Housekeeping is much more than just sweeping every day or doing the dishes when they get dirty. Housekeeping is a form of magic; it requires a deep, sprawling web of knowledge about how every element within your home interacts with one another. Where does dust come from? How does it attach to different materials and surfaces? What are the different ways of removing it? How about your clothes? How do oils or sauces penetrate the fibers to create an unsightly stain, and how the hell do you get it out?
Not only do you need to understand how different elements interact with each other, but you also have to determine how clean you want your home to be! There is no one right answer, and the right answer can change pretty often depending on a range of factors; some within your control, most of them not. Some things to consider might be:
When you combine these different factors with realistic expectations of day-to-day the cleanliness of your home, you set up a baseline that you can adjust flexibly. If you know it's going to be particularly windy or it's going to rain, you know to expect that your house might be a bit more dirty that week. Maybe you had a particularly long day and cannot muster up the energy to do your usual post-work cleaning routine; this is fine, because you've been on top of it for the past two weeks already. Or maybe you haven't and it's just been a long week or a long month and your home hasn't been as clean as you would like it to be. Give yourself grace and pick back up when you're able to; good housekeeping doesn't run on guilt!
Housekeeping regimens may seem intimidating and unfathomably complex, but they are a labor of love, time, and observation. These routines cannot be set up overnight. Observe the different states of your home over the course of at least a week, and take note of anything that stands out; how your house looks at its best and at its worst; how long your house maintains its best state and how much work it takes to get it out of its worst state; how much you're realistically able to handle after a day of work/school/practice/etc.; how much you can knock out on a Saturday or Sunday; the parts of your house that take over an hour to clean and the parts that can be cleaned in just a few minutes. The more you observe, the more you can predict; the more you can predict, the easier it is to stay on top of problem areas and reduce the overall amount of time that you spend cleaning.