Thanks for starting this thread! I'm a mixture of going off my nut out of boredom and going my nut out of frustration that I can't do any of the things that I want to do. Believe me, my mind brims over with ideas, just no time to do them.

My solution? Put both girls into childcare for two days a week next year. That means I can study for a Masters, buy/renovate an investment property and anything else I want to do.

Look, I think you absolutely have to give yourself some balance and be able to do what you want to do some of the time. It was a huge, huge decision for me to decide to put DD2 into childcare. She's much younger than I'm comfortable with. But I'm already going nuts, doing another year before I reach a comfortable age will just mean another year of frustration for me especially as my partner is a shiftworker so I usually do the whole getting up/breakfast/dressed plus the dinner/bath/bed thing on my own. I don't get weekends either as he often works those.

I also hear you on the housework. To me, it feels like a looming spectre that hangs over my head every day. I actually like housework but it's incredibly frustrating doing it with DDs plus DP here. So I've basically told DP that he has to give me 3 hours in a solid block every week to get it done. I don't want to be doing it in dribs and drabs every day. Too frustrating. So either a solid block or I'm getting a cleaner. End of.