SICK TO DEATH of tidying up!

[redhoodred1]

Anyone else?

It seems constant. Seriously, how many hours of life do women lose to cleaning????

mess makes my skin crawl so it’s not even like I can just ignore it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Omg I feel your pain already 😭😭😭😭

I'm always amazed by friends whose houses always seem to be tidy!! How??
I reckon tidying up has eaten years of my life.

@redhoodred1 do you mean actual tidying or cleaning? How old are your kids? Are you a SAHM?

Tidying here, everyone puts their own stuff away when they leave the room. Leave it lying around you get called back to put it away. Dishes in the dishwasher, clothes in the wardrobe or washing basket. We are past toy age but they all went back in bedrooms at the end of the day.

If you mean cleaning I do most of it as DH works much longer hours than me. However he does do some at weekends and DS does his own bedroom. I cook, DH cleans the kitchen. Hoovering, bathrooms, red I do on my 2 half days off or quick run round at the weekend.

There are only 3 of us and DS is early teens. 4 bed not large house.

I feel you OP. DP is good, definitely does his share, does the vast majority of laundry, cooking shopping etc but he is also like a one man wrecking ball. He will put a bag next to the cupboard rather than in it etc. So every item has to travel twice. Once to a counter where it's in the way and once again to be put away properly.

Tidying in this house is like painting the fucking Forth Bridge.

Tidying never stops. I'm always carrying something from one room to another to put it back where it should live. Having places where the stuff lives makes a big difference but really tidying is a Sisyphean task that never ends.

FWIW 99% of the time when I declutter stuff I discover that I can live without it. That 1% I miss but rarely replace and after a while I don't need it any more anyway.

Because it IS constant! Thankfully I don't mind too much because I dislike employment very much and I'm happy to keep the home instead of get a job.

I do work, but that's also from home so I clean and work throughout the day and I enjoy my day, don't feel bogged down with one thing, nor daunted at the task of keeping that house because I've accepted it's constant.

I've got to a point where I am maintaining now which is great, and I do a run-around each evening to ensure I wake up to an immaculate home, of course as soon as little one and husband are up it's a mess again but then my day kickstarts. I like my home immaculate because clutter upsets me so once it's done I literally feel a weight lift from me.

I do find I have a lot of time to just be, so I have obviously developed some good systems. And not working means I have time and opportunity to do interesting things.

If you are working full-time though then it should be shared equally and if it's all being left to you that would be a real piss take.