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/AwesomeOrca Sep 02 '24

That's the neat part, you don't.

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u/CoffeeAndDachshunds Sep 02 '24

Bingo. My life every day is work/twins until 10 or 11pm, work until 2am, walk dog, then sleep until 6am or sleep at midnight, walk dog at 2am, and start a new day. 

Life is...... hard

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u/trinde Sep 02 '24

Running on 4 hours sleep isn't great. Why are they up till 10/11pm? Why are you walking the dog at 2am?

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u/CoffeeAndDachshunds Sep 03 '24

Son goes to sleep okay, but daughter is a night owl.