Attitudes to cooking, cleaning, laundry etc

GreyQueen

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. Even with a SAHM in the under-10 years, it wasn't expected that your parent was your entertainer/ chaufeuese/ on demand short-order cook and valet and hair-stylist.

You were expected to play outside to keep out from under the adults' feet. Yer neither sugar ner salt, my granny used to say - meaning that she expected you outside regardless of a bit of rain. Complaints of I'm bored! would be greeted with the retort that only boring people get bored.

My mother was raised in the forties and fifties and doesn't do domestic goddess but for few exceptions, such a having a deep loathing for greyish-white white washes which I've inherited.

But dust? Heh, you can autograph it if you like but putting the date on it is just rude.:rotfl:

amandaatnumber7

76rosie wrote: »

My place looks like someone lives there and not a showhome,.

Yes! My house is not messy, not dirty but certainly lived in
My hubby works full time and I work part time, we have 3 boys.
We are a team and get things done together, i.e. he'll bath the boys after dinner while I tidy the kitchen or do laundry on weekends when I'm at work
We both recognize one person can't do it all
Although he's yet to clean the toilet :rotfl:

pigpen

*Heard my name *

I just took delivery of my 12th mini-beast last week.

I don't iron a blooming thing.. last thing I did iron was OH's shirt for his sisters wedding in 2010 .. utterly unnecessary for most modern fabrics as it damages the fibres reducing their lifespan

I hate toys..

I force myself to do cooking.. I can do it but once its done I don't want to eat it.

My house is rather full of clothes and toys but the toys will dwindle as the smalls grow and the clothes will get bigger but fewer in number when they no longer require 5 changes of clothes a day... its all relative.

Cleaning.. what can I say? I have been on the Flylady thread for years.. it just seems wrong to spend your life cleaning and tidying when there is so much else to do.

I'm hoping my little business takes off this year.. I want driving lessons, I've wanted to drive since I was about 5 and never had the time or the finances before but my mobility is massively reduced now so I need to drive.

Clean I strive for and on the whole do achieve.. the kitchen, loo, bathroom and front room are always clean and usually presentable... tidy and clutter-free are a myth!

monnagran

Dust?

I have a friend who came home one day to find the word "!!!!!!" drawn in the dust on the television. The divorce followed swiftly.

x

bubbs

pigpen wrote: »

*Heard my name *

I just took delivery of my 12th mini-beast last week.

I don't iron a blooming thing.. last thing I did iron was OH's shirt for his sisters wedding in 2010 .. utterly unnecessary for most modern fabrics as it damages the fibres reducing their lifespan

I hate toys..

I force myself to do cooking.. I can do it but once its done I don't want to eat it.

My house is rather full of clothes and toys but the toys will dwindle as the smalls grow and the clothes will get bigger but fewer in number when they no longer require 5 changes of clothes a day... its all relative.

Cleaning.. what can I say? I have been on the Flylady thread for years.. it just seems wrong to spend your life cleaning and tidying when there is so much else to do.

I'm hoping my little business takes off this year.. I want driving lessons, I've wanted to drive since I was about 5 and never had the time or the finances before but my mobility is massively reduced now so I need to drive.

Clean I strive for and on the whole do achieve.. the kitchen, loo, bathroom and front room are always clean and usually presentable... tidy and clutter-free are a myth!

Congratulations :T:T i take my hat off to you 12!!

monnagran wrote: »

Dust?

I have a friend who came home one day to find the word "!!!!!!" drawn in the dust on the television. The divorce followed swiftly.

x

:eek::eek::eek: cant believe someone would do that , how awful:( hope he got a swift kick up the backside too:p

lessonlearned

monnagran wrote: »

Dust?

I have a friend who came home one day to find the word "!!!!!!" drawn in the dust on the television. The divorce followed swiftly.

x

Actually the word should have been "slattern" but there you go....

I would have divorced him just as much for being an ignoramus as for his insufferable sexism. What a coward having to leave a message......:D

I hope she left the word. "slob" somewhere........after all it's just as much his dust too, given that a large part of dust is actually skin debris .......:rotfl:

Unless of course he wore a haz mat suit round the house so he don't shed his skin all over the place.:rotfl:

Erosgirl

theoretica wrote: »

Now that's my kind of advice! Why keep the floor clean enough to eat off? I'm not going to eat off it.

You could eat off my floor, there's crumbs everywhere.

lillibet_dripping

monnagran wrote: »

Dust?

I have a friend who came home one day to find the word "!!!!!!" drawn in the dust on the television. The divorce followed swiftly.

x

Back in the days when I had two babies under two years old, my husband wrote 'Clean Me' in the dust. I wrote back 'F...k off'.

(He is now my ex-husband!!!)

elona

LessonLearned

I love your philosophy which is echoing with me. The house is still full of boxes and being refloored but the bathrooms are done and most of the new kitchen/breakfast room.

Once the fishponds and loose and slippy wooden paths are removed in the back garden I am going to be daring and get astroturf down, remove the tatty shed and make a nice seating area where I can read and relax. The whirly for drying will stay as that is useful and SIL has planned where the barbecue area will go.

I have a new steam cleaner which I got in the sales for floors and surfaces and am considering a cordless vac to make hoovering easier and lighter to use as well. The old house and garden were so big I needed cleaners and someone to garden while it was up for sale. Hopefully once everything is done here I will be able to keep things clean and tidy by myself.

I am going to be ruthless deciding what stays and what goes so I can find things easily and not have clutter. The builder is being very good and taking away things for me to give away to charity so people can use and enjoy them.

lisa110rry

RESENTMENT...

...that is what I'm trying to avoid.

I work full time, my husband is retired. He doesn't know one end of a vacuum from the other and "duster" isn't a word n his vocabulary. He simply refuses to do anything except fill and empty the dishwasher - that seems to appeal to him somehow. So, I have a cleaner.

When I was younger and my husband was working full time and our son was at school locally, I washed and ironed a shirt and trousers for each day (including Sunday, Rugby Club, and at senior school a set for Saturday rugby also) for my son and shirts and trousers for each week day for my husband. Now things are hung on a rail near the boiler and whatever needs ironing is sent to the dry cleaners in the village.

I do enjoy gardening however, and last weekend I cut the back hedge, mowed , strimmed, etc.

If I had to do cleaning and ironing, I would, without doubt, feel a great deal of resentment. I just wish I could find a way to stop him "nesting" around his favourite chair...