[celstu1]

My motto is: If people come to my house and don't feel the need to rinse my dishes before they drink out of a cup or eat off a plate, and they don't feel the need to hoover over the toilet while going, then my house is CLEAN ENOUGH! LOL

Seriously I do lots of things to make my life easier. I pick up every night, esp the rooms that company popping in would see. This makes real cleaning easier because I don't have to put away a million things before I can vacuum or dust.

I buy premade salads that feed 4 and are like $4 at the food store. I make simple meals, usually meat and veggies and rice/pasta/potatoes during the week.

I ask for help. I ask the kids or my fiance to do this or that real quick and they do it. That was hard and still is sometimes because I just think that they should KNOW to take out an overflowing trash or put dishes in the dishwasher and I'd get mad and do it myself. Now I just ask them to do it. I do the floors on the weekends only. My floors are always dirty. 10 mins after I sweep and mop them they are dirty. Now the person who tracks it in, cleans it up. I also invested in slippers that I like and now I never have to walk on dirty floors in just socks or bare feet bc I hate that!

No TV, computer or anything until after dinner. We all pitch in before dinner and then immediately after dinner to do the dishes ... 4 people can keep the house cleaner than 1 person can.

Decorating for christmas, I picked a weekend day in Nov and I set aside 4 hours to get decorating done. I wrap presents as I buy them so I don't have a whole pile that will take me 20 hours to wrap. I bake little things here & there so I don't do it all in 1 day. I really encourage others to help out. Its the only way to get it done really.