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Post by housesparrow on Nov 13, 2010 7:28:32 GMT
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Post by jean on Nov 13, 2010 11:32:54 GMT
Housework isn't a waste of time if someone else does it.
Men have always known this.
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Post by housesparrow on Nov 14, 2010 14:33:27 GMT
Anything beyond the dusting, wiping and hoovering needed to keep a place hygienic and liveable in IS a waste of time.
I know a woman with an immaculate home. She is hardly ever in it, which helps, but she complains that when she invites people round, they never return the invitation. I can quite see why - I wouldn't want her in my house!
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Post by Weyland on Nov 14, 2010 14:42:44 GMT
Anything beyond the dusting, wiping and hoovering needed to keep a place hygienic and liveable in IS a waste of time. I know a woman with an immaculate home. She is hardly ever in it, which helps, but she complains that when she invites people round, they never return the invitation. I can quite see why - I wouldn't want her in my house! Agreed. I've just spent all morning and a lot of yesterday making this house fit for visitors. I hate doing it, but it's great when you're finished. |
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Post by Patrick on Nov 14, 2010 15:10:25 GMT
Visitors here too. The Mother in Law - who naturally has an immaculate home. She doesn't have stack of books or videos though - with the deficiency of the former making her less than human. (Can't abide a bookless house). So the bathroom stinks of bleach at the moment and the window sills have been scrubbed. The kitchen floor washed by hand and the soapy gunk exorcised from the soaps wells in the sink with nail scissors. Just a spot of hoovering to go and, yes a spot of dusting too. I have one of these wax covered flat hairy things for dusting - it's supposed to get better the dirtier it gets - but nothing can beat a damp j-cloth. Simple really - if you dust - in the main you are simply catching a little bit on the cloth and the rest just flies up into the air to settle when you're not looking. Dust with a damp cloth and it's captured before in knows what's hit it.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 14, 2010 15:58:03 GMT
Dust never bears a grudge; no matter how many times you send it away, it always comes back.
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Post by jean on Nov 14, 2010 17:49:40 GMT
Unless you just leave it alone - then, according to Quentin Crisp, after four years it doesn't get any worse.
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Post by jean on Nov 14, 2010 17:51:27 GMT
...no matter how many times you send it away, it always comes back. Or, as Horace put it: 'naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.' |
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Post by Weyland on Nov 14, 2010 18:31:01 GMT
Unless you just leave it alone - then, according to Quentin Crisp, after four years it doesn't get any worse. I think I was propositioned by Quentin one dark night in 1973 or so, on a surface Tube platform -- my memory says Golders Green -- and me an innocent Geordie lad on the loose in the Great Wen. We didn't click. Nice hat. Unless it was John Hurt . . . |
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Post by everso on Nov 14, 2010 23:39:29 GMT
I hate doing housework but I do it every week without fail because I hate living in a dirty house even more. If you do it every week you don't have to work so hard and it only takes a couple of hours. I can't stand it being untidy either because if I can't find something I lose my temper. People who say "my house may not be tidy but it's clean" are fooling themselves. If you have an untidy house, cleaning it properly is nigh on impossible and becomes an intolerable chore.
On the other hand, if someone offers me a day out, I can always put off the housework until mañana. ;D
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Post by housesparrow on Nov 15, 2010 14:14:01 GMT
I hate doing housework but I do it every week without fail because I hate living in a dirty house even more. If you do it every week you don't have to work so hard and it only takes a couple of hours. I can't stand it being untidy either because if I can't find something I lose my temper. People who say "my house may not be tidy but it's clean" are fooling themselves. If you have an untidy house, cleaning it properly is nigh on impossible and becomes an intolerable chore. On the other hand, if someone offers me a day out, I can always put off the housework until mañana. ;D If you shuffle things around often enough the dirt never settles. |
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