is so effective
and it is to make your bed every morning.
Just by taking a couple of minutes to make your bed,
can make your whole room look so much cleaner.
After I get ready in the morning,
I will just run around and make the kids' beds as well
'cause they're still a little bit young
and it just makes the whole upstairs look tidy.
My next tip is to fold clothes
in the Marie Kondo way of folding.
I recently read her book which is called
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and it inspired me
to reorganize all of my clothes like this.
So you basically refold your clothes
in these little parcels and then you line them up
in your drawer and it makes finding things
so much easier and quicker especially for my children.
They can just open a drawer and find what they want to wear
easily without taking every item of clothes out.
It's also really space saving
because that drawer was full but now I have extra space
and with smaller items I like to buy these little containers
from the pound shop
and then put the smaller items in that.
So I Marie Kondo'd even his pants
and then I've got his socks and his school socks
and his accessories.
And I've gone that little bit further as well
and actually labeled
all of my little containers and drawers.
This makes life so much more organized.
My next tip is to invest in some clever storage solutions
around your house and if you have any problem areas
with things building up,
it is to find a clever solution for that.
This is the boy's toy storage.
I also had a problem with all of our plastic cups
so I got these little baskets from Poundland
and although it still looks a bit disorganized
it is honestly so much more organized.
I also had an issue with just shoes building up
at the front door every day
and it would drive me crazy.
So I actually got a carpenter
to build us an under the stairs storage unit like this
which just slides out.
It was dead space we didn't use anyway
and it is the best money I've ever spent.
It just hides all of the shoes
and it makes me so, so happy.
I also had a problem with towels
because we have a very small family bathroom for five of us
but now I have hooks on the back of the door.
One for each boy so everyone knows
whose towel is whose and it's just been really, really good
to find solutions like this.
While it's great to have good storage
it is also really important to minimalize your things
every six months or so.
I like to take out all of my clothes
at the change of every season
and just go through what I want to keep
and what I want to throw or give to charity.
If I haven't worn it for six to 12 months
it is time to say goodbye
because I'm obviously not gonna use it
and I also regularly do this with my makeup
and also with the kids' toys
because it really builds up.
My next tip is to have clear counters
and that may seem like a very obvious tip
but I think it's worth saying
because it makes such a difference.
It's a bit like making your bed
to make your room feel clean.
If I ever have people coming 'round
I will concentrate on putting everything away.
I even have places for bigger appliances to go
and then just wipe down the counters
and once that's done
I feel like my entire kitchen
just looks so much cleaner
and same goes for bedroom surfaces as well.
If everything is off of the surfaces
it just looks so tight.
If I'm ever doing a deeper clean
I like to clean from the top down
so I would dust from the highest point
that I need to dust from.
Then clean all of the surfaces
and then finally do the floor.
There is no point in doing the floor
if you are then going to put dust on it
from cleaning the surfaces.
With bigger tasks I like to break it up
and do a little bit a day.
If you've followed my channel for awhile
you'll know that I love a routine
and my cleaning routine for laundry
is to put on a load every morning,
dry it every afternoon and then fold it
and put it away every evening.
I find this is so much easier
than doing a dozen loads at the weekend.
My next tip may seem a little bit strange
but it honestly motivates me so much to clean
and that is to invest in nice and clever cleaning products.
I used to hate hoovering but now that I have
this very lightweight hoover
which is a Dyson V6 I look forward to hoovering,
as sad as that sounds.
I also got a really clever dishwasher product
where you just put the washing liquid into the handle of it
and then it's much easier to wash dishes
and I really enjoy using it
and I also have this amazing mop.
I know loads of my viewers have already bought this
because it's in my cleaning routines
but I love it.
All you have to do is fill it up
with the liquid and then you can spray it around your floor
and clean your floors really, really quick and easily.
And it's kind of fun to use.
Even my kids want to try it out.
So I think by buying and investing
in a few cool products like this
it will really make you want to clean more.
It's a bit like getting new gym gear
so that you work out more.
My next tip is don't sit down.
At the end of the day, once your kids are in bed
and you're really tired,
don't sit down until you've done everything
that you wanna do for the next day.
In our house we like to get everything done
before we go up to bed
because it's so nice to come down to a clean house.
So as I'm making dinner I will get jobs done
like make lunches or snacks for the kids.
I'll do all of the dishes before we actually eat dinner
because it's just so much easier to get it all done then.
We just know that once we sit down on that couch
and our tummies are full and the TV is on,
we will not be getting up and doing anything else.
So sometimes our dinners eat a little bit colder
just because we want to get everything clean
and done before we sit down
and the last that I always do at the end of the day
is to put on the dishwasher
and then it's so nice in the morning
when you come down to a clean house.
And my last tip is to get help and delegate.
My little boys love to help me
even though they are so young
they'll help me empty the dishwasher
and also tidy up their toys at the end of the day.
It's also great to give your partner some jobs,
maybe they're in charge of laundry
or helping you out with the dishes.
If you cook, they wash et cetera
and if you have the budget and you hate cleaning,
why not get a cleaner?
If it helps you out and it's something you don't enjoy doing
then it's worth the money.
Right, so that is it for this video.
I really hope you enjoyed my tips.
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in the comments below
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and yes, thanks so much for watching
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