Keeping a clean house

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a tidy person. Though if you give anyone who knows me a chance to say it, there would be a race between who says it first.

Bottom line, I am not a tidy person. Never have been. I like it when things are clean and organized, but every time I commit to cleaning and organizing, everything usually ends up worse than it was before. I've come to rely on my beautiful wife, whose cleaning and organizational skills far exceed my own. But since she works full time, it isn't exactly fair for me to make her clean when she gets home. I'm a good husband like that, after all.

So instead, as a method of adaptation, I have learned to live with a certain level of messiness. I put in a certain amount of maintenance to make sure stray deer aren't grazing in my living room, but generally speaking, things are cluttered.

Adding a two year old to the mix has not helped. But that's just how it goes.

How are certain people so clean? What is your secret to a clean house? A clean kitchen? A clean bathroom? I ask, but I already know the answer. It's maintenance. and I'm too impatient.