What I found helped me immensely was giving up the notion of it being 'organised'.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.........
Ok ok maybe I need to stop being so...dare I say it, anal about it. The kids are ok at cleaning up but with our help - trains will go in one tub, blocks in another and I try to stop them from getting too much at once. Iz is pretty good, J will tip up tubs for no other reason than to tip them up. Arrghh.

The craft stuff baffles me though - they do alot and love it but I just don't think it can be packed away so I might have to leave it be for now I guess. I want my dining table back waaah. Not sure what else I can do with 6+ colouring books, kinder square,s A4 paper, felt, glitter, glue of numerous types, ribbons, stickers, foam stickers, crayons, pastels, textas, pencils arrghhhh the list goes on ....that stuff has to go somewhere!!!!