The everlasting battle of cleaning

I pick up, she takes out, I pick up, she takes out, I pick up, kitten grabs something and runs with it and drops it in the middle of the floor. Day in and day out this is what we do. Our place is very small so just having a couple of things out, the place looks cluttered. I have been trying to get into my spring cleaning mode as I have a ton of things I want to do, but haven't been able to start yet.