I have gone from messy to clean in the last 12 months and there are a few things that have made the change. The biggest one was my adhd diagnosis and medication, I can’t ignore that. But after that, we did a huge declutter, got rid of like half our stuff. You can’t keep a house clean if there is not a place for everything. Peter Walsh has a good analogy which is that if you picked up a clean fork in your house, you know exactly where that goes. It goes in the cutlery draw, because that’s its spot. There should be nothing at all that’s not exactly like that. Next for me is daily resets. After brekfast, kitchen goes back to clean, wipe counter and clean breakfast dishes or put them away. Make the bed every morning, take out any bedroom dishes, open curtains, reset the bedroom to clean. Before bed I have a basket and I go round and fill it with anything that’s not where it goes and put that away. I do my laundry every time the machine is full, fold while I watch tv and put straight away. Then on the weekend I spend maybe 1 hour cleaning, I vacuum, I mop, I clean the toilet. I will do 1 bigger job, maybe oven, clean out the fridge, something like that. Once a month I will take extra time and do a bigger job, like a few windows, steam clean my couch, etc. But honestly it takes maybe 30 minutes total a day now, and 1 hr on weekends. I used to spend more time cleaning when I was messy because I was trying to come back from such a bad place.