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ESTH2000
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My house is a complete mess..WM's how do you do it?
ESTH2000
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How do you keep a clean house and work? I know its been harder for me lately because DH and DD have been sick.
I have a full time job and barely make it home in time for dinner. There is really no time for me to clean. On the weekends I try to do things here and there but certainly don't get enough done. DD needs to be with me constantly and I want to spend time with her cause I miss her sooo much during the week.
I just got an ergo and hope it helps with doing stuff around the house on the weekends.
Right now I am just losing it over how much dirty laundry and mess there is in the house....
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Re: My house is a complete mess..WM's how do you do it?
I pay a nice lady to clean it every 3 weeks!!
A load of Laundry every other night. Wash and dry one night fold the next night. Repeat the next day if necessary.
Prep the main part of most meals on Sunday and Freeze. Also the Crock Pot, steam in bag frozen veggies and bagged salad have become my best friends in the kitchen.
DS and DH go out on Sunday afternoons for a few hours so I can clean our apt from top to bottom and cook the meals for the week.
Weekly cleaning lady. Cleans and does all laundry, including DS's. I honestly would live in a pigsty if I didn't have help. I also have a nanny who does light cleaning every day so my dishes are always washed and put away, garbage and recycling and diaper genie always taken care of, etc.
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OMG!! totally this!!! I am even more concerned because DD wants to pick everything off the floor and I worry about allergies and stuff
Before I posted this I text DH about contacting our former cleaning lady..she had moved and I think she is back..crossing my fingers...I just have major issues trusting people in the house so have been reluctant to hire someone else...but yes..house cleaner would be the way to go...
very hard to do. blah. we try to do as much as we can on weekends, and we try to keep our kitchen clean at all times. i do a lot of laundry during the week (i don't mind laundry - kind of like it, in fact).
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As for laundry. I do it on the weekend. We have the HE high capacity w/d. I can get away with about 4 loads most weeks.
We have a nanny at home with K 10 hours a day so I almost want to ask her if she'd mind doing some cleaning for extra money. She's already there and I trust her, plus I know she has down time when K is napping. I feel like there's just no other way to get it done. My husband and I both work and there just aren't enough hours in the day.
I do laundry on weekends, and just the one load of CDs during the week.
I vacuum the living room twice a week, but it's not that big. 5 minutes max, usually while the kids are just playing around.
I swiffer the kitchen when it looks gross. Yes, those are my standards.
Same for the bathrooms. I have the shower sprayer thing from scrubbing bubbles, toilet gel disk things, etc. Major deep cleaning probably once a month, DH and I take turns.
DH does most of the dishes at night, I put them away in the morning while the kids eat breakfast.
Story of my life! I would love a cleaning person, but that is out of the question. I'm lucky if I keep up with dishes and laundry. The rest get taken care of on weekends. Luckily, DH is very helpful!
Since I'm pregnant, things are getting done even less. I just don't have the energy and I'd rather spend my free time playing with Stella. I figure my house can be clean in a few years. This is big for me cause I'm usually a huge clean freak!
I have only been back at work for two weeks and the "piles" of stuff everywhere are already starting to make me nuts. DH also works from home and I can't even walk into his office.
So far, I've been doing laundry in the evenings and just folding/putting it away on the weekends. I run the dishwasher every night and put all dishes away before bed while I get bottles and pump parts ready for the next day. I also am crazy nuts about wiping down the kitchen counters every night after dinner.
I will say that I do not cook. DH does all the cooking and actually helps a lot with household cleaning (except his office). I guess we are just going to have to be better about doing real cleaning on the weekends.
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We finally got a lady that comes to our house to clean every 2 weeks . HOnestly, if we didn't have her, DH would get stuck with it. M is like yours and needs a lot of attention. I just don't get time to clean, plus I am taking it easy while pregnant so I can't really clean.
My cleaning lady doesn't do laundry. So I do the laundry and DH helps. I usually load and he puts to the dryer (I can't bend over too much). I then put it away.
We have trust issues with ppl coming to our house...
Is it uncommon to ask that? That seems totally reasonable to me.
My house isn't as clean as I would like with both of us working and no children. I cannot imagine ever cleaning anything after the baby comes if both of us were working (right now we are out from 7:15am to 6:45pm. I would DEFINITELY get someone in to do the cleaning.
Same here!
DH and i have an agreement that we can get a maid when 1/2 th credit card debt is gone. Too bad that'll be in about 50 years
After 2 rounds of IVF & 2 rounds of FET, we were blessed with identical twin girls!
We are considering getting a cleaning lady now that I am pregnant again. We can barely find the time to clean up as it is now and I am a total clean freak but have had to let go since having DD. My hubby does cook dinner, does the dishes, cleans up the kitchen and helps with just picking up each evening. He also does all of the trash. This gives me time to spend with DD. On the weekends, we both clean the house, we split the chores. Before having DD I did all housework myself but we hired a pool and yard guy so hubby could help inside.
He is literally exhausted of cleaning the house now that I am pregnant again. I have no energy to do anything but laundry at this point.
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I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one w/ a messy house. It causes so much stress in my life!!
We do pay for a cleaning lady once a month, but we should probably have her come every other week. We are always scrambling to get the house picked up enough for her to come clean.
We did this. Our nanny was great at cleaning up in general but I paid her an extra $20 a week to do real cleaning (bathrooms, etc) one day each week during the boys naps.
So every week another piece got done instead of a house cleaner coming in every couple of weeks and doing the whole house at one time.
Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
We have a cleaning lady come every other Saturday. Between that, I make sure to straighten every night after dinner before we start Toodle's bath (takes about 5 minutes since during the week the only rooms we use are the kitchen/dining room) and then DH does dishes after Toodle is asleep. Laundry we usually do in huge batches on weekends and sometimes DH will do a load or two during the week (except we forget to move it to the dryer sometimes).
But our laundry MAJORLY piles up too...sometimes I'll make DH just bring it down to the laundry room so the cleaning ladies don't see it! LOL.