How do y’all keep your shite together?

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Just do what you see needs to be done?

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Pretty much this. If I see a problem I try to own it and address it right away. There's nothing worse to me than being gone for a few weekends in a row and then having to spend a whole weekend to catch up on chores when I'm finally home.

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At this point I’m just trying to keep the kids alive and living vicariously through the people on this board who do have the time to keep their shite looking pristine

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Yep, 3 kids and 3 dogs, we just chase the problem from one area to another. Clean the kitchen, shite the living room is a mess. Clean their rooms shite the basement is a mess. Clean up the yard, shite whole house is a mess. It's never ending.

I use a Roomba and Bravia to keep our floors clean. We're in new construction and don't have grass in back yet, having a dog and kid I think we'd sweep and mop all day to keep floors clean. I run these things on a schedule and do on demand jobs when they're done, super easy.

That’s literally the only thing keeping my house presentable




Life hack:

For a weekend (or at least a Friday) with clean house, I’ll call my wife while I’m at work (she’s a nurse and has most fridays off) and say ____ & _____ are coming over tonight - so she’ll clean the bathrooms, kitchen, and living room and cook something before I get home… but when I get home I’ll just say something like ohhh they backed out or something else came up and BOOM, clean house for the day/night


4 years of marriage and she hasn’t caught on yet

my wife is a clean-freak and consistently has the energy of a 15yo teenage boy.

having said that, she gets to fussing about how often she has to vacuum and mop given we have 4 dogs and a cat.

i hit the sex lottery when i bought a robot vac for the new house. so much so i just got a second one for upstairs.

a dolphin in the pool is a must and having a more manageable yard to mow now definitely helps. I had 2.5 acres before on a hill and just mowing, weeding and blowing things off took a good half a day then i'd be wasted the rest of the day.

Easy really. My wife still works outside the home and I'm retired, so cleaning the house and other chores like that I take on.

Sweep a few times a week, dust and mop once a week minimum, or as needed with tracking stuff in from outside. A few loads of wash a week between towels, my kick-around clothes etc. and the wife washes her stuff on Sunday to be clean for the work week.

Cut, trim and clean up after yard work which includes taking care of my big backyard vegetable garden and doing any maintenance on the house as needed.

I also cook damn near every meal we eat, along with 75% of the grocery shopping.

There really is not much to keeping up this shite if you put your mind to it.

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I try to remember to run the robot daily. Makes a world of difference when your Labrador is shedding.

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love the shark robot.

i can tell it to vacuum JUST the kitchen floor downstairs using alexa and never leave my office.

The kids do alot of the regular cleaning once a week. Sweep, dust, mop, they do dishes and wipe down the kitchen.

Wife does the shopping and cleans our room, bathroom, and laundry.

I do the outside stuff, repairs, handle cars, projects, cook and tell the kids when stuff you don't clean weekly needs to be done.

I finally broke down and hired my aunt to clean our house biweekly.
200 a month and it’s worth every penny.
I hate dedicating a day to cleaning . Much rather be building something or drinking by the pool with the wife and kids .