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If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have read more
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any read more
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal read more
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.
I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's read more
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the read more
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day
My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it
My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it