This is a completely atypical post for me as it has nothing whatsoever to do with paper, stamping, cards, scrapbooks or Etsy. I just saw this pinned on Pinterest and I could swear I heard angels singing as if the hand of God came down and pointed at me.
I am a (how shall I say this?) "laid-back" housekeeper. I don't require completely pristine surroundings but I would prefer to sit in my family room without having to scootch piles of laundry over or go into the kitchen to make dinner without recoiling at puddles of God-only-knows-what solidifying on my counter. With three very capable children and an equally capable husband it seems to me that my house should remain in a reasonable respectable state on a regular basis as we all happily whistle while we work. But it doesn't. Not by a long shot. I go on housecleaning strike occasionally just to see if anybody notices that clothes or dished don't get washed. Sweeping? Ha! I don't want to tell you how long dishes sat in the kitchen before I threw my hands up in despair and collapsed in a heap on the (crumb-littered) floor as the reality of my situation struck me. It wasn't pretty, people.
Check out this post at The Fun, Cheap or Free Queen. While I haven't tried her method yet I'm up for giving it a whirl. Who's with me?
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Oh, yes, this sounds very familiar . . . I haven't looked at that post yet, but it sounds as if you and I are living the same life in the domestic department.
However, our 4 children are teens and older, so I have to say, they are better at the whole housekeeping thing than they used to be.
And I have totally gone on housework strike before, sometimes as an experiment, occasionally as a declaration of war on lazy children!
Oh. Yes. And thank you for the comment on my Party Cat at Blockheads.
:)
I am totally with you on the slovenly housewife front. What is the point of spending all your time cleaning, it will just need doing again soon enough. I read the list but I thought there was going to be a joke at the end - I didn't think it was serious,
Lucy x
I'm printing out that list as we speak.
Because I'm a clutter nazi (craft room doesn't count), I can have the house picked up in minutes. But don't ask me that last time I scrubbed the bathroom floors....or cleaned the windows (never)(in four years)....nobody has gotten sick or dropped dead yet, so I like to think of it as making the kiddos immune systems strong :)
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