So the trouble with Flylady is...

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It's making the housework look too easy. I have gone back on strike again. I have been receiving the digest emails for about a year and kicked some bad habits (walking past mess, not de-cluttering). I am even managing to swish and swipe the bathroom occcasionally and we're up to speed on laundry.

But I realised recently I was exhausted doing everything (I work full-time, have 2 DS 1 & 3) because instead of the place looking like a tip and DH and I doing a combined effort (same with the pile of ironing), I have been doing everything as I go along so it LOOKS like there's nothing to help with.

Think it's made me over-efficient. I know they say on all the emails not to be a martyr, and that family will soon follow etc. but I still don't see why it should be MY JOB!
anyone else feel this way?

Don't mean to imply the house looks perfect by any stretch of anyone's imagination [looks in horror at piles of plastic toys spilling on floor].

Just not sure how to get DH involved. He seems to think HE does loads of things that I don't see too (wonder what they are!!)/

ah ha - i have found this! i have only been flying for a little under a month but the house is sooooooo much better.

but i am doing more and more!!! and i am soooo tired with it all.

that being said dh will do stuff when the fancy takes him so one night will just vacumn the whole house, clean a cupboard etc etc but when he is tired he does nothing.

however i am busy running around doing the before bed routine regardless of whether i want to collapse in a heap.

I have been following FlyLady for about a year and yes it has changed my life - house generally spick and span, no need to panic if anyone drops in anymore etc. But I absolutely agree with the feeling of being like a rat on a treadmill the whole time - feel pressurised (by myself, lol) to follow the rules at all times and never stop.

And I'm still waiting for that family to follow thing...

That said, I wouldn't like to be without Flylady...

I definitely lacked "discipline" RubyRioja - I am a terrible procrastinator and the 15 min rule is a great one (I even set my timer to do some marking the other day - otherwise I just end up net surfing..)

Am with Indigo moon on the finishing bed-time routines even if exhausted.

Trouble is, I spent years trying to convince DH to be less anal about tidiness, now I'm the one getting narky about stuff left lying about.