Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you a
major after dark clean with me. If you haven't seen one of these before, it's basically when
I blitz the house, once the kids have gone to bed, to get it clean and tidy again. It's
honestly the last thing that I feel like doing tonight, but I know I will feel so much better
for it in the morning when I come down to a nice clean house. So I hope this video gives
you loads of inspiration, and if you're new to my channel, I would love you to consider
subscribing if you like cleaning content, because I am posting it all the time. But
without further ado, let me show you the before. Okay. So this is the mess that we're dealing
with tonight. As you can see, there are toys everywhere, tablets and electronics everywhere.
There's still dishes out from dinner, boxes that I need to break down from deliveries,
and just generally, life has caught up with us and it's got really messy. Now, you guys
know, I love a cleaning routine and normally, our house is pretty tidy by the time we go
upstairs for the bath and put the boys to bed, but today, we ended up staying out for
quite a long time, longer than we planned, and by the time we got home, it was a rush
to get them upstairs to the bath, so we didn't get to tidy up. So this is very much needed.
I'm just going to focus on the downstairs tonight, because obviously, the kids are upstairs
asleep. So I'm starting out in the front room tonight,
and first off, I'm going to straighten out this couch. We keep this little throw on it,
just to protect it from any drinks or food that the kids might have, and then I'm also
going to straighten out all of the cushions, so it looks a little bit nicer. Then I have
more deliveries to sort out. I am organizing some things for when we move, so that's what's
in there, and then I'm going to pick up the rug, give it a really good shake, because
I will be vacuuming and mopping in this room as well.
Then for the fireplace, I use a method Daily Granite Cleaner, to just give that a wipe
down, and I realized I have like a hundred different candles and room scents on this
mantelpiece, So I'm also going to take some of those away, because I really don't need
that many to be on there. But today, it wasn't too dusty, so now I'm just going to put everything
back and then move on to our sideboard, which is also granite, so I will be wiping that
down. I keep our remotes on the side of the TV there. I just got some Velcro sticky stuff
and put it on the TV and the remotes, and it works great with kids, because I found
that we were always losing them, if we weren't putting them back on the side of the TV, so
now we always know where they are. And last off in this room, I'm just going
to sort out my desk, charge a few things that I know that I'll need tomorrow, put away some
camera equipment, and give it all a good wipe down. This desk is getting so much use, now
that everyone's at home. Fraser sits here, Caleb sits here, I do as well, so it definitely
gets a lot messier than normal. So I'm going to give that good wipe down, and then I'm
going to set off our little robot vacuum in this room, so that it can be vacuuming away
while I then get on with our main living area. And in this room, I've been putting off the
task of breaking down the delivery boxes and recycling them, so I need to do that. I also
already have a bag of recycling that also needs to go out because obviously, we've been
loving online shopping because of the current situation, and we haven't been to any shops,
except for at the supermarket in the past four months. So it's obviously so convenient,
but we do have all that packaging. Now, I'm going to clean up this table. There's
so many random things on it. You might've just seen I had a paddling pool, air pump,
I had our pegs for our clothes, just a matching game that Jackson and I were playing today,
and also our caterpillars. So our caterpillars have now turned into cocoons. We have five
of them here, they're going to hatch any day, so it's very exciting in the Norris household.
But anyway, I'm going to wipe this table down with a glass cleaner, and then I'm going to
carry on with the other million toys in
this room. That is so much better with the kitchen clean.
I feel like when there's stuff on the surfaces in the kitchen, it somehow just attracts so
much more dirt to the entire house. If the kitchen's clean, I feel like the whole house
is clean. I know that might sound weird, but anyway, now I'm going to wipe down our mirror
splashback, and I get so many questions about this asking if it's difficult to keep clean,
but for me, I actually think it's easier than the glass splashback we used to have. Now,
I'm just going to put all the chairs up, because I'm going to set our little robot vacuum off
in this room, and most of the food collects under where the boys sit, so I really like
to put them up, so I can then vacuum and mop as well.
I'm also going to wipe down the sink. You would've seen that I sprayed some bleach in
it. Because it's a white sink, it really does mark, and it gets coffee stains and all sorts,
so I like to do that every now and then and give it a really good wipe down. There's nothing
better than a clean sink, as well I feel like I like to do that every night before we go
up to bed, and I also noticed that our little Dishmatic thing had run out of liquid soap,
so I'm going to fill that up again, and then put away any of the dishes that I had hand
washed. And I also wanted to show you this new little set of glasses that I got for the
kids. Now these are glass, so it's definitely for slightly older children, but they look
like little old milk bottles, and they come in this little holder. So I tend to just sit
this on the side now with the glasses in it, and it's so handy throughout the day, I can
just grab them for the kids if they want a drink.
Now, I'm just going to run outside, because it's starting to get dark, and I forgot that
I've got some laundry on the line. It's pretty much what the kids were wearing in the paddling
pool, and my delicates and stuff. So I'm going to pull in the retractable washing line, try
and chuck a few toys into their playhouse. I'm not sure whether to keep this or get rid
of it when we move, because the boys don't play with it a huge amount anymore. I'm also
going to bring the cushions in from outside. We moved to the couch there today, because
there was a really nice sunspot there, and I'm just going to tidy up some toys. But I
[inaudible 00:09:46], I just give up. It's like, there's so many toys in our garden,
it just never looks that clean. Now, I'm going to get the laundry out of the
dryer, and I put some more into the dryer. So I need to fold that in a minute. And then
I'm also going to give this room a wipe down of the surfaces, mop the floor as well, before
moving on to mop the rest of our kitchen floor, because our little vacuum should be done now.
I love that song, you guys. I know I've used it before, but it makes me so happy, and sometimes
being on social media and online, can feel really heavy. Some people are really strange
and weird, and I never talk about it because 99.9% of you guys are amazing, and I just
want to say thank you so much for supporting my channel and for watching. I'm so grateful
every day that you guys are here. And anyway, now my house looks like this, so I can go
to the couch and I can die. And don't you wish that you could just click your fingers
and have everything you want, click them again, have Netflix and red wine, and that's me for
the evening. I'm just going to relax and hang out with Matt. I might actually edit this
vlog, but thanks again, and I'll see you soon.