I've become my Mother!

When I was younger, with 2 children a home, a husband who worked nights and a full time stressful job in the NHS I used to do the weekly shop on a Friday and then spend the entire evening (after cooking a meal from scratch for 4 people) cleaning the house, vacuuming, polishing, washing ornaments and floors, bathrooms and kitchens and still have the energy to greet my husband when he came home from driving a London Taxi at silly o'clock in the morning! Saturdays were for washing and Sundays for ironing and then back to the grind. What was I on,? And where can I get it now? If the dust moves when I walk into the room, I clean it! My neighbour (in her 80s) has a sign on the inside of her front door saying "This isn't dirt, it's fairy dust"! Bless her.

I grew up in a large house, 8 bedrooms,(not boasting, just saying,) we had lovely Eva to clean and Doris did the laundry. I never learnt to clean like the Exes mother, she was made to clean everything with her mother, it included moving the piano to clean under it. I recently acquired a cleaner when I had a hip replacement, sadly she's had to go due to the lockdown. I am fussy about kitchens and bathrooms and change beds and towels regularly, but as the saying goes "we all eat a peck of dirt before we die!"

How did you know so much about my life Laughterlines I am that superwoman, I'm also slim, blonde and beautiful. Time to wake up now

I never have a set day for anything. Depends what the weather is doing ?

I hate it when I read on other threads that some people take the dog for a walk in the woods at 5.30 am and list all the different birdsong they heard, then come home have lines of washing (super white) blowing on the line in the garden and have vacuumed the house from top to bottom and cleaned all the windows before 11 am. Then they go out and do all the shopping and change library books for themselves and everybody within a five mile radius. The come home and whip up something absolutely delicious for lunch using leftovers, followed by decorating the spare bedroom and redesigning the front garden while himself makes a spreadsheet of every nail and screw in the shed. Then there is just time for tea and home made double chocolate cake a variety of home made biscuits at 4 pm before helping DGC with astrophysics homework.

Me. I am still in PJs and it’s nearly 5pm. A packet cheesy wotsits for supper should do the trick.

which is why i dont have no media on ,on a sunday.....no pc .no phone .i go to church (not at moment its all online) so i read most of day and catch up on my writing to penpals.and often read a religious book.......nice not to have constasnt noise in my ear. i get plenty of that from my door stairs neighbours.

you know why women washed on mondays? any of you see back to the corner shop (victorian) . its because all the furnaces/factories were shut down on saturday evenings and not used till monday lunchtime. that this was the best times to do the laundry without any fumes or smoke .so washing was done on a monday. tuesday washing the floor and front step. weds was sheet day(half day closing) thursday was meat day meat market .and friday was veg day.. and of course fish on a friday. saturday was natter day over the fence(note this is for housewives only) sunday was day of rest and church.

I work pt and usually clean on the 2 days i am home but with the coronavirus and no likely visitors i have become a touch lazy.

I don’t do cleaning
Cleaner once a week

I look like my mother- Which is odd because we didn't look like each other as children- How two people that looked so different as children wind up looking like each other later in life is so strange-

I too turned into my mother ages ago, I even have a “hospital bag” just in case, I know tempting fate

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Mum always had a 'daily'. She did her own washing and ironing, but the house was cleaned by Mrs Wright. I am not a bit like my mum who was an inveterate worrier, I refuse to indulge in utterly fruitless worrying. What was ever achieved by worry?
I have a fortnightly cleaner but not during this epidemic. I have to fend for myself.

I do as little cleaning as possible. My laundry is either light or dark and I like keeping up with it. Dish washer staked by evening and cleared in morning etc. Beds changed as I have time, no spare linen, back on bed same day. I usually have a fortnightly cleaner but sadly she will not be able to come now.

Due to lock down now trying to source deliveries. Only cooking one dish a day that can be reheated for supper etc. When I have st deliveris up will get hammock out and take a well earned rest

My stepmother would plump up the cushion people were sitting against every time they leaned forward to flick the ash off their cigarettes. My SIL told me the new girl across the road was dirty because she had been there a whole week and not washed the curtains once! She also ironed socks! We used to say that I should live next door to her so she could do my house as well.

I am more of a bull in the china shop cleaner. I used to rush round like crazy when I was in the mood and do the whole house in one go. Don’t have the energy to do that now. Had just persuaded OH that a cleaner would be a good idea (and a cruise) but the virus has put paid to that.

OH has always done his share of housework if and when we were both working. His mother and grandmother were horrified that he even changed nappies for his own children.

My mother bless her, was houseproud. Me, not so much but I do some housework every day for 10 minutes whether it needs it or not ...
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I decided after I retired from a shift working job that I would do what I felt like doing in any given day. If the laundry basket is getting full then a wash load goes on, if I feel like baking then I bake, if the sun is shining I'm outside getting my Vit D.
Naturally, if I'm having visitors I have to have a bit more structure and discipline but otherwise I do what I feel like doing!

Aw hazel just read yours lovely!?

Change the beds twice a week! I thought I was doing ok working nearly full time and managing stuff he’ll I must be a dirty bag if washing! Haha yes my mam use to do this and also had set days for meals Monday was washing / eggs chipsTuesday ironing/ mince dumplings and the week would go on!,

When working used to clean a Thursday evening and then Saturday or Sunday morning. Then I got a cleaner so just basic kitchen, bathroom cleaning between her visit. Then retirement and new house daily needs again and a room done thoroughly every week, fitting in 2 bedrooms at a time when upstairs. Dh retired so he now attempts the hoovering twice a week to help. I have not turned into my mother as she used to have that nightmarish spring clean and then the clean the old year's dirt out to let the new year's in, lasting about a week before New Year's Eve. Life is easier now with all the cleaning aids, machinery and if course the coal fires have all but gone in houses.

This lockdown has got me doing a little more housework just for exercise really.
DH does hoover daily but I prefer pottering in the garden or baking.
My mum grew up in a street where if your net curtains weren’t changed regularly neighbours would knock to see if you’d been taken ill??

Definitely become mine because I spend half my tome trying to stop my actual mother, who is hundreds of miles away, from going out!

Phloembundle I so love your attitude....that is how I feel...hahahaha

I certainly wouldn’t do all that in one day. I do one room a day.

I do housework once a week...Too many books to read, and life’s not long enough to worry about what people think of me when I’m dead!