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I swear, I previewed about five times, too. :smack:
The way you furnish your house matters a lot.
Buy no-iron clothes.
make places for object that are constantly in the way. Things like mail and bags, and rollerskates need a place to live too, or they’ll take revenge by behaving as clutter.
Throw out every knickknack that doesn’t make you smile everytime you see it and that hasn’t been used in less then a year. Dusting around them is more work then just dusting empty space. It looks less cluttered too. And when you’ve thrown them away, you have better access to the knicknacks that you do use and that do make you smile.
This is especially good advice when dealing with kitchen utensils. Just weigh the one time per year that you actually do use that gadget for making salmon mousse against the 364 times per day that it gets in your way when you are groping for the the frying pan.
Closed closets require less maintenance then open ones.
Wall to wall carpeting require less dusting then hard floors. Really! The carpet somehow ties the dustbunnies down. They are much more noticable on a hard floor. Reverse this argument if you’ve got asthma.
Choose a cat in the same color als your upholstery and carpet. 
I try to buy only furniture with antistatic smooth surfaces, that can be dusted with a moist rag. No waxing or polishing in casa Maastricht.
When I had to buy a table a while ago, I could choose between two. One very practical, made out of indestructible plastic in “wood pattern” that looked like I had no money and no taste. The other a beautiful wooden one that made my whole living room look like something out of a magazine. But the wood required waxing, careful cleaning, annual sanding, and it would look shitty of scratched. After all, two thousand scratches and dents make an antique, full of character; just three schratches makes a damaged table. I imagined myself giving TLC to my table, then remembered how much TLG I had given to the silverware I had bougth in the same spirit. So I chose the indestructible plastic one. 
I reckon with that one buy I’ve saved a month of my life that I can now spend loitering, instead off attending to the needs of my table.