Guest VentureForth Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Ok. . . How do y'all (with kids!) keep your house in order long enough to go out geocaching on the weekend? I can never seem to get all my work done, and I seem to work on my place all the time. Cooking, cleaning, feeding the baby. AAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! ------------------ VentureForth out to the wild, wet forest... Quote Link to comment
Guest threelanes Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Sounds like you've got your priorities in the wrong order. ------------------ Quote Link to comment
Guest BLEdwardsJ Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Sat get as much junk done as possible Sun. Simply turn your back on whats left, except packing food for the day, get in jeep turn on GPS and go. I could work on my house forever I must seek balance Quote Link to comment
Guest prv8eye Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by VentureForth: Ok. . . How do y'all (with kids!) keep your house in order long enough to go out geocaching on the weekend? I can never seem to get all my work done, and I seem to work on my place all the time. Cooking, cleaning, feeding the baby. AAAAAaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! I don't really understand the question. Why would I stay home and do my wife's job for her? JUST KIDDING!! Quote Link to comment
Guest YaesuMan Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Well... I would try to help but... I'm not married yet. oh well. Quote Link to comment
Guest mrgigabyte Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 My wife, she's such a pig ... two sinks full of dishes, I got no place to piss! --Rodney Dangerfield Quote Link to comment
Guest gmagers Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Seriously, finding balance in one's life is important. If you put too much pressure on yourself to get the "house" done, you won't enjoy caching at all even if you do go. I have found that it takes great effort to achieve balance, and I have to ASK for help somtimes from GF and kids. I realize that I can make a choice about how I prioritize AND how I feel obout my choices. Bottom line, it's OK to go caching with a dirty house, and it's OK to clean house when you want to go cacheing. Hope that helps... ------------------ "Because I said SO" Quote Link to comment
Guest gmagers Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Seriously, finding balance in one's life is important. If you put too much pressure on yourself to get the "house" done, you won't enjoy caching at all even if you do go. I have found that it takes great effort to achieve balance, and I have to ASK for help somtimes from GF and kids. I realize that I can make a choice about how I prioritize AND how I feel obout my choices. Bottom line, it's OK to go caching with a dirty house, and it's OK to clean house when you want to go cacheing. Hope that helps... ------------------ "Because I said SO" Quote Link to comment
Guest Blindman Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 The universe has certain immutable laws. Increasing disorder is one of them. I agree with gmagers. The in box is always full. It doesn't matter how clean the house is. There's always more - the fence that needs to be fixed, a chair that needs to be reupholstered, a room that needs to be painted, etc, etc. Being tied to a list of stuff like that is a recipe for burnout. You need to take time once in a while to "sharpen the saw". Then you can whistle and smile while you're getting back to work. Life is good, live it as if you like it. Even the work. Good luck and have fun with those little ankle-biters while you have 'em. ------------------ My boy, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Quote Link to comment
Guest brokenwing Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Blindman:Life is good, live it as if you like it. Even the work. Good luck and have fun with those little ankle-biters while you have 'em. Good point Blindman. Look at it this way: What are your kids going to remember 10, 20, or even 50 years from now, how clean mommy and daddy kept the house, or the fun times they had with you? Let the house get dirty and have fun with the kids. ------------------ Brokenwing http://www.cordianet.com/geocaching Quote Link to comment
Guest DisQuoi Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I wake up at 6:00 on Saturday ... arrive at cache coordinates at sun rise ... return for breakfast (waffles, I make 'em) by 8:30-9:00 for my spouse and kids. That takes care of some of the need (to cache). Every other weekend or so, I negotiate an afternoon to go find more difficult caches. In other words, you have to give up something ... I give up sleep. Quote Link to comment
Guest web-ling Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Nutri-Mom isn't as much into geocaching as the rest of the family, so our solution is for me to take the kids (Miss Pumpkin, 5, and Curly Tiger, 3) geocaching, thereby giving Nutri-Mom some time to get other stuff done. Nutri-Mom gets some peace and quiet, and the rest of us get to cache. On the weekends when Nutri-Mom caches with the rest of us, we all just pitch in and get the house 'good enough,' then we just go. ------------------ Web-ling www.web-ling.com Quote Link to comment
Guest madphatboy2 Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Well, considering there are 2 of us, and we live in a 10 x 10 cell. . .cleaning is pretty easy. ------------------ MPB2 I wander from here to there looking for. . .my mind? And then I find it in the cache. Quote Link to comment
Guest glenn95630 Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Ditto. Example... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=12107&L=130578 Plus, I also agree the kids will remember the trips out looking for treasure longer than anything else. Example... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?ID=13565&L=142643 [This message has been edited by glenn95630 (edited 20 February 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest HIltonfamily Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 The kids clean the house on Saturday morning while we print out the cache info.... And they LOVE to clean DxChallenged [This message has been edited by HIltonfamily (edited 21 February 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest HIltonfamily Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 The kids clean the house on Saturday morning while we print out the cache info.... And they LOVE to clean DxChallenged [This message has been edited by HIltonfamily (edited 21 February 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Steak N Eggs Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 We're hardly ever home to have company (let alone our number of friends we can count on one hand) so a clean house is not an issue. Wash anything you need for that nights dinner, leave the rest... And diapers? Does'nt it say 24lbs on the bag????? ------------------ "MY gps said it's RIGHT HERE!" http://www.geogadgets.com Quote Link to comment
Guest Steak N Eggs Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 We're hardly ever home to have company (let alone our number of friends we can count on one hand) so a clean house is not an issue. Wash anything you need for that nights dinner, leave the rest... And diapers? Does'nt it say 24lbs on the bag????? ------------------ "MY gps said it's RIGHT HERE!" http://www.geogadgets.com Quote Link to comment
Guest RedwoodRed Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Steak N Eggs:We're hardly ever home to have company (let alone our number of friends we can count on one hand) so a clean house is not an issue. Wash anything you need for that nights dinner, leave the rest... And diapers? Does'nt it say 24lbs on the bag????? Now, you KNOW this guy is full of Malarky! He's just too shy to say that he is currently the House Mom, he cleans, he cooks, he picks up the kids from school, he goes shopping and when he is all done with that maybe I let him plan a geocaching outing. All that and he still has to have the energy to perform his marital, um, duties late at night. That is what *I* expect from a man... that is why he's gotta be ten years younger, so he can do all of that. I'll be publishing my book soon: "Ruling Your Home With An Iron Fist: Tales of a Business Mother" (or should that be "mutha"?). I'm taking pre-orders. Can I interest any of you other Moms? No, to be serious: We try to do a little bit, every day so that when the weekends come, our chore lists are very short and we can geocache 'til we drop. It is also a motivational factor. "If you think we are going Geocaching this weekend with the kitchen a mess, you are sorely mistaken." Domestic Goddess means never having dishpan hands - Delegate! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite Quote Link to comment
Guest RedwoodRed Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Steak N Eggs:We're hardly ever home to have company (let alone our number of friends we can count on one hand) so a clean house is not an issue. Wash anything you need for that nights dinner, leave the rest... And diapers? Does'nt it say 24lbs on the bag????? Now, you KNOW this guy is full of Malarky! He's just too shy to say that he is currently the House Mom, he cleans, he cooks, he picks up the kids from school, he goes shopping and when he is all done with that maybe I let him plan a geocaching outing. All that and he still has to have the energy to perform his marital, um, duties late at night. That is what *I* expect from a man... that is why he's gotta be ten years younger, so he can do all of that. I'll be publishing my book soon: "Ruling Your Home With An Iron Fist: Tales of a Business Mother" (or should that be "mutha"?). I'm taking pre-orders. Can I interest any of you other Moms? No, to be serious: We try to do a little bit, every day so that when the weekends come, our chore lists are very short and we can geocache 'til we drop. It is also a motivational factor. "If you think we are going Geocaching this weekend with the kitchen a mess, you are sorely mistaken." Domestic Goddess means never having dishpan hands - Delegate! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite Quote Link to comment
Guest Steak N Eggs Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Um...... WHATEVER. ------------------ "MY gps said it's RIGHT HERE!" http://www.geogadgets.com Quote Link to comment
Guest Steak N Eggs Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Um...... WHATEVER. ------------------ "MY gps said it's RIGHT HERE!" http://www.geogadgets.com Quote Link to comment
Guest stayfloopy Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by VentureForth:Ok. . . How do y'all (with kids!) keep your house in order long enough to go out geocaching on the weekend? I figure when this place gets messed up enough, I'll just move somewhere else with more caches. Quote Link to comment
Guest stayfloopy Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by VentureForth:Ok. . . How do y'all (with kids!) keep your house in order long enough to go out geocaching on the weekend? I figure when this place gets messed up enough, I'll just move somewhere else with more caches. Quote Link to comment
Guest arffer Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Well, before we started caching last June, we had no problem having enough time to clean house. So... that means the house was clean before we ever found our first cache, right? Well, we haven't been home since then to dirty it up! Just kept caching! ------------------ Team CacheCows of Wisconsin Quote Link to comment
Guest arffer Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Well, before we started caching last June, we had no problem having enough time to clean house. So... that means the house was clean before we ever found our first cache, right? Well, we haven't been home since then to dirty it up! Just kept caching! ------------------ Team CacheCows of Wisconsin Quote Link to comment
Guest JoeyBob Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Housekeeping? Darn, that's why the wife has been so mad for the past 10 months.... Seriously, my kids are both in preschool (at the same time) only 2 days a week. I have 3 hours to do housework or hunt caches. I have found most of the close ones, so I am finding that I either go early in the morning on the weekends, or take the kids in the afternoon so Mom gets a little quiet time. I work night shift at the hospital, so sometimes I try to hit a cache on the way home, especially saturday mornings. I am hardly ever second of the day to a cache on those days- I am in the car, GPS ready by 7:30! JoeyBob Quote Link to comment
Guest Gossamyrrh Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Topic: How do you get your housework done? I don't. Quote Link to comment
Guest makaio Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 With 2 kids (22 mo and 4 mo) we live in C.H.A.O.S. (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). My wife is stay at home mom and she has her hands full all day. We trade off in the eves and the work never ends...ain't it great! I just plan a few hours every so often and go. The chores will still be there when you get home Quote Link to comment
Guest makaio Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 With 2 kids (22 mo and 4 mo) we live in C.H.A.O.S. (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). My wife is stay at home mom and she has her hands full all day. We trade off in the eves and the work never ends...ain't it great! I just plan a few hours every so often and go. The chores will still be there when you get home Quote Link to comment
Guest BassoonPilot Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by stayfloopy: I figure when this place gets messed up enough, I'll just move somewhere else with more caches. OHHHHH . . . Is that why our former NY area geocaching colleague Alysn moved to Arizona? Quote Link to comment
Guest BassoonPilot Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 quote:Originally posted by stayfloopy: I figure when this place gets messed up enough, I'll just move somewhere else with more caches. OHHHHH . . . Is that why our former NY area geocaching colleague Alysn moved to Arizona? Quote Link to comment
Guest Ramness570 Posted February 21, 2002 Share Posted February 21, 2002 Housework? Oh that stuff we do every now and then when it rains... ------------------ Team Ramness570 Brian, Christine & TabascoX Senior Member Southeast Xterra Club Geocaching since October 2000. Quote Link to comment
Guest JAMCC47 Posted February 21, 2002 Share Posted February 21, 2002 Now it's a matter of being semi-retired and well trained kids. They all have to help around the house, and when the work is done they can go caching with Dad. There is still 5 out of 7 kids in the nest yet, so its like a business here, there are jobs for everyone. And the wife works full time, so when I get my 7 days off in a 2 week period, I just go Caching. And take some of the kids with me. - ------------------ JoseCanUSea [This message has been edited by JAMCC47 (edited 21 February 2002).] Quote Link to comment
Guest JAMCC47 Posted February 21, 2002 Share Posted February 21, 2002 Now it's a matter of being semi-retired and well trained kids. They all have to help around the house, and when the work is done they can go caching with Dad. There is still 5 out of 7 kids in the nest yet, so its like a business here, there are jobs for everyone. And the wife works full time, so when I get my 7 days off in a 2 week period, I just go Caching. And take some of the kids with me. - ------------------ JoseCanUSea [This message has been edited by JAMCC47 (edited 21 February 2002).] Quote Link to comment
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