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I think everyone needs to take some lessons from 'Clean Sweep' on TLC. Great show. Watch it enough and you'll be inspired to get rid of clutter and crap that you don't use or look at, even if its some gift your late grandma gave you. If its in a box, you obviously don't cherish it as much as you think you do.
I have *3* kids to keep on their chores. Our system is that the kids take care of their own things they make messes with, but like any parent/kid relationship, I think, we're only mostly successful with that. And my 15 month old son is getting good at creating messes, and just beginning to understand putting things back. (Its very cute!) The 10 yr old is the worst, however. We find things of hers *everywhere* around the house, with the promise that 'I'll take care of it later.'
My wife is a weekend cleaner and I'm a weekday pick-er-up-er. So things inevitably pile up for me to sort and organize into piles during the week that we can then deal with actually putting away and cleaning (mop, sweep, vacuum, dust, etc.) on the weekend. I'm trying to convert her into a 'do a little at a time all week so we don't waste our weekend cleaning' type person, but have only been marginally successful. :-) To give her credit, we really only clean, in earnest, once a month, balancing fun weekend activities for the kids and us the other three.
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