Housekeeping ain't no joke.
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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
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The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
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... much less time should be given to school, and much more to domestic employments, especially in the wealthier classes. A little girl may be...
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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The happiest two-job marriages I saw during my research were ones in which men and women shared the housework and parenting. What couples call...
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The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.
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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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Housework never killed anyone but why take a chance
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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
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Housework never killed anyone, but why take the chance.
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