Christine is, in Yiddish terms, a Shlimazlnitseh.
Shlimazlnitseh = a bad housekeeper, the female embodiment of domestic clumsiness and ill luck.
Acording to that adorable yidmaven Michael Wex:
It isn't that the shlimazlnitseh can’t be bothered, it's just that she can’t get it together to look after things the way she would like to. This aspect
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