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[quote=Anonymous]I am feeling the general busy-ness/overwhelming nature of two-parent career household with young kids. There is so much we are behind on - keeping up with the daily mess (particularly kitchen and the "stuff" everywhere--not the actual cleaning our once-a-week housekeeper does), refreshing my wardrobe to be more professional and now that I'm out of the maternity/post-partum phase, rooms in our house that need furniture and decorating, etc.

It feels like we are managing okay week to week and sometimes we just look the other way at the mess, but we have the monetary resources to help with some of this--just not the energy to figure out what. Do I need a professional organizer to de-clutter and set up an organizational system that would make daily life feel more manageable, or someone to come in a few times a week to tidy? Do I need a professional decorator to help us figure out how to layout the dining room or find the right piece of furniture for our mudroom, or just a regular weekend babysitter so we have the time to do research and shopping ourselves?

We spend a lot of time on the weekends dividing and conquering (he'll take the kids out, I'll do the cleaning, or vice versa so he can handle grocery shopping), but there's a fair amount we want to figure out together, and mostly, we want time to just chill as a family and not spend our spare time on this sort of "work." (I am okay cleaning up the kitchen after breakfast, it's the bigger house projects or messes that take hours, not spurts of 20 minutes)

I feel like I make all these plans in my head to get help, and I can never actually follow through on it. If you've figured this out please share any advice. We would like to outsource effectively and not just throw away money on something that doesn't make sense.[/quote]

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