Need a week of no child a cleaner and a handy man

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Does anyone else feel they need a week of no toddler and a handy man on speed dial. house is chaos and I’m slowly trying to to organise every inch of it after we moved in this year with a baby. As soon as the house is semi tidy it’s chaos again. Lots of little jobs that need doing like organising the kitchen cupboards especially all the Tupperware lids baby clothes need sorting shelves need putting up etc. I’m doing small jobs every day but can’t get much done. I want a full nights sleep a dinner consisting of nibbles so I don’t have to wash up longs baths and organising every day followed by a deep clean from a cleaner once I was done. Unless I send my husband and baby away it’s not possible but I can dream.

I think we all need that 😂 can your husband take some time off work? He can do all your handman jobs and also take care of the baby to give you some downtime/baths/time to clean?

My handyman list is stupidly long due to a workaholic husband. Him taking a week off to complete the list would be a dream!

Same. I think I'd need about a month off work, plus cleaner and a handyman.

My husband is terrible at diy he does really try but he’s awful I’m good but not the strongest so struggle with some things. We do occasionally try do it together but it sends us into an argument of who gets to use the drill

Well today I managed to get my husband to put away the outdoor halloween and Christmas decorations from the garage. He's decided that's plenty for one day and gone on strike. It's going to take a long time to get all his jobs done 🤣

DH used to take DC to his parents for February half term and that was my time to massively spring clean the house and do all the DIY jobs. Unfortunately his parents are no longer in good health so it's not happened for the last couple of years and (to me) it shows.

When my ex moved out I sent a 12 point list of DIY jobs to a handyman I had recommended to me. These were jobs that had been needing to be done for the past few years and my ex could’ve done well, quickly and with no effort (I couldn’t have done any of them well or at all).
Handyman was here for nearly 2 days and did them ALL. I can’t tell you how great it felt to have them all done, and how I wished I’d done it sooner and not waited for my ex to sort them ‘tomorrow’.
If paying someone to do it for you is an option, go for it!

Can you afford to pay for a handyman to come and do a list of jobs? If you can, it will make such a difference! I know it's not always a possibility financially though.

We will eventually get a handy man over but I need to organise everything first. For example I have a cupboard that needs shelving but it’s full of crap that i need to take out and sort.