Has your house been turned into a disaster area since schools closed?

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I'm at the point of giving up. It's hard enough to keep the place decent at the best of times but now that my 3dc are here 24/7, it's impossible. I've got blue paint on the wall, cars, Lego, pencils, paper and assorted models all over the house and I've now discovered what looks like snot on my bedroom wall. Combined with ds regressing and weeing on the floor several times I'm tempted to open the gin that's been in the fridge 2 years.

I have a teenager and a husband working from home. Everything needs a deep clean and there is clutter everywhere . I seem to clear up and then it's yet another mealtime and all the mess associated with it.

Sounds about right. The blue paint has come off the walls thankfully. It's like a café in our house. A cafe in a soft play hellhole.

Yep. I used to have cleaners - I miss them. We have introduced strict tidy up time and I’m following a version of TOMM.

Yup, I have 3, 1, 5 and 7 and me and dh are trying to work. The house is a mess - piles of school work / crafts / toys etc. If I dont have too much work at weekend going to try and set some 'fun challenges' to try and clear it up a bit before the 'holidays'. Will probably last a day. May be.

Thankfully mine are Teens so I barely see them for hours on end. The house is looking better than it's done in a while. I'm following TOMM.

My heart really does go out to those with younger DC or babies though.

God yes. It’s driving me crazy- so much crap and I can’t even go out for a walk to clear my head.

We have a timetable in place and an enforced cleaning time each day, plus I do a once over of anything left behind once dd is in bed. I am struggling to do longer chores like mopping though as dd2 is a limpet, and can't easily mop or hoover while she is on me or in the sling

We also have a timetable in place so me and DH can work for some of the day. Then me and the DCs go for our one walk. Come back and we have a chores list per child their 9 and 6 and we also have a meal planner. The DCs are getting involved with this too. So far not that much groaning! We try and do TOMM too.

Yes Hama beads and Lego everywhere, crumbs everywhere too. Smeary hand prints everywhere, hoovering and mopping every day but can’t keep it on top of it

I have a 3 year old and 22 month old. We do a heavily supervised activity, followed by enforced tidy up time, followed by snacks/meal time, repeat on a loop throughout the day until I fling the iPad at them at 5pm and retreat to the sofa. The house looks lived in but not too bad.

I have literally no idea how parents that have to wfh and have children this age are managing. Serious respect.

DH and I are attempting to WFH, two DCs age 4 and 13 months.

The house is a tip throughout the day generally but we are tidying up between activities. And 10 minutes before "TV time" in the evening, we're doing tidy up time and older DC tidies his things away with constant nagging whilst I or DH tidies baby DC's toys away. So by the end of the day everything is tidy.

It's not clean though, I haven't even had time to do my usual weekly kitchen/fortnightly bathroom clean because I usually do it on days older DC is in nursery. The downstairs floors are getting hoovered because there's constant mess, but that's all the cleaning going on here!

Yes and its really getting me down....I still have to leave the house to go to work, husband is working from home and have DD21 and DS13 at home too....the kids literally do nothing and then the 21 year old just follows me around all the time I'm home ...unless i'm cleaning, then you don't see her for dust.