Aibu/alone/a lazy cow to find Team Tomm too much?

[MrsHookey]

It seems like a lot to do every day. There's no way I could get all of it done in half an hour.

@jetadore it takes me an age just to do the kitchen.

Maybe I do need an adapt big time! I clearly need to do something different to my current ways

The kitchen takes an hour by itself. By the time I do three different meals and suppers and everything else.. I do understand this just might be my incompetence.

I'm tired when I get in, beyond bleaching two of the loos (upstairs bathroom is mothballed die dc at university) and wiping down the crap off the kitchen surfaces that o didn't do the night before I too knackered to do more chores beyond emptying the dishwasher and cooking

I don't follow it as such but I've adopted 30 mins a day as my cleaning. I do whatever needs doing or I feel like in that time and then leave it

The only tips I've got to speed things up are
Leave products to actually work (like mould remover/bath cleaner etc), apply them and do something else while they sit for however long it says on the bottle less scrubbing
Clean/wash up/wipe kitchen as you go when cooking
If you see it, clean it! So if I see some dust, I clean it there and then before I forget about it
Use TV adverts and the kettle boiling to do small jobs
Clean the shower when you're in it or just after as it's usually easier when it's wet already

Also you don't have to do all. You stop after 30 mins and anything you didn't get to you just do the week after.
You can also stop after 0 minutes and anything you didn’t get to you just don’t do ever.

I refuse to get involved with it on the basis of it being an organised mum method.

YANBU, I found it too much as well. But then I look at friends who have their kids in bed by 7 and realise they have an extra 2 hours of time (and kids who don't create so much mess) so maybe that's why.

I on the fb group, despite not following the method and hating how it’s a ‘mum’ method. I think it’s fine if you don’t work and/or have a smallish house. But that doesn’t apply to many people. And some of the ones on RTÉ fb group are fanatical about cleaning!!

Maybe I need to train the kids better. The author reckons she was a single mum and ran a business and managed to get this all done but I don't seem to be able to manage it. I did wonder what her working hours were. It takes 1.5 - 2 hours every day for me.

@MrsHookey

Maybe I need to train the kids better. The author reckons she was a single mum and ran a business and managed to get this all done but I don't seem to be able to manage it. I did wonder what her working hours were. It takes 1.5 - 2 hours every day for me.

Does she have kids with SEN?

The amount of time that can take up, both directly and indirectly, is huge.

Plus many parents of children with SEN may have their own struggles.

@Youdoyoutoday

It's not only half an hour though. You have your every day stuff like clean the kitchen, wash up, laundry or whatever and then it's 30 minutes focus on 1 room. Each day of the week has a different room so the house gets done over the course of the week.

In principle, I liked it but the FB group put me off it, those people are crazy. I follow it lovely in that I stick a load of laundry on and in the hour and 15 minutes it runs for, I do my chores, cleaning, phone calls, meal plan, shopping list, whatever needs doing around the house. Then hang the laundry up, make a cuppa and sit on my arse and mumsnet. Works for me.

I got her second book about organising time and it's a bit naff if I'm honest.

Interested in the second book. We're there any useful tips in it?

No I think it's ridiculous. People clean bathrooms and hoover every day?! The lists are way too much, and they are on top of your regular house admin, cooking, laundry, keeping tidy. It's like, here's the secret to having a clean house....spend hours a day on housework! Well you see there is a fatal error with this plan....

@Sciurus83

No I think it's ridiculous. People clean bathrooms and hoover every day?! The lists are way too much, and they are on top of your regular house admin, cooking, laundry, keeping tidy. It's like, here's the secret to having a clean house....spend hours a day on housework! Well you see there is a fatal error with this plan....

Must admit I Hoover ever day technically.. what it actually is, is a 2 min sweep over the living room with the hoover because the cat likes to track litter and shed hair everywhere but it's very very quick! I don't do effort

Just clean less, that will cut down the amount of time you spend cleaning!

Ah ha you see NotMyCat I have no furry hair making creatures so it just seems quite excessive to me, I suppose if you had something making hair that is a bit different but I just don't think it's necessary in my house at any rate, but perhaps I am a slattern

I like it and it has helped us but i have come to realise it's too much for me term time (teacher). What i do now is level 1s each day (well kind of, washing every other day, only one bathroom each day), one hour or so clean on the weekend to catch the msin areas and that's it. Kind of a Flylady 'weekly home blessing'. Have to cook, get all uniforms/clothes ready, spend time with the kids and get my work done in the evening too. Enough is enough. In the interests of full disclosure, on a bad day at work, i do very little housework in the evening as am just shattered but for my state of mind, 15 mins each day is good for me. Otherwise, i just look at the mess and feel annoyed! Sometines it's better to do just one thing and then you carry on naturally.

Holiday time, when i have more time, i follow it. But stop after 30 minutes each day.

Tbh, i need to stop doing the lion's share and get DC and DH doing more. They will if they are asked/told to but i don't tell them enough.

It's really helped me a lot tbh. I have disabilities myself, and so does my son. Housework would really pile up in the past, and I would get overwhelmed with it. I wouldn't know where to start. Having the lists, and the lists come to an end helps me focus on one task at a time, rather than seeing everything I need to do in every room and feeling overwhelmed. I rarely complete it, but even just doing what I can has helped me a lot.

@CatNamedEaster yes, totally. Life does not feel easy right now. We need to maybe let some things go but for me, i hate it when the house is a mess (which it is pretty regularly!😂) Working on my perfectionism.

@rrhuth

All these systems are bullshit.

Just do the minimum you can get away with.

Hell yeah

Robot hoover is the way forward

I love it !

The name totally put me off. I am not the person solely responsible for organising everything. Fortunately dh is not a twat and he does most of the housework through the week. I think if you cook and use your kitchen then it will take a lot longer than she says to tidy up. I'd rather cook than clean so 🤷‍♀️

The name is a bit unfortunate but she is referring to herself as the Organised Mum. That's her moniker.

Also we are starting from a point of our house looking like a junk shop so nothing is going to take the time she says. I laughed when I read about doing a quick check under the beds: if I investigated what was under there my family would be sending out a search party 3 hours later.

And yes the name is shit. I printed out the lists and put stickers with "family" over "mum".

We are trying to get into the habit of a 5 minute blitz before school so I clean kitchen, DH does toilet and sink, and DS tidies a room so at least if we got any surprise visitors we would actually be able to let them in.

@MrsHookey

Maybe I need to train the kids better. The author reckons she was a single mum and ran a business and managed to get this all done but I don't seem to be able to manage it. I did wonder what her working hours were. It takes 1.5 - 2 hours every day for me.

Many things you read are embellished stories. Instagram homemakers are not reliable witnesses, they are selling a lifestyle.

If you're spending 2 hours per day cleaning, I would kindly suggest you need a rethink. You're cleaning too much.

I worked as a chambermaid when younger and took less time than that to do the whole six room B&B plus dining room, what the hell are you doing?

There are two reasons to clean - hygiene and removal of visible dirt/mess. Anything else is a complete waste of time. Stop doing it. Do something more interesting.