Does anyone else feel the need to clean before your partner gets home?

[chody47]

Just wondering.....

Now that I'm lucky enough to be home looking after the girls this year, I like to try and do as much as I can around the house so DH doesn't have to (just to let you know, he has NEVER said he expects this at all). Anyway, before he comes home I find myself doing a quick run around the house picking up toys to make it look a bit less chaotic (other cleaning jobs are generally done already).

Does anyone else feel the need to do this?

[~TT40~]

the only thing I do is stack the dishwasher and only if the plates have been more than a day. plus he rarely gets lunch at work so makes something when he gets hone so I have a clear spot on the bench for him (sometimes. we finishes at different times every day so often I do it for him while hevis alreasy hone)

[~Hestia~]

Nope. Though because he gets home after the kids are in bed, I have usually done a little tidy to reset the house so to speak. If he happens to get home before this he joins in.

[Butterfly Dawn]

yes. most days I try. during the day the house gets so messy with 2 kids at home.
its just nicer I think. I would feel swamped if I came home to our mess

[Ilithyia]

Yep

But its more for me than anything. I usually get my motivation-to-clean kick in the late afternoon/evenings anyways.

I do like to have a clean house with dinner on the way for him also. But like your DP, mine doesn't expect it at all (most days anyways

[nothing2lose]

No. But I expect him to have done some domestic chores by the time I get home.

[*Efjay*]

Nope with five kids I'm picking their stuff up constantly so no special effort here lol

[little_O]

I always clean up when dd sleeps so its generally not bad when he gets home. I like the sink to be empty and I normally have dinner going. I love it when he's excited for dinner smells

[lilima]

Absolutely not! We share the cleaning. We both care fr kids while each other is at work. Generally we clean up together.

[TeniBear]

I think DH would think something was wrong if he came home to a clean house

[Amaunet]

I tend to start tidying as the kids wind down. My DH isn't home until 7 or 7.30pm so I like to have the bulk done so we can put the kids to bed together and then relax!

[Astrid]

I tend to naturally get an urge to tidy a bit in the late arvo, I also prefer to get it done then, than later in the evening. So I do it for me, not for him (well on the days I am home before him)

[Arcadia]

Yep! I start packing up when kids eat dinner, then bath and bed. I like to walk into a clean house and Dh knows that so I extend him the same courtesy.

It's part of my end of day ritual and sometimes the only tidying I've done.

[Calluna]

If only you could see my house right now. It is an absolute disgrace (and it stinks!) and I cant move to clean it. Pre pregnancy I did if I had time/energy, but not so much for DF as for me. I hate mess it makes me depressed. DF doesnt seem to care at all.

[onthefly]

No. It would set some pretty unrealistic expectations about standards.

[PumpkinZulu]

We tidy up together after the girls are in bed.

[luna moth]

I'm trying to learn not to. I need to put my kids first and lately I'm not very good at that.

[Teeki]

I remember when I was home full time with DD, I'd sleep/relax through one of her naps and tidy in the other. It wasn't for DH, I don't like a messy house and this was when I had time. Unless we'd had a rough day or been out. DH didn't mind either way.

Now the shoe is on the other foot, DH finishes work before me and is home with DD at 3:30, whereas I get home at 5:30. I LOVE the days (like today) that I come home and the dishes are done and the floor is tidy. Certainly makes me appreciate him