How to make household chores faster, easier and more fun to do

If you feel life is too short for housework, here are our tips for getting even those boring jobs done as painlessly as possible

Can you make your household chore routine easier and swifter? Picture: Alamy/PA

Death, taxes, and mildly boring housework – the three ever-presents of modern life. While nobody really enjoys doing the chores, there are certainly ways to make it more or less tolerable, and maximise the hours of the day you spend doing other things.

Here is how to power through laundry, cleaning and ironing as rapidly as is humanly possible…