Here’s a little trick I use when I need to get my house clean in a hurry.

It’s hard keeping the house clean with two little ones running around. Especially when one is in the stage of throwing food on the floor and the other one is constantly dumping the toy box all over the house. I also like to spend as much time with my kids as possible, so I want to spend as little time cleaning as I can.

To do this, I just set the timer on the stove to an hour, and get as much cleaning as I can done in that time frame. If I’m really stretched for time, I’ll only set it to 30 minutes. You can use your microwave to do this too.

If I don’t give myself a time limit, I’ll end up cleaning all day long! I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so it can take me a long time just to do the dishes. But when I set a timer, I’ll try and get it done as quickly as possible so I can move on to another task before the timer runs out.