Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel and to a very quick speed clean today. I wanted to show
you how I clean and tidy up my house in just 30 minutes. This is a perfect way to get it
looking better if you're about to have people over, or if you just don't have a lot of time,
which is actually the case for me today. I'm busy organizing one of my boys birthdays and parties,
and it's also beautiful outside today. It's 27 degrees in September, which is not the norm
for the UK. So I really want to get out and enjoy that. I don't want to spend all day cleaning. So
when I want to do a really quick overhaul, what I do is I actually just set a timer on my phone
for either 5 or 10 minutes, and you will be amazed how much it speeds you up and how
much you can actually clean in just 5 minutes. So what I'm going to do is choose six rooms in
the house that desperately need tidying up and just spend five minutes in each of those rooms
with my timer and then that is it for the day. That's all I'm going to do,
but I know it's going to improve the house so much. I've said it before on this channel,
but setting a timer on my phone really does speed me up. I'm actually filming this intro
after I've done the clean and I am sweating where I've been trying to run around and beat
the clock. So it totally works for me. So anyway, I hope you enjoy this video. I hope
it gives you some inspiration, but I hope what you take from this is we don't have to spend
all day, hours and hours cleaning your house to make it look great. Sometimes if you don't have
a lot of time, you can just do a quick little once over and it can look so much better.
So with all that said, let's get into the speed clean. Okay, so I'm starting out today's clean
in the kitchen. That's normally where I do start because this room gets the messiest, whether it be
cooking or just stuff building up on the side. So there's cups, deliveries, toys, my handbag,
wrapping paper and laundry. So I'm going to try and start getting all of that put away and I've
set a timer on my phone, but I also sometimes like to set it on our little good go home
because I could just shout at it. It makes it hands free, and when the alarm goes off,
I can just shout, "Stop," and then start it up again, so that's also quite handy and I've
put a little timer in the corner of the screen. I follow a channel on here called the Secret Slob
and she shows a timer like that and I just find it really pleasing and find it really
illustrates speed cleaning well. So yeah, if you don't follow her, definitely check her out.
She does loads of cleaning videos like this. My first priority in here is to get everything off
of the counters and get them wiped down as well. I feel like clear counters just makes a space look
so much tidier. So I'm just going to do that and then move on to the hallway.
Next up, I'm going to set a five minute timer for our hallway. This doesn't look that bad,
but it is in need of a vacuum. There's also things waiting by the front door to go out
into the garage like those roller skates that you just saw and even our slow cooker.
When I'm not using a big appliance, I tend to put it into garage because we don't have
loads of coverage space in this kitchen. There's also some boxes to be broken down
and put into the recycling. I need to wipe down the sideboard and just give it a general
tidy. We would love to do something really nice in this space, but we think the hallway will be
like something that we do at the end of our build. Our building work is actually starting next month,
which is really exciting. But while we've got people coming and going, builders in and out, we
don't really see the point in making the hallway look amazing, but we have some big plans. So yeah,
can't wait for all of that, but yeah, I'm just going to put all the shoes into the shoe storage.
As I said, take this stuff out into the garage and then give everything a good vacuum.
So that is the hallway looking so much better and now I'm going to move on to Jackson's bedroom and
this is the only one that I'm actually including in the speed clean today because it's the only
one that really needs it. He's all the toys out, his bed's unmade. We've been playing with loads
of stuff this morning, but he's now at school. He just started. I know keep talking about it,
but so far so good. The first week he wasn't that keen on going in, there were a few tears,
but so far this week he went in absolutely fine, so that's really positive. But he's
still only doing half days, so still settling him in. But anyway, while he's at school,
I'm going to quickly tidy this up and then move on to the playroom.
Okay, so now we're moving on to the playroom. This room is the bane of my
life. There are just so many toys chucked in here and if I'm completely honest with you,
this room really needs more than five minutes. It needs a couple of hours for me to organize,
declutter and everything. But I know because it is quite a big task I will just put it off and it off
and put it off. So today, I'm just going to spend five minutes giving it a bit of a tidy up, moving
the toys around. If you're new to this channel, we are renovating, so next month our extension
starts at the back of the house and we're also going to be changing this room. This is going to
be a game's room for the boys. I have three boys. So we're thinking we'll have some gaming in this
room, maybe even a pool table when they're older and also, some built in storage for all of those
board games, puzzles and all of the millions of toys. Okay, so there was a little cameo there from
Jackson as well who's just got home from school. So he's just chilling out on the couch while I
finished this clean. But we've had the same two storage units forever. Obviously, when I had
just one child, we had less toys and then they've just grown and grown over the years. But in our
previous home where we had less space, we used to do toy rotation, so that's when you just keep some
of the toys out for the kids to play with and then you put quite a few into the garage or the loft.
And then every few weeks you just switch out, so that the toys feel new and the kids play with them
a bit more and then it also gives you a bit more space. But in this house, because we do
have a room where we can close the door on it, it just made sense to have it all in here. But that
fireplace is just getting full up with their toys. Anyway, I'm just going to tidy up all the toys.
So I didn't get everything done that I wanted to in this room. I did want to vacuum,
but when the timer goes off, you just leave, start a new room and then if there's any time
left when I'm cleaning these last two rooms, then I will go back and
vacuum that quickly. But now we're in the living room, which is where we spend most of our time.
It's not horrendous, but there are some crumbs on the couch, I'm fluffing up the pillows and there's
some toys to go away. The Lego table is very messy and needs some attention and there's blankets to
go away where the boys come down and use all the blankets in the morning. I'm also sorting out the
shoe storage and this room really needs a good vacuum. Because of the back door and the boys
are constantly going in and out to the trampoline or to play football, they bring a lot of grass and
dirt with them a bit like our front hallway. So I'm just going to run around, clean up the toys
and vacuum. Okay, so that is the living room looking so much better. The main thing that I
wanted to do was get the toys away and vacuum and I managed to do that and I was about to continue
vacuuming the kitchen, but then my timer went off. So now I'm going to on to the front room.
This room is not bad at all and I know that. So I'm also hoping that I'll have a few minutes left
to quickly vacuum the playroom and the kitchen as well. Okay, so I'm going to start out with the
couch. This is the only thing that really makes the room look messy. I have a cover on it. It's
like a fleecy blanket from Primark and I've just always had that on this couch because of the kids.
But I feel like I probably could start to take it off soon because they're getting so much older,
but they do still sometimes watch movies in here with popcorn and then that gets everywhere, so
I've just kept it on there. I'm also going to wipe down the sides and the mantel piece and
then start vacuuming and then move into the playroom and the kitchen as well.
And try and do all of those rooms in the time that I have left but eventually this room will
be hopefully a nice adult sitting room. But when the building work starts next month,
we're going to lose that living room that I showed you earlier. We're going to block off the whole
back of the house, so we'll probably be spending a lot more time in this front living area. We're
going to try and live here throughout the whole build because we think that we can, so fingers
crossed it won't be too horrendous and dusty, but we'll see. And yeah, I feel like we're just
of living in limbo because I haven't like hung anything up on the walls or done anything because
we've known that building work is going to start. But we've actually lived in this house for a year
in October, which is just crazy how quick that time has gone. But yeah, anyway, I've managed to
vacuum the kitchen, get all the bits done that I wanted too, so all that's let do is take the
bins out. So yeah, I'm very pleased with how much I managed to get done in this 30 minute
clean. But obviously if you needed to get the bathrooms cleaned and do other areas, you can
just set a timer for five minutes anywhere and I just find that it really does speed me up. So I
hope you enjoyed this video. I hope it's motivated you a bit. I'd love any of your cleaning tips in
the comments down below and thank you so much for watching. I will see you in my next one.