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Today I'll be sharing with you
my evening cleaning routine.
A couple of days ago
I put up my morning cleaning routine
and it got such a good response
that I thought I would do my evening one now.
If you missed my morning one
I will link it down below.
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Right so this may seem
like a strange place to start
but when we get our mail through
I make sure I sort through
all of it next to the bin
and just work out what I want to keep
and what I want to throw.
It just helps me keep on top of paperwork.
And does anyone else's bins
look like this by the end of the day?
My recycling bin is normally overflowing,
as you can see,
just from food packaging
that we've used up
or deliveries that we've had.
So I'll normally take the bins out at this time.
At some point after school
when the boys are just chilling
watching TV or playing with their toys
I will take the opportunity to fold laundry.
I'll also empty out the water drawer
and the lint as well
so that the machine is ready to go.
If you wanna see
what products I use
when I do laundry
definitely check out my morning routine.
But I will literally just fold
all of the clothes in our utility room
in five different piles.
And then I will take the laundry
upstairs to be put away.
If I have time I will put all of the laundry away
but if the boys need me
or I need to get on with dinner
I will at least just leave it in the correct room
so that when I do get a chance
I can go up and I can put their clothes away.
And then I will get on with the boy's dinner
and while I'm making them dinner
I do try to clean as I go.
I am quite a tidy chef
because I find it just makes life so much easier
if you can clean as you're also cooking.
So I'll fill up the dishwasher
and then I'll wash any pots and pans
that we've used because I sort of
never put them in the dishwasher.
And to wash the pots and pans
I use this really cool little brush
and inside it has an empty handle
that you just fill up with Fairy Liquid
and then it comes straight down into the brush
so that you don't need
to keep getting out Fairy Liquid,
you can just use it straight away on pots and pans.
And then the boys will eat
and I will normally sit with them
and encourage them to eat.
And dinner is pretty messy these days
because our baby is weaning
and we're also doing a mixture
of baby-led weaning and puree.
So baby-led weaning is so messy.
He throws everything onto the floor.
So as soon as he's finished
I will just use a baby wipe
to wipe the floor that is directly below him.
And then also his tray
if he's happy to sit in it
I will clean him and the tray as much as I can
and when I take him out of his seat
he normally has loads of crumbs on him
so I will also give him
a little bit of a shake
and then a wipe as well.
Once everything is finished dinner
I will normally put Jackson
into one of his toys like his Jumparoo
and then I will give the table
a good wipe over and his high chair as well
with my Method cleaner and a micro-fiber cloth.
As I mention in my morning routine
I just really love this cleaner
because it is non-toxic
and I'm wiping over surfaces
that the boys eat from.
And it comes in loads of different fragrances
so I really really love it.
But I will just spray the table over
and get all of the plates
and cutlery and cups and everything
over to the dishwasher area.
Yes, but I'll basically just give
the table a good old wipe over
and also the place mats.
And I have some flowers
in the middle of our table
'cause it was recently my birthday
and there's some flowers in that dying.
So I'm just gonna take out the dead ones
so that everything looks a little bit fresher.
And then I will just load the dishwasher again.
I actually never realized
how much I use the dishwasher
until I started filming these cleaning videos.
But I will load that up
and then put any of the pots and pans away
that I had washed.
And then I'll start going around
and clearing up some of the toys
and just getting our sides clearer
from whatever has built up on them in the day.
Whether it be my cameras
or the kid's clothes or toys.
And then I'll give everything a good wipe again
with my Method surface cleaner.
And I'll just start putting everything away.
Obviously some days this really does not happen
and it just depends on
what kind of mood the boys are in
but today they're happy
playing on their Wii U.
They're playing Minecraft.
So I can actually get this done.
And then I use my E-cloth
which is basically a micro-fiber cloth
that you wet and you can use it on glass or gloss
just for fingerprints or cooking splashes
and things like that.
So I really like it
'cause you don't need any product
and it's so so quick.
And then it's time
to clear up the kid's play area.
So there are some great tidy up songs
on YouTube to encourage your kids to help you.
This one has had 3.4 million views
and I think quite a few of those are from us.
It's just a three and a half minute song
but it really encourages the boys
to run around like crazy
and also if you make it competition
that is also really effective
to get them to help.
I don't know how helpful they actually are
but it's great to start teaching them
about tidying up at this age.
And I don't know about you
but I love to get all of the toys
put away, pillows fluffed up
and all of that stuff
before we go up for the bath.
There's nothing worse
than coming down to a really messy house
of toys once the kids are in bed.
And then I'll run around with my dustbin and brush.
This is a long handled one
and I love how easy it is to use.
So I will go under the table normally.
Get up all of the food
that the kids have dropped.
And then if I need to I will hoover with my Dyson V6.
This isn't always needed though
so it just depends on the day that we have.
And I love that you can also use
a short handle to get any crumbs off the couch.
Then I don't really clean again
until the boys are in bed.
But once they are in bed
I will just pick the bathroom up
'cause there's towels everywhere.
And also put their bath toys away
if we haven't during the bath.
Once the boys are in bed at 7:00
I will start making dinner for Matt and I.
I know it might seem crazy
that we have separate dinner to the boys
but I just really like to eat with Matt
once the kids are in bed.
So I'll make our dinner
and I'll do things like empty the kid's snack bags
and put that sort of stuff
into the dishwasher, empty it out.
And again I try to be as clean as I can
while we are cooking.
I try to clean as I go.
And we rarely sit down and eat
without all of the dishes having been washed
even if it makes our dinner a little bit colder
because once we sit down on the couch
we do not get up again.
So if I have cooked
Matt will do all of the washing or vice versa.
And then all that's left to do
at the end of the night
is stick in our dishes from our dinner
and then turn on the dishwasher
and go up to bed.
So thank you so much for watching.
I hope you like this video
and I'll see you soon.