Housework

Oh Heavenleigh, seems like its just you and me then! I enjoy most housework tasks too, have a daily , weekly & monthly 'to do list' . I'v more or less de-cluttered most of the house & am amazed how little effort I now put in to keep on top of things, just as well as the garden is beckoning and each year find all the 'heavy' work takes a little bit longer, as do the coffee breaks ....

I’ve begun to want a tidy house where the windows and mirrors aren’t covered in my grandchildren’s sticky fingers, or marks from the dogs noses, or paws
I suspect it’s because I’d no control over my life for the year of my husbands diagnosis and death. Tidying etc gives me the false sense I have an element of control in life where in reality we have none.
I’d much rather be in the garden. I did 2 hours yesterday, cutting back, planting into boxes and pots. Bliss

I don't enjoy housework but I do like a clean and tidy home. I do the barest minimum to achieve that end. After 50 years of living here, I've got it down to a fine art.

Now gardening I detest and always have done. I do like to see a pretty garden, just as long as somebody else has done the hard graft. I was born to swan about sniffing the roses and admiring the immaculate lawns.
My problem is that I have a third of an acre to deal with, most of it on a slope. I've allowed a chunk of it to go wild and convinced myself that I'm doing it for the bees and wildlife. 😉

‘A sweeping statement’ Calendargirl 🤣🤣🤣

I quite like to keep my house clean, it is my nest after all. Not spotless, just clean and certainly not tidy as I have so many lovely hobbies and tend to put things down wherever. My house is homely and comforting, bright and cheerful

I tackle housework as a form of light exercise, up and down stairs, bending for skirtings etc Better than turning into a grumpy old blob with a shoulder chip

I don`t like housework but don`t hate it at all and have no wish nor need, to employ a cleaner. I bottom a room every so often and cooking is minimal now, after 59 years of family cooking.

biglouis

I loathe and despise housework with an absolute passion. I can think of no greater waste of my time and abilities. Thats why I have a cleaner.

Bit of a sweeping statement.

Good job that cleaning is one of your cleaner’s ‘abilities’ though, or you would be stuck with it.

I don't mind it - when it is worth it

For me, it is the futility of it - it takes me 30 min, very rewarding and my kids mess it up in 1 minute again

biglouis - I’m certainly not dull - the rest follows.

Dull women keep immaculate homes.

I can’t Hoover it’s a struggle these days but I like to keep the house clean and tidy but I’m not a stickler for absolute neatness.
We have a dog we only live over the road from woods so she can get pretty muddy. I do like to get the washing sorted I only do small washes I don’t fill the machine. I try my best to iron as little as possible though. I clean the floor every day as I am in and out of the garden now potting and planting with the dog at my heels.
I love planning meals I never get bored everything is cooked or baked by me. My conversation with dh this afternoon was what soups I am making for lunches this week. It’s what I enjoy most apart from my family of course.

I loathe and despise housework with an absolute passion. I can think of no greater waste of my time and abilities. Thats why I have a cleaner.

“There was a poor woman who always was tired
She lived in a house where help was not hired
Her last words on earth were “dear friends I am going, where nothing ain’t done, nor sweeping nor sewing….
But everything there will fit in with my wishes
For where they don’t eat there’s no washing of dishes…
Don’t mourn for me now, don’t mourn for me never….
I’m going to do nothing forever and ever….”
….taken from a gravestone somewhere….thought I might use it myself!

Loathe and detest housework 🤦‍♀️
I was born to have servants, I’m not sure what went wrong..😬

Think it was Rose McCauley who said;

Better a house unkept than a life unlived.

That’s my excuse anyhow.

I don’t have a set regime unlike my DM and DGM who ‘went through the house’ every Wednesday - Monday being washing and ironing day.
What happens here, is that if I find myself in a room, have an hour to spare, I end up giving it a good clean. I like to tidy up before I go to bed, because I hate to come downstairs to a mess. That’s something I got my DDs doing, because they’ve to be up and out first thing.

I do it because I like a clean and tidy home . I hate mess and clutter . I certainly don’t enjoy cleaning, housework or ironing, not do I have a timetable like a few of my friends. Because I have a dog I hoover daily due to his fur and I’m constantly moping the kitchen floor .
I am a bit ocd in that I like the house and kitchen to be tidy before I go to bed . If we’ve had people over . I do the lion s share before I go to bed . I hate coming down to a mess and you can’t find the kettle amidst dirty glasses and crockery .

mrsba

I can spend all day doing housework, but no-
where ever seems to look clean and tidy, I have no routine just drift about and get easily distracted, I can start tidying in one room, find something that needs to go upstairs, then whilst I'm upstairs do a couple of bits up there ,I just go round and round in circles, I hate housework and get so frustrated with myself! The other day I cleaned SOME of the bathroom, (not the mirrors) cleaned my dressing table mirrors (not dusting the stuff on it) and hoovered the hallway, so work done but not one room finished!

That’s just the way I am. It’s hopeless, I see a magazine I’ve left lying about and sit down to read it rather than throw it or tidy it away. In my house it seems there’s a place for everything and everything is out of place! There never seems to be a clear surface. I just wish the thought of housework motivated me.

I love to cook, hate to iron - won't unless wrinkles are that bad.

I keep the house tidy between times - for the cleaners - so they can kick in - we'd live in a pile of dog fur if I didn't hoover daily.

Hate it apart from cleaning bathroom and ironing.

I don’t have a daily timetable for housework but I do a bit most days.
I do like a clean, tidy home but I take a lot of short cuts to get it that way.

Love cooking, hate housework!

I do it because it has to be done, I certainly don't enjoy it.
My mother loved it and would cheerfully clean windows all day.
One of my DDs says the larger the house the less you have to clean it as no one expects it to be spick and span.
When we had a cleaner I used to tidy up before they came, I am a tidy person.

I find it tedious, but I love a clean and tidy home. No clutter.

I find it so boring, it is the repetitiveness of it I cannot stand. There is always something more interesting to do.

I had a miserable upbringing with a mother that resented cooking and cleaning for us.
By the time I was 11 I was like Cinderella, I did most of the housework and a lot of the cooking.
I didn’t mind at the time because it gave me a role and some control.
I still find housework cathartic.
I’m not obsessive but particular!