Sweeping where the kids eat is once or more a day, but just that area. Washing and dishes are basically daily too, and wiping down the bench, and spot tidies as needed (we do something similar to MD, but we call it "10 things I hate about you" and you go into each room, and grab 10 things that don't live there, and you put them where they should go - so in the lounge, there might be a cup, a bowl, some shoes and socks, some bills which should be paid and the filed, a bit of junkmail for recycling, etc) but you put them AWAY, not just onto the kitchen bench, or the study desk, or somewhere else where they still need to be actioned).

Otherwise, we have a category per day - Monday is laundry (getting everything folded and away), Tuesday is kitchen, Wednesday is garden (mow or weed or prune or whatever is needed that week), Thursday is shopping, Friday is bathrooms, Saturday is floors (vacuum and mop) and Sunday is nothing.

The aim is that if the everyday things are dailies are kept on top of, then the daily category thing shouldn't take more than 30-60 minutes.

We used to have a monthly list of heavy cleaning things which took more time (the attic, the windows and flyscreens, curtains, vents, the cars, etc) but since the kids have been active, we've either done it when it just HAS to be done, or we've got a contractor in to do it.

But I must say, my cleaning standards dropped dramatically between my DS1 being 4 months and 12 months. My standards came to a much more realistic level, which I guess it good, but it was hard for me, because I like things to Be. Just. So.