Time is Finite, Part 1: Why Your House Looks Like Crap

[zingerella]

 Welcome everyone to my new life-management series. I intend to periodically, as time allows, explain why many of us feel inadequate most of the time. Today's topic is housekeeping.

Did you know that six hours of housework per day may reduce your risk of breast cancer? It will also result in your having all the laundry done and folded, the carpets

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[zingerella]

You know what? Hiring someone to do the cleaning is being a good housekeeper. Keeping house, to my mind, means maintaining your home in a manner congenial to the way you prefer to live. If you personally honestly don't mind a bit of dust, and you don't mind whatever guests you have seeing the dust, then you're successfully keeping house. If you do mind dust and have someone in to do the dusting, then you're successfully keeping house. Hiring someone to cook meals for you and putting them in the freezer, rather than doing your own cooking, is being a good housekeeper, if you hate cooking and can afford to outsource it.

My mom has learned to live with the fact that my housekeeping isn't up to her standards. We're both fine with it now. Because we're both grownups. But also because I am reasonably happy keeping on top of the problem areas (kitchen, bathroom, vacuuming), and I work from home so I can do some things while I take breaks. She just doesn't go into the bedroom, where the laundry pile is, or the office, where everything else is. It works :-).