A-a-u-u-gg-ghhh! I hate doing housework!

[genealogynut]

I used to be a very conscientious housekeeper, but as the years go by I keep getting more lax.  I have found other things that I really enjoy doing and spend several hours at doing what I find satisfaction in.  But I do like to have a spotless home, but I ask myself "Who's gonna give a fig?" and "After I am dead and gone, who's gonna remember how clean my home was?" So I've settled on the "clean enough to be healthy, but yet it's a home that's lived in" look.  The dusty furniture is part of my "country look."  I figure I only pass through this world but once, and it's what I accomplish and the happy tracks that I leave behind, that's gonna count, not a spotless home.  Too bad I'm not bewitched, and be able to twitch my nose and "presto!"  (The house would be spotless again.)  I hope I'm not the only one with this attitude.

[hhjacobs]

Lois,we can keep track of ourselves by the tracks in our dust!

[Joanna]

I agree totally.  One of my favorite sayings is:
"Dust is a protective coating for furniture"
and another:
"You may touch my dust, but please don't write in it"

Actually, there are a few household chores that I don't mind and they even help me to relax or unwind; like dishes and laundry.  I really don't like dusting or cleaning floors though, and I believe that washing windows is the WORST.

[Wilma]

I am glad to know that I am not the only one that doesn't like housework.  There is one part of it though, that I have never minded doing.  The laundry.  Even when I was doing it with an old wringer washer and hanging it on the line.  I particularly liked the hanging out part.  I could be outdoors.  I can remember hanging towels and diapers on a freezing day without any clothes pins.  Of course, I had to get them pinned before they dried enough to come off the line.  I even liked going out and bringing the clothes in.  What I didn't like was the folding and putting away, the ironing and hanging up.  Even now I can put them in the washer, transfer them to the dryer, then leave them there until I need something or need the dryer for another load.  From the dryer they go to my bed, where they stay until I have to put them away so I can go to bed.

[indygal]

"Clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy" -- that's been my housekeeping motto all my life. My other was "My floors are clean enough to eat off of..... the dog does it all the time!"

If I can keep up with the dishes and laundry, I feel like I'm ahead of the game. Now that my kids are grown (and dealing with their OWN housework...woo hoo!) I don't spend nearly as much time cleaning. OK, so on occasion I find enough cat hair under a piece of furniture that I almost feel obligated to give it a name. And don't even look on top of the refrigerator.  I have to agree with the others who say that life is for living, so that's what I'm going to do! If someone visits my house and doesn't think it's clean enough, they can do one of two things: keep their mouth shut or pick up the broom and a rag and get busy!

[genealogynut]

When I go to visit someone, I go to see them and not their house. In my way of thinking, if someone doesn't like the way I keep my house, they can always leave. 

[Ms Bear]

If you buy a tall refrigerator you can't see the dust on top of it, out of sight, out of mind.  I also enjoy hanging clothes on the line and used the 220 wire to hook up the new electric water heater so I don't have a dryer.  Hate folding clothes from the dryer or in the house, I guess it goes back to when I had five little ones and about the only time I got outside was to hang clothes or bring them in so I started folding them as I took them off the line to prolong the length of time I could stay outside.  So what if I couldn't hear the phone ring while I was outside.

My idea of dusting is to open the windows and let the breeze blow the dust out, of course it always blew more in but it was new dust.  As for cleaning the rest the children are all gone and now I clean when in the mood.  The yard is looking pretty good again and the laundry is done.  Now you know where I spent my weekend.

[Janet Harrington]

My best saying about housework...

My House Was Clean Last Week...Sorry You Missed It!

[indygal]

I love you guys.......LOL You'll be welcome in our home any time!

I too love hanging clothes out to dry. Not so much as an excuse to go outside, although that's a bonus, but because of how the clothes smell and feel so fresh and clean after a few hours in the warm sun. There's just something about climbing between those sweet-smelling bed linens and sleeping like a baby. As soon as we're moved in, I'll have me some clothes lines, yessiree!

[MarineMom]

I too love hanging clothes out to dry. Not so much as an excuse to go outside, although that's a bonus, but because of how the clothes smell and feel so fresh and clean after a few hours in the warm sun. There's just something about climbing between those sweet-smelling bed linens and sleeping like a baby.

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!! there is nothing like the smell of sheets that have dried outside. I have found that in KS they dry in half the time it took in other states I have lived in I dry my laundry outside whenever I can, years ago because we had a washer but no dryer, then to get outside with the toddlers, but now just because I love the smell.