How to Clean Up Your House Quickly When It’s a Disgusting Mess

No matter how clean our house is, it’s still hard to get too comfortable. Especially if you have kids, it’s not hard for you to see around your house and see a disgraceful mess.

One hard week can make your house look like it was taken over by burglars. Burglars entered your house and left a sticky residue on every surface. They wrote graffiti on your walls and ate your food and your laundry.

Because it’s easy to make a chaotic house feel overwhelming when you have kids. This could be stress at work, a new baby or illness, or simply life becoming too stressful. Realistically, when things get difficult, our first priority is to let go of our houses.

We are here to tell you it is okay. It doesn’t matter if your home is messy or cluttered. You’re normal. It’s so amazing, and you’re perfectly normal. (So, no beating yourself up, okay?)

But you are determined to conquer the mess and restore peace and tranquility within the walls of your home.

How to clean your dirty and messy house in a day?

A disaster in your home can make it paralyzing. It seems like everything is on fire, and you are holding a spray bottle, trying to figure out where to point the sprayer.

What should you do to clean a messy home first? Which direction should you aim your spray bottle metaphorically?

1. Toss the garbage (15-20 minutes)

You can put on a movie for the children and open the windows, if necessary. Grab a large trash bag. Next, go through every room of your house and throw away everything that isn’t needed.

2. The Kitchen (1 hour or Less)

The kitchen. The family kitchen is the fastest room in a house to go from being pristine to looking like in the Hoarders.

However, you are not going to deep clean your kitchen. But not now; you want to keep the kitchen clean and functional. You won’t feel disappointed when you see it.

3. The Laundry (30 minutes)

When you are suddenly overwhelmed by dirty laundry, it can have ninja-like characteristics.

You may think that you are okay for one minute. You suddenly find yourself in a sea of laundry hampers and growing piles. Because there is no clean, untucked underwear in the house, everyone has to wear their swimsuits.

4. Paper Clutter (30 minutes)

Now is the time to eliminate all of that paper clutter.

5. Meal Planning/Plan Grocery shopping (30 minutes)

By this point, your home already looks and feels so much better. You can now take some time and get your meal plans for next week in order to give yourself some space.

Your shopping list will be created so you can plan what you’re going to buy for your family.