Sack of Shit Sunday

Earlier on in my exploration of TikTok, I came across the phenomenon of Sunday resets: beautiful people in beautiful apartments cleaning up from a late night in, disposing of delivered dinners and wine glasses, re-fluffing pillows and washing sheets, tidying their unstained rugs and hardwood floors with a cordless stick vacuum. Even when I’d stumble into a parent’s reset, there was still a large gap in them vs me: the piles of toys getting tossed into accompanying bins in the dedicated play room, a third load of laundry going into the dryer, mountains of groceries being unboxed and carefully placed into a clean fridge. This is a wildly different life than the one I’m living, and I did my best to not let it bother me.

As someone with only one child (and a part-time job), I managed to keep on top of things fairly well with my unfettered time at home. Still, I would feel like I could be doing more, even though I wasn’t sure what that was. In time, I ended up doing the complete opposite and leaning into the downtime I couldn’t really access. Enter the Sack of Shit Sunday: instead of sleeping in and taking it slow, I give my kid iPad time until the battery dies. Snacks have no limit. As long as I don’t have to get up, do what you will. It’s truly a bare minimum mom day, and that’s just how I like it.

I would like to encourage you into creating your own Sack of Shit Sunday, or perhaps a Bare Minimum Monday. You absolutely deserve to take it easy on yourself, don’t let any 23 year old influencer tell you otherwise.