I have a trivet that says "My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy". Sometimes it does cross that line. If I had company more often, it would get cleaned more often. My favorite book is "Nobody said you have to eat off the floor". Her basic premise is that you will never get it all done, what looks good to me will be a mess to someone else. And when I die, no one will say "What a clean house she kept". But they might say "look at the beautiful quilt she made for me".