To think it is easy to keep your home clean?

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Providing you are able bodied obviously

Hahaha hahaha

R2G WTF?? 4pm child empties dishwasher, 6pm you do the dishwasher?!? 6.45 put plate in the dishwasher. You are all constantly in the dishwasher!
My kids eat all meals, when they finish they scrape their plates and put them in the dishwasher this just always happens. They also brush their teeth and go to bed and always get clothes out for the next day which takes about 10 seconds. There are so many people spending a lot of time doing things that should take minutes!!

Olivander84. Eek...is that a mouse 🐭 on the floor??😱

Aye, hen.
Its so easy that I spend my free time riding my unicorn

Its the sort of thing my ' step mother' used to say to me.*
She had one child and lived with her mum before hooking up with my dad ( who didnt live with her)
I had 4 kids, a full time working husband, worked pt...

• another thing she said was half a valium would help the kids to sleep through the night.

Dead easy of course. My house looks like the "happily ever after" in those lovely Cif ads. In fact, I'm just having a quick tidy up before the film crew from "Hoarders" arrive.
Now, do I have time to arrange a staged washing up area and nip out quickly for a stunt pineapple before they get here I wonder.

Tabulated . I spent 5 hours cleaning the other day as Ds was out . He has since been baking . Oh the mess Would be easy if it was just me . Much less washing too . Oh and I am a childminder so not only does my own child mess up my home other people’s children do too .

I would love to live in a clean, tidy and decluttered house. Just not enough to make the effort.

There's a difference in a house being clean and being untidy. Most folk with kids especially young ones generally have a bit of mess and is easily but so tedious to tidy up regularly. Cleaning is a different matter and to have a reasonably healthy household cleaning is necessary. Ok tidy up often but clean when required.

If only SomethingNew - all 5 of us have different breakfasts and lunches and only 2 of us have the same dinners. DH wont eat cold food so he needs a hot meal for both breakfast and lunch to take to work, which can't overlap with dinner (ie can;t be double pasta, chicken, rice etc). Kids are fussy as fuck - oldest has sensory issues and is seeing a nutritionist/pead. I basically spend 3/4 of my life doing something around food, even if its searching on the internet for recipes the kids may eat. I stop at Lidl pretty much every day for milk and 'bits' which takes an hour. then the clearing away, thinking, making, remaking, making something else etc. It's so fucking tedious. I used to love cooking and food. Now i live on omelettes and biscuits, because i can't face anything else.

Yes OP, I agree, it's very easy to keep your home clean as long as you don't let anyone (including yourself) live in it

Seriously though, it depends on a person's definition of clean. I have a friend who I feel is unhealthily clean (lots of bleach); she probably feels my home is filthy, and yet we sweep and mop/Hoover daily because we have two dogs.

Too busy trying to have sex here.

It's not easy. We all just do what we can.

I'm a single parent with a full time 9-5 job during the week and another on Sunday when DC at xh. I barely manage the minimum of washing, dishes and cooking. I could take the occasional quiet hour after DC is in bed to be 'tidier' but that would mean giving up the only me time I have and would be no way to live.
So it's a big yabu from me.

Bellie so funny. Yeah I was pretty much just meaning one empties, I stack and everyone else in between scrapes their own things and puts in

You need to take up a religion op!

Wait until your dc gets older, then you'll find out, not sleeping and messy!

It's probably quite easy if you prioritise it above all the other things you could be doing with your time

Having a spotless house is a choice not a moral imperative. I'd rather have happy messy kids, an interesting and challenging job, a chance to exercise regularly and a social life

@LondonDove
I’m slightly scared or in awe. - please be in awe I'm very proud of us!!

How did you ever get everyone so well trained?
Lead by example. DH too. Just an expectation.
Does anyone ever rebel?
Can't say the windows always get done. Many days have been slept in/ someone's ill and bits get missed like hoovering the rug, will just pick the fur off and do the next day (I could tell you about a special brush I bought of QVC but don't want you to think I'm a freak!)
How long does it take for the kids floors to disappear when they’re playing in your house? They don't really do that now. Play board games, Xbox and make slime. Kitchen table is destroyed but bought an oil cloth. When they were smaller they were allowed two boxes out at once (there's a square box for each thing - e.g. Lego box, dressing up box, games box, craft box) and if they wanted a different box one had to be put away.

Do you ever ever say fuck it and lie on the sofa with a glass of wine instead? I'm always on the sofa by 9.15 with a glass waiting for each of us. Sometimes at the weekend we'll fuck it and just not change the sheets etc but not really during the week x

It's not easy, or that much fun to achieve, but it's not overly hard either. There are 3 kids, 2 adults and a dog in our house and it's clean and tidy 90% of the time. I don't judge other people's houses though, you can be as clean or untidy as you like, as long as my house is clean and tidy, I'm happy.

I'm not a big fan of the 'if your house is clean and tidy you must be missing time with your kids' theory, you can do both!

Mrs koala - dh won't eat cold food! And you all eat different things at meal times. Blimey no wonder you're sick of it. Start with telling dh to sort out his princess ways!

Me do and a dog. House is tidy but definitely not spotless. Polish once a week. Do bathroom and full on kitchen clean down once a week. Dust or antibacterial wipe downstairs skirting boards and doors once a week. Properly clean upstairs about twice a month. Do bedding once a week. Towels a couple of times. Wash up every day. Tidy. Nowhere near spotless.

I have a friend who's house is spotless. After her DD was born and I mean a couple of weeks she told me how she wished her dp worked nights so she could stay up all night cleaning. no thank you.

''Having a spotless house is a choice not a moral imperative. I'd rather have happy messy kids, an interesting and challenging job, a chance to exercise regularly and a social life''

I find this equally as patronising as those looking down on messy houses. I have a tidy and clean house but have a challenging job, happy children, exercise and have a social life - including people dropping by to my welcoming home 🏡

MrsKoala, agree with Lethal, why are you not telling your husband to get his own bloody hot meals?

Not trying to be patronising. I'm just pointing out that each of us has a finite amount of time and energy & everybody gets to decide what to do with theirs. Nobody's choice is "better" or "righter" than anyone else's. If you want to prioritise cleanliness, that's fine, if I don't, that's fine too.

I can see that I could have phrased it better though.

My house is always immaculately tidy I have one toddler and work four days. I'm obsessive however.
But I appreciate that some people may have better things to do with their time. It's prioritisation really.