Got asked in the bank if I was "housebound" this week.... [hmm]

[gnocci]

i.e. a housewife

Whether I am or not is irrelevant probably but no I am not, I just happened to be having a day off. When I told her what I did (very professional) she said "ooooo sssooorrryyy" and laughed! Errrrrrr, riight!!

"housebound" ??!!! Really?! Have I missed this becoming an accepted phrase????

I noticed this week a woman came off mat leave and said it was good to be no longer housebound. She or her baby wasn't I'll (which seemed to fit housebound better imo), someone asked what she she meant and she meant being a sahm.
its weird because I spend all day in the office, when I was a sahm or on mat leave I was never in. Maybe its the new 'in' saying?

Its a shit saying anyway.

Housebound to me suggests someone who can't get out of the house for some reason.
The fact that you were in the bank negates that one.

I think she got her words mixed up. Housebound means something entirely different to housewife. If you were housebound you wouldn't have been in the bank.

I'm not quite sure why it matters that you do something very professional or why that's deserving of an apology. Working and being a professional doesn't necessarily make you a more worthwhile person. I used to have a professional job, now I'm a SAHM. Still the same person...

How odd.
I describe myself as housebound sometimes, meaning can't leave the house.
Of course I do this online as I'm not out at the time!
I'm a SAHM but that doesn't go hand in hand with housebound

Housebound/eggbound = indicate something is stuck.

Housewife/homemaker are equally cack as far as I'm concerned.

cute no I agree!!! It was the strange "oooo ssssoorrryy" that made me go again, just, I suspect, because as I said my job is quite professional. I totally agree - it doesnt make me more deserving of an apology and that's the point I was making!

Exactly - housebound means stuck in the house.

I know she meant housewife/homemaker or whatever the proper phrase is because she when I looked at her blankly she clarified by saying housewife.

I have always thought housebound meant somebody who can't leave the house- usually due to mobility or age.

I think the person in the bank got herself a bit muddled up.

my mother is housebound because she's in a wheelchair and can't get out at all.
she was a housewife for most of the preceding sixty years. but she got out and about!

I thought housebound meant to be unable to leave the house due to illness? Think she got you mixed up with someone else..