Good God, it's never ending!

[CeliaFate]

This morning I've unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, pegged out washing, put another load on, emptied the tumble drier and put clothes away, cleaned bathroom, polished bedroom, made bed and the house still looks like a shit tip. .

Does anyone else feel like they never get a handle on it, despite doing what seems like loads of housework?
I've still got to hoover and polish the lounge, clean dc's bedrooms, hoover and mop kitchen floor and clean worktops.

Is there no one there to help you?

Yep yep yep!

Dh and ds are at a football match and dd's doing homework so nobody able to help yet.

I love having a clean and tidy house - it's just either or at the moment!

Im doing mine on all the ad breakes form corry.
Ive done washing, emptied and filled dishwasher, cleaned the kitchen and gonna strip the beds on the next one!

never ending indeed.

I agree with issimma that it is the groundhogginess of it all that is hard to deal with.

I have tried hard to make some jobs so routine that I don't think about them too much but it does get very repetitive.

I have come to the conclusion that the only way you can have an entire house clean and tidy is when everybody is out for possibly an entire day and they aren't undoing it as fast as you do it.:) I decided a long time ago that this ideal state of perfection was so unlikely to happen that I would give up fretting about it. Enjoy the bits that are as you want them ...

My son is out with his dad so I'm sorting the house out. Two dishwasher loads, 3 washing loads, kitchen sides cleaned as well as the floor. Toys away in living room and floor swept but still looks like got loads to do.

No-one lies on their deathbed and wishes they'd spent more time doing housework. Or any type of work for that matter.

Lower your standards

It's like whack-a-mole around here - just when you get a couple of rooms shipshape one that had been tidy vomits its contents everywhere.

The relentlessness does get to me occasionally but it ain't ever going to go away so what's the point in stressing?

Me too, spent all morning sweeping up and mopping the downstairs floors. It's been a lovely day, DCs have been out in the garden all day, muck and crap from their feet back all over the floors. Should have just sat with my feet up and watched The Mentalist rather than do the housework.

I do one room or type of room (eg bedrooms) each day, and then one or two loads of washing every day as well as Hoover the living room and a quick once-over of the kitchen and living room generally. Everything else waits for a week. Surprisingly my house now stays pretty much tidy all the time. Not spotless, but visitor friendly at least.

Celia - let go!! I've been working full time and doing my own housework/laundry (including 3 bathrooms, 2 teenage DS) for a number of years after I got fed up with cleaners who didn't clean. Just been made redundant and what's happened is that I'm just doing MORE housework/laundry purely because I have more time available for it! Things that would be left just a bit longer when I was working are done more often, possibly because I'm noticing them more. And definitely the groundhog aspect is soooo depressing. You will NEVER get the housework/laundry done, so reconcile yourself to it and enjoy doing other things. goes off to take her own advice