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?
I just hire 2 cleaning ladies.
This is going to sound stupid, but… Don’t you have to clean up for them to be able to come in and do their job?
Our major issue isn’t so much that it’s “dirty” per se. Granted that is an issue too, certainly. But the real issue is just that there are “things” everywhere. Kid stuff, papers or objects put down in haste, things that toddlers surreptitiously grabbed and moved into incorrect locations, etc.
All those things are why we don’t get to truly cleaning. Wouldn’t we have to get all those things picked up if we hired cleaners?
I wonder the same thing. All the kids stuff has their place, so everything can be put back into place, but I imagine that has to be done before cleaners come in as they don’t know where stuff is supposed to go (or they clean around it? …which would be super half-assed)?
I hire one too, and the evening before cleaning day is characterized by panicked tidying up and putting stuff away, because anything left lying around is put away by the cleaning lady, mostly in random locations, therefore being lost for months at a time
To me this sounds more stressful. Is that routine not stressful? I mean no judgment, I’m honestly curious.
Personally I hate it, but my partner gets super stressed by cleaning so I cope.
Well that’s good of you. I’m stressed by cleaning but much more stressed by mess so it’s a balance.