At home/duvet days

[mondaytosunday]

So I don't mean spending the whole day in bed.
Last week we travelled up north for a couple days and Monday off to Scotland for three days. Today I've nothing planned, the dogs are away due to all our travelling, and my 18 year old will not get out of her jammies today. So, how do you feel about just slumming it at home and not getting dressed? I'll still do the usual chores - laundry etc.
I remember dropping in to a friend once and she wasn't dressed at 12.30 (she was from my antenatal class so two little ones). I judged her! I couldn't contemplate not getting up and showered and dressed when I had young kids. I think it was during the lockdowns (kids teens by then) that I occasionally had a day when I didn't bother. But it just feels so slovenly! My mother would certainly NOT approve!
How often, if ever, do you have a day like this?

Something I never do. I would feel uncomfortable. Each to their own and be prepared for someone to call.

I don’t really understand how people survive with never doing this? I need to know I can have a duvet day coming up at some point, or I feel so much pressure from the relentlessness of work/housework/life. I am a lone parent, though, I get no breaks. For me, a duvet day still includes light cooking and housework, chucking a wash on etc. but it means no makeup, tracksuit bottoms and oversized tshirt/jumper, and once the dog has been walked just an expanse of no tasks ahead.

We’ve sort of woven into our family habits that the first Saturday in a half term holiday (unless we’re travelling) is a nothing day. We all get clean and have breakfast, open the windows and blinds and walk the dog like proper civilized people, then it’s back home, lounge wear on, and a big load of nothing. My kids will do things like pick at fruit and ham, maybe go mad and order pizza, but no efforts or tasks will be done.

This coming half term we’ve already started talking about saving up some new films to watch then, and I’ve chucked some nice Easter treats in the online shop. I have to confess if I’m WFH on a day with no meetings, I can literally make a nest of work around myself, put the telly on in the background while working, and have a sort of duvet day-work hybrid. Life is busy and tiring, I need to switch off sometimes.