Stay at home mums with kids at school, why dont they get jobs??

[sleepinbeauty]

Just a bit hacked off with mums at school, they moan about having no life away from their kids/ not much money, yet they all seem to refuse to get jobs or careers!
why do some women just want to do sweet FA all day when their kids are at school? They seem content for their husbands to slog their guts out at work while they drink cups of tea and watch daytime tv! Dont get it! i think its called laziness??

soapbox, it always really irritates me when people tell me how quick and easy it is to do housework. So far this AM I've put a few clothes away and done a bit of vacuuming, but there's the rest of the house to go and it will take all day. Then tomorrow, by six O'Clock, it will be in exactly the same tip as it is now. I am deeply envious of people who say they can get all their housework done in 45 minutes. I can't.

(Even without Mumsnet!)

neither do i fluffy, i seem to have to hoover the entire house every day

and clean the sinks na d bogs and kitchen floor

maybe you andi are anal

amd the rest, which i just couldnt be bothered typing

FCC - how can it take all day????

How can it have taken you 2 hours to put some clothes away and do the vacuuming?

Unless you are Anthea in disguise

It must take her a while to put away a few bits of clothing - and tidy her shelves and wardrope up!

please dont slag me off cos i take ages to do my housework, suppose it
depends on your method

But I agree with you about sitting back and enjoying time and peace and quiet btw. Since watching the blessed Anthea, I am much better at housework (was utterly atrocious before) and I know that if I worked full time, I would simply never have any of those moments of relaxation and peace and quiet. I simply don't see why the f*k I should apologise for them, either. We all deserve them.

sahm mums with kids at school still have kids off sick, school hours to follow, after school activities, school holidays to be available for - what job fits those hours???? plus doesn't mind that you've not"worked"!! for nearly 10yrs?????

soapbox - because I've been on mumsnet! Plus a friend keeps phoning me and interrupting

i dont think im qualified for this argument, i have 2 toddlers (ie at home not school)

I think the difference might be that I blitz and don't sit down until it is all done! I suppose I could spread it out over the day, with cups of tea, phone calls and MNing interspersed with activity - but I've never been able to sit down until the house is sorted. Probably because I think I'd be too lazy to get up again

i cant remember the last time i finished a cup of tea between the hours of 6am and 7pm

or even sat down to drink one

FCC - crossposted

NP - you don't count - two pre-schoolers is hard work - been there and done that!

Yes I think blitzing is the way forward. I'm actually supposed to be at work (I work from home), and was justifying the vacuuming of my office as part of my job (my logic being that in an office, the cleaner would do it and therefore it's paid work). But then the computer's there, with mumsnet...

I found 2 home made cranberry biscuits which I'd mislaid and am looking forward to a nice cup of tea with 2 biscuits and a copy of glamour until picking up time. I may take a look through the jobs pages of the newspaper and decide that they're all too much hassle and would interfere with mumsnet and Glamour. May also take a look at the improving book I'm reading (about Saddam Hussein) and decide Trisha's more interesting.

Tee hee hee. Eat your hearts out, suckers.

Yes, i must apologise. I've been a sahm for 14 years and i'm very sorry if that offends anybody.

Very impressed with the homemade cranberry biscuits fluffy, i'm just about to make a pot of coffee, do you want one?

interesting read, thought OP was a pisstake tho, can't be arsed to type a reponse coz i'd be here all day, SAHM btw sat on me arse but dd not a school coz she's not old enough yet

Yes a latte would be good.

Am wondering about lunch now. Stodge or rye bread. Ah choices, choices. Ain't it awful, having so many?

I do a bit of both as I work part time with DD at home not at school. When I was on extended maternity leave I also had a flavour of being a SAHM. I think as a SAHM you make a lot of work for yourself just to keep sane (well I did/do). I don't want to work outside the home but it's not cos I think it's so important for DD or DS but because the stress of working and being a parent is overwhelming and for me has an impact on my health and happiness. Happy Mum = Happy child.

The worst thing about being a WOHM is that you still have to fit in everything a SAHM does AND travel to work and sit in an office all day. For example on the three days I work I get up at 05.30 (probably having had sod all sleep) get to work at 07.30 get home at 18.00 (having picked DD from Nursery) and then cook meal for DS and snack for DD. I then get about 30mins with DD and DS before the night time ritual. On my days off I try and catch up with laundry and the usual stuff but come the weekend I am spent and useless.

For me life is ALL work/drudgery and bugger all fun. I had two extra days off work this week as DP had to travel to office and yesterday I sent DD to nursery and I did a bit of shopping and today we are off to visit a friend. I feel like I have had a little break from all the drudgery.

this is a joke right

Hmm, don't know if as a WOHM you fit in all the stuff a SAHM does, tbh. When I was working ft, I just cut a lot of corners to cut down on stress. I simply didn't clean as thoroughly, I didn't spend as much time with the kids, I didn't do as many outings with them, I didn't read as many books, magazines or newspapers and I didn't spend hours on Mumsnet.

I think time, like money, is a space you fill no matter how little or much of it you've got. If you've got none, you just cut out a lot of non-urgent activities and if you've got loads of it, you come up with ways to spend it.

god its much more jammy being at home

for some reason I am not bored at all htis time and can't be arsed to go back to work

OMG I can't believe I missed this. I will have to sit back read the thread and post later