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The Easy Steps I Take to Keep my House Clean
Or, as clean as it will ever get with a toddler.
I’ve never been a full-blown neat freak, but there are certain things I absolute hate to get messy, like dirty floors, or mis-matched decor. I liked things in their place and the dishes done, somewhat, often. I love doing laundry, like a psychopath, I know, and I like organizing closets. Then, I had a baby and my house exploded in messes and I really stopped caring about all of the above and learned how to just survive.
Once I stopped just trying to survive in day-to-day life, I realized that my house could be a little cleaner, but the idea of trying to keep it clean — and how often I’d have to tidy up — with a toddler exhausted me. Instead, my house grew messier as I felt paralyzed about where to start. Sure, it would become clean in the matters of less than two hours when my toddler wasn’t around, but it didn’t look that way less than two minutes into her being home. It wasn’t sustainable to clean like crazy every week, or three, and then have it be a disaster the rest of the time. So, I made a chore chart.
Yep, a chore chart like I was a child learning responsibilities.
I mapped out everything I needed to do and broke it up into only one or a few tasks a day. I tried it out for the first week and, suddenly, I…
