How Do You Feel About Housework?

I view it as a necessary evil. But thank goodness for under bed space and large closets for when company is coming. :D
 

No Problem for me with just a two bed two bath apartment and living alone. It's a mild form of exercise for me as well. I am a neatnick so no need to hire it done.
 
I don't like cleaning house!! I haven't liked it in a long time. It is never done...as soon as you dust the dust comes back in a few days. I hate doing laundry, too. I had someone come over and clean for me and he didn't do a very good job. So I am doing it myself again. At least I am doing it again. Once I let it go for about 6 mos!! What a dusty place I had!! LOL :)
 

I will do everything else...just someone to do litterboxes, human bathrooms and the laundry holy crap the laundry...my girl thinks socks will walk to the washer on their own, they just might. The boy does his wash and that's it...the towels are howling and nope...that's for Mom's...hubby is easy. Someone to do ALL the wash...awesome!
 
My wife said that there was not enough time in the day to get her housework done!! So I set her alarm an hour early!!

The doctor said my swelling will go down in a day or so..
 
Housework is housework, gotta do, no one else is going to do it for me. Have a sis-in-law who complained because it took her 8 hours to clean her house each week. I started wondering what I wasn't doing. Figured out a) she likes to complain all the time and b) she's nuts. Each week she moves her fridge to clean behind it, takes the toilet seat completely off the toilet to clean, takes down her drapes, etc to wash, etc etc etc. So much more to life to do as in fun things.
 
I hate housework too especially dusting! I have learned that when I dust, if I turn my oldies music on, I don't think about how much I like being finished. I listen to the music instead while I dust and before I know it, I'm finished.
 
I guess I have a 'cleaning day' ingrained in me, and cannot let a Saturday (Friday in the summer when school is out) go by without cleaning! I don't relish it, but I do like it when it is done (I like clean floors and that polished furniture look).
 
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I can relate to this every morning! :)
 
Used to do it all in one day but now it takes 2-3 to do all the rooms. I keep things reasonably clean and neat but I have to confess, I have had to lower my standards a bit. I don't hate cleaning, it's just one of things we have to do. Dust makes me sneeze.
 
I don't like the cleaning but I enjoy the results.

I also believe that a keep clean beats a make clean any day, I do hundreds of little jobs so I rarely have to do any big jobs.

I spot clean while I'm waiting for the teakettle to boil, during television commercials, before I pull the plug on a sink full of hot sudsy water, etc...

Like Morty says, "How much dirt can we manufacture, very little!".

 
A clean house is an ongoing thing that is never finished around here, something to do everyday, I'm not crazy about doing it but can't live with disorder or dirt.
 
I hate it, love what it's like afterwards. I do it in small increments all the time so I don't notice so much that I am wasting good time scrubbing stuff. .
 
I don't enjoy housework. If I could afford it, I'd hire a maid to do it. It isn't a waste of time because a clean and orderly house is one I prefer to live in. BUT it feels like a waste of my life, mostly because it is never ending and nothing stays done. It takes me longer than it used to. I finally realized that when I allot time for chores, it is never enough because I am allotting time based on how long things took me to accomplish 20 years ago. My stamina is not what it used to be. Apparently I'm not as speedy, either.
 
BUT it feels like a waste of my life, mostly because it is never ending and nothing stays done.
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This how I have always felt about housework. A
nd it is another one of those thankless tasks that no-one notices until you fail to do it.

My standard is the standard of enough. If I think it is clean enough, then it is. If I think it is tidy enough, then so be it.
Enough is a very flexible standard that leads to mental well being.
 
Warrigal said:
This how I have always felt about housework. A
nd it is another one of those thankless tasks that no-one notices until you fail to do it.

My standard is the standard of enough. If I think it is clean enough, then it is. If I think it is tidy enough, then so be it.
Enough is a very flexible standard that leads to mental well being.
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I agree.

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I don't like housework. Amazingly, I did more of it and a better job when I was working than when I retired until recently. I've gotten back into the habit of doing a household chore or two most days so the house stays looking neater and I don't have to do so much at once. The chore I hate most...doing dishes. It helps to have the countertop dishwasher. Yes, I do feel so much better, so much freer when everything is done and the house looks so nice and neat. For the past several years, I was spending way too much time social networking and not enough time doing housework. Several of my online friends suffered from the same affliction. LOL For the first time in years, my dresser has been free of what I call "the creeps" (stuff that just wound up there) for about two months. I've found a better way to organize the crap that used to wind up on my dresser. I warned my husband I tend to go from one extreme to another. My "neat freak" has come out.

Aunt Bea posted about Swiffer. I love my Swiffer which is such a big help. I have the wet and dry but mostly use the dry ones. The wet ones don't work that well on tile floors and really need a rinse after using.
 
I am extremely picky but am getting so cleaning is getting too hard for me now especially some things. I have looked for a good cleaner but I find they do a quick skim over job not a real clean and I can do that myself. I am also very very organized so can find anything quickly. I hate chaos it is very soul destroying for me.
 
I absolutely loathe housework. IMHO it is neverending, unfulfilling, boring, depressing, soul-deadening, and it makes my joints hurt worse. I'm going to see if I can find someone to do it for me mostly because doing it really bothers my arthritic shoulders and knees and I never really get it done anymore.
 
Housework is no problem for me. I just open up the doors and turn on my leaf blower to do the dusting and the floors, then I use my pressure washer to clean the bathrooms. No problemo.
 

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