no joke rule
(midwest.social)
gandalf_der_12te
196But I'm sick :( I'm at the urgent care.
I can't do my chores 😭
Sometimes your chore is healing, they're not the exact same every day no exceptions
fuck
I am afraid I cannot do my chores at this time, for I am shackled with an even greater burden—perhaps nothing but a myth and a petrified whisper to you, but all too real for me: employment.
I just did!!! Cat litter box and cat water fountain 🐱 🐱 🐱 🐱 🐱 🐱
Good girl/boy/sib, now go meow >:3
Sunday is chores day, and this does not look like a Sunday yet.
Today is "buy chicken feet and make stock to can" day though. Looks very much like that today.
hey no not in my distraction rectangle
I try to find the courage to do some small task everyday and then do more in the week-end.
Hard to have energy left. I push through to do a little bit of sports almost everyday too. I cannot fathom what parents go through everyday.
As a parent of multiple small children, chores are pretty much all I fucking do.
any tips for increasing efficency in those? i'm not a parent but eventually do want to become one.
I feel like I should manage expectations here.
Chores take the time they take, but with children you have to take frequent breaks in the middle of them to actually parent the children (change nappies, stop them from fighting, etc). If you completely forget about having a life of your own, then you won't have any hope to be crushed. Also if you don't split the house work evenly with your partner don't have more than 2 children.
Don't kid yourself into thinking they will be any help before they are at least 8. But you still have to start them off with simple things way before that, otherwise they won't be any help even as teenagers. But, you'll find that they need constant direct supervision and everything will take easily 3 times as long as if you just did it for them.
Any time they aren't within line of sight, they are causing unnecessary work elsewhere. For example while I was making dinner, my 4 year old helped herself to a block of parmesan which they chewed up and spat out on my bed and my 1 year old let themselves into the bathroom and started jamming empty toilet paper rolls into the bottom of the toilet with the toilet brush.
For 2 young children you will end up doing at least 3 times as much cleaning at a third of the speed (at least until they are older). And unless you have reliable mentally stable family in the same place as you, you can forget about any sort of social life outside of other parents during play dates.
Still worth it though.
my 4 year old helped herself to a block of parmesan which they chewed up and spat out on my bed and my 1 year old let themselves into the bathroom and started jamming empty toilet paper rolls into the bottom of the toilet with the toilet brush.
i feel like the first one's gotta be an achievement somewhere if life were a game, lmao. i couldn't for my life spit out a BLOCK of parmezan - it's too delicious 😂😭 kid's going places. can't imagine it being fun to clean though!
For the toilet rolls, is it an idea to put the rolls 'under over' rather than 'over under'? or have you already done that
but yeah, thanks for all the tips. so essentially, forget about social life, try to split responsibilities, and all that.
if i may ask, what in it makes it worth (or motivates you)? for me my big consideration, ironically, is a sort of existential feel, that i can remove the dread of leaving no legacy - that i can have a next generation to show the world.
It wasn't a large block. I told them something they didn't want to hear and they spat it out (already chewed) in protest.
It was the cardboard tubes that they stuffed into the toilet. The 4 year old is very wasteful when wiping and if any of the kids finish a roll they tend to kick the tube under the shelves in front of the toilet. The 1 year old just collected them.
They are absolutely feral, despite my best efforts. However they are also very loving, sweet, creative, smart children and they fill me with a warm fuzzy feeling. Although that might be sleep deprivation and a persistent cold.
Wednesday is my day off from paid labour so I can do the unpaid labour of being an adult, and keep my weekend free from either.
I only have minor chores, like feeding myself, the husband and the cats, and cleaning up after tabletop day at our place, followed by bed.
Surprisingly, I've actually been good about doing house task-stuff today (technically house project stuff instead of chores, but still counting it). Also its nearly morning, I should be sleeping, not choring.
but im lazeeee :((
Wait... baking a pie is a chore?
Guess I will do my chores...
I guess you need to eat, so making food could be considered a chore.
