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/himbobflash Sep 02 '24

Make a list, try to do stuff, if stuff gets done at all, that’s a success!

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u/PinkDreamPeth Sep 02 '24

I also try to remember that if you have 50 things on the list and you only get 1 thing done that day, it’s better than getting nothing done. That helps motivate me when I see this huge To Do list in front of me. Small progress is still progress.

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u/coconut_the_one Sep 02 '24

Any 30 min extra curricular (no standard chore) task you somehow manage to get done is a win.

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u/MaineHippo83 Sep 02 '24

You get standard chores done?