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One of the reasons it is important to find a decently paying part-time job: so you can have enough time for these things.
Oh no they don’t! If they want to force me to work with guns, I’m fine with that.
They will have a few grunts less.
Start working on a cruise ship where you don’t need a house.
They can be the same thing. COMPETITIVE HOUSEKEEPING YEEHAAAW!!!
The only one I do is EXTREME IRONING!!!
DomestiCORE 6000!!
Remember housework used to be considered a job that needed a full time adult to attend to
Yes, back in the day when clothes were washed by vigorously rubbing them against a washboard, and then one-by-one cranking them through a wringer / mangle to dry them. Rugs were cleaned by taking them outside, hanging them on a line, and beating them with a carpet beater. Clothes were expensive, so any time they were damaged it was up to the wife to sew and mend them, and often she’d be sewing new ones too. Bread wasn’t something you bought at the supermarket, it was something you made at home using basic ingredients like flour and water. Eggs came from a backyard chicken coop, and the wife had to feed the chickens too. And so on, and so on…
The 1950s and 60s had many of our modern conveniences and yet the standard was for 1 adult to handle the household
We could just go back to dirt floors
You need to coat them with cow dung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung
Mopping and cleaning doesn’t sound so bad now, does it?
Still gotta sweep those (seriously)
I know, but I bet it would still seriously lower everyone’s standard for what it means to have a clean house
Apparently one thing that has contributed to more housework is better lighting. When indoor lighting was a fire and soot was everywhere, not a lot of time was spent cleaning up. Once it became oil, more cleaning was done, but you still couldn’t see as much dirt. Fast forward a few centuries and people have good quality lighting everywhere, so every bit of dirt is easily seen.
And now you see me putting a 300 lumen light at a low angle to the ground to see the dust while I broom it.
I’m only able to keep up with it during my summer break from teaching. That said, I’ve told people that it’s a matter of energy, not time*. I get my house spotless in two hours a week, but doing just one 90 minute lecture drains me to the point that the last thing I want to do is clean.
*Note: Folding clothes can fuck off, somehow that nonsense takes an hour with minimal impact on my home.
Its only staggering in the context of having to spend all of my free time and energy making money for someone else
Meanwhile, your ancestors: my great-great-great-great-grandson doesn’t have to work weekends?
Let alone doing that at the same time.
Feel free to start a business of your own. It takes 200% of your free time and after paying employees there’s often nothing left to live on.
Yeah, and a start up investment of oh about your entire life savings if not multiple times that, which if your business fails will be nearly impossible to recoup and leaves you with either mountains of debt at worst, or at best ten thousand tacky tchotchkes that you thought seemed cute or humorous at the time but it turns out no one was willing to pay $50 for just to have crowding their living spaces… 🤷♀️
Now you get the appeal of minimalism. If cleaning is taking too much time, then reduce the amount of things you have to clean.
Wanting less, buying less, and spending less are the open secrets to success.
Then invest most your income, and you have a lot of time and money (relatively).
Then I’ll finally be able to afford to want more, buy more, and spend more
“I hate being a housewife. You cook, you clean, you do laundry, and then six months later you have to do it all again.”
Joan Rivers
Unironically me with anything to do with dust
It just doesn’t bother me. I sanitize stuff, but I can raise a whole dust bunny farm for 6 months before I touch the vacuum cleaner
six months?!!
Hey, go argue with Joan.
Can we talk…?
It’s made to go off before you do
Speaking as a standup comic, not being literal.
As you age, the amount of effort increases. At least, it seems to.
The amount of effort it takes me not to eat everything and destroy my mid physique
Having a mid physique means all the textures were made for you and don’t warp in weird ways.
Status as parent confirmed.
Get a robo-mop, OP
If there’d be a roboter able to clean the whole bathroom, I’d buy it right away. Cleaning the floor is actually the quickest of my cleaning tasks.
The Chinese have a robot that will mop the floor with you.
Or you’ll mop the floor with its parts? Trying to get a mop the floor joke in here somehow. But those things fall down, spaz out and disassemble themselves.
Just make sure it has a proper roller mop and not one of those stupid dirty rag draggers.
Mine has a rag dragger, I wasn’t aware they had roller style, I’ll have to look into it. I just bought a couple extra mop pads and put a fresh one on every day or two and it does well enough but I’m sure a roller would perform much better.
I’ve been extremely happy with the cleaning performance of my ecovacs but I will say it’s not the smartest firmware and gets in more fights with my floor mats than I would like.
Life was a lot easier, before we made it so easy.
Work smarter, not harder.
