Life is humdrum

[Boufant]

Me & DH have decent jobs. We do the 9-5 (so to speak), save for several holidays each year, but holidays come and go. Weekly food shops. DC in secondary school. Making weekend plans every week. Adore DH. Great friends. But week life is 9-5, working, day in, day out, trying to juggle keeping the house clean, doing the washing, home chores/jobs, working every day, booking appointments, running DC around in the car, keeping up with admin - the usual drog that 99% of the population have to do. We have spent the last 2 weekends working hard to get the garden summer ready. We've not yet been able to enjoy the garden as our weekend time has been taken up sorting it. Weekends we still need to sort the house/DC/make dinners, take in food shop, visit elderly family etc which only leaves some time to enjoy sitting in the garden in the sun.

... and then there are people out there living very alternative lives. People who are privilege to life's luxuries. People who have cleaners/gardeners/out source washing and don't have to do any of this for themselves. People who are currently sailing on their yachts in the sun, their days are filled with swimming, lunches and visiting different ports (I saw a programme on this once). People who don't need to work.

Just feeling vey fed up today of the 9-5 and drudgery this week. I don't want to be working today, or this week even. I want to be out in the sun/swimming in the sea/walking/running/gym.

I hear you. No words of advice but I hear you.

@Boufant the amount of people in that position is actually very small but they make good attractive fodder for documentary makers so it seems as if there are more - the vast majority are living like yourself OP- even people with pretty good incomes- no consolation I know.

You need to start counting your blessings OP, sorry to be so blunt but it sounds like you have a lovely life.
The luxury lifestyle you describe is something of a pipedream for the majority of people (or what you see in celebrity TV programmes).

I guess its things like:
On holiday and speaking to the waiter (20ish) He is English but working abroad for the Summer as his parents have a boat moored locally, they also have a home in England. He speaks the local language fluently. I'd worked hard to save to pay for just 1 week there and that was done with budget limitations.

@Saltedcarameltiramisucheesecake I do have a lovely life. But we work bloody hard for it (who doesn't) and long hours. And sometimes I am sick of working so hard and so many hours for it. Sometimes I would just like it to all come to me, like it does for that very small %age of the population.

Could you find something in your budget to get a cleaner/gardener?
Say you have a city break once a year, would you use that money instead and get a cleaner once every two weeks? So you get your weekends more to yourself.

Then you might find time to read in the garden when it is sunny instead of cleaning the bathrooms.

Just a small change might make a huge difference.

@Boufant my H and I know someone through work well who is a gorgeous but understated early 50s and splits her life between 2 different ( and both very lovely) Mediterranean destinations- her incredibly wealthy mother and stepfather live in one of these and she has a small house in the other- doesn’t seem to ever work -she is however a very lovely kind and gentle soul- am I jealous? You bet