Housework, am I alone?

I don’t do anywhere near the cleaning I used to but no dogs and no small children now. Nobody notices.

If I see anything that looks like it needs sorting, I do it but only If I feel like it.

Obviously I meant housework not wife!

I don't mind housewife too much but absolutely loathe cooking - and OH doesn't cook at all

I often think it must be wonderful to have a cleaner but I can’t pay someone to do things I can perfectly well do, and have plenty of time to do, but just dislike doing. Nor would I like the intrusion into my space whilst I was there. I know it provides work for someone but I would feel uncomfortable and that I was insulting them with menial, dirty work. I had a cleaner for a very short time when I went back to work after having my son at 11 weeks and needed to get into a work/baby/house routine. I never really trusted her after she told me what she did for Mrs X in the village (what would she say about me?) and was glad to be able to say I could now manage fine, thanks. So I will KBO.

The same with me I am not a good housekeeper, it doesn’t cause a problem because OH will do it happily which just leaves me to have a quick whip round when visitors are due.

LOL

I have light minimal furniture in a small flat,so dust can be ignored as you cant see it.
Small kirchen and bathroom,sinks bath toilet every day.
Wooden floor small amount carpet 1-2 a week.
Hate housework,just spent all day reading my kindle,lots of new books on order to read.

Fleurpepper

Thanks- that seems very reasonable. It is 25-30 here- so a bit of a luxury.

They use my cleaning products, dusters and cleaning cloths but do bring their own hoover as they do not like mine 🤣

Thanks- that seems very reasonable. It is 25-30 here- so a bit of a luxury.

I have a cleaner, but I keep it clean and tidy in between as I am not good with dust, fingerprints (GC and DH) and untidiness, it stresses me.

Fleurpepper I pay £15 per hour by direct debit.

BTW, what is the current price per hour for a cleaner these days.

I pretty sure I do far too much housework it often seems there is always something to do but slowly realising it’s a thankless task.
I do enjoy a good declutter but I have to be in the mood. My DH is presently looking at retiring and I am already thinking what can be done with our reasonable large office space.
I work far less than him and at the present I do most of the housework gardening and decorating I am also much more physically fit than him

You’re not alone! I do have the odd blitz, when guests are coming, but mostly it’s just what’s needed to keep it more or less presentable. And now it’s just me and dh, TBH that’s not much at all.

kittylester

I have a cleaner!

Oh I did when I was working- and did for a couple of years recently to help with my new knees. But at local prices- that would be a massive luxury!

No, you’re definitely not alone, but I do sometimes feel overwhelmed by the things I need to chuck out. There’s always something more interesting to do though.

I have a cleaner!

Done a huge declutter[not totally finished yet].
Making housework quite a bit easier. Which is an extra I wasnt quite expecting.

I used to be really tidy and everything was cleaned to within an inch of its life. I now put things off when the weather is nice and I'm gardening, then I come in at 5 and the house is a mess as I've left stuff all over the worktops and the dishwasher unloaded. I start to stress out and then I say to myself " this might be the last day I have , (I'm 78)' so I'm going to make the most of it and enjoy it". Housework can wait.

Definitely not alone Do as little as possible to just keep it all ok
Being on my own and out and about a lot there’s not a lot todo anyway but no I don’t waste a moment more than necessary

Not alone- the woods and the garden are much more enjoyable . I clean the parts of the hosue we use all the time- and the rest gets a really could clean when visitors are coming.

Fine by me!

My husband does most of the heavy duty stuff like hoovering and the cleaning of bathrooms etc., because as he likes to tell me, I have no elbow grease, well I'm happy to accept that! and yes it is boring but he seems to take more pleasure in it than I would, so I let him get on with it, he'll hire a cleaner soon though, he did that in our last house before we moved here. Conversely I don't really like the grind of housework but I love a sparkly, shiny, clean house, I don't like muckyness, I do go round cleaning sinks and toilets when we have guests. I don't want to paint myself as being completely idle! I do my share of ironing including all the bed linen and he does his shirts, because he's ultra fussy about how his collars are ironed I would add I did all of it when he was working. I do, change the bedding and towels, I like my bedrooms to look as if the linen is changed regularly, which it is. I did read quite a funny article in a Sunday supplement magazine where a woman described in an interview how she didn't really like guests, including her own children because they mucked the bedrooms up know the feeling! so apart from upstairs, I clean the kitchen, round up the washing, do the supermarket shopping and food preparation all that is pretty much my domain.

When I was younger everything had to be done.
I'm coming up to 69 now and I do things when I'm in the mood for doing it.
However when I know when visitors are coming I can go round like a bat out of hell.

I increasingly hate housework .
I didn't used to loath it as much as I do now .
I just have much better things to do these days .
I'd rather watch an interesting programme , write ,read , paint or draw .

I keep the house clean , but admit to having mad blitzes if I have guests .
I had a guest yesterday and before she came - I was like a headless chicken .
I had earache and a sore gland and felt far from great .

At the moment , I'm doing an hour or two in the garden most days .
I'm wondering about reducing the size of a huge flower bed .
I'm totally fed up with my reclusive neighbour's weeds growing under and over his fence .
I only cut them back a month ago and unless I cut again -more brambles will take root in my garden .

Monday morning bathroom and downstairs toilet cleaned. Towels changed. Kitchen ongoing including floor cleaning every two/three days. Everything else when I really have too.

You are not alone. Once the dust gets to a certain level it doesn't seem to get any worse, and cobwebs are natural flypaper, so go and do something more fun.

"...won't be going to my grave wishing I'd done more housework."

Actually I might. At the moment, everything on the surface looks clean and tidy but I know there are a lot of places that are messy and not quite so clean. My demise will reveal my sluttish ways.