What time do you get up and go to bed?

What is the particular virtue in ^staying as busy as possible^> ?
I enjoy reading, pottering, meeting up with friends, going to my book group or the ballet/theatre/cinema.
I also enjoy learning - about art history, literature, architecture, Ancient Greek mythology.
There are exhibitions to go to, operas to enjoy, lunches to go to or host, a greyhound to take out for toddles - none of these qualify as tasks in my vocabulary!
Shopping is ordered online and delivered, and with no children around ,the house needs very little attention, making the bed is a matter of minutes (seconds?) - life is very different from what it might have been a couple of generations ago, yet we still seem to subscribe to our parents’ or even grandparents’ concepts of the virtues of housewifery not to mention «early to bed and early to rise « !.

Norah

RosiesMawagain

Norah

I suppose people make up their bed, wash face, brush teeth, walk dog, make breakfast and tidy kitchen, clean house, water plants and garden, laundry, order food, put up deliveries, and begin making lunch....

And so it goes all the day.

And the rest of us don’t????

I assume we all work though the day at one task or another.

Our home each day is full of tasks that begin at early wakeup and end at late bedtime. Imagine it's the same for most people.

Our home each day is full of tasks that begin at early wakeup and end at late bedtime. Imagine it's the same for most people.

No! That sounds like being a slave to a house 😲

When I had children at home, an elderly mother who would stay for a couple or three months and needed care and a full- time job (and a DH who worked away) I seemed to be busy from early morning until night but not since I retired.

What on earth keeps you so busy doing tasks from early morning until bedtime?
What happened to going out, having fun?

‘Early to rise and early to bed,
Makes a man healthy but socially dead.’
That’s me.

RosiesMawagain What is the particular virtue in staying as busy as possible ?

I don't think there is 'virtue' to my choice.

I answered: my own choices - 7am until 11pm.

Norah

RosiesMawagain What is the particular virtue in staying as busy as possible ?

I don't think there is 'virtue' to my choice.

I answered: my own choices - 7am until 11pm.

I answered: my own choices - 7am until 11pm.

How can two people without a young family at home be doing household tasks for 16 hours a day, every day?
What do you do? 🤔
Just curious.

I thought you said you went out for walks with your dogs, went ski-ing, etc?

Allira

Norah

RosiesMawagain What is the particular virtue in staying as busy as possible ?

I don't think there is 'virtue' to my choice.

I answered: my own choices - 7am until 11pm.

I answered: my own choices - 7am until 11pm.

How can two people without a young family at home be doing household tasks for 16 hours a day, every day?
What do you do? 🤔
Just curious.

I thought you said you went out for walks with your dogs, went ski-ing, etc?

I thought you said you went out for walks with your dogs, went ski-ing, etc?
And find time to contribute to Gransnet!

We do walk the dog (or dogS- depending on who is here) before meals and bed, That is a task in our home. I also attend to pop in grandchildren, their school transport miles from home - a task.

We do ski on holiday, we attempt to stay as active as possible.

My husband's books, whilst printing 'in-out' reports, I look at GN and read The Economist. Somebody needs to keep the accounts.

Not virtue. Choice, how to fill waking hours far from town.

You said Norah

I assume we all work though the day at one task or another

Living is more than working at one task or another

I didn't think of walking the dogs as a task myself.

Although our spaniel could be a pita sometimes 😁.

High Cholesterol

Does anyone have cholesterol? What did you do to lower it without taking medication? I’m not too keen that. Did you find certain foods helped more than others? Do you exercise a lot or a few times per week?

I’ve been told that my levels are quite high and I need to exercise more.

Bet at 12 and wake ep at 8am. Perfect 8 hours sleep

I am not an early riser; I am very much a night owl. However, I am still working full time so I try to go to bed between 10 and 11pm, and tend to have to get up from 7am onwards. Weekends I have a lie in, but am up by 9am. Can have a later night, but never later than 1130pm normally, or next day is ruined by tiredness.

Our early riser, bed at 11 up at 7 - is 8 hours of perfect sleep.

Charles6439

Bet at 12 and wake ep at 8am. Perfect 8 hours sleep

Forgot to quote.

Allie2

High Cholesterol

Does anyone have cholesterol? What did you do to lower it without taking medication? I’m not too keen that. Did you find certain foods helped more than others? Do you exercise a lot or a few times per week?

I’ve been told that my levels are quite high and I need to exercise more.

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