Cleaning is tiring...

[Fox Lee]

Do it regularly because otherwise it gets unmanageable fast.

Buy cupboards with doors so things get less dusty (particularly useful if, like me, you live near one of the biggest steelworks around).

Try to keep things near where you use them, so you're more inclined to put them away afterwards.

Get a really pathophobic friend who visits regularly, so you feel really guilty when they have to move the garbage aside to sit down :p

<-- Cleans houses for a living, and oddly enough, rather enjoys it... but never gets around to her own XP

[rioka]

Buy only what you need and keep it organized. Clean after yourself and don't just let it sit there when you're done with it - put it away. If it's old and you don't use it, need it, or can't eat it anymore - throw it out, give it away, sell it or donate it. Wipe down/dust/vacuum your house on a regular basis because crumbs, dust and dirt builds up.

I suggest you clean your bathtub regularly cuz soap scum builds up and its a pain to scrub it off when it really builds up. Scrub your bathroom down too while you're at it. It gets real nasty if you let it go. Oh, buy baking soda if you can. Open it up and leave it in rooms that tend to reek - bathrooms, in the fridge. Baking soda "eats up" odor and it's a good way to keep the foul stenches from popping up.