As an antidote to all the cleaning threads

My sentiments entirely! - thanks for posting that.

Like it!

Love it -I'm going to print it off!!

Excellent!

Spot on, thanks

Mrs M.

Yep, definitely a goodie.

I like it

Brilliant. Great advice . Life's too short to dust!

I do all those things except painting a picture or climing a mountain and still dust. Why do some of you find find it demeaning to like having a nice clean tidy home. I have a very full life, lots of friends, travel a lot.

Lovely.... I shall leave dusting for another day!

Thank you for reminding me of that poem .I heard it years ago and thought how apt is was. I don't think it is denigrating housework Petra just putting it low on the list of priorities. There is so much else in life that is more worthwhile.

Great stuff. We have been in flat for 2 months. Before that DH had to have shirts for work and we paid someone to iron. Last 2 months I have only got the ironing board out once! Quite an achievement i feel.

Great advice! I can now look at the dust which surrounds me, beautifully illuminated by the sun and do what I blooming well want

I do like that. I may well pass it on.

Anyone who knows me would think I'd written that......!

I have dusted for ages, it is still there, and will be when I feel like dusting, don't mind housework at all, but when I went out to work it was so necessary to keep everything in some sort of order, it is lovely now just to say Oh! to hell with it! and not feel guilty.

Like that!

Been a lovely day. So lovely to have the sun shining through the windows and showing up all the dust on the furniture.

I don't find cleaning demeaning. In fact I worked as a school cleaner for a few years as the hours suited when children were young.
But it's not a priority in this house.

Love the poem.

Isn't dust a protective covering for furniture ?

As one of my fridge magnets says, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste on housework"

I think it's perfectly possible to think while doing housework.

I think its perfectly possible to think about housework

I like a clean tidy house but cant usually summon up the enthusiasm to clean. However when im in the mood i enjoy seeing the end result and do it to music for a bit of exercise.