Pay for cleaning. This may work better or worse depending on the age of your kids... But vacuuming, cleaning surfaces, changing beds, etc. can be ousourced and saves LOTS of time.
Last year we started to pay for cleaning / washing / ironing and it saves a lot of time - like 6 hours a week to get all done.
Also, doing groceries the right way is important. What we ended up doing:
- everything non perishable or long time (water etc), buy a lot and put in the basement
- what you can, buy through Amazon subscriptions for a regular delivery
- once a week, do the short term groceries - veggies, fruits, meat. We do it with kids on a farm where you can harvest your own food. It's actually a great activity !
As the last one, maybe a bit controversial, but I almost never repair stuff anymore. If it's something cheap and I would need to spend an hour or two to repair it, I just throw out and buy a new one. I may would like to have more time to do those things (sometimes I still do when it's to show the kids something interesting), but overall this attitude is a huge time saver.
At some point, if your earnings are enough, you just have to put time before money.
