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To really love housework?

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murmuration · 28/11/2015 08:52

I've realised I really love doing household chores - cleaning, cooking, laundry, and so on. I love gardening, too.

I absolutely hate that I am sick (dysautonomia and probably CFS/ME) and not able to do as much of this as I want, and hate even more that DH is even sicker than me, and thus can't work, and so I have to work FT and barely have enough energy left for the housework I love.

I was recently reading a book about a woman who became a Buddist priest and her training days where she had to clean dishes, bathrooms, and mop floors all day, and I thought, how lovely! I'd love to spend my days doing that.

I'm weird, aren't I?

And while our current area is in desperate need of more cleaners (as we know as we've been unable to find a free one - which I'm actually sort of happy about as I get to clean again although I'm afraid of the toll it is putting on my health), I clearly couldn't actually start up a cleaning business as I sometimes dream. My health is obviously incompatible with such a physical job, since it's really draining me to just do a few hours a week in my own home.

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DeoGratias · 28/11/2015 15:54

As the first post mentioned some religions go in for it - if you read the books by the ex nun Karen Armstrong wrote about her having to clean in the convent. Also it cvan be quite energetic so releases beta endorphins much the same as a run might do for you.

Despite that I am not that keen on it and have a cleaner although I do a fair bit of cleaning and we have a tidy house (which I need as I don't like mess).

Pipestheghost · 28/11/2015 16:02

I detest cleaning and house hold chores, I'd much rather read a book Smile

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