What exactly is Housework?

Less · 17-09-2012, 11:25

What exactly is housework?

I only ask because a cif advert claims that women do up to 6 hours of housework. Now, I don't have a woman and I'm not terribly keen on housework but even I can spend more than 6 hours doing housework.
Is it because I'm not using cif that it takes me longer? Or is it because housework isn't just a quick wipe around the kitchen and bathroom but also includes throwing the hoover about the place every now and then, cleaning the odd few dishes, cooking, laundry, and the one that really takes up the most of my time picking fliers up from behind my letterbox and transferring them to the white sack?

churchfcrules · 17-09-2012, 11:27

i just know that my idea of tydying up, isnt the same as hers, i think its clean n tidy when she does it, but she doesnt when i do it, and as far as i know i do the same?

MargaretR · 17-09-2012, 11:39

Some women are obsessive about housework - I am not.
I recall a time when a friend of mine and I had planned a day out in Southport with our toddlers.
I left a sink full of pots and unmade beds in order to be at her home on time, and found her frantically cleaning and saying 'This is the week I do my skirting boards'.

She hasn't changed over time. When I last visited I was 'received' in the small room off the kitchen, because she wanted to keep her lounge 'pristine'.

Less · 17-09-2012, 11:42

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

Some women are obsessive about housework - I am not.
I recall a time when a friend of mine and I had planned a day out in Southport with our toddlers.
I left a sink full of pots and unmade beds in order to be at her home on time, and found her frantically cleaning and saying 'This is the week I do my skirting boards'.

She hasn't changed over time. When I last visited I was 'received' in the small room off the kitchen, because she wanted to keep her lounge 'pristine'.

Yes, I've got a sister like that, the only woman I know that could have a white carpet in the lounge that was even whiter eight years later, not a stain in sight.

gynn · 17-09-2012, 13:10

I've been accused of "cleaning like a typical bloke" but I've never really understood where I go wrong.

I have a cleaner who comes in once a week, and I spend an hour cleaning the place before she arrives. I'd hate her to see the place messy!

Less · 17-09-2012, 13:16

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Originally Posted by gynn

I have a cleaner who comes in once a week, and I spend an hour cleaning the place before she arrives. I'd hate her to see the place messy!

Well perhaps you would like to take advantage of the new confidential service I have to offer?
I call around an hour before your cleaner do a bit of tidying up, not enough of course to make your cleaner feel redundant, then I disappear before she arrives, I promise, she won't hear from me what a scruffy beggar you are.

churchfcrules · 17-09-2012, 13:27

I got a better idea, let's start a OCD support group, and swap houses, once a week

Sunflower49 · 17-09-2012, 13:30

I SUCK at housework. I've just sold my house and it's so unkempt, that I have had to take a £10K loss on it, and it's sold on the premise that I am to get it professionally cleaned just before I leave.
I was never housetrained, is my excuse. I am a feral human, kind of like a long-time stray cat.

Less · 17-09-2012, 13:35

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Originally Posted by churchfcrules

I got a better idea, let's start a OCD support group, and swap houses, once a week

So here I am trying to set up a new business and you think it's a better idea that we all swap houses on a voluntary basis? I'll never get off the dole at this rate!

MargaretR · 17-09-2012, 13:36

At my age (70 soon) housework takes up a lot of energy which I seem to lack.
I have a pale plain carpet in my lounge and hall which reminds me when hoovering is overdue, so I park my Dyson in the lounge (sometimes for several days), and wait until I get an energy rush.
If I have visitors while I wait for energy, they won't think I'm a slob - they'll just think that their visit has interrupted cleaning.

cashman · 17-09-2012, 13:38

yeh do ask some real difficult questions Less, don't even know what the word means, never mind what it is.

churchfcrules · 17-09-2012, 13:38

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Originally Posted by Less

So here I am trying to set up a new business and you think it's a better idea that we all swap houses on a voluntary basis? I'll never get off the dole at this rate!

We could make you their "therapist", and we charge them, how's that