To ask how full time workers how they hell they can stop spending all their weekends doing bloody housework?

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Boring but serious question- work all week, leaving house at 7.30 and getting home 6.30 ish. DP, who also works all day gets home slightly earlier and always cooks, feeds cats etc. He does his own ironing.

I do little housework during the week apart from those everyday things you have to do or course as a) I’m knackered and b) I frequently have work related paperwork to do or study (I’m studying for an MA part time as well). I also go to the gym most nights so I admit that I cram a bit in.

This weekend I thought I was pretty much on top of things at home. Dp and I did all the food shopping yesterday but still I realise that this weekend I’ve done tons of washing (I have a teenage son), ironing, tidying, hoovering, dusting and cooking. I’ve been to the gym but combined this with my college work (reading on the treadmill) and we did relax and watch a movie last night. Dp did a load of stuff in the garden.

I am just really interested in how full time workers manage it all with the result of saying they had a weekend, or most of a weekend to do stuff not related to the home. Or maybe, everyone lives like this and I’m a whinging git!

I was studying part time alongside working for a few years. It was hard and I understand why you have posted this. If any consolation, once you finish your studies you won't know yourself. You are so trained into complicated work hours that getting the cleaning done will be a synch.

You might have to bite the bullet and accept weekends are catch-up times until you're done. Make sure you book out special weekends for fun time! And that includes having time for yourself. :)

We don't, tbh. Or when we do the house gets a bit grim and we spend a weekend (this one) blitzing it.
It does get really on top of us, and we don't even have kids. Then again DP does 9-8/9/10pm and I do until 6/7 and we have a 30-40 min commute so we're above basic full time.

I am just really interested in how full time workers manage it all with the result of saying they had a weekend, or most of a weekend to do stuff not related to the home.

But you have had a weekend where you did stuff not related to the home. You went to the gym and you studied. Your choice to do those

Organised mum method. I'm not a mum and I use it
30 mins a day or so after work, and I do nothing on my weekend (which for me is a Tuesday night and a Sunday night)
It's actually made me a lot more relaxed about cleaning too

Where are people getting cleaners from for £20pw?! They're £15 per hour where I live.

One word. Cleaner.

It's the best money I spend. No one in my household wants to clean the loo. We'd rather pay so we don't have to.

No one really bothers with 'tidying' beyond moving a pile of stuff away from the bit of the table you want to sit at either

And I iron things about twice a year, if I have to.

It depends how you want your house to be, I suppose.

@NoKnickerElastic

My cleaner is £10ph East Mids (I provide all materials). Previous cleaner was £13ph in same area.
I have 3hrs weekly. At £20ph I’d have 2hrs a week or 4hrs a fortnight-that would still be a help!

Organisation. I managed it with 4 young children. I made full use of slowcooker for food. And put a wash on before i leave and when i return

I can’t help you - I spend the whole weekend every week cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing and shopping. We both work full time (probably 50+ hours a week each) with frequent trips away. We’ve got four children at primary and early secondary plus a family lodger. The
children also do a lot of sports, so we’re often out in the evenings, but leaving us with piles of sports kit to add the the mix. Our house is always a state, and I’m only ever on top of uniform and sports kit. We have a cleaner, and I love her. I just hold onto the fact that this too shall pass. One day life will be less frantic, and I shall have a clean house. Until then, I shall not worry about it.

I do all my cleaning on a Sunday evening
DS 25 does his share at same time
Beds changed etc
Monday eve washing
We each do our own ironing
Food shopping is not a chore to me nor cooking and I fit it in on my way home from work or gym
I have an evening class once a week and go to gym twice
Other evenings are for catching up with friends I also have elderly parents who I need to call I. On at least once a week
It’s just a matter of being organised and making sure everyone pulls their weight
From age 11 my D.C. had to do their own cleaning, bed changing and ironing, look after their own lunches school prep etc

One day we focus on cleaning house and shopping. Other day on fun. But then DP and I do it together.

I met a lady who gets up at 04:30 every day. I get up at 07:00 and just have a mess for a house.

I have a cleaner, it was meant to be for 3 hours but ends up being 5. My DH works from home most days and he does the washing. I order my food shop online (honestly that saves hours!). And I have to accept it’s not completely as I would like

Only iron what is necessary when you need it.
Online shopping.
Cooking typically are 20-30 minute meals (stir-fry, spag bol, etc)
Not being too precious 😆

Also doing an MA and working full time is bloody difficult. I did this and my DP did the housework.

Sort a room a day between you. Surelt laundry, cooking amd generally tidying are just everyone's daily routine?

I throw laundry in before I go to bed, my machine has a delay function so I set it to come on in morning and then throw it in tumblr drier before I go to work. I also iron whilst watching tv - good chance for me to catch up on shows that dp doesn’t really like.
Also, we have one of those cordless dysons which is a complete game changer. I can quickly grab it and run it around in 2mins to give a quick tidy up

DH gets up at 5:30, will do housework, and other jobs before leaving for work at 7:15.

Robot vacuum. I try to have a midweek clean up on Wednesdays and clean up on Fridays. Everything else Saturday mornings.

Really want a cleaner!

What kind of cleaning do they usually do?

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I'm so very tempted to get a cleaner. I've just paid the last instalment of £90 on a furniture credit so could pay for someone without missing it @10 ish quid an hour (up north so guessing cheapish)

Putting me off:

• Northern anti posh gene
• I have Thursday off so should do it then. I just don't want to
• upstairs is still a modernising work in progress
• DP thinks I should do it on Thursdays

I was thinking this myself recently. I work similar hours to you, as does DH, every morning I make the beds, load dishwasher and wipe loo round. When I get home I put a wash on, quick tidy round and hoover but I still seem to spend all weekend cleaning and ironing . Can't get a cleaner, have really tried to pair it down a bit but even if I do bare minimum I still seem to be doing loads at weekend. Recently tried to do all cleaning Friday after work, didn't really work as found extra stuff to do at weekend!!! I need to work part time I think to not be doing it at weekends. 2 dcs too.

Definitely need a cleaner or a bit more organisation. Find it hard when some days I finish at 7pm then start at 7am the next morning. So tiring.

Bedsheet changing.

Kids beds once a fortnight. They’re bathed or showered every night. If they were dirty in between they’d be changed of course.

Mine once a fortnight or if DP stays they get done but he’s only here once a month at the very most. I’m at his alternate weekends and sometimes there 2x alternate weekends.

Towels are changed after every 2nd use as well. We each have our own which go on radiators/over banister.