Q&A for How to Do All Your Chores Within 30 Minutes

Always have a route and and a strategy! Most non-professional cleaners switch between tasks and locations, which prevents them from making progress overall. Instead, focus on a specific task and complete it across several rooms or even the entire house.

Try working cleaning into your daily routine as much as possible. You can get a lot done by working efficiently each day, even if it's only for 5 to 10 minutes.

Always dust before vacuuming. Ideally, try vacuuming all of your rooms at once instead of switching between tasks.

Take care of the easiest things that take the least amount of time and have the biggest impact first. Gather all dirty dishes into the sink and dirty clothes and linens into the laundry basket. Make the bed (if your bedroom is visible), and grab trash left out. Then look around and take care of whatever's most noticeable and won't consume a lot of time: running the vacuum quickly though the house, sweeping the kitchen, etc. Anything that's left by the time you have to leave the house can remain until the evening or the next day. Remind your mother that you have a job in addition to running a household, and if the house isn't clean to her satisfaction, encourage her to pitch in or hire a housekeeper to help.

Ask a parent or sibling to remind you if you forget. To prevent being distracted on your phone or laptop, you can download focus apps to keep you from spending too much time on your electronic devices.

That's okay! It is better to take a little bit more time and do your chores well, rather than rush through them and do a sloppy job. Give yourself another 30 minutes to complete them, or try again the next day.

Have everything ready beforehand. Research time saving recipes and techniques.

Try motivating yourself or treat yourself after the chores are complete.

Tell your mom, or distract your sibling as you do it again.

Try getting help from a sibling or another person. If you don't have someone to ask, then do the bathroom, dish-washing (use a dishwasher) and vacuuming. Then work on the backyard another time; usually backyards need a few hours.