What are your best Home Organizational skills?

Question

I am interested in hearing how you stay organized.
I personally have 3 boys and 2 men in my home. I am the only female. The idea of actual cleanliness and organization falls on me. (Their idea of cleaning the kitchen is doing the dishes/or cleaning the bathroom is picking up the towels off the bathroom floor.

Any housekeeping tips you have,
or Housecleaning shortcuts or organizational tips would be awesome.

Thanks and God bless

Answer 1

Take it one room at a time. I do small tidying throughout the week and spend one day doing the heavy duty, deep cleaning stuff.
Also, set up small, easy to follow rules. At meal time, you clear off your own place and put your dishes in the sink. You could also designate a night each week for each person to do the dishes. They also must gather their dirty laundry for you once a week (or however often you do the laundry). It's small stuff, but at least they have SOME idea of cleaning things up and aren't complete slobs.
I recently bought a great organizational book: The Home Organizing Workbook by Meryl Starr. It covers every possible room in the house and gives you the option of taking on a big project or doing many little ones for each room. It was almost $30, but it was really worth it.

Answer 2

write out a list of things that need done & cross them off as U finish. There R alot of books on organizing U could read. I know it sounds impossible but men/boys can be taught 2 clean up after themselves. Good luck & may God bless U in your efforts