If you’re cleaning the toilet and doing laundry regularly you’re already ahead of a lot of men. As long as you have a clean way to prep food and no health hazards in the environment the rest is bonus points as far as I’m concerned. Yeah, there’s an unfolded bag of laundry in my room and clutter on the coffee table; I live here.
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The biggest life upgrade for pets in the house is a robot vacuum. I've had one model or another for longer than I've had dogs and while it obviously isn't the same as a good sweep and mop, running the robot vacuum daily is a huge improvement.
Shout out to the Valetudo project for helping people to take their robot vacuum out of the cloud.
As someone with AuDHD, don't beat yourself up. As long as you're trying you're good. If you were lazy, you would be having fun instead of worrying about not doing enough. Also at least for me, speaking to myself with compassion has always gotten me better results than self bullying.
I always recommend this book for anyone beating themselves up over housework:
Pets make life so fucking hard to keep clean, don't punish yourself for it.
I've been tackling my house over several weeks by picking a different corner of the place and deep cleaning each day (though not every day). I spend about an hour on each area and it feels way less overwhelming than thinking I have to get an entire room or my entire place clean.
If you're only cleaning the toilet and sheets, yeah you earned the judgment lol
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