If you’re a mom who struggles with clutter and mess in your home, you’re going to want to watch this viral TikTok—and adopt this genius, clutter-busting cleaning hack.
Aesthetically Ally posted this video, showing how she uses a three-tier rolling cart—her “cleaning cart”—to keep “overstimulating” clutter to a minimum in her home.
“OK, if you’re looking for a busy working mom have to keep your sh– together during the day, during the week, and not feel totally overwhelmed and overstimulated when you walk into your house, keep listening,” she says in her now-viral video. “I’m a licensed therapist and a busy working mom. I own my own practice. I am constantly running around here. I can’t stand having a dirty house or a messy house. Like, for me, that is my overstimulation nightmare.”
Her video then pans over her cleaning cart, which is just one of those basic rolling carts that you can get from IKEA, Target, Walmart, or even Amazon.
“Let me introduce you to the cleaning cart,” she says. She adds that she’s going to show how fast she can use her cleaning cart hack, noting, “My first client is in 17 minutes.”
In the video, Ally rolls the cleaning cart to her dining table and picks up a few hats and sunglasses. She tosses them on the top tier of the cart. She then rolls through the kitchen, pausing next to the island to pick up markers, coloring book pages, electronics, and a dog leash. They all go on the cart, too. As she speeds up the video, she moves around her house and gathers up all the clutter she sees, piling it on the cart. When she’s done, she puts the cart back against a wall, now piled with all that clutter, ready for her family to collect and put away when they get home from work and school.
As one commenter points out, “Need a part two bc this is an adhd doom pile that would never get unpacked off the cart unless I did it myself later and I would not haha.” Ally replies, “the second everyone gets home they immediately have to retrieve any of their belongings off the cart and go put it away. It’s so much for effective than giving the directive to ‘clean up.’”
At the end of her video, she’s ready for her client’s appointment with a house that’s newly free of clutter.
“The purpose of the cart—obviously we’re going to have to put those things away, but it is so much nicer to just not have those things cluttering all of the flat surfaces in your house,” Ally explains. “It helps so much with that overstimulated feeling that you get when you have to come in after a crazy, busy day and start taking care of everybody and everything. So get one. Let me know if you guys try.”
