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Do you struggle to keep your house tidy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Lateralking@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like my house is constantly a fucking mess. My wife and I work 80 hours between us and we have a 2 year old and I feel like it's constantly a mess.

We do what we can and often spend a couple hours on a weekend tidying but it's a losing battle.

How do you cope/keep on top of things?

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[–] midas@ymmel.nl 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You either have a clean house or you have a kid. You'll never have both at the same time. Most people have neither.

For me it's also impossible. Theres just so much stuff.

robot vacuum runs at night, shit needs to be off the floor - this helps a lot already
be into podcasts, designated hour of cleaning while listening to something interesting

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I am a parent. So I don't have a clean house.

That is all lol.

[–] dotmatrix@lemmy.ftp.rip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

robot vacuum runs at night, shit needs to be off the floor - this helps a lot already

Absolutely can second this. In my case I just spend 5 minutes each morning making sure there's nothing on the floor before the robot does its thing, and it's helped tremendously. Stuff used to get moved around to places it didn't belong and just stay there - but not anymore.

I also make sure to never leave a room empty-handed, if there's something that needs cleaning up. Just pick up a glass on my way to the kitchen, or a toy on my way past the kid's room - at this point it's just automatic, takes nearly zero extra time or effort, and has a huuuuuge impact. I think I've only purposefully tidied the apartment once in the last 6 months, because stuff just no longer builds up to the point that it becomes a big mess.