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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Living room and kitchen - these are the main family living space and we try to keep them neat.  We do a 30-60 second straightening when moving to another space so it's not destroyed the next time we come back.  Plates in dishwasher, devices on the charging station.  We have a few toys in one living room cabinet (and previously a basket of toys hiding behind the couch) and one container of craft supplies in the kitchen, but otherwise these spaces look presentable.

The kids' bedrooms are often a mess, but we can close the doors.  The 6yo can (roughly) make her bed.  I make the 4 yo's bed, and he does the pillows.[b]  Lately, we've been asking them to "clean their rooms for 10 minutes" instead of "clean their rooms"[/b] and we have been met with MUCH less resistance and end up with actually clean rooms!

I have to make my bed during the week or else I freak out from the chaos of work and school and the whole house being a mess.  I need my room to feel calm.  Sometimes I leave the bed unmade and it comes back to bite me later.

The playroom, which we are lucky to have, is often an epic disaster.  That's just how it has to be during covid.  I cannot clean all the time.  It's too much to beg the kids to clean it and I always have to help them.  I just have to look away.  It's probably clean once a month for an hour.

To keep my sanity, I often find a small part of the house to declutter on the weekends.  It helps because 1) it gives me a tiny sense of control and 2) it decreases the number of landmines that might cause me to absolutely lose my shit if encountered mid-week. [/quote]

This is brilliant.[/quote]

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