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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH is responsible for grocery shopping on Monday evening. I am responsible for drop off/pick up 2 kids and taking them to classes. DH cooks once a week, and I try to cook 2 times a week for dinner. We spend too much money on carry outs. I try to do laundry on weekend, one load for kids, and one load for us. No one really clean the house, and I mean kids don't clean up after themselves because they will play next day. We pay someone to take care of mowing lawn. There has been no snow, no need to shovel in dmv area. If we need car repair/maintenance, we pay someone.

I really need someone to clean the house. We don't want other people to come in to do this job for privacy reasons. I feel bad that my mom offers to help me to clean and cook for us daily once she retires in a few months. She is 65. I can 't let her do that. I need house cleaning 101, how often and how long does it take should kitchen be cleaned, refrigerator be cleaned, bed sheet washed, hardwood floor mopped, carpet floor vaccumed, furnitures to be wiped, etc.. once I figure it out, I will assign some tasks to DH to do. I am not good at house cleaning and I hate it so much. However, we need to make it work. [/quote]

1.  Clean up as you go along.  This is NUMBER ONE TO KEEPING KITCHEN CLEAN.

2.  Children clean up after themselves l.  NUMBER ONE IN KEEPING TOYS AND OTHER CHILD CLUTTER IN PROPER PLACES!

3.  Do laundry more than once a week.  You put a load of laundry in when you get home..  put in dryer. Fold as you watch TV and give to kids s d husband to put away.  DO NOT LET LAUNDRY PILE UP.  DO LAUNDRY AS WEEK GOES ALONG!

4.  In winter you make stews, soups with meat and vegetables, or rice or pasta.  This way you have dinner for more than one night.  Make enough so that you can freeze for the next week.  You can also make spaghetti l chilli,  cook enough spaghetti and freeze some cooked spaghetti.

5.  Every night children put their toys away and you and husband straighten up other rooms.  Make sure kitchen is straight.  NEVER LEAVE DISHES IN SINK OVERNIGHT NO POTS/PANS TO SOAK.  Facing a dirty kitchen in the morning is a guarantee of starting the day off wrong.  If Your kitchen is a mess, you day will be a mess.
6.  Get over your idiotic privacy issues and hire a house 
cleaner to come in every other week to clean house.

Everyone who lives in your house, no matter how young, cleans up after themselves when they finish their project.  If they don't, then it's gone, whatever goes
 away 
Are you getting the picture?  Take care of everything as you go along!!!!!!!!!!  No exceptions.

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