To my mind, the idea that doing dishes is unpleasant can occur to us only when we are not doing them. Once we are standing in front of the sink with our sleeves rolled up and our hands in warm water, it is really not bad at all. I enjoy taking my time with each […]
Housework Quotes
No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love – except the housewife.
A house becomes a home when you can write “I love you” on the furniture.”
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
I can’t tell you how many countless hours that I have spent Cleaning! I used to spend at least 8 hours every weekend making sure things were just perfect -“in case someone came over”. Then I realized one day that no one came over; they were all out living life and having fun! Now, when […]
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, “Who could have done this? we have no enemies.”
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the “market” in which the “workers” find “jobs,” and the physical hazards are all very different […]
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know
