I feel like my house is constantly a fucking mess. My wife and I work 80 hours between us and we have a 2 year old and I feel like it’s constantly a mess.

We do what we can and often spend a couple hours on a weekend tidying but it’s a losing battle.

How do you cope/keep on top of things?

  • @meiti
    46•1 year ago

    You just need to master one rule: designate a place for each item and put them IMMEDIATELY back in their designated place after use.

    • @TheMauveAvenger
      39•1 year ago

      OP can master that rule today, won’t make a damn bit of difference with a 2 year old around.

      • @meiti
        0•1 year ago

        It’s very interesting indeed. A while ago I read Carl Popper’s Open Society and it’s Enemies. In that book he argues that Plato and to some extent Aristotle have developed underlying philosophical tools to support, for a lack of better term, “closed” societies. For example slaves rather remain slaves, farmers remain farmers, and rulers remain rulers. He argues that they contribute to a totalitarianism, and undermine democracy by discouraging being equal and in general “change”.

        Take all this with a grain of salt, since it’s a while I’ve read the book, so can’t articulate it better. But your comment reminded me of all this, so I thought it might be interesting for you and other readers.

        ps: I personally think there is no natural place for things, that’s us, sentient beings, who define that and give things meanings.

          • @meiti
            2•1 year ago

            No, not really. I’m still learning my way around in Lemmy. I use wefwef.app and just recently the developer has added a subreddit import feature which might be able to find matching communities for you. though didn’t work great for me.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah, it really helps if you limit the amount of stuff you have in your house and put everything back where it belongs right away.

      If you then clean 1/1.5 hours a week you can keep everything relatively clean.

      Also like one of the others comments said a robot vacuum can really help limit the dust in your house.