What exactly is Housework?

[Margaret Pilkington]

it is one and the same entry sugarmouse...well at least I think it is

[susie123]

Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707

I must be a VERY exciting person! Was it Mae West who said 'My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance'

Just got a catalogue from Museum Selection who are offering an apron with this quote on it. By American humorist Erma Bombeck, 1927-96. She also said:

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

I liked a lot of the quotes on this page:

Housework Quotes, Sayings about Chores, Yard Work, Cleaning

[Gordon Booth]

Housework is something women do superbly and men are useless at.
This is an opinion held by all women which must be encouraged at all costs.
If a man is forced to do some housework by his boss he must ensure that the duster just happens to catch one of her favourite pieces of Ladro on the fireplace-they are so fragile(not a big piece, don't make it too obvious). That will convince her she was right all along and all you are fit to do is all the things you enjoy.
The same with washing dishes- just happen to drop one of the dishes from a full dining set(preferable one she can't replace). If that doesn't work after the second or third time, buy her a dishwasher for her birthday.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

yeh do ask some real difficult questions Less, don't even know what the word means, never mind what it is.

Would appear we're singing of the same hymn sheet cashy, I'll ask around and see if I can come back with an answer

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Only the most boring women have immaculate homes.

How I don't know Margaret, used to live with a woman, na nearly married her, she was far from boring, but she was a maniac at cleaning and wanted me to do the same, sorry not my department I bailed out just in time

[jaysay]

Well the first wife said I was flaming useless at housework, so she got invited to show me how on a regular basis

[Sunflower49]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Housework is something women do superbly and men are useless at.

I have just realised I am a man.

Originally Posted by susie123

Just got a catalogue from Museum Selection who are offering an apron with this quote on it. By American humorist Erma Bombeck, 1927-96. She also said:

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

I liked a lot of the quotes on this page:

Housework Quotes, Sayings about Chores, Yard Work, Cleaning

Lol ace

[Less]

Well, I didn't realise how much crap I would have to sort through to find this:-
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...age-30446.html

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by Less

What exactly is housework?

I only ask because a cif advert claims that women do up to 6 hours of housework. Now, I don't have a woman and I'm not terribly keen on housework but even I can spend more than 6 hours doing housework.
Is it because I'm not using cif that it takes me longer? Or is it because housework isn't just a quick wipe around the kitchen and bathroom but also includes throwing the hoover about the place every now and then, cleaning the odd few dishes, cooking, laundry, and the one that really takes up the most of my time picking fliers up from behind my letterbox and transferring them to the white sack?

6 hours a day or 6 hours a week ....

[Less]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

6 hours a day or 6 hours a week ....

I don't think the advert said, just hung there on 6 hours, but I took the implication to mean 6 hours a week, that's the minimum time it takes me to clean the bog and surrounding area! So I think they may be wrong.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Less

I don't think the advert said, just hung there on 6 hours, but I took the implication to mean 6 hours a week, that's the minimum time it takes me to clean the bog and surrounding area! So I think they may be wrong.

You might like to try this idea to improve your aim... makes cleaning the bog a lot easier.

BBC - h2g2 - Schiphol Airport's Urinal Flies - A63804477

[Less]

Originally Posted by susie123

You might like to try this idea to improve your aim... makes cleaning the bog a lot easier.

BBC - h2g2 - Schiphol Airport's Urinal Flies - A63804477

Didn't bother with the link, it's not my aim it's the crust that forms because the flush is never strong enough.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by Less

Didn't bother with the link, it's not my aim it's the crust that forms because the flush is never strong enough.

i use that as target practice, 2 birds one stream!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

6 hours a day or 6 hours a week ....

Nah 12-00 till 13-00 with n hour fer dinner.

[Benipete]

Just finished ironing the creases into my underpants and now I feel EPIC.