^LOL, good tips - but I can tell that you still have a small family and that your daughter is still young - with four kids, all of whom play a sport or have another activity every season, we do at LEAST two loads every day - more during fall soccer season, when they seem to stink the most.
Actually I think that stay at home moms should be able to fairly easily balance the load, if they stick to a routine and maintain an acceptable level of organization. I've been both a working and full-time mom, and I find the most difficulty balancing work with family responsibilities. With a good system, the home manages itself. The key is for everyone in it to pitch in, and to maintain reasonable expectations.
The household isn't running very smoothly right now, but the ILs are visitng for awhile.
amana 2 kids who go through a lot of clothes and towels and what nots. so there is quite a bit of laundry but if we really look at the capacity of a washer and numbr of clothes that ppl go through then it does not add up.
I mean I understand that lights, darks and whites are done seperately, some ppl do towels and bed linens separately as well.
so while I may have enough clothes in one week to only do one load, the lights, whites, darks makes them three loads..however, if we collect all whites of everyone, its really a load a week. etc etc.
I can understand that for sports if clothes need to eb washed more often because if kids practice several times a week and you dont have several uniforms then it can be an issue.
as far as stay at home moms go, I agree, if there is a system in place, it will go on much easier
^ You forgot one key factor - the bigger the kid, the bigger the clothes - my son wears a small adult size and two of my daughters are in junior sizes. I can wash twice as many of chotis shirts as DD2 or DD3 in a load :). Add up a lack of respect for the fact that a towel should last you three days, and a little miss 'I must change my underwear and undershirt every three hours or I will become permanently filthy', and it really adds up!
some of the tasks mentioned above are not needed to be done everyday...i think there is a life beyond chores...and all chores can be reserved for certain days...otherwise...i dont know about other women...but i would go insane...we need to pray...read..take lit classes...think...prepare ourselves for the next 10/20 years...not get stuck in the same cycle for the rest of our lives..and yeah..as children become more independent(around 6-7yrs of age) they should be picking up after themselves.....
lazy----ummm i dont think so...women are probably more or less as productive as men...men just like to toot their horns by saying "we=breadwinners=better than you"....well if you think we are lazy...how about trade a week or 'the nine months' with us...i guarantee they ll be begging to switch back...
you seem to be mailing way too many parcels. If it is a daily thing, u can have the postal carrrier pick up the parcels.
laundry every day- get a bigger washing machine. a few loads a week should be good enough
the car is going to the dealer for repairs too often. trade that in for a more reliable car.
how much dry cleaning does this guy require sheesh??? have him drop off his laundry to some place close to his office and pick it up weekly.
there is entirely too much cleaning up going on. morning, afternoon and evening. The thing is that if it is done daily there really is not a whole lot to clean, and if it is done 3 times a day it should be no more than 10 mins a pop.
oh and why is hubby sitting around and u are back to cleaning, tell his punk ass to help.
see I just saved you a lot of time.
:)
Ha ha,
No I was just trying to add variety and spice to the different types of things a woman may be doing. I am quite organized and a typical day is well spent, hectic but smooth, and my husband does help when needed.
I just wanted to make a point that all women are not as lazy as some think. They have responsibilties and accomplish many different things everyday. We don't like to live off our husbands. Yes, we all complain once in a while...men are no exception!
7.30am - Get home, Vacum (yes daily), make school lunches, organize breakfast, get the girls ready for school
8.30am - Leave home to drop the girls off at school
9.00am - Drive back home, change clothes and drop in bed
2.30 pm - Drive back to school
3.00 pm - Start organizing lunch, help the girls with homework, prep dinner, do the laundry and hang it out, Mop the floors (yes daily)
6.00pm - Have dinner
7.00pm - Get ready for work
8.00pm - Leave home for work
and the cycle continues daily
That doesnt involve one of them getting sick/wanting to go to a friends house/wanting to be picked up late from school due to some sort of a stupid reharsal/skipping the sleeping part one of the days cause there is some sort of thing like a dance or a play at school that needs parental attendance.
Just couple of generations ago, women used to get up early morning, start with house cleaning, cooking and then wash all clothes "manually", clean the dishes, cook for lunch, clean dishes again, in between breast feeding the newborns. Then every two years they gave birth to new baby. The men never did any work at home, never carried or comforted the kids.
And Now.
They have washig machines, dryers, dish washers, domestic help, the husbands help at home, take care of kids, yet they keep complaining.
The more we men do, the more they want from us.
If the trend continues, i am afraid men will be like the women of the last century.
women today is doing way more than the ones generations ago..
Ask a man to take 1 responsibility from the daily chores .. say.. fix dinner on a regular basis and that becomes the end of the world.. their 1 track brain cant seem to function on how they could cook dinner considering the small details of getting the grocery needed for having a variety of foods in the days of the week..and having it taste good too .. Men can't do 1 thing. lets not go to how a woman cooks dinner, helps kids with the homework .. as well as washes the dishes from the morning which a 'man' who has enough time after the breakfast 'that the woman had cooked / served before leaving work' .. didnt bother to wash .. Don't generalize by calling out a gender. There could be men so stupid and lazy not to bother knowing that the dirty laundry goes inside the hamper not piling up on the cover of it... etc etc etc ..
Have you had any experience with feeding two very fussy kids where one of them has allergies to specific food??
That also includes washing the dishes, the kambakht pateelis and cleaning the kitchen.
And Yes I do take an hour to get ready, Im a woman after all
Just straightening my hair takes 28 minutes
I work nights only because then I have the days free to look after my kids, if I work days then I wont be able to drop and pick them up from school
AngelEyes ofcourse, but I was just listing a usual day.
I am in love with my GHD, I can never cheat on it
Plus I dont understand how the 10 minute thing works on a thick head of hair, you still have to go strand by strand
