To wonder about the fetishisation of cleaning?

[Skelligsfeathers]

Cleaning and housework used to be just that. A necessary evil which most people did but didn't enjoy.
Now however, it seems to be a hobby almost for some people and the standards expected of people's homes seem to be insanely high.
Endless videos on social media of people pouring multiple chemicals into already pristine sinks. Grown adults getting excited about cleaning cloths and different fragrances of disinfectant.
TV shows where people who are obviously ill with OCD are paraded as being somehow morally superior to others because they spend hours every day cleaning already clean houses....

I just don't get it.
Is it all just another way of making money?
Or is it saying something deeper about our society?

I don't ever remember DM making any noise or fuss about cleaning. She just did it?

I remember it well with my mother. She was really ostentatious about it, there would be lots of sighs and tuts, and she made sure she crashed the crockery about and that the hoover banged loudly into the furniture, even if it was the table you were trying to do your homework on. It didn't help to offer to do it for her, it was never up to her standards.

As a result I grew up with a very laissez faire attitude to housework. I'll do what's necessary, but I practically never use an iron, and I work on the basis that a bit of dirt hasn't hurt me over several decades so it probably won't now.

I've been watching Filthy House SOS. Presented by two guys and their back up team are all guys. They run cleaning franchises themselves. I use one of the franchises as a cleaner.