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What’s your favourite super speedy or simple cleaning hack and where/how did you learn it?
My sons father and I worked together many years ago and he would mop the floor with boiling water to lift all the ick off and it dries super fast. I made the mistake of telling my son this and now every time I mop the kitchen he pipes up ‘Daddy taught you that!’
Also eternally grateful to the colleague at one of the pubs I worked in who showed me how to clean a microwave by microwaving the squeezed out arse of a lemon in water for two minutes. Although I use a dash of vinegar these days, coz it’s cheaper, but it makes it SO CLEAN.
Also, they weren’t cheap but I got silicone toilet brushes a few months ago and my god they’re so satisfying. I’d go as far as to say they are genuinely life enhancing.
ALSO I have several changeable string mop heads because although I have a largely slapdash attitude to household chores, I’m somewhat fanatical about not swishing a stinking grubby mop all over the place. Sling em in the washing machine.
And my grandad, who used to let me change beds at his guest house for the odd Saturday tenner, showed me how to fold a fitted sheet and I’m still a bit smug every time I do it
And I have a super king size duvet now (the WORST IDEA EVER) so when I change the bedding I tie a hair elastic in each corner to keep the sodding duvet in the right sodding place in the sodding massive sodding duvet cover
Ta dah! I keep meaning to buy white ones but there’s nobody to impress so who cares
Also before you start cooking/eating run a hot soapy sink or washing up bowl, and sling everything in as you go. You don't have to wash it right then and there but it does most of the hard work for you, coz nothing dries on and gets all cruddy and difficult. My dad taught me this
And I found when doing big cooks or food shoots, a massive crate standing in the sink, the type I normally store Xmas decs or paperwork in, triples the available washing up space. (I reuse the water for the garden when I remember)
And like my grandad before me, I have metal racking in my alleyway off the kitchen door and I just throw stuff out there to air dry on big shoots rather than clutter up the kitchen. Sometimes I forget but nobody's nicked my mismatched charity shop toot yet 
