Most people take entirely too long to clean the house. Optimize for economy of motion and it becomes a sort of bin packing problem where you try and find the most efficient way to layer the various tasks that can be sort of fun in and of itself.
I agree with you. The best way to clean house is to divide it into small chunks and do each one as an exercise each day after work(you know, those garbage time). Sadly wifie doesn't agree with me.
I'm not great at this, but i suspect we should be doing it during the working week...
My wife makes us clean the house, run the laundry, and do any budgeting we need to do on a Saturday (the time depends on our plans). It takes an hour or two in total if you just focus on finishing quickly. Does it suck? Yes. Do I moan about it? Yes. Am I a big kid? Probably. But get it out the way as soon as possible and the rest of the weekend is yours to enjoy :)
It's trivial to hire house cleaners to come in once or twice a week, and to keep things minimally tidy in between.
I dont find the cost trivial.
I dislike house cleaners not because of the cost but because I really dislike other people sorting through my things and putting them back in the wrong places. It also feels like an invasion when they arrive.
I clean the house. I do it about ten mins a night. Sometimes fifteen if it's a mess.