Cleaning can be a real chore and keeping your home or location constantly clean can be time consuming. People find that when mess builds up, it can become overwhelming and will tend to put off cleaning it up. When you see a little bit of work to be cleaned up, you can be motivated to take care of it immediately because there's only a moment of work involved rather than the anticipation of hours of work.

The trick to doing anything that you consider a nuisance is to do it the most efficient way possible time-wise so that you spend less time on something you don't like, plus doing it until it becomes a habit. When it becomes a habit, you don't notice it as much anymore.

This is the same for keeping your home, workplace or any other location around you clean and in order. I've found that rather than putting things aside to be done later, leaving you with a big, time-consuming chore to do, if you do them a bit at a time while you're doing your daily routine, it will be much easier.

This is a room-by-room guide filled with great tips to you stay organised while taking only a little time out of your day.

Most important rule

The most important rule in keeping a house, workplace or any location continually tidy and organised is to put things away where they belong the moment you've finished with them. If you don't already do this, just do a trial run to see what happens by doing it for yourself for just one or two days. You'll soon see that the benefits far outweigh the effort and that in fact, the effort is lessened when compared to the big clean up you'll have later when all of the messes are combined.

Cleaning the toilet

Keep your toilet brush next to the toilet and perhaps some cleaner nearby so that when you get up in the morning to go to the toilet, you can give it a quick clean with the brush. You're there anyway, and it only takes about 2 seconds to do this every morning. This will ensure that your toilet is always clean.

Cleaning the shower/bath

Normally you'll have your shower each morning or night. While you shower, clean the shower. Keep a cloth in there and give it a wipe down or you could have a hook and a small squeegee to wipe down the glass and tiles in the shower to remove water droplets when you clean it. I hook a bottle of shower cleaner over the end of the shower cubicle and spray that when I'm finished. It only takes a moment and keeps the shower free from build-up and mould. In addition to this, I will occasionally give it a quick spray down with bleach to keep the grouting white and mould free and this prevents the need for time-consuming scrubbing.

The same goes with the bath. You should be washing with a washcloth so when your bath is finished, before you get out, put some soap on the washcloth and wash around the bath. This will help to remove any build-up from the bath and is much easier to do than leaning into it to clean. Then you can rinse the washcloth in the water until it's clean, empty the bath and it's left nice and clean with the dirt going down the drain with the bathwater.

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