To think housework never ends?

[mcjx]

Seriously, does anyone else feel this way? I feel like all I do is housework and I just can't be bothered.

I have guests coming tomorrow afternoon and can't motivate myself to get my arse in gear

How do you all keep on top of it?

[DrCoconut]

I had a day off work today and blitzed the house. We go away for the week next week. I'm being naive to think the house will stay nice until we get home and I'll have loads of time to pack in a relaxed manner, aren't I?😂

[RabbityMcRabbit]

YANBU OP, not at all. I hate it and can't afford a cleaner x

[HolyForkingShirt]

Lower your standards. I clean once a week and don't go mad over washing my clothes. Never do ironing, WTF is the point.

You can't really expect a pristine house and moan at the amount of work that takes. Something's gotta give.

[ASatisfyingThump]

I agree with formerbabe, it's so much easier when everyone else cleans up their own crap and doesn't make it harder than it needs to be. I feel like Sisyphus with his fucking boulder some days, except the boulder is pile of dirty laundry and dirty dishes just left everywhere. Wish i could just outsource this shit.

[Clockworkprincess]

I prob spend about an hour daily on housework. I alternate rooms daily so will do kitchen one day and bathroom another (have two full days off so alternate then) . Living room gets quick brush and mop daily to keep on top of it as front door opens - beds get made and a daily iron of whatever is in ironing basket. While cleaning living room and ironing have an episode of something i want to watch.
Does feel a bit endless but better than leaving it all until one day which have done in the past and ended up grumpy.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

The secret is to have a huge deal clutter and keep de cluttering as 'stuff' builds up.

Tidy and pick up as you go so you don't ever get to a stage where you need to blitz the house. Don't leave a room and leave a cup that needs putting in the sink/dishwasher, fold washing as it comes off the line/out of the drier. DON'T iron

Oh and get big baskets so that can be easily scooped up at the end of the day.

[MsTSwift]

Yes cleaner once a week is good but still loads to do food laundry tidying crap. Met a couple on holiday who worked for a famous person you have all heard of. They had nanny per child butler team of cleaners and housekeeper. That would do me.

[Springisallaround]

A cleaner (which I have) is great on the day that she's cleaned and the day after, but the house hardly stays pristine for a week in case any visitors come, you still have to do the dishwasher/surfaces/pans/loos/washing/mess every day, that doesn't stop with a once a week cleaner! What is better is that the underlying dirt is dealt with - so the floors get a good mop, the bathroom is properly cleaned, the cutlery drawer cleaned, stuff like that. It doesn't negate the everyday cleaning though, not in a busy family anyway.

[Thirtyrock39]

OrgNised mum method (TOMM) has changed my life- honestly give it a try - for me the key to it is the 'level one' jobs - so you hoover, make beds, do a load of laundry and give bathroom quick once over (as in two mins while kids getting shoes and coats on to go) and this all takes about 15 minutes , you then have half an hour five days a week of focused areas- it means two days a week hardly any big housework jobs just washing up etc my house is so much tidier

[KMoKMo]

@Paraballa what app is that please?
I’ve sort of tried TOMM but just can’t seem to stick to it.

[mcjx]

I got round to tidying up before my guests come tomorrow, finally

I can only imagine it's going to get worse when DC arrives and is a little bit older!

[MsTSwift]

Food is what gets me. Think about it, buy it, cook it, clear it up ad infinitum forever. Anything I make tastes like dust to me because I am so bored of it by the time we come to eat it. Anything cooked by someone else tasted divine even pesto pasta

[Simonfromharlow]

It's relentless and some days I just can't be bothered because it all just starts again the next day.

[OneDayillSleep]

I’ve always wondered how people manage it, you know appear to have a spotless house, kids and work full time without a cleaner. I know quite a few people who do this and their houses go ting when you walk in.

I appear to spend my time battling trying to keep the house clean and tidy. I have 2 toddlers and a husband who are messing up in another part of the house faster than I can tidy!! It stressed me out for quite a while until I realised I just needed to relax and lower my standards. The friends with the show houses are either superhuman or don’t allow their kids and husbands into the house... or they employ 3 cleaners on the sly.

[Fiveredbricks]

Op the more you're out the house the less there is to do. I found I had the tidiest home when I was never in it

[trebless]

Dh is a builder....the dust....the crap every where every single day the minute he walks in....anyone have an OH the same? The crap he brings in with him everyday drives me absolutely insane....to the point where I sometimes happily imagine how clean my house would be if we divorced.

[onthenaughtystepagain]

Black sock fluff on the floor

My Number 1 pet hate, I've thrown out all the offending socks.

[Mwnci123]

Also on mat leAve and very bored of housework, disturbed sleep, carrying children around (especially while doing housework) and being cried at. Am going through phases of letting the house get really messy and grubby but feeling embarrassed and vexed, or keeping fairly on top of it and feeling totally fucking bored and like it's the 1950s in my life. I have housework songs in my head with key words swapped to 'boring' (mostly 'It's all so boring' to the tune of 'It's all about you'). No, I don't think it ever ends.

[WatershedMoment]

Get a robot hoover. Best thing we ever did. Its truly fabulous. Went from wrestling the Dyson to watching robovac while drinking coffee.

[sandi2019]

Siameasy....well I think it sounds reasonable xx
As kids we were forced to do housework...it was expected.....there was always an awful, pressurised and stressful atmosphere hanging over us kids which I wouldn't wish on any child.
I wish it had been like the way you describe.....a choice.....and a reward xx

[Goldenphoenix]

I am nowhere near on top of it. Makes me sad, it is always so dusty and messy. Would be really embarassed to have unexpected visitors around. Our problem (apart from a lazy OH, a hairy dog and two small wrecking ball children) is too much clutter. I can't clean effectively because of all the stuff. Really need to empty this house of so much stuff

[Paraballa]

I did KonMarie so now everything has a home and I have way less stuff anyway. And I use an app that you put all your chores into and how often you want to do them then each day you get a to do list. That way I do 3-5 things a day (on top of daily chores) and the house is always clean.

[Siameasy]

Is rewarding kids to do housework acceptable these days? A couple of quid here and there to help? Xx

My DC is still young-I was thinking I would make doing certain basic things a condition of getting your pocket money? And earn extra money through extra tasks?

[ApplePieIsAmazing]

I know what you mean. DH both work full time, we have 2 cats and one big fluffy dog because DH wanted him. The bloody digs fur is a nightmare, he doesn't stop shedding. Somehow I've been stuck with the job of walking him and picking up his shits too

[TakemedowntoPotatoCity]

It never ends no, which is why I don't bother trying to keep the place pristine, as long as it looks vaguely clean I try to be relaxed about toys out etc, I'm not Mrs fucking Hinch