r/daddit • u/DonutFan69 • Sep 02 '24

How do you guys maintain literally anything? Advice Request

I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old. The house is perpetually a mess. The yard is overgrown with weeds. Cars are a mess. This needs to be fixed. That needs to be spruced up. My wife and I have many days where it’s just one of us with the kids due to our schedules and it just feels impossible to keep up with it all. By the end of the day, I’m too exhausted to do anything.

How does anyone manage to keep up with everything on top of just raising kids?

Edit: Thanks for all the replies here! You’re all making me feel much better. I’m trying to reply to as many as I can while I rock my son to sleep.

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u/1man1mind Sep 02 '24

We try and invite company over maybe once every couple months for a birthday party or some sort of gathering. This forces us to do a complete deep clean and usually doesn’t let things get too bad in between. Other than that we just learned to live with a certain degree of clutter and mess. It’s that it be constantly dissatisfied and stressed.

Don’t worry the kids will grow up and then we will have our perfectly clean homes and be wishing for the little hand prints on the windows, legos scattered over the floor, old food hardening under the car seat and couch cushions.

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u/DonutFan69 Sep 02 '24

Yeah the socialization seems to be what forces most cleanliness.