Does anyone else feel like they never get caught up with housework?

Oh boy do I ever. I feel like that all the time. As soon as I wash all the dishes in the sink if fills right back up. The laundry is never ending.I am washing clothes, at least a load or two a day.As soon as I wash the floors, no joke, someone always spills something on them within an hour of cleaning them.Housework is a never ending job.

My friend, I am with ya! I never get caught up, even though I am a stay at home wife, and my kids are grown, the battle just never ends when it comes to the house and the yardwork. I feel so overwhelmed right now it isn't even funny. Hubby and I just had a disagreement last night, because I haven't been "cleaning" enough. So, guess what my mission is for today and this weekend. Yippee. I am thrilled. Our house is so small and so overfilled, that I just don't know where to start. I am procrastinating by doing a few posts on here (I have given myself 1 hour), before I begin the drudgery. Do you have a schedule or do you just wing it? I am trying to come up with a schedule that will allow me to get everything done, but it is far from being perfected. How do you do it?

Yes, I think so. Some housework are really never ending, unlike an ordinary office job, once you are done its ok. With the house same routines over and over and you cannot do anything about it, well that's life.

I think that most people feel this way at one time or another. I have a very good friend who lives on her own and it always seems like she's telling me that the housework never seems to end. I am not really personally responsible for all of the housework in my family's home, but I do feel like my online work never ends, lol!

I am just like you. By the time I have finished cleaning the last room there is more laundry to do, more dishes to wash etc. sometimes it is really difficult to get motivated to do it when you know its a never ending job.

I'd like to see the person that does not feel like you - rather I'd like to see their house, and the staff they have doing all the house work for them. In order to keep the house clean i think we need to move out

I'm a 53 year old male. I was Mr. Mom rasing my 2 children working part time as my wife worked full time. back then housework was never done/caught up with. With kids of any age in the household there is never enough time to get all household chores done. Now that my children moved out & my father has moved in for me to take care of I find the housework is still never done. LOL. My wife works fulltime & I work at home tending to my ailing father full time. So along with the housework to catch up on I have to bathe him help make sure he does a little exercise daily etc. So here I am at 52 and still dealing with unfinished housework. Thanks for reminding me Ive got to vaacuum the darned house soon. HAHAHA.

Feels the same here. On the one hand I clean up and as soon as I turn my back, a mess miraculously appear from somewhere. Luckily we have a maid three times a week, she sort of manages to get the house in order and the laundry up to date. Without her, I would have killed my boyfriend and moved into a bachelor flat, to contain the mess.

You took the thought right out of my head. I just went into the rest of the house a few minutes back, realized that there were more dishes the living room is trashed and the laundry pile multiplied. So I threw my hands in the air and came back to the office. I suppose in a bit I will just have to go face the rest of the house and clean it up.

With a 19 month old son housework is pretty much neverending around here :) I'm able to keep up with most of it however with the exception of vacuuming. I just vacuumed the living room yesterday and I already have to do it again because my boyfriend walked through with his sandy muddy boots on!! He actually does this a lot so vacuuming really IS a neverending battle!

"A womens work is never done." I have no idea who said it but it is so true. The room that I have the hardest time with is my 3 year olds room. I'm forever picking up and organizing and 15 minutes later I come back and it's a mess. It's partly my fault she has to much stuff to begin with. What I need to do is go through and get rid of stuff again. Instead I just go in there several times a day to organize. She can't get the concept down to put it back where it came from. When asked to clean it up she just throws it where ever.:) I attached a pic from just now this morning when she woke up it was completely organized.:)

I used to feel like that. Nowadays I find it's not so bad. The only thing I never seem to get caught up on is laundry. No matter how many loads I do, there's always another one waiting for me. I blame a lot of that on my partner. He'll wear clothes for half a day and then get changed. If he had a problem with sweating a lot I could understand this, but he doesn't. My kids are generally good at keeping their clothes clean enough to wear for two days and so their laundry pile doesn't build up so bad. Dishes I take care of right afre dinner, I don't have a dishwasher so getting them washed and dried and put away after dinner is more a matter of choice because I can't stand to see dirty dishes waiting for me on the kitchen counters.

I am never caught up! Never! I am like you, I think I have little dirt fairies running around undoing what I have just done. It gets very discouraging doesn't it?

If you feel like it's a never ending chores...stop for a while and think. You don't have to do all of it. I make my kids fold their own clothes, so they will be aware how hard it is. I also make them wash their own dishes after eating so they tend to use less because they hate washing. I know it is a diffucult decision but you are also doing them a favor....for their future.

No, and it won't ever happen! I've just come to accept that as the sad reality of things. There was once when I felt like I was caught up, but that feeling only lasted about 5 minutes! lol

Well now that I live alone lol yes I do get caught up with it. But before no I didn't and it used to annoy me lol. Specially when I was working full time to. Now it is just me that needs to be cleaned up after and that is easy lol.

Pretty much. It doesn't help that our house is constantly under renovations, so there are piles of stuff around that don't really ahve a place to live. I clean every day and yet my house is still full of mess and clutter.

I WANT A HOUSE ELF!!!!! Yes, I did that yell that and unless you are into Harry Potter, you think I am nuts. Well a house elf cleans and cooks and is yours forever unless you free it by giving it a piece of clothing. Doby could easily be my best friend. You are right, a house is self-dirtying. If you leave your house perfectly clean, and no one is there for 12 hours, when you come home the house is dirty and a mess. It is one of the mysteries of the world. Being that you have kids and are a hockey Mom...and that in itself has it own set of disgusting problems, not to mention the time involved in travel hockey, practices what twice a week, at least 8 hours on one day a weekend, plus another 3-4 for that home game. You have no chance on getting caught up..trust me. A normal Mom has no chance, being a hockey mom makes you a super Mom, and that is just because of hockey. Just sit back and be happy that you can be a super Mom, forget the house - the kids don't care.

I do believe housework is a never ending battle. One that never seems to get caught up. It might if we had people in the house that would help out. My sink seems to be have dishes in it constantly. The dirty cloths are always there no matter how many times dirty cloths get washed. Wipe your feet when you walk through the door. Oh Heaven Forbade! You are asking the impossible. So yes I feel like housework is a never ending battle.

I will add something on behalf of my wife and I. We have 2 kids and my gosh woman! We know what you're saying! lol "We're always working" that's something you'll hear more often then not! Going from room to room, and repeating the cycle, almost all day long. It's crazy! The best part is like you said, vaccuming and turning around to see what looks like a shaved animal! LOL