Its a perspective issue. I always hear complaints from teenagers and people in their 20s and i felt the same when i was that age but its really not that bad. I dont feel like chores take up a significant amount of my free time. Once I have kids though I expect this to change because now im cleaning up after kids who dont do the proper steps to minimise later work.
Yeah, If you have a decent sized house, an animal or two, a couple of kids, toss on some mild depression, the chore list can just strangle you.
wake
cook breakfast for kids
eat on the fly
let dog out
wake kid one
make kid one’s lunch
let dog in
have them get dressed and get their shit together
prepare dogs food, don’t only eats warm chicken and kibble
wash dogs bowl, fill bowl
wake kid 2, give them food
take kid 1 to school
have kid 2 get ready
do kid 2’s hair and get their finer points done
clean up kitchen
wash dishes.
make sure kid 2 has lunch money,
walk kid to bus stop
walk home
back yard poo duty
start work
wife gets up
laundry
cleaning
vacuuming
work break to eat lunch
pick up kid 1
cleaning
pick up kid 2
put dishes away
get off work
kid 2 to sports
start dinner
everyone eats
refill dishwasher
spend a little time with the kids, playing games or watching a show
put dishes away
clean
feed the dog
let the dog out/in
trash
I’m going solid from 6a-8p
If something isn’t broken or a project doesn’t need done, i get at best a couple hours a night right before bed to read/consume/extra sleep
My wife is going solid from about 10-10, spends a little extra time with the kids and gets an hour or two to herself.
On the weekend, we lose a couple extra hours to sleeping in, about 2/3 of that list still happens, but now there’s yard work and taking the kids places. extra meals to cook.
In my 20’s and early 30’s there were no kids making messes and breaking things and when it was just us, so what if the dishwasher is overfull or the counter wasn’t cleaned. and we could afford to eat out more.
Its a perspective issue. I always hear complaints from teenagers and people in their 20s and i felt the same when i was that age but its really not that bad. I dont feel like chores take up a significant amount of my free time. Once I have kids though I expect this to change because now im cleaning up after kids who dont do the proper steps to minimise later work.
Yeah, If you have a decent sized house, an animal or two, a couple of kids, toss on some mild depression, the chore list can just strangle you.
I’m going solid from 6a-8p If something isn’t broken or a project doesn’t need done, i get at best a couple hours a night right before bed to read/consume/extra sleep
My wife is going solid from about 10-10, spends a little extra time with the kids and gets an hour or two to herself.
On the weekend, we lose a couple extra hours to sleeping in, about 2/3 of that list still happens, but now there’s yard work and taking the kids places. extra meals to cook.
In my 20’s and early 30’s there were no kids making messes and breaking things and when it was just us, so what if the dishwasher is overfull or the counter wasn’t cleaned. and we could afford to eat out more.