Put things in their place. Very often the main cleaning time is for raking up rubble from things. A simple and commonplace rule is to clean things up, reduce cleaning time by half. It is important to accustom all members of the family to this. Children, and especially teenagers, often ignore this rule. For a child it is important that the space of his room belong only to him. The agreement can help here - in the room the child can do what he wants, but outside it is obliged to maintain order. Especially pedantic mothers will have to have patience - it is often very difficult to endure the opening spectacle. Perhaps your excerpt will help understanding that the child, becoming a parent, will just "chase" his children. Someone will rejoice!))
Wash the dishes immediately. If you leave the dishes "for later", then in the end it is stored a large number, which adversely affects sanitation. Also, to wash 1 plate - takes 1 minute of your time. When, as on washing dishes, you have to spend half an hour of time.
Spend a few minutes every day to maintain order. It is very useful to walk and look at the master's eye apartment 5-10 minutes before bedtime every day. To clean things up in places, to wash dishes, here and there to brush away the dust. After spending an inconspicuous 5 minutes, you can save 2-3 hours.
Do not try to do everything at once. Sometimes, such activities as washing windows, washing curtains, knocking out carpets, ironing of laundry are added to the usual cleaning. With such kinds of homework, it's best to do it, doing them one by one on a normal day of general cleaning, but not postponing.
Get a few large boxes or baskets for little things and put small things in them only. Then you will not haveo search for eyebrow tweezers or a pen with a notepad for urgent entries. At least you will know exactly where they are.
Do not neglect microfiber cloths. They come in different types - for furniture and for mirrors. An important advantage of such napkins - after their use of the surface is less attracted by dust. Also they help to reduce the amount of chemicals in the cleaning - with microfiber do not need special cleaning products.