Straight and Curly Episode 26: Home cleaning hacks

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Quite a few people have asked us for our house cleaning hacks so that’s what we’re sharing in today’s episode. Carly and I are big fans of:

  • The 10-minute tidy
  • The one-minute rule/touch it once
  • Leaving a room tidier than you left it (thanks to Nicole Avery for that one!)
  • Having a cleaning caddy
  • Teaming up with your partner (sharing the load)
  • Loading up a podcast and allocating the runtime of that podcast to cleaning
  • Keeping the house generally tidy and hiring a cleaner to do the ‘proper’ clean once a week or fortnight

As far as keeping things tidy when you have kids (like Kelly):

  • Ongoing decluttering is a must else you’ll find yourself drowning in plastic craptastic
  • Being ruthless with ‘artwork’ (take a picture of the stuff you want to remember and make it into a photobook)
  • Lowering your standards (#sigh)

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