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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. This is a little depressing. I already do grocery delivery and don’t wash my hair as much as I should! I have no commute because WFH right now. Usually have a housekeeper but she stopped coming for a while because she was sick and then sister was sick and then mom was sick and then we just never rescheduled, which seems ok to me given covid rates right now. So basically I am doing all of the hacks other than a nanny, and switching childcare providers is never easy. So I’m doomed![/quote]

OP, what I'm going to suggest is going to sound like something that will take too much time and won't be helpful, but I'm going to strongly suggest you do it anyway.  For at least one week, keep a log of how you spend your time all day long, hour by hour.  How long you spend surfing the internet while making coffee in the morning.  How much time you spend getting dressed in the morning.  How much time you spend washing dishes.  Don't just write down how much time you spent doing something, but keep an actual chart of when you're doing it as well as how long.  Once you actually see how you're spending time, you might find some things that are sucking up more of your time than you realize and that just aren't worth doing right now.  You also may find things you can do more efficiently.

As an example, if you currently wash (or put in the dishwasher) every dish as soon as you use it, you might find you actually spend less total time doing dishes if you let them pile up all day and then wash everything in the evening (perhaps while you put an tv show on a laptop/tablet and put on headphones while you watch to make it more pleasant).  Conversely, if you already let your dishes pile up all day and then are late getting dinner on the table every night because you first have to spend 15 minutes digging out a pan you used to make breakfast and need to wash, you could save yourself time if you wash dishes as you go.

We all think we know how we use our time, but most of us are actually terrible judges of how much time we spend doing things and where we end up wasting time on things that serve no purpose (e.g., if you realize you spend an average of 90 minutes each day playing Candy Crush in 10 minute intervals and you don't even like Candy Crush that much, it's just a time killer when you're procrastinating).  Doing an honest assessment of how you're using your time will probably be eye opening.[/quote]

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