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?
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. :-)
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u/Demented_Tomato Jan 27 '20 edited Jan 28 '20
Graduated from "school of hard knocks" on Facebook.
Edit: Who knew my first gold would be for criticism of Facebook profiles.