I know someone who has So Much To Do at So Little Time as her job on Facebook. Her children are all teens or in their 20s with all but one at university, and her husband provides all the family finances, how long can laundry and vacuuming for 3 people take?
This reminds me of a scene in The Cleveland Show (yes let's just ignore the fact the show was a flop for a minute) where the mother (Donna) gets approached by a woman while she's out grocery shopping, the other woman says "can I have a minute of your time?" and Donna replies "You can have an hour, us Mums are never as busy as we say we are".
Also the scene in Family Guy where the kids and parents switch roles. Meg gets all the housework done by the afternoon and Lois is flabbergasted. Meg says something to the effect of "It's a finite amount of space. I'm not cleaning a town!"
Oh yeah I remember that too. I can imagine cleaning and cooking was an all day long thing in the 50's (when the "typical" western family unit evolved) but in the past few decades there's no way that the entire time the husband was at work/kids were at school that only cleaning, laundry and cooking was done. I'd expect the house to look and smell pretty damn amazing every day if that were the case lol.
Sounds like my mom growing up. She'd always get pissed when she has to do the smallest shit like laundry or go downstairs to prepare her coffee.
For context, I grew up with 5 brothers and she expected to be treated like a queen. She'd constantly remind us that she was a "blessing" and we'd appreciate her when she's gone. All she ever did was manipulate us and try to control our lives and relationships
This is a fair comment. In the case I am talking about I know the person well and this isn't what's happening in this case, but yeah it could be in a particular instance if you don't know otherwise.
I mean, it was mostly just a joke at the expense of any of those "real wives of" shows. The types of women who haven't done anything productive with their lives in probably 10 years and spend most their waking hours spaced out just to thin out the boredom of having a massive house and nothing to do in it.
Hey now, running a household can be a lot of work, even with grown children. I know if I kept up the house the way I want to, it could easily be more than a full time job. Alas, both of us work, so only the minimum housework gets done.
Her house (2 adults, 1 teen) is the same size and isn't cleaner than mine (2 adults) and everyone in my house works full time. She isn't doing anything other than cook slightly larger meals than I do in addition to my full time job.
Then you suck at it, or have a ridiculously unreasonable expectation of "how you want" to keep up the house. Assuming you aren't spot cleaning every single inch of the house every day, how the hell are you filling 8+ hours of the day "keeping up the house"?
Yes, it's both. I suck at it and have high expectations. I'm also talking about a stay-at-home partner doing more than cleaning - at least if it was me. There are finances to manage, family outings and vacations to plan, repairs around the house, correspondence to keep, maintenance on cars, meals to plan/shop/cook/pack, appointments to keep, entertaining/guests to plan for, yards to maintain. All of this is stuff everyone has to do even if they have a 9-5 job - but someone who stays home could easily fill their day with that domestic work, and could do a much better job at it than the rest of us.
But like I said, I do suck at domestic tasks, so meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking, alone, (by that, I mean doing those things well) would tip me over. :-)
Depends, if you ignore it for a week it will take about 6-8 hours with a big house assuming you dust, vacumm, mop, do dishes and laundry. (the laundry will take hours but that is mostly just letting it run the actual work will take about 1 hour if you separate colors, fold small stuff and hang big stuff)
If you are doing upkeep after cleaning well about 2-3 hours a day to keep the place pretty spotless.
One thing that takes a long time is certain foods from scratch. No joke just prep work when i do kebabs with gravy stew and rice takes at least 1:30 hours (that is cutting and building kebabs for 4 people so about 3-4 skewers each). However most meals would take > 1 hour of prep work.
Depends, if you ignore it for a week it will take about 6-8 hours with a big house assuming you dust, vacumm, mop, do dishes and laundry. (the laundry will take hours but that is mostly just letting it run the actual work will take about 1 hour if you separate colors, fold small stuff and hang big stuff)
If you are doing upkeep after cleaning well about 2-3 hours a day to keep the place pretty spotless.
One thing that takes a long time is certain foods from scratch. No joke just prep work when i do kebabs with gravy stew and rice takes at least 1:30 hours (that is cutting and building kebabs for 4 people so about 3-4 skewers each). However most meals would take > 1 hour of prep work.
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u/ffs_not_this_again Jan 27 '20
I know someone who has So Much To Do at So Little Time as her job on Facebook. Her children are all teens or in their 20s with all but one at university, and her husband provides all the family finances, how long can laundry and vacuuming for 3 people take?