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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]:roll: please stop whining OP, you sound like such a baby. I don't have a nanny, I don't have a house cleaner, DH and I both work outside of the home, yet somehow we manage just fine and have fun, relaxing weekends. You just need to grow the f_ up.

WHINY BABY WHINY BABY WHINY BABY[/quote]

Do you have kids?  If you do, how do you manage to have fun, relaxing weekends?[/quote]

I very much do not agree with the pps tone of the post you’re responding to, but I am someone who was surprised by this post as I still find my weekends quite enjoyable and I have way less help than the pp (kids 1 and 4, one in home daycare one in full day daycare/preschool). We have cleaners once a month. I think the thing that helps us is I only go into the office 2x per week and husband 1x per week. I also just think our standards are lower.

Here are our systems: We do laundry every Tuesday. I sort before I start my work day with my 4 year old helping and we start one load together. Husband puts the rest of the loads in throughout the day because he works in the basement. Then he lays the clothes out on the bed after dinner and I watch a show and fold that night, put away clothes. Sheets we do at the same time but probably every other week (so to the lower standards thing. This doesn’t bother me, we shower at night usually it just.. meh). Our cleaners come once a month and in between we vacuum after dinner every couple nights and I’ll wipe down the bathrooms literally while I’m in there sometimes just a quick wipe down between the deep clean.

We do very simple weeknight dinners, some weeks we lean into Trader Joe’s things or a good example might be frozen shrimp from Trader Joe’s coleslaw, avocado and tortillas - boom tacos. Another night might be a bagged salad, add veggies from farmers market, add grilled chicken. Or just a bagged salad and some fish sticks with nothing added if we’re tired. Or a frozen tamale heated up with fruit on the side if we’re really tired! I stop work around 4, husband stops around 5 and leads getting dinner ready and then he works again after kids go to bed (since he starts later because he does morning drop off). One of us cleans the kitchen each night and in the summer we eat in the backyard to lower mess (a lot of our systems definitely have a lot of privilege involved for sure). Mornings in the summer we have to make my 4 year olds lunch, we just do it in the morning while kids eat breakfast.

Weekends are mostly family time, hanging, seeing friends. Some yard work gets sprinkled in there but there is 0 meal prep, laundry, or cleaning beyond picking up which is neverending with kids of course. [/quote]

The reason this works is because you and your husband both WFH so often and can stop work at 4 or 5. Definitely not the case for most households. [/quote]

Pp here and I completely agree - I said that right up front that that’s the thing that helps us, it’s also why I never responded to the ops question originally because it sounded like she worked outside the home. Just responding to the pp. i empathize with op for sure and know we have it much easier then we did pre-covid in this regard no doubt. I remember working outside the home everyday when my son was little, it was hard. Though the stopping work at 5p and starting back up after kids go to bed I think isn’t that out there as implied. [/quote]

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