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think there is more to life than housework

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auntiepicklebottom2 · 28/11/2011 22:15

my mum and sisters homes are always spick and span......everyday the houses are dne from top to bottom, and they have a rota of what gets done and when it gets done.....for example,
Monday kitchen everything is done even the oven)
tuesday living room (under the sofa, tv stand ect)
wednesday bedrooms (under beds, bedding the lot)
thursday bathroom (from top to bottom every tile ect)
friday windows nets and curatains
saturday all the ironing
sunday any other job that 'needs' doing.

i'm i just a lazy person...because surely this is not normal

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MaureenMLove · 28/11/2011 22:21

Good grief! Do either of them have to go to work too? I'm knackered just looking at the list and my house is clean and tidy!

justpaddling · 28/11/2011 22:22

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LittleJennyRobyn · 28/11/2011 22:23

Well if you are lazy then so am i Grin

i do it when it needs done....if i can be bothered, If i can't then it will still be there for me tomorrow.

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auntiepicklebottom2 · 28/11/2011 22:23

no they are SAHM

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Debs75 · 28/11/2011 22:24

If they are not careful they will clean the house so much it will wear away.Grin

Do they really wash curtains and nets every week? I haven't washed my curtains ever.

MenopausalHaze · 28/11/2011 22:24

Fuck that for a game of soldiers!

Monday - Tea, fags, MN, trash telly, bit of cooking, MN, siesta, bit of shopping, MN,
Tuesday - Tea, fags, MN, Coffee, Visit parents, Shopping, coffee, MN, siesta, MN, cooking, chat on phone,
Wednesday - you get the picture? Bugger the bloody housework - it'll get done when it's a health hazard!

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auntiepicklebottom2 · 28/11/2011 22:25

yes, i can't remember the last time i did mine

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madmomma · 28/11/2011 22:26

I think washing your curtains every week is verging on insane.

suburbophobe · 28/11/2011 22:28

They sound like they have OCD to be honest.....

Sundays? Even God took a day off then.

Once again, I am reminded of the Buddhist Lama who said "No-one on their deathbed is going to be saying "Wish I'd kept a cleaner house" (or spent more time in the office).

Personally, I'm looking forward to the arrival of my robot vacuum, so I can lie on the sofa reading a good book while it takes care of the floors... Grin

Even more time to spend constructively instead of on drudgery!

alemci · 28/11/2011 22:31

sounds a bit obsessive to me. Perhaps it is a coping thing. do they do other things outside of the home or are they at home most of the time.

fedup10 · 28/11/2011 22:38

"I hope my children look back on today and remember a mum who had time to play, there's years ahead for cooking and cleaning and children grow up while we are not looking, so hush now cobwebs, dust go to sleep, I am rocking my babies as babies don't keep!"
I do housework but I would never stress over it like they do, crumbs:)
My family do get fed Wink honest

NICEyNice · 28/11/2011 22:43

IRONING?
WASHING CURTAINS?

What moron wastes their life doing this religiously on a weekly basis? I refuse to believe people like this exist.

auntiepicklebottom2 you are clearly a troll*

*(even though from your posting history its bloody obvious you aren't)

Proudnscary · 29/11/2011 06:40

Where do your sisters live, the 1950s?

Does anyone really have domestic chores they do on certain days every week??!

NinkyNonker · 29/11/2011 07:56

Blimey. I keep on top of the house every day as I go along, but that sounds like a full spring clean every week!

RealityIsADistantMemory · 29/11/2011 08:00

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Ciske · 29/11/2011 08:04

I'm not a very frantic cleaner myself, but the rota sounds pretty sensible to me. That musn't come to more than a few hours work each day? And even if it's a lot of work for them, if they take more enjoyment from having a clean house than from watching Jeremy Kyle all day, let them be. :)

MrsSleepy · 29/11/2011 08:08

I have certain days I do things! However I clean both my bathrooms everyday. I also work full time, It doesn't take much time when your on top of it all BUT I do it when the DC have gone to bed. My DH helps aswell so takes half hour tops, Bedding, Towels etc are done on a Saturday.

LaurieFairyCake · 29/11/2011 08:12

I always think (very unjustifiably) that people who are very house proud are a bit thick - that their internal world or their 'thoughts' are clearly not as interesting as mine Grin

BerryLellow · 29/11/2011 08:15

No it doesn't sound normal, not to me. I have a rampage through the house every so often, usually when we have people coming over :o

Someone on here once said 'it was never my ambition to be good at housework' which helped me change the way I look at it, and I repeated it to dp when if once took his life in his hands and complained about some clutter. Made him think too.

It's not nice to live in a pit, but honestly life is too too short to spend it cleaning.

Trills · 29/11/2011 08:18

What are they doing in their house that it needs that much cleaning?

Do they have regular food fights that get mashed potato on the curtains?

daftoldbird · 29/11/2011 08:24

This is a reassuring thread! I have been worried by other threads where people talk about washing their towels EVERY time they use them (aren't you clean when you use them?), and sweeping their kitchens several times a day. I don't do much housework but I feel very guilty and inadequate about it. I am prepared to do it from 6.30 to 9.30 then I get dressed and walk the dog and find other more interesting things to do with my day!

Mind you, Radio 4 makes general tidying quite bearable at times Grin

I have never washed the curtains, and some of them are 15 years old (ooops - they look fine to me and I don't think they are washable anyway....).

Secretly, I admire the rota.

freedom2011 · 29/11/2011 09:04

I think the weekly clean of the curtains and nets are a bit much. A rota does sounds like a good idea though. Would save us having to clean in a panic before anyone comes round. We're quite good at day to day tidying up. Less good at scrubbing oven/tiles, tops of cupboards or regular cobweb or ghost shit (aka dust bunnies) removal.

DurhamDurham · 29/11/2011 09:12

We have a casual sort of rota going on in our house but that's because me, dh and dd1 work full time and dd2 is at school all day. We have to be v organised.

I do like a tidy clean house but find it strange when friends/family come to visit and assume we must spend hours every day doing housework. We don't, we just stay on top of it so that it never looks 'bad'. I know people who have messy homes and every now and then have to spend entire weekends cleaning/sorting and tidying. That doesn't make sense to me.

2old2beamum · 29/11/2011 11:19

I have a name of a good therapist who might be able help them with their O.C.D.
But tbh I am a bit like DurhamDurham. But really I don't give a fig what people think As for washing my curtains weekly it's the dirt that holds them together.

4aminsomniac · 29/11/2011 12:15

My philosophy is to clean the dirtiest thing in the house (eg kitchen sink, bathroom, Hoover 1 level so 10-20 mins) every day, or most days. Tidying as we go along, then a good clean (2 hrs for the 2 of us) when someone is coming to stay. It looks good enough to me!