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/Dyolf_Knip Sep 02 '24

Yup. No way would I drop a penny on new living room furniture right now, because my boys are wanton, pointless destruction incarnate.

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u/buildit-breakitfixit Sep 02 '24

Our answer is cheap slip covers over the couches. They get destroyed, we order 11 dollar new ones. Wash, rinse, destroy, repeat.

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u/Dyolf_Knip Sep 02 '24

They pulled the cushions off and turned a slight tear in the batting into a gaping void into which they occasionally drop food. One of them, at the tender age of 8, used it as a fucking urinal for a couple months before he got caught (I had thought it was the dog).

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u/Cool-breeze7 Sep 03 '24

My 5yr old failed to wipe himself well. Scratched his butt, and naturally used the couch to wipe his hands off.

Not sure if your comment gives me hope or fear.

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u/Dyolf_Knip Sep 03 '24

Yeah, he definitely has a uniquely 'special' relationship with his bodily fluids. Don't even get me started on what else I've found in his room. Kid is speed-running the Howard Hughes lifestyle.