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[quote=Anonymous](I am currently battling cancer and so family members have taken over cooking, groceries etc etc. The load on them is immense. So, I would cut everyone who is working, going to school, have kids, have pets, eldercare, sick relative etc etc - a whole lot of slack. Do what you can do. Seriously. This is not deep.).

All I know that having a cleaner does not mean a clean house. The cleaner is not coming every single day, but you are living in the house every single day. My cleaner comes once in 2 weeks.  
Some things need to be done - every single day. I try and do laundry, dishes, trash, paperwork and beds.

- Make beds (which basically means just straightening the comforter, fluffing the pillows, folding blankets - if family have not done so already).

- Laundry (2 loads).  
a) 1 load is only bed-linen from one bedroom, wash, make bed again.  I have 4 bedrooms and I am able to change sheets once a week for all of them. 
b) 1 load of either towels, bathrugs, fleece, undies&socks, darks, whites, denims. I also fold it and put it away.  I have dual washers so I can also do smaller loads simultaneously that I am not counting - delicates, gym clothes, woolens, kitchen towels, cleaning microfibers etc.

- Dishes (2 loads)
 Everything gets washed, everything gets loaded. If there is space, I will throw in hood exhaust filters to be washed too.

- Paperwork 
  Try and get through as much as we can together. Bills, invites, etc etc. We have a space where I keep all the mail that comes and DH and I sit together and just do it. Also, we put everything on our shared calendar so I can manage invites, checkups, infusions, to-dos.

- Trash 
  We have wastepaper baskets in all rooms. So, we make sure that empty containers, used tissue, makeup stuff etc - are put in them and not on other surfaces.  Every few days, I will go and empty out the bins in a trashbag.  Also, we have vacuums in all levels. So, I will vacuum often, and empty out the canisters in the trashbag.

These are my 5 daily essentials. However, the amount of work that working parents need to do is immense. Hats off.

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