How many hours a week do you spend on your house (cooking, cleaning, shopping)? Do you have help?
Question:I am trying to figure out if I am obsessive or normal. I spend about 40 hours per week on my house, lawn, vehicles, and laundry. I feel like I am never finished, and it never seems to be finished. I am sitting here now thinking of the next two loads of laundry I need to finish.
Answers:
Sounds normal to me! I spend ALL of my time caring for my babies and house. The cars are quite neglected though. Need a good washing. I'm sitting here now waiting to hear that the dish washer has run it's coarse so I can go rinse them off and put them back in for the dry mode. LOL I'd say you're perfectly normal. If I had to come up with an estimate of time I spend just on the house, there's 8 hours a week on dishes alone, 4 hours of vacuuming, 3 hours of sleeping, 4 hours of scrubbing floors (I don't mop, I scrub), 2 hours cleaning the oven, 4 hours cleaning the kitchen, 2 hours cleaning the bathroom, 8 hours on laundry if not more!, 2 hours dusting, 2 hours on windows, 4 hours making beds, 6 hours of general pick up, 3 hours of recycling (sorting), 3 hours into watering to the lawn and garden, 6 hours into mowing the lawn, and 4 hours weeding. So that's roughly 64 hours give or take a few.
Unfortunately it is a 24/7 job. I hear you
You are not obsessive. You just like things to be done. I hear ya!! I am the same way. Don't put off what can be done today, for tomorrow. I don't get any help. The only help I get, from my hubby, is him leaving his dirty dishes and laundry everywhere. Thank you honey. So no you are normal. =)
All that stuff? That's about right
I spend about 25-35 hours a week. But I never feel "done" either. There is always more to be done. You have to learn that life is more than just work and allow your self to relax sometimes. You will not regret not washing those dishes immediately when you are on your death bed. You *will* regret not spending more quality time with loved ones!
I have help messing it up, but only my husband helps me with the heavy stuff. I do most of the inside stuff, he does most of the outside stuff. Its just the two of us now but the laundry and the dust don't seem to know that. Between the two of us its easily a forty hour week, but my house is clean and neat and my meals are delicious, home made and hot. I watch two of my grandkids on the week ends and I do all the holidays at my house, with my other daughter, her husband and their two kids spending a week at a time here. If I opened a bed and breakfast, it wouldn't be much more work.
I am a stay at home mom, and I figure that along with taking care of my children, taking care of the home and everything within and without it is also my job. I probably spend around 40 hours a week too doing house work and yard work! I don't have any help, nor did I when I worked full time outside the home (boy that was heck - get off from a 10 hour work day, come home and rush to make supper, dishes, laundry, yard work, clean, errands, ect..) Whew, makes me tired just thinking of the way it was! But now, at least I am able to set my own schedule as to when I do things, even if it does take 8 or more hours a day to do everything around the house and to do it well. I am a neat freak though, so any time I see a crumb on the floor, the whole floor needs to be swept, or if a pillow is crooked, then the whole living room needs straightened and spruced up... okay, well maybe it is kinda obsessive. lol. Oh well, it makes me happy, and it obviously makes you happy, so go for it and don't worry about it!
Well.i think you should spend MORE time on your house cause i help out every day non-stop.well maybe not non-stop!
scheduel
go to school,back from school,do laundry,feed turtle,dust house,make dinner,eat,sweep floof,mop floor,bath,go to sleep....sorry i went a little hard on you i'm not saying you are lazy i'm jst obsessed with cleaning i guess
Laundry NEVER ends...No, you are not obsessive by any means. Running a house is an ongoing job and throw kids in the mix and forget it!
You don't say if you have children or not.
I have 4 (13 to 6) and own my own business. I wash everyday (one load) and make beds, breakfast etc. Wipe down benches and a quick sweep. Saturdays is for frenzied cleaning! All sheets get washed, floors washed, garden, bathroom etc. I reckon I would spend probably 5 hours on a Saturday and maybe 2 hours at the most each day. Sundays is a family day and we do the bare essentials. All up probably a max of 20 hours. I iron each evening for about half and hour and that takes care of the days washing.
I have no help and I do use a carwash once a week or fortnight depending on how filthy the car is!
I think you need to enjoy yourself a little more! Get a hobby if you don't have one and perhaps be a little more social! The housework will always wait for you and the world will not cave in if the house is not spotless!
yay, finally another clean person!
As i am a stay at home mum to be... i sweep and vacuum my house every day, do at least 3 loads of washing & drying.. the washing up will get done twice... picking up little odds and ends around the yard, mowing.. cleaning the animals houses and doing gardening.. this takes up you whole day and i dont blame you for sayin its a full time job because it really is
Wow! To me, you sound like a genius!
For me that would be obsessive, but OTOH my heart would love to be obsessive about the house! I do not spend much time at all and I do what I do in bits and pieces because my back shrieks after 10-15 minutes (not a "bad back", as they say--just reaction after several recent serious surgeries).
I always said, "When the kids are gone, the nest will be empty--but at least it will be *clean*!" Sheesh! Was I ever wrong!
Yes, we did have help when I was able to work. Thankfully, now I have an adorable DH who thinks that "housework is therapeutic"! Hee hee... Ooops! Forgot something--I have never done the lawn, I used to help wash the car and I taught DH and our sons how to do their laundry 20+ years ago. Me? I am many, many weeks behind in my own bit (?) of laundry. <sigh>
Too many to keep track of. I gave up along time ago. I just do it all and work in my "spare time". My job is my way of getting away from it all.My housework is never done even though I do all I can everyday and still have time for myself and family. Also, I am sitting here waiting for a load of laundry to dry so i can put another one in. I here You.
i would probably say the same, I have no help from anyone with anything including cooking and cleaning and there are 5 people living here on a regular basis.
I mow the lawns, do the washing, cleaning, cooking, looking after my daughter, feed and clean pets, try and keep my car looking its best and chauffer about three people around each week.
Im 21 years old, and just moved back home after some financial hardship, so i live with my mum whos 50 and my 17 yr old sister, my 23 year old fiance and our 3 year old daughter.
I think once you start to do things and others see you do it if it doesnt get done they just leave it up to you.
Hey my mom was like that...and she never took any time to spend with her kids. All my memories of her was cleaning cleaning cleaning.I've learned to let things 'go' a bit...and spend time PLAYING with my kids. They are only young once...you can clean till kingdom comes once their gone.
A woman's work is never done.
Truthfully, since I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, degeneratived disks, severe arthritis in my back, and spinal stenosis I have cut way back on my house duties. I have done it out of neccessity. Dont get me wrong I like a clean house and a nice yard but I have come to realize that there is more to life than outward apperances. I do what I can do every day for general cleaning, lets face it if its generally already cleaned up there really is not too much up keep. I prepare most of the meals and when I am not feeling up to it one of my teenage sons or my husband will pick up the slack. If I do the laundry I might not be able to get it finished and out of the baskets so it has to wait for another day untill I am feeling up to it or untill one of the guys will put it away. There has been many times where I have sat on the couch with 4-5 loads of laundry that I have done and just folded it all,with no ambition to put it away because the pain levels are too high. So into the baskets it goes for another day or until one of the guys will do it. I dont do most of the shopping any more my husband does it on his way home from work. That alone is a huge help, as long as he sticks to my list LOL.
As far as you thinking you are obsessive I dont think so because I was the same way before I had all of theese problems. Iy was especailly harder when my boys were younger and I was working full time. I agree you never feel like you have enough time to get every thing done.
Take a break and relax it will all still be there when you are done so what is the big rush? No one is going to be offended if you dont get something done, I am finding that out now. Take some down time for you and your day will go a lot better and stress free!
More Related Questions & Answers...