I am a terrible housekeeper.. any ideas that might help?

Question

I try.. I really do...

but wow, I just can't keep up with my house cleaning!!!

how do all of you "clean & neat" people do it? what is your secret?

Answer 1

Hire a house cleaner.

Answer 2

It can be hard to keep a clean house thats for sure! The way I found that it usually works best is to have a place for everything and the main key is to put everything back into its place after use!!

Say clothes for instance, if you like me and look at different outfits in the morning, the thing to do is either leave the clean unworn clothes on the bed or throw them anyhowly in the closet. So I make a point of hanging everything back. When I get my mail, before I even put down my bag, I go through the lot and throw away junk mail and put bills in their proper drawer. I also make sure to note the due dates and the amounts on the bills.

The easiest way to have a clean house is to declutter. That means going through your entire house and anything that hasnt been used/worn in a month/6 mths or a year gets donated to Goodwill. If you have a lot of stuff you can even hold a yard sale. Less stuff will make it easier for you to clean your house. Less is more!!!

Set at least one day out of the week to do general cleaning. Its much easier this way because you dont spend a lot of time cleaning up.