Cleaning
There are three golden rules for creating a harmonious domestic life.
1. Spare yourself the results of surveys from cleaning companies professing to offer insight into the state of Australian relationships.
2. Any cleaning task worth arguing about can be solved with a lined piece of paper and a marker pen - just make a list and divide it up.
3. Be honest about your capabilities and don’t be afraid to outsource.
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When I approach our shelf of candy-coloured cleaning chemicals, or take the vacuum in my hand, something happens to my attention span. It collapses in on itself like an anemone.
As a cleaner, I exhibit all the worst characteristics in any worker – I’m inefficient, tardy, lacking in initiative and I can’t concentrate on one thing long enough to get it done properly.
So that’s me. As to the other cleaner within the family, I will table the last census as Exhibit A. The census landed like an incendiary device in our household. All thanks to that one little question, which asked Person 1 (me) to calculate the average weekly hours Person 2 (him) spent on domestic work.
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marley says:
@Modern Primitive - and I’ve lived in the former Eastern Bloc. Ukraine, actually. There are things that are awesome, and things that ought to scare the wits out of you. Before you marry a gorgeous young Ukrainian woman, have a look at her mother. Read more »
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TheHuntress says:
I passionately, intensely, unarguably LOATHE housework. I hate it passionately. I am love to cook, am very happy in the kitchen and will happily keep my kitchen clean, otherwise forget it. I love my cleaners, they told me straight up if I hired them for x amount of hours a… Read more »
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