10 Things People With Clean Homes Do Every Day (Ingenious Clean & Tidy Home Habits)

how in the heck do you have white couches how does your house stay so organized how does your house stay so clean what you don't have any nanny or child care or housekeeper and you work full-time for kids these are questions that I often get and no I do not have it all figured out however I have learned some tips and tricks along the way and don't get me wrong our mornings and evenings are so hectic my house can turn into a complete disaster but these tips and tricks will help you whip that house back into shap if you're like me you're very busy you wear multiple hats you don't have all day to clean but you want your house to kind of look like Instagram Pinter worthy even though that doesn't really exist I can help you feel like it does and even if you hate cleaning you're going to find these tips and tricks super useful here are 10 things that people with clean homes do every day and if you do nothing else in this video my number one tip is going to be number 10 it's going to make the world of difference for the rest of your home trust me number one let's talk about the shoe situation if you have more than one person living in your home chances are there are a plethora of shoes maybe it's summer shoes winter shoes spring shoes rain boot shoes there's just shoes everywhere and more often than not they're just sprung about in your entryway or your mud room and then you open the door and you're tripping on all these shoes you're kicking them out of the way and you're like why does the whole front of my house or mud room look like a complete disaster well it is for the most part but it looks even worse because of all the shoes one go through your shoes and really declutter do you need this pair of shoes are your kids still wearing this pair of shoes do these shoes even fit just take a few minutes to go through because chances are there's a pair of shoes in there that could be donated to somebody else or maybe tossed number two you need really good Storage Solutions after you have decluttered so I have this really cute organizer I love it because one well it looks nice two it really forces me to pair down the amount of shoes that we have because it can hold quite a few and it does hold all six of our shoes that we wear in a regular basis and number three this is probably one of the hardest thing but that is to Train everybody in your household to put their shoes away when they come in the door rather than opening the door taking the shoes off letting them fly around the house or all over your mudroom area when kids enter schools or their classroom they're not allowed to just whip their coat off and their backpack off and their shoes off and just put it wherever they want to in the classroom no teachers would have a Heyday with that one they are trained to put them in their lockers or hang them up in their Cubbies so you can do the same thing in your home now it has taken me some time and I still work on this on a regular basis to prompt and remind my kids to put their shoes away when they come in the house but let me tell you my friend it is worth every minute of that because it looks so nice and organized if you have smaller shoes such as sandals and slippers I like to use just a big bin that I got from the Dollar Tree and throw them all in there a couple other genius ideas for you for shoes that you don't wear on an everyday basis see if you can find room within your closet or someplace in your bedroom my husband and I both share a rather smaller size closet for two people in my opinion it's a great size but for some people this would seem like a very small closet but I am able to store quite a few shoes within this closet the other thing that we often Overlook is the space underneath our beds we have a king-size bed so I found these pullout Storage Solutions on Amazon I'll link everything in the description box below and nothing in this video is sponsored and as you can see here I can fit quite a lot of shoes underneath my bed that I wouldn't wear on an everyday basis in fact these are shoes that I maybe wear once every couple months for dressing up or going out to dinner or sandals for summer which we're approaching winter months here in Minnesota so definitely don't need those maybe some healed shoes which again don't wear on everyday basis cuz I like to be comfortable and my last tip which I highly highly recommend doing is anytime I put shoes in my closet I like to wipe them down with a Lysol wipe or a Clorox wipe and you can see they are very dir dir just we're wearing them out and about and then I like to spray them with a little disinfecting spray because it makes the rest of your shoes and closet smell so much better because it's a confined space and it's killing any of that odor causing bacteria so one the shoes are a little bit cleaner two they smell better and three we're hopefully not spreading any more germs and you'll feel a little bit better about storing them within your closet near your clothes and other related things and it literally takes me like two to 3 seconds just to quickly wipe down the shoes and spray them in fact now I find it very satisfying to see how much dirt I can get from the bottom of them gross but it's true number two vacuum your main areas daily sometimes even twice a day hear me out on this one have you ever looked at the bottom of your socks and they're brown I know and you're like why are my floors really that dirty I just cleaned them how could this be happening or maybe you've gone over to somebody else's house with your socks and you came home and you're like oh my word what is on those floors or maybe you're noticing that your house is dustier and seems to get dirtier faster this is why you want to vacuum those high traffic areas on a regular basis when you come into the house there's stuff from outside there's dirt there's debris and then it gets tracked all throughout your house throughout the day as people move in and around and past this area and sooner or later you're in your living room and you're stepping on a rock that came in from your garage if you have a dog this is also especially important because they're going outside and then they're bringing all that stuff from outside back into to the house and with four small kids I mean there are crumbs everywhere in our kitchen so I have to vacuum otherwise we would have ants let alone food like all over the carpeting cuz it just moves around as people move throughout the home when you vacuum on a regular basis or sweep depending upon what type of floors that you have your carpeting is likely to stay whiter and brighter or closer to the original color when you had it installed so no joke I vacuum my entry in my kitchen probably twice a day and it takes me no more than 10 minutes I got it down sound like a science it's like a little mini workout routine and referring to these white couches how do I keep them so white well our kitchen is just right over here so we keep all the food in the kitchen that's our rule of thumb it's so close you can see the TV your situation may be a little bit different but that's why I'm able to have white couches because the food stays in the kitchen and number three maintain a decluttering mindset there are three things that I want you to ask yourself on a regular basis when it comes to all the items it that you touch in your home one do I really need this item still two do I really love this item and number three am I even really using this item I guarantee if you went around your house and did this with all the items that you see and you touch your house would look so much more spacious so less cluttered because of it and when you do this on a regular basis it starts to become a habit and you can in fact breathe a little bit better because you don't feel like your house is closing in on itself because of all the stuff that we've accumulated over the years now I know I'm going to get this comment Andrea Jean of course your house is not cluttered you have a 4,000 squ foot house well my friend let me tell you this all my neighbors have the same size house and many of them have cluttered homes so the moral of the story is this as human beings we tend to fill the space so you got to work with what you have two my little tricks when it comes to decluttering I have a bag that I keep by my mudroom area so that when my mom comes to visit she can pick it up and donate it to different fames cuz she works in a school district I also keep a basket in my upstairs so that it's handy when I'm doing laundry if I'm picking up the kids' rooms or I'm in my bedroom or I'm in the bathroom and I'm seeing items you know these do not fit that category I don't love it we're not using it it doesn't fit anymore it's going in the basket number four make your bed every single day you'd be amazed that when you make your bed every single day the rest of your bedroom looks so much more organized than it actually may be the rest of your room could be a complete disaster but if your bed is made it looks just a little bit better because that's what we first see when we enter the bedroom I've even been able to train my two girls to make their bed every single day at such a young age now it's not perfect by any means but good is better than nothing in my opinion and this lifelong skill will be fantastic for them when they move it on their own they have their own home and it gives them a sense of accomplishment first thing in the morning when they're able to check off a task laundry I have a same day Rule now that doesn't mean that you need to run a load of laundry every single day as a family of six we tend to have one load of laundry every day and we are in multiple activities my husband plays hockey I run a fitness channel here on YouTube so we're having multiple outfit changes and that includes towels so about one load a day now rather than letting it build up or waiting until the weekend here's what I recommend run a load of laundry whenever you have enough for a load and here's what often happens people have no problem putting that laundry in the washing machine I'm guilty of this transferring it to the dryer and then it just sits in the baskets for days and weeks on end I'm I'm guilty of that let me know in the comments box below if you can relate the problem with that is people are scrummaging through laundry baskets trying to find clothing so it's not an efficient use of time and number two the clothes tend to get real wrinkly so you have a thought do I just walk around with the wrinkles do I spend time steaming it or three do I waste time and money re-washing this item again hoping that I will pull it out of the dryer fast enough so that it doesn't have the wrinkles same day rule the day that you put the laundry in the washing machine is the day that you put it in the dryer is the day that you fold that laundry you got of nurse that laundry you got to nurse that load you got to do it from start to finish because if you put it off to the next day and then the next day and the next day and the next day comes that's when you have laundry overload here's a little trick I have a bin system so each of my kids get four bins that way when I'm folding the laundry I put it in each person's bin they always put their laundry in their basket right here complete chaos in the room but the laundry always is right here thank you boys never again will you dedicate an entire weekend to just doing a laundry unless of course that is how you want to spend your weekend paper everywhere in the desk in the kitchen in your entary there's just paper paper paper paper and if you're not careful these papers can take take over your entire house and then you just want to forget about all of it because where do you even start I have two solutions for you when you get the mail from your mailbox as you grab it out of that mailbox I want you to start sorting it is this something you're going to toss is this something that you're going to keep is this something you're opening now and believe it or not most of the mail comes at least in my mailbox I can actually throw away and it's junk anyway number two kids papers with four kids there are a ton of papers and artworks and projects that come in those backpacks so immediately when they get home from school we open up the backpacks and we see what sort of papers are we going to keep are we going to toss is this something that I need to hold on to for a later day and I have this little file folder that I keep towards our mudroom area and it's for things that I need to hold on to for just a little while and then every week I like to go through it and just make sure do I still need this item anymore is this something that I can toss have I address the school related need that way you're never overwhelmed by all of your kids' papers the refrigerator now here is my refrigerator before I've organized it as a family of six now most refrigerators that I look in are so crammed they are busting at the scenes and like nothing else can fit in that refrigerator and chances are it's because there are some expired items oh this is definitely expired of December of 2023 I believe we're nearing 2025 so here's is my solution for you every night when you're cleaning down your kitchen you're picking up just open your refrigerator really quick and just see oh are these some leftovers that I've expired and nobody's going to eat is this a bottle that needs to be tossed because again that's expired can I organize this just a little bit better taking inventory wiping everything down that way the next day when you open your refrigerator looks so nice and clean you have a fresh start to the day organizing my refrigerator took me about 10 minutes and can I just say it looks like there's almost nothing in my refrigerator at this point the only thing that I would probably add to it is some fresh produce which I'll get a little bit later today the bathrooms you know you are in a clean home if you go over to somebody's house and you use the bathroom and you're like this looks really nice in here like this is a decently clean bathroom let me share some tips and tricks with you how you can do the same thing first and foremost I recommend having a clear countertop rule if at all possible find some creative storage solutions that way you don't have all kinds of stuff all over your bathroom counters one it just visually looks more cluttered two it's harder to clean cuz you got to move all that stuff like all just all the things that we tend to keep on bathroom counters if you have cabinets underneath or up below or you have a side Pantry mudroom closet or something that you could utilize use it keep supplies in every single bathroom that way you can easily wipe down the mirrors should you need to wipe down the countertops do a quick wipe of the toilet refresh and change out any supplies such as hand soaps I also change my hand towel every single day in our main bathroom and often times in my boy's bathroom because toothpaste accumulates in that sink on a daily basis so believe it or not every single day I wiped down the mirrors if they needed the countertops the toilets in four of our bathrooms and this takes me just 15 minutes or so and it looks so much nicer that way if a guest came into our home especially the main bathroom they're not going to feel disgusted by using my toilet especially with two little boys if you know what I mean dishes I know it can be overwhelming we often have a sink full of dishes at some point in our day and usually it's in the morning when it's the hustle bustle kids are getting ready we're dumping them in there we haven't quite unloaded the dishwasher but we can whip this kitchen into shape licky split in about 10 to 15 minutes here's a trick that we do run the dishwasher every single night and then the next morning when we're getting the kids ready for school or the kids have left for school we put all the dishes away and load it back up if any dishes need to be hand washed at this time that's when we do it that way there's just a small period of time in the day when the sink is flooded with dishes and that's usually transition time we need to take the clean ones out and put the dirty ones in and in corporate help when it comes to dishes growing up my number one job was to put the dishes away in the dishwasher and here in our household my husband and I split most of our chores 50/50 so it makes doing everything around the house so much easier before we get to number 10 are we friends on Instagram if not make sure that you follow me at Andrew Jean cleaning because I post best deals behind the scenes lots of fun things especially on Instagram stories I'll link my handle in the description box below and pin it in the comments section Andrea Jean cleaning and number 10 a clear countertop rule not just with the bathroom but in your kitchen especially often times the first thing that people see when they come into your home is the kitchen and if your counters are so close Ed with stuff it's going to make the rest of your house seem smaller and Visually more chaotic so if you can get created with your storage solutions do that when you wake up the next day you want to walk into your kitchen and you want to feel like you have a fresh start and when you've cleared your countertops the previous night you're going to have just that you're ready to take on your day let me know in that comments box below which of these tips has made the most difference in your home all right we got to keep the fun going click this video on screen now thumbs up subscribe and I will see you my friend in the next one