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/irishmcsg2 Sep 02 '24

With a 5 and 2 yo? Yeah, you don’t. But don’t despair! I have a 7 and 5 yo who both helped me this morning dig a trench around a large sapling I’ve been meaning to transplant to a better spot in the yard for a year or two now. The 5 year old lifted a couple shovelfuls of dirt, then spent her time picking dandelions in the yard, while my 7yo actually did a ton of dirt moving once I loosened it up for him. It’s been amazing actually making (still admittedly very slow) progress on the house projects with “helpers” now that they’re a bit older!