Home Owning

I recently bought my own home. OK, so maybe it's only a one bedroom apartment, but we all have to start somewhere, right? With the busy life I have during the week, I barely have any time at all to care for my new home - I do what I can during the week and I hope to find a few hours on the weekend to tend to the place. I live in an apartment building where someone else mops the floor in the hall, shines the railings and the elevator buttons, paints the gates, picks up the trash I only have to take to the chute across the hall, washes the front stairs and sidewalk everyday, shovels the snow and just generally keeps the place in running order. I don't know how people who buy actual houses have any life at all. Thanks to the two porters and the superintendent, all I really have to do is break out the Swiffer and Lysol wipes within my four walls to keep the place in presentable condition. This leaves me time for myself to do stuff like write blog entries about home owning, or to make cupcakes in my lovely new kitchen. If I had to worry about gutters getting clogged, lawns and bushes getting overgrown, driveways getting cracked, a roof falling down, a deck in need of a powerwashing and a garage door that never closes right, I'd never be able to sleep, let alone go to work with so much house and yard work to tend to. My parents did, and with two little kids running around, so it must be possible. But I would like to know...how do those "house" owners do it?