I feel like my house is constantly a fucking mess. My wife and I work 80 hours between us and we have a 2 year old and I feel like it’s constantly a mess.

We do what we can and often spend a couple hours on a weekend tidying but it’s a losing battle.

How do you cope/keep on top of things?

  • Tygr
    11•1 year ago

    We have a sign in our home. “Cleaning a house while kids are growing is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.”

    We have a cleaning day once a week. Other than that, we let it be other than daily kitchen duty.

    • @space_of_eights@lemmy.ml
      1•1 year ago

      Same here.

      At home, me and the wife try to split chores as evenly as possible. When she was struggling with burnout, one of her problems is that the house explodes into a mess, thanks to two children. One of the advices she was given by her therapist, is to block a few minutes a day for the entire family just to do minor cleanup chores. The mess remains, but it feels a bit more manageable now.