Messy house...HELP!!

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My mom was a complete neat freak. No kidding, I seriously think she was obsessive/compulsive about housecleaning! I saw how miserable she was to constantly be cleaning, scrubbing, picking up and everything with no room for fun so I vowed I would not clean house to the extent that it just took over my whole life like that! On the other hand, I do have a certain standard I'd like to keep but dang, is it hard! I'm really rather depressed at the way the house looks right now but I'm so tired and hurting. One thing I do when I clean I call the "chuck it method". I usually make the boys keep their rooms and bathroom cleaned up and start working on the living room myself. Anything that belongs in the kid's rooms I throw back that way, anything that goes on the other end of the house I throw back that way, and anything that goes in the living room I simply put up there. Then I move onto the next room going through the place very methodically like this until the only "chucked" items still on the floor are in the room they're supposed to be and put up. I think this saves me some time and effort not taking each item and running it to the room it's supposed to go in back and forth. Do you have any tips, tricks, or inspirations you use to clean house? PLEEEAAASE share them??? LOL