People that work 40+ hours a week

SaraB

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Um. I just got done vacuuming and it's 11:30pm. I try to do a little each day, but generally that backfires... So I get massively overwhelmed and end up doing everything on one of my half-days off and get super crabby and crazy about things. It doesn't end well, ever.
 
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Whats a day off? I work 54-56 hours a week, 7 days a week. Its kind of nice knowing I can afford to heat my house.
 

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No Idea. I don't work 40 hours aweek - but between school & work I have about 45 hours a week that Im out.
I do a little every day - for example Mondays, I vaccuum & mop (I get home at 7pm), Tuesdays I dust, and do other little things (I get home at 5 and still have a bunch of home work to do), Wednesdays I don't have to be at work until 10am, so wednesdays mornings I clean the bathroom before work, after I shower, Thursdays I vacuum again and dust if needed, and sweep my balcony, Fridays I don't have to be at work until 10am so I clean the bathroom again.
I do dishes everyday an laundry as needed. I have a timer on my laundry machine so I can tell it to start in like 8 hours and it will be done by the time I'm home and I only have to hang it up outside. :)
 

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im glad to see Im not alone in this :)

Im having a love-hate relationship with being a "responsible" adult right now lol.. Im going to "TRY" to take 30 minutes a day to straighten up and see how that works out..
 

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I (try to) keep up with the kitchen, laundry, etc. -- easy stuff -- and have someone come and do the deeper cleanings.

Now, with two dogs (one of which is going to be a shedding machine when she's grown), I'll probably have to bust out the vacuum more. Boo.
 

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I mostly just don't care. I work 40 hours a week and then at least 10 more at the rescue and Matt is now working 40 hours a week too. Our house is reasonably clean (to our standards) and that's good enough for me. I've heard this rumor that by taking out 30 minutes a day to tidy up you can have your house pretty clean all the time but I think that's a myth perpetuated by the naturally neat people. <suspicious eyes>

I usually freak out and clean the main parts of our house before anyone comes over. And I warn them not to open the door to our room or to my sewing room, lest they get sucked into the abyss.
 

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Frankly, with both of us working 40+ (me a lot +) it got so filthy at the old house that we just hired people to come in an clean every two weeks. We kept it up at the new place. We do laundry, dishes, basic tidying, litterboxes, etc, and they come in an CLEAN.

I am extremely grateful we can afford that.
 

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Back when I used to work 2 jobs (one 40 hour, one 15 hour) I had to make a home schedule. Make a REASONABLE schedule........AND stick to it. Maybe Mondays will be dusting and putting away clothes, Tuesdays could be running the sweeper and sorting mail. If you know you are giving yourself 30 minutes, schedule a job or jobs that should take that long and no more. You'll soon find yourself in the habit, and not need a schedule :)

One thing that helps sooooooooooo much since it's just you (no kids involved) put stuff away to begin with. Have a designated basket for mail..........put it there. If you get something out, put it back. Make things easy and quick to put away. For instance, each of my kids have their own small plastic tote for the bathroom that sits on the shelf. All their toiletries are in it, they can set the basket on the sink, use what they need, toss it back in and put it back on the shelf. I made it easy for them to keep their stuff together and picked up. That makes it easy for me too! LOL
 

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I had some help yesterday <3 My boyfriend surprised me yesterday and cleaned my living room and put all the clothes away and took out the trash and cooked me dinner <3
 

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I know right <3

He got here before I got home from work last night and called me on my way home and told me he had a surprise for me lol... he didnt expect me home so early so i caught him in the act of taking out the trash lol
 
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Have a SAHOH lol. jk my boyfriend is looking high and low for work but cant get a break. so he looks after everything. this time of year Im out of the house no later then 8am if Im lucky (normally out by 645am and dont get home till 11ish at night. 6 days a week. I MAY get Sundays off, but normally go in for 5 hours. so I literally have no time for anything but sleep, and even that I dont get enough of lol
 

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Wait. I only work 37.5 hours, I guess my response doesn't count LOL

I do commute about 40 minutes each way... Does that count? :)

And that's an awesome thing to do if your OH!
 

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Wait. I only work 37.5 hours, I guess my response doesn't count LOL

I do commute about 40 minutes each way... Does that count? :)

And that's an awesome thing to do if your OH!
Of course it counts :) I really meant anyone that works a "full-time" job :p

It was awesome of him <3
 

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LOL I just don't do it hahaha. I go to school about 25 hours a week and go to work about 25 hours right now so I have 50 hour weeks.

Soon, probably this summer, I'll be holding down 2 jobs (one ft, one pt) as well as taking 3 online courses so I suspect my weeks will go up to 60 if not more... I'll just never get to do anything. ever. Maybe I need to hire a cleaner that comes in once a week or something...

Edit: I would like to add I don't sleep much though, never have and just can't seem to. I average about 3-4 hours a night, every night.
 

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I have a sign that says "Sexy women have messy kitchens" LOL I usually let things pile up too and we do a freak out massive clean up if we are ever having company. For the general cleaning that needs to be done (vacuuming, floors, bathrooms etc) I pay my mom to come usually every two weeks (she does house cleaning for a living) and do some of that stuff. Laundry and kitchen cleanup is done occasionally during the week but mostly on the weekend.

It's definitely hard to keep up. :rolleyes:
 

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I was just thinking this morning how nice it would be to invest in one of those washer/dryer combos. The laundry has been meant to be done since Saturday and it's now Tuesday and I still haven't done it. And I'm running out of clean underwear LOL. But I have to be at home while doing the laundry so I can switch it all from the washer to the dryer, and usually I go ahead and do two loads (white and colours/darks.) But I don't really NEED to do two loads, I wash everything on cold anyway. So I could just buy a washer/dryer combo and put EVERYTHING in one load on cold and one machine would do it and ta-da!!

stupid freaking not winning the lottery spoils all my best plans.
 

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LOL yeah I don't seperate the laundry either :rofl1: it all goes in together.

Brian is responsible for his laundry because it all pretty much stays downstairs. I do mine and Hannah's laundry (usually once a week. sometimes twice) and it's one big load that all goes in together on cold lol.

but we had a very minor case of german cockroaches so now I am a clean FREAK. Brian laughs at me and says if he had known all it took was a few cockroaches to turn me into a clean freak he would have brought some in long ago :rofl1: and if anyone ever wants to know how to get rid of cockroaches... Harris famous roach tablets. they are a miracle

it's hard in such a tiny house though with two dogs and a kid. it never looks clean because one thing out of place and it looks like a total disaster.
 

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