How dirty are you?

It all comes down to time management. You might find this article interesting:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/are-you-as-busy-as-you-think.html

Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize. And have your family members help out with chores.

Dishes every day (or we'd have none). Vacuuming, laundry and bathrooms wait until weekends which makes me sad since I feel like I spend my entire weekend cleaning.

Dishes are washed whilst I'm preparing food

I can't stand mess anywhere, I hate how my boyfriend leaves crap everywhere, he opens something and leaves the top off. Takes his clothes off and makes no attempt to put them away

ARGH

I hate mess. Unfortunately, I don't have the time and energy to be cleaning. As I'm so busy, my fiancé cleans the house. It's never anywhere near as clean and tidy as I'd like, and it's certainly well 'lived in', but I get over the guilt by knowing that I'm relying on him and that I'm not responsible.

That's not to say I think he does anything less than an amazing job. It sounds like I do! In reality, I think he's fantastic, and so supportive, and sure the dishes pile up on occasion but it's a lot for one guy. He gets up early sometimes to do the laundry, he washes the dishes (fairly) regularly, he wipes rooms down and vacuums on occasion. I'm very lucky.

Additionally, I would wash my own dishes if that were all I had to do, but my fiancé's a 'clean in bulk' kind of guy. Once he's started putting dishes and trays on the side, I just put mine down as well.

I'm a single mother with two kids, full time job, house with yard, and 2 dogs. So I know about time management. how I do it.
1. Ride my bike to work as much as I can.
2. Instead of spending the 45 minutes in traffic, I spend 45 in the gym and 15 on the road.
3. My son is responsible for dishes and keeping the kitchen clean
4. My daughter is responsible for the laundry
5. I plan out all the meals for the week and cook them all on sunday. Then I just need to heat it up.
6. Sunday is my day to scrub the house and do the yard.
7. Take the dogs to the park and walk aroung the park instead of just standing there watching them play.
8. Durning the week I only worry about the trash and small orginazational items which I do as I'm getting everything ready for the next day.

You can fit it in, you just need to be crative over how you do it.

Ironman training started in Dec. My Christmas tree is still up and I dont care even a little bit.

Oh my gosh! I was thinking of posting the very same thing.

I love to keep my house very clean. Now that I am trying to work out at least 1-2 hrs everyday every other week I find that the time I used to devote to scrubbing something is now spent exercising.

My house is less tidy but my body is better! I have learned to let go of my cleaning OCD. Because I need to exercise.

I'm glad others have this difficulty too.

SLEEP LOOOOL. But srsly between work and house work I've cut back to 6-7 hours a night on the weekdays to fit in all of my workouts.

I try to get the cooking dishes done before we eat, anything leftover should be done before bedtime (tv commercial breaks are great for that). All other cleaning, unless it is a spill or similar, has to wait for Saturday. I may do the kitchen floor more often, and the bathroom if I want to have a nice soak...