Retired folk - how long do you spend on household chores?

Hellogirl1

As little as I can get away with, probably about 6 hours a week. My 3rd daughter comes and does some cleaning now and then, I think she thinks I`m idle............I am!

A woman after my own heart! I live on my own and hadn't had any visitors since lockdown started. I had a visitor a couple of weeks ago and probably did about four hours cleaning. Other than that, I do the laundry, washing and hoovering in double quick time because I really do resent the time it takes. I spend about two hours a week batch cooking, freeze everything and then put it in the microwave. I make a big bowl of salad every day, which takes about five minutes.

Probably around 2-3 hours a day, including cooking, gardening, etc.

I quite enjoy housework. If I'm stressed, it helps take my mind of things.

Far too much.

I was just thinking to-day as I did my weekly clean of the houses of the older people in our family when I was young . You could recognise the smell of these houses a mixture of damp , unwashed bodies and clothes and moth balls . I tell my children to let me know if our house ever starts to smell . I only have one friend whose house usually smells a bit and it comes from the kitchen and the fish she cooks often . I had one great aunt who was told by her GP that she was a dirty old woman . This poor woman never had running hot water or an inside toilet let alone a bath. I rember her telling my mother that her hot water bottle had burst in bed. Goodness knows how she got her bedding dry again.

After reading rhese comments we have cut back on housework and are enjoying the free time in nuch better ways. So thank you Revolucion.

ginny

I keep the place tidy, make sure loos and basins are clean and sweep the kitchen floor each day. Other that that things get done when I notice them or don’t have anything better to do.
Anyone who thinks I should do more is welcome to do it for me.

Well said ginny. I could have written that but you have saved me the trouble.

I'm with Kate1949. As little as possible and only if needed. I've come to my senses as when I was first married and working I used to spend every Saturday cleaning the house top to bottom for 7 hours, which meant I only had one day before I was back at work again!!