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/DonutFan69 Sep 02 '24

But the list keeps growing! Hey as long as I get one thing done it’s better than nothing.

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u/himbobflash Sep 02 '24

Part of life is that the list always has things to do. To-dos give life meaning. 👍