I need help with cleaning and organizing my house!!?
Answers:
www.flylady.net
It works for the worst of "sidetracked home executives". Sounds perfect for you.
Other answers:
you could always try to hire someone..and if youre looking for a cheap way to do that you could ask a teenager in your neighborhood to either clean themselves or to watch your children while you attempt to clean up
you could always try to hire someone..and if youre looking for a cheap way to do that you could ask a teenager in your neighborhood to either clean themselves or to watch your children while you attempt to clean up
I would suggest that you call a cleaning company...and get someone else to help you organize...some friends or something..or even..there must be someone who you can hire for that too. lol. If you can't do that...this is my suggestion. Don't look at everything and get overwhelmed. Maybe when the kids are sleeping, do one area at a time...even if it is a little area. Just take it step by step, organizing..and cleaning as you go. Don't worry so much about the toys...I mean...they are toys and you have kids.
There are a lot of things you can buy to to help with organizing.
Get help though...don't try and tackle it by yourself...it is a lot, especially with 3 kids.
I hope some of this helps and good luck.
:)
www.flyldady.com She has a wonderful system. It is not an over-night fix, but is quite effective and simple to follow. Baby-steps as she calls them. Only draw-back, a lot of e-mail every day. Best of Luck, sounds like you have your hands full.
I use the flylady.net site mentioned above to an extent, but don't always have time to follow it exactly. The gist of FlyLady is breaking up housecleaning and organizing into small chunks, whether it's one task at a time, or spending 15 minutes (set your timer!) cleaning in a particular room. If 15 minutes seems like too much of a chunk, start with 5 minute increments and do what you can.
I agree, lots of email reminders if you sign up for them. I have a filter set up to send the FlyLady emails to a special Inbox folder. It helps me to have them consolidated. I don't read every Flylady email, but the ones that interest me or that cover areas I need help in (the subject lines help with that). If I read them all I woulndn't have as much time to clean!
One thing that has worked for me is to have a few plastic bins on the shelf in the kids' closets. Stray toys go into the bins--then bring some down when you put others up. It'll limit the number you have to chase every day. For the rest of the house, break the job into little routines. Don't try to take on the whole house at once, but establish a system like five minutes to sort laundry here, ten minutes to vacuum the living room there. You can get the two-year old involved, too. Like you probably do for your business, block out time in your planner or calendar for chores. Make it an appointment with yourself. You might want to work on the area that will make the most impact first. Every evening spend a few minutes just tidying up--you'll be surprised at how much you can do in five minutes, and your house will come into shape if you stick with it.
First of all, Organize your mind
I see some others already suggested flylady, and I have to say it's your best hope! I have three young children and have been using the system since I was preganant with my youngest, and the other two were only 1 and 2 at the time. It helps, and you'll feel more energetic when you don't have a messy house weighing you down! :) Flylady's routines are simple, to the point, and not time consuming. The kids love it too!
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I also have a bunch of small kids and I highly recommend hiring a cleaning woman- if you can. Go for 2 hours every other week. They can get a lot of the things that are impossible for a mother minding kids to do done in short order and efficiently. Under the table (in Canada) I won't pay more than 15$ per hour. My preference is mopping, vacuuming, dusting and anything waist level and down as first priority. Good luck! (And do strongly consider this advice if you can afford it...)