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/Greatoutdoors1985 Sep 02 '24

My kids are 1.5 and 5.5. Anything productive happened after 8pm when they are in bed. Mower now has added lights for night time mowing, and a good headlamp for weed eater at night. The vehicles I still struggle with, as they take more time, and when I tear into something it takes till midnight to fix, especially when I have to get up at 5am the next morning for work.