Stinking housework ... tips for getting it done easier.

[The Hen]

I admit it. I hate housework.

I still do it though, but it occurs only once a week. It usually takes a period of 3 1/2 to 4 hours (unless Gob is not at work and can help).

I would like to regain more of my weekend to not have to do so much crap in one time. I understand about scheduling in tasks, but when I come home from work in an evening, I am crackered and it takes all my time to cook the night-time meal for Hatch and myself and feed the muttlets.

What things have you found over time makes getting chores done more pleasurable?

Hiring a cleaner is not an option. I am w-a-a-a-a-y too stingy for that.

[Gob]

Gallon of petrol, box of matches...

[Sean]

And here's me thinking your reply was going to be 'delegation'.

The only advice I can give Hen is to spread it out across the week. It's a bugger when you're knackered but that's where Gob and Hatch can chip in.

[The Hen]

Gob is hard of hearing, and reading.

: )

[@meric@nwom@n]

I hate housework.

I hate it.

Hired help is the best answer.

[The Hen]

I refuse to pay someone to do something I am capable (but uninspired) to do.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Technically I hire people to do all manner of things I could do but find uninspiring. Vegetables are a good example. I could grow them all and preserve them, but I find it preferable to hire others to do it for me. The grocery is the middle man.

Technically I could do all the mechanical work on my car....

Technically I could have built my own home.

I could cut my own hair.

Hiring someone to do the housework is not much different to me.

[BoSoxGal]

I keep my bathroom & kitchen tidy day by day, but have learnt to let a lot of the rest go but for a monthly cleaning. I think the rubric of cleanliness that has been sold people through modern advertising for cleaning products has us all out of sorts.

Heard on a piece on NPR the other day that dustbunnies actually absorb lead and arsenic from dirts that get tracked into one's home from outdoors (our legacy of leaded gasoline still haunts) - so one could argue that a somewhat untidy house protects one's health.

I've read that studies have shown homes that are a bit untidy don't cause adverse ill effects on their inhabitants (i.e., cleaner houses don't make healthier people, beyond basic anti-bacterial precautions in kitchens and bathrooms). (I'll look for a source on that.)

Anyway, relax a bit.

[Gob]

We have adverts for a product for sanitising door knobs and the like here at the moment!

[Sean]

Thank fuck for that!

The cleanliness of my door knobs was keeping me awake at night...

[SisterMaryFellatio]

Stick a mop then broom up hybbys arse!!

[Gob]

I like that sort of thing

[SisterMaryFellatio]

lol ....2 birds one stones then!

[Gob]

If two birds were involved,that would be nice...

Got any more marital advice?

[SisterMaryFellatio]

No I am a goodly Godly Sister.


10 Hail Marys for you!

[The Hen]

He'll hail any Mary. (Any Joanne, or Stephanie too.)

[loCAtek]

I was always of a mind that the place would stay cleaner if FOLKS would just clean up after THEMSELVES and not leave it for others.


I recall telling my Ex that was 'equal partners' -housework 50/50.

To which after we were married he tried to say he couldn't MAKE me do that; he'd had his mom clean up after him all his life, and if I wanted things that clean I'd have to do ALL OF IT.

To which I answered, "OK, I will!"

...and for the next few days would clean up my stuff neatly and properly, and throw his stuff all in a big pile on his desk chair. What are you doing!? he'd cry! I'm doing all the cleaning like YOU said; if I have to do it ALL this is how I'm going to do it!!!

He wisely decided to do his share.