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well, i probably thought it was as funny as you did! when i tell my fireman that i can't get things done or blah blah blah, why hasn't he done something, i get the "well, you're a stay at home mom. that's your job." hum, apparently i suck at my job and should be fired and i am severely underpaid! i suggested that i bring back the very affordable house cleaner to take care of things. he said, " how about he pay ME her wage and i clean my own house." sure, there were 2 of them and it took them a little over 3 hours and they didn't watch the 3 kids at the same time. so i need 6 hours and a babysitter.
I hate housework with a passion. I used to clean and keep perfect but with no verbal support and a DH who thought nothing of making a mess and leaving it...I stopped. Not so clean now, but less resentment from the wife. Somehow I just still don't feel good about it tho'. I guess I'm just psycho.
OMG Meg, my mom was so bad when I was little. She wouldn't let anyone come over unless the house was perfect. It took until I was a teenager to re-educate her to realize that a slightly less than perfect home was okay ... and just like most people's, and finally she could relax her housekeeping standards. It was really nice because then she started taking up hobbies because she then had time for them, like quilting, which she loves. I don't know how many times we told her that a less than perfect house wasn't the end of the world before she decided it was true.
We are kind of doing the Flylady thing, where you just do a little each day. Like when you are done getting ready in the bathroom, just wipe the counter with a lysol wipe, and the counter is always clean and it takes two seconds. Her plan breaks everything up into little pieces, 15 minutes here, 15 minutes there. We decided to do some of the little things, but mostly we pick a room a day, or bathrooms and laundry room, or mop/vacuum on our days off (we have opposite days off so DH is doing his fair share). I did spend about 4 days cleaning like a maniac to get everything at a clean starting point, and now we are just doing one area a day on days off. The week I cleaned like a maniac, I was on prednisone for my asthma, it made me so hyper I couldn't sit for two minutes straight ... so I decided rather than pacing around all day I would clean. One day I did the bathrooms, the kitchen, the floors, and then trimmed everything in the front yard and bagged everything up ... I was exhausted! But if I can't do something I enjoy because of medication, I might as well do something useful. It's so funny because my DH does not like sitting for any length of time. He watches TV while he walks around in the kitchen. It drives me nuts that he can't just sit down. I was so bad I bet I was driving him nuts!!! Thank goodness I'm off the prednisone, I had almost every side effect listed - blech! Oh, the Flylady site is great because when it lists zones, it describes everything that should be cleaned in that zone, some are things you might not think to clean, or forget to clean most of the time, so it's a nice list.
I hate housework with a passion. I used to clean and keep perfect but with no verbal support and a DH who thought nothing of making a mess and leaving it...I stopped. Not so clean now, but less resentment from the wife. Somehow I just still don't feel good about it tho'. I guess I'm just psycho.
OMG Meg, my mom was so bad when I was little. She wouldn't let anyone come over unless the house was perfect. It took until I was a teenager to re-educate her to realize that a slightly less than perfect home was okay ... and just like most people's, and finally she could relax her housekeeping standards. It was really nice because then she started taking up hobbies because she then had time for them, like quilting, which she loves. I don't know how many times we told her that a less than perfect house wasn't the end of the world before she decided it was true.
We are kind of doing the Flylady thing, where you just do a little each day. Like when you are done getting ready in the bathroom, just wipe the counter with a lysol wipe, and the counter is always clean and it takes two seconds. Her plan breaks everything up into little pieces, 15 minutes here, 15 minutes there. We decided to do some of the little things, but mostly we pick a room a day, or bathrooms and laundry room, or mop/vacuum on our days off (we have opposite days off so DH is doing his fair share). I did spend about 4 days cleaning like a maniac to get everything at a clean starting point, and now we are just doing one area a day on days off. The week I cleaned like a maniac, I was on prednisone for my asthma, it made me so hyper I couldn't sit for two minutes straight ... so I decided rather than pacing around all day I would clean. One day I did the bathrooms, the kitchen, the floors, and then trimmed everything in the front yard and bagged everything up ... I was exhausted! But if I can't do something I enjoy because of medication, I might as well do something useful. It's so funny because my DH does not like sitting for any length of time. He watches TV while he walks around in the kitchen. It drives me nuts that he can't just sit down. I was so bad I bet I was driving him nuts!!! Thank goodness I'm off the prednisone, I had almost every side effect listed - blech! Oh, the Flylady site is great because when it lists zones, it describes everything that should be cleaned in that zone, some are things you might not think to clean, or forget to clean most of the time, so it's a nice list.
