The first step is to rethink the entire concept of the lawn. Perhaps you are not meant to have a lawn in your first home.

Well Douglas, if you want help with your Creeping Charlie infested lawn you will have to provide a full site analysis of information to get any useful feedback. Just know Roundup is not always the answer.

This layman’s article isn’t bad, and it will help explain why Christopher C commented as he did.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/get-rid-of-creeping-charlie/

I wonder if anyone has been successful with the Family Handyman approach?

Weed-b-Gon Chickweed, Clover, and Oxalis Killer is the product to use. Follow the directions on the label, and not those in the Family Handyman article. WBG is a foliar spray, not a root soak. I've never seen that recommendation. Routine follow up will be needed to kill the seed sprouting from the crop you just killed. Many people get frustrated because they think one dose will kill it completely.

I did read once about a homeowner who successfully eradicated it by hand. It was crazy! She started in one corner of the yard and dug for an hour to get roots and all. She waited a few days and started in the same corner and dug the same area to get the new growth and roots. Redoing the old part went faster so she was able to make some progress. The next time she started in the same corner again to take out the new growth. Every time she started she started in the same corner. This seeming futility of this type of attack on a plant is why chemical herbicides were invented.

I must confess it is my favorite weed. i love to pull it up, as long strands thst come up easily like pop-it beads or rolled back like a thick carpet. The leaves are attattractive and the blue flowers gorgeous. So you could try living with it. Choose another project for now and see if your heart softens toward Charlie next spring when your lawn is a sea of blue..

Creeping charlie, bane of my existence! It thrives throughout my whole neighborhood.

Before we moved in, no one mowed our yard regularly and the tall (8" or so) unkempt grasses kept the CC in check. Regular mowing allowed the CC more sunlight and it took off.

The way I control it now -- hand picking the longest strands from the middle of the yard. Where CC creeps in under the neighbor's fence, I plant a 12 to 18" border of winter rye that I allow to get full height. It's so thick that CC can't work it's way through. (And my dogs love eating rye grass, the young one must be part cow.)

In my garden area, CC is a problem because it springs up so early in the year it chokes out the wildflowers before they can reseed themselves. And it creeps through the native grasses and chokes them too. What I've done there, to confine it to the very back under established shrubs and trees, is to lay a border of boards on the ground. That way I can see it as it crosses the board-walk, and can lift up the boards to grub out the tendrils that try to make in underneath.

As a good point, bees love it early in the year as a nectar source. If it just had better manners ...!

We used Weed 'n Feed in the one area of our horse pasture that Charlie had creeped into. It seemed more effective than Weed Be Gone. It is best to have a copy of Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech available when dealing with Charlie.

We also hand pull some areas but that's more for meditation than eradication.

I was all set to treat it this fall with the recommended herbicides like dicamba but mine grows under an allée of ornamental trees I have along my driveway and I'm afraid that if I treat that whole area it will damage the trees. They already have to suffer snow blower indignities from time to time. The problem with using those herbicides is I can't spot treat, it's an entire ocean of creeping charlie under those trees. I'm trying to keep it out of the sunny part of the lawn that is not under the trees though . . . I used to use a pre-emergent herbicide in the spring but I have been trying to go organic with the grub and fungus treatments so don't want to mess it all up with a spring or fall herbicide . . . sigh.