I love PEsach and always look forward to it. I do NOT get crazy with the cleaning. I don’t throw chometz on my walls and ceiling, and I do not eat in my closets. I clean out the chometz, put away the cometzdig items in a locked closet and sell it, change over the kitchen, kasher the stove and oven, and am ready to cook at least two days before yom tov (and I know people who are ready a week early, which to me is excessive).
I did not grow up that way, btw. My parents’ house was not ready until the morning of erev Pesach. But I find this much easier for myself.