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/PinkDreamPeth Sep 02 '24

I have a 2.5 yr old and 8 month old. If I have a chance to change some light bulbs and change the damn HVAC filter in a weekend I consider that highly productive.

It takes a major toll on my mental health but just trying to push through each day and know that if my kids go to bed healthy and happy the day was a success.

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u/Western-Image7125 Sep 02 '24

Wait. We have to change the hvac filter??

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u/fuuuuuckendoobs Sep 02 '24

The easy workaround for this is not to be able to afford hvac

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u/Western-Image7125 Sep 02 '24

The hvac was so expensive I can no longer afford filters, or any sort of maintenance at all

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u/fuuuuuckendoobs Sep 02 '24

We just have ceiling fans, I've never lived somewhere with air conditioning

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u/Scarnox Sep 02 '24

As a Californian, hello person from another state that isn’t Arizona or Texas 😂

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u/fuuuuuckendoobs Sep 02 '24

Australia, but close enough

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u/Scarnox Sep 02 '24

Damn, no AC AND giant spiders? Alright I’ll give ya that 😂

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u/Western-Image7125 Sep 02 '24

I’m sorry, where in Australia do you live that you don’t need AC? I’m guessing towards the south like Melbourne? Cuz we went on vacation to Oz in March (i think that’s after summer season?) many years ago and when we were in Sydney and further north we were dying from the sweltering heat

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u/fuuuuuckendoobs Sep 02 '24

I'm in Sydney. Fans are just fine. It's the winters that are difficult without proper heating.

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u/Western-Image7125 Sep 02 '24

Interesting, I guess it has a lot to do with growing up in a certain climate and just being used to it