to just want be home to enjoy a tidy - nice smelling house

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Gah,

I have a commitment on Saturday with the Pre-school Committee, which has seen me dashing about most mornings this week and another work commitment on Tuesday (which takes me out of the home from Monday lunchtime till late Tuesday night). Not to mention a 2 year old and a 5 year old who are lovely and try to help, but dont always manage it. On top of that I have had to spend a weekend with the 'outlaws' as well.

My kitchen if full of stuff for the committee, my house in general is full of dust, there is clutter everywhere as we try to be organised about Christmas and no one but is willing to clean out the 'indoor (DH's idea ) guinea pigs, so they currently stink.

Tonight when I get home I have to cook dinner for me and DH, do laundry, clean affore mentions smelly rodents, batch cook a load of meat sauces for thrifty living, bake a cake for Saturday, try and reduce the ironing pile and ultimatley try not to have a mental break down.

Is it just me or is this most mums lives???

Can DH not help?

You sound totally overwhelmed with chores and commitments.

What can you scale back on or subcontract?

invest in a cleaner immediately
my house used to be like this until i got my lovely cleaner £20 a week and no YANBU.you owe it to yourself to come home to a clean house

not at all - why are the guinea pigs inside tbh DH's idea - DH cleans them.

what can he do to help - tbh substitute the committes with OU study and this is my house (but i'm on my own and have 2 dogs instead of a guinea pig) - but u get the idea - you have 2 adults not one.

YANBU

if dh wanted indoor gp's then he must clean

agree a cleaner would be a good idea, or get dh to help mpore

assume he is there monday night looking after his children while you work - therefore monday can be his clean gp out night - every week!!

barring the guinea pigs, then yes - this is how I live. Mostly.

And it's most unreasonable

yes i adit i am a sahm and i still ahven;t got round to eltting the calener go form whe i agev up workign a few months ago. its so nice to knwo that twice a week my hosue will be cleaned from top to bottom and at least an hours ironing squuezed in as well. well worth the £30 a week we pay, even dh who insisted that when i stayed at home we must get rid has decided we couldnt; do without her.

so either invest in cleaner or be tougher with dh when sharing chores.

fwiw my house is still full of crap i mean clutter, i think we are jsut that type of fmaily, piles of magazines and papers to eb sorted that inevitbly end up in the bin as they never get sorted.

reeeally good hanging up and folding (or tumble drying) does eliminate an awful lot of ironing. I actually like ironing and love properly ironed sheets, but it saves a bunch of time not doing it and having fitted sheets instead.

Either your dh and children take on the gps, or they go to guinea pig heaven. His choice.