What housekeeping did your Mum do that you never would?

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My Mum would boil her dishcloths in washing powder, stirring them with wooden tongs, for what seemed to be most of the day.

She would dry the washing on the airer, make it sopping wet with the water spray, iron it to dry it then air it again.

Wipe tops of doors and skirting boards.

Stupid woman.

ironing too, i think years spent watching her slaving over the iron during the evenings really put me off.

My mum was a dreadful house-keeper, but on the rare occassions that she got fed up of the room full of ironing, she would iron all bedding, sheets, boxer shorts, tea towels etc.

Given her hatred of ironing you'd think she'd have taken my advice and folded it all from tumbler, but to the best of my knowledge she never did, although my dad does now she has died.

Don't know TrillianAstra although she did have 9 pregnancies so maybe she didn't wan to risk it

I'm sorry Mums were suppose to do housekeeping... I wondered why she didn't and still doesn't!!

Iron socks and knickers.

I was the only one in my class who had knife edge creases down the fronts of me navy blue big pants.

Even when she was unemployed my mother had a cleaner my whole life .
She always tumble dried, I never do?

I never quite got the point of "airing" clothes after they'd been dried. Surely you can't get any more air than on the rotary in the garden??
Am I missing the point somewhere?

Ironing - only in an emergency can I be dragged kicking and screaming to the ironing board!

HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!!

Scrubbing the steps and path on hands and knees with bleach.

Ironing

The older I get the more of her stuff makes its way into my repetoire and i am often washing walls and skirting boards and sometimes hoover the garden!

hoover the garden (wtf??????)

cleaning light switches and skirting boards - not every day or anything but we were always roped into it!
actually my dad was really into this think he is more tidier than my mum

never saw her iron much, but i was made to! (not really fair, but at the same time 'tis the reson why dd will be using one as soon as she can - she's 3!) ha!

My Nana would save crumbs, sometimes it might only be 2 crumbs from a sandwich and lovingly put them in a china bowl to save for the birds.

She also breadcrumbed her own fish (brought home dripping from the fishmongers in newspaper) with those bright orange breadcrumbs.

Although I have to say, I've yet to see orange bread.

oh yes tiger forgot light switches !I hate decking with buts on so I hoover it I know i'm nuts!

washing nappies
using an aga
ironing dad's hankies

My mum appeared to justify her very existence by how much housework she did. I didn't inherit this .

Ironing pointless things like cloths and pants.
Mopping the kitchen floor every 5 minutes.
A complete (and I mean complete) hoover of the entire house daily.
Bleaching dishcloths (we had a washing machine).
Religiously wiping doors and window frames.

I pointed out to her the other day that, despite my refusal to follow in her footsteps, ds has never vomited once in his life.

Spring cleaning,
Cleaning skirting boards,
Washing unused glass ornaments/glasses in display cabenet in time for easter and christmas,
Changing round the layout of furniture every spring.
And lastly and very bizarly changing every set of curtains in every room twice a year (summer curtains and winter curtains)WHY?

Oh and boiling my white school socks on the hob!

Ironing. Everything was ironed. I iron about once a year.

Would like to know more about Noddy hoovering the garden

Every ornament was put on minature cotton doilly.

Nothing. My mum and I both hate and do not do much housework.

However she did ask for my sisters sandwich crusts in a cafe recently to take home for the birds.