All About Life Without Maids

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slmkhoo:

coccomie:

Hi all,

Officially join this thread, my maid went back last sat. I think I still missed my maid, every morning I have to wake up 1hr early to get prepare and every night is housework to 10.30pm, sometime 11pm. I find it is so tiring, I don't cook for dinner, if I cook, I really think I can only sleep at 3am.
How do you ladies manage your time?

Cut housework to minimum, lower standards, outsource, and distribute among the rest of the family. All the more if you are also working outside the home.

yes, have a lower standard, and outsource to gadgets and technology if possible

[coccomie]

Yes I am FTWM. I am thinking of getting dish washer… Can we use dish washer for milk bottles and water bottles?

[MintyMin]

For me, I still cook dinner, coz i prefer my kids to have homecook food… so usually like garlic, onions I will prep the night before or even on weekend n keep in containers to last a week.

Dinner is usually quite simple… 2 dishes n a soup… soup i prep in the morning… then put it into thermal pot… i prep all these while ds (P2) get himself ready… so while the soup is cooking… i will wake dds up one by one… shower one den wake the other…

I get home, make sure dd2 shower first… coz i haf to help her so while she take off her own clothes, i wash the rice n put in rice cooker to cook… then when dd1 n ds shower, it will be the time i start prepping the veg n meat n rice…

simple dishes like omelette with spring onion can easily be a dish… pasta, winter melon soup etc… if not u can go buy those roasted chix, pork etc from cold storage or giant n reheat it up at home as a dish itself…

[jasmineong]

Hi,


I have just sent my maid back and will be without one for this year. I am struggling to cope especially when it comes to preparing food and doing housework. I have just started work as well.

After work, I rush back, hardly have time to do all that then need to guide kids with their work. How do you all cope?

[micollh]

help !! i have been facing with lizards headaches lately… saw 1 lizard months back… then i saw its stomach grew big… then i saw baby lizards… now i saw a few of them…


yest caught 1 inside the container i used to put bottles… so disgusting !! it just ran out from it when i open up… i have to wash the whole thing… so awful !!

how do u deal with lizards? last time with ants… but seems like the ants have gone away… but still see them here and there… now lizars… sigh

[Sweet Joy]

coccomie:

Hi all,

Officially join this thread, my maid went back last sat. I think I still missed my maid, every morning I have to wake up 1hr early to get prepare and every night is housework to 10.30pm, sometime 11pm. I find it is so tiring, I don't cook for dinner, if I cook, I really think I can only sleep at 3am.
How do you ladies manage your time?

Yes, I am feeling the strain of doing everything on my own after my maid left. I find the cooking part difficult too. Perhaps, I don't really like to cook. Thinking of tingkat, but not sure if this is a good idea. I live near a coffee shop, so buying food is not a problem. The problem is that my family prefer homecooked food.

Maybe a thermal cooker might help. Heard a lot good things about them. Mummies out there, any good brand to recommend?

[coccomie]

I boil the soup in slow cooker in the morning, rice and steam the fish together when I am back from work, this will be the dinner for my kids. My no cooking mean I steam the meat or fish and 1 veg soup from dh and me. Totally oil free. But too bland for dh. but cooking and washing up really scared me off.

I don't want to spend evry night doing housework and have no time with my family.
Sweet joy, I have a small litre Endo thermal cooker, work fine for me.

[janet88]

jasmineong:

After work, I rush back, hardly have time to do all that then need to guide kids with their work. How do you all cope?

It's a headache thinking what to cook everyday.

When we had a maid back then, she will cook and wash up. Then washing/hanging up wet laundry on bamboo when washing machine beeps, keeping dry clothes and folding them...hubby and I could spend that quality time coaching kids as these non-value added work takes up time.
That was indeed the biggest reason why we missed having a maid.

It's frustrating to have to coach daughter after starting the washing machine and then rushing to hang up clothes in the midst...my morning sun is very strong and that is why I have to wash at night. So with tingkat now, I have one less headache...mornings, I plan what to cook for lunch...usually a soup with meat and vege. Honestly I am still trying to think of a solution not to run off to hang clothes half way while teaching her...disruptive and frustrating to lose momentum.

[fifiyeo]

It takes a bit of adjusting when your maid first leave. Then you will struggle a bit for a little while and then you will know how and when to go about doing what so that you can cut down the time spent on housework.

[coccomie]

slmkhoo:

coccomie:

I boil the soup in slow cooker in the morning, rice and steam the fish together when I am back from work, this will be the dinner for my kids. My no cooking mean I steam the meat or fish and 1 veg soup from dh and me. Totally oil free. But too bland for dh. but cooking and washing up really scared me off.

I don't want to spend evry night doing housework and have no time with my family.
Sweet joy, I have a small litre Endo thermal cooker, work fine for me.

You can cook a couple of stewed dishes ahead of time and freeze and reheat, or buy back on alternate days. And steamed doesn't mean it has to be oil-free and bland. It's better to have food that is relatively tasty at home to prevent family members from demanding to eat out, and unless someone has serious health issues, there's no harm in having some oil. My mum tried to cook very healthily with minimal oil and salt, and in the end, my father and brother decided that they would always eat out or buy back instead! And ask your husband to help with washing up.

Think cannot be lazy with cooking.. yesterday managed to finish the work earlier