I really like the ideas you can pick up from the Fly Lady. I don’t have a chance in hell of doing everything every day, or every week, that she has on her lists, but it helps a lot.
My sink doesn’t get shined every day ’cause, let’s be honest here, there’s usually too many dishes in the way to do that. 
And I don’t do the “Swish and Swipe” every day, either, but I do get it done several times a week and it sure helps.
Since I’m an “all or nothing” girl, you can imagine what my house used to look like. If I couldn’t do *everything* why bother to do *anything*?! If I learned anything from her, it was that little five, ten or fifteen minute bits here and there make a big difference — and they do!
Frankly, it was a revelation to find that I didn’t *really* have to do a “full clean” on that bathroom to get it presentable! But one thing that bothered me about her advice here was to keep a crock beside the toilet with the toilet brush and some cleaner in it. This just grossed me out. Yes, I have kids and pets — and she does say this isn’t good for them! — but even if I didn’t I wouldn’t want that sitting there looking at me all the time.
She also says you can get brush caddies with lids on them — but they’re all plastic! I’m such a spaz, I *would* be doing a full clean on the bathroom several times a week to clean up the mess after I knocked it over.
I also imagined a crock full of nasty scum after a week or so. This whole thing just sounded gross.
I went to the Goodwill store to try to find something that would work. Musta been my lucky day because I found a fancy trash bucket! It was bathroom size (as a matter of fact it was part of a bath accessory set) and weighed a ton. It’s ceramic or porcelain, or something like that. That bad boy is *not* going anywhere! Then, I hid it in the cabinet under the sink. Added some water, a toilet brush, and a squirt or two of dishwashing liquid, and my experiment was ready to go.
I’m thinking about this today because it’s been several months since I put that under there. And today I pulled it out to do my “thing” and notice that, while most of the water had evaporated, there was *no* nastiness in there at all. It looked like I could probably wash my dishes with it, though, of course, NOT!
So, if you’ve read that “how to” and thought “YUCK!!!” I can tell you it really does work, it really does help, makes it easy and quick to do your “Swish and Swipe” and, for me anyway, I no longer feel like I need to lock the bathroom and tell unexpected visitors that, yes, my son really does take three hour showers. 
