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.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

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.

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.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

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.".

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.