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purepleasure -> Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:07:43 PM)

I was going to post a reply about housework in a different thread, but far be it from me to hijack a thread.  (I'll wait while you finish laughing)

Ok, now seriously, about housework, do you love it, hate it, or just don't do it.  If you're someone that has help come in and do it for you, share about that too!

Personally, I absolutely HATE folding laundry.  I'm fine with washing and drying and hanging things in closets.  But folding is just one of those things, at least for me.

On the other hand, I LOVE to vacum!  My vacum really sucks, and I mean that in the BEST way.  I like when the nap in the carpet has the different patterns, kind of like baseball fields.



jen182 -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:14:09 PM)

i like doing laundry, washing, drying, folding, hanging, all of that,
enjoy vaccuming
LOVE cleaning windowns and polishing things
not too big on dishes



mistoferin -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:14:27 PM)

I think that I have a love/hate relationship with it. Some days I just really get into it...like when I'm doing spring cleaning. I absolutely love how it feels when everything has been detailed and it's all fresh. Some days it just seems like such a drain. Usually, those days come when I've had a few days where I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off and have let the everyday cleaning slip. You have a million things to do and it seems like you are only home long enough to dump the things in your hands and go to sleep. Even though it's not technically dirty....just messy with things out of place or needing to be put away....it can just really bring you down and make the task at hand seem a lot bigger than it is.



kristileigh -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:15:58 PM)

hate it!
i don't mind sweeping and mopping(hard wood floors through out the whole house) if the cat would leave the  broom alone whilst i am doing it.
Laundry .........yuck!



YourhandMyAss -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:16:14 PM)

Mist, me too, there's times I want to organiz  the book shelves cause Daddy messed em up an they're all jumbly, or that I want to neaten and straiten my computer area, make it super organized, and clean clean clean, cause I feel up to it, and other times I am like shit it can stay the way it is, I don't feel like making it any other way.
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ORIGINAL: mistoferin

I think that I have a love/hate relationship with it. Some days I just really get into it...like when I'm doing spring cleaning. I absolutely love how it feels when everything has been detailed and it's all fresh. Some days it just seems like such a drain.



Lynnxz -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:16:30 PM)

I hate cleaning usually, but every once in a while I'll get into it. Spring cleaning is *almost* finished, I've done everything from washing the walls down to steam cleaning the carpet today....now it's fricking nap time. 



KatyLied -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:17:41 PM)

I hate cleaning house.  If I were wealthy I'd have someone come in every 2 weeks and clean house.  I don't mind laundry nearly as much as I detest housework.  I could easily move through washing/drying/putting away a ton of laundry.  But the thought of moping floors and cleaning out the refrigerator - ugh.



MsFlutter -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:18:17 PM)

I like bringing order from chaos, throwing stuff away. I usually clean house THEN bring in the cleaning team :)



MissMorrigan -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:22:38 PM)

It's a means to an end for me, although on rare occasions I can find it therapeutic when something has angered me - I tend to do some housework then and boy, when I do, the place has never looked cleaner lol

My boy, on the other hand, loves to keep house and I've adored coming home to a nicely kept house, with laundry washed/dried and put away, dinner on the go etc... then, on occasion, he's slacked off and I've come through the door to see clutter everywhere - that's my bear bug, I'm afraid. I cannot stand to see untidiness in my own place even though I make more than my fair share - I guess that's b/c I spend my working life organising other people, so at home it's my individual rebellion to throw my clothes off/not put things away, etc... Thank goodness I have my ideal in my submissive partner.



Phoenixpower -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:29:50 PM)

OH I HATE IT...if I would be with a dom who is high in cleaning...then I might end up with being grounded forever or a sore bum forever *lol* I am just not good at it. To make it more worse here in UK working in residential home involves a lot of cleaning (whereas in germany our residents did the majority of the cleaning and we were just supervising them and also had cleaners) therefore once I get home from work...I don't fancy to continue to clean...my aim to tidy up my flat here is my "neverending story.

already as a child my mum was regularly annoyed because always when she wanted me to tidy up I decided to rearrange my room and so it got even worse with moving around my furniture and rearranging things...she promised me once to get a new bike when my room is tidy for 4 weeks...never got that one...

It gives me more peace and happyness when I managed to get it clean...but it never really lasts for long [&o]



mistoferin -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:31:46 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MissMorrigan
although on rare occasions I can find it therapeutic when something has angered me


I can clean a house like gangbusters if I'm pissed. I move through it at the speed of light, scrub harder, throw out stuff that I normally would hesitate about and tear into areas that I don't hit on the day to day stuff. Crank up the tunes as loud as they will go and go to town!



everhope -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:33:52 PM)

i love domestic duties when it is for someone else...laundry, vacumning, kitchen detail, bathrooms, any and all of it, but for just me...i do the minimum so that i can function. however, if i become angry my bathroom will be the cleanest anyone has ever seen!



hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:36:01 PM)

I hate doing housework, but I'd rather do the housework than look at the mess that accumulates if I Don't do the housework.  I'm toooooooo much a cheapskate to pay someone else to come in and do the cleaning for me when I'm quite capable of doing it myself - even on the days when what I Want to do is lay in bed and whimper until someone shoots me to make the pain go away during a flare.
 
Fortunately for me, housework is relatively easy around here.  The only other person in the house is dad - and he stays mostly in his own room, and doesn't make messes in the rest of the house when he Does emerge from in there.  Kitchen stays cleaned up because I clean while I'm cooking (I can't stand to let it become a mess while I'm working in it - so I tend to do it all as I go.)  The office doesn't get messy since I'm the only one that uses it, the living room doesn't get messy unless I've got the coffee table cluttered with painting supplies, and the workshop gets cleaned routinely so that I can work unhampered.  My bedroom is the only room that ever really gets BAD - but since I'm the only one who ever actually has to look at it, I'm OK with that.  Laundry tends to get done at the same time that I'm doing 15 other things, since I can start it and walk away rather than having to stay in one spot while it's washing or drying.
 
If any of it goes for more than a couple of days without Anything getting done - I'm probably so ill that I haven't gotten out of bed other than  to go to the bathroom - or I'm out of town at a craftshow or renfaire.  (Don't ask how long  it takes me to get the camping gear outta the car and put away though...... )



MissMorrigan -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:41:47 PM)

The tables were turned on me recently when I was made redundant - which means I am home during the day when I'm not job searching, so I get to do all the housework - lucky me! NOT! When I was a kid my room was always spotless - because I was never in it, I was always out with my mates being a typical tomboy, I'd come in, throw my clothes in the laundry basket, hit my room, check my books hadn't been messed with as I'm very finicky regarding my books (I hate people turning the corners or cranking them wide open so the spine cracks past its seams) and then it was off to sleep once I'd eaten. My playroom was the great outdoors so I guessed to keep all my stuff in one small space and I'm still rather like that today in a way.

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ORIGINAL: Phoenixpower
OH I HATE IT...if I would be with a dom who is high in cleaning...then I might end up with being grounded forever or a sore bum forever *lol* I am just not good at it. To make it more worse here in UK working in residential home involves a lot of cleaning (whereas in germany our residents did the majority of the cleaning and we were just supervising them and also had cleaners) therefore once I get home from work...I don't fancy to continue to clean...my aim to tidy up my flat here is my "neverending story.

already as a child my mum was regularly annoyed because always when she wanted me to tidy up I decided to rearrange my room and so it got even worse with moving around my furniture and rearranging things...she promised me once to get a new bike when my room is tidy for 4 weeks...never got that one...

It gives me more peace and happyness when I managed to get it clean...but it never really lasts for long [&o]


I know how that is, Mist, I go through the place like a dose of salts. I'd rather never say something in anger that I'd likely regret, so take it out on the house plus it burns a helluva load of calories lol  I really must start doing it more often. The problem is tho, once I've finished cleaning woe betide ANYONE that makes a mess - I'm then even worse than when I started [:D]
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ORIGINAL: Mistoferin
I can clean a house like gangbusters if I'm pissed. I move through it at the speed of light, scrub harder, throw out stuff that I normally would hesitate about and tear into areas that I don't hit on the day to day stuff. Crank up the tunes as loud as they will go and go to town!



LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 1:47:01 PM)

I hate doing housework, but I love the end result.  I have more intense depression symptoms when the house is messy.

On the other hand, I *love* doing laundry & could spend the rest of my life contendly washing, drying, folding & hanging up clean clothes.  This last few months have been hard for me with my mental status the way it's been, so even when I do get the place cleaned up, it's a huge mess again very quickly & I can't seem to ever get all the laundry done.  Back in the old days, there were certain days of the week that certain chores were done & I even would embroider that onto our dishtowels.  LOL  Sheesh, I'm old.  [8|]



Shadow-tiger -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 2:14:13 PM)

Yeah what she said. The doing of it can drive me nuts, but when everything is where it should be I'm a happy boy. The alternative of letting everything pile up until it's a huge fetid mess just oesn't sit well for me. So there's times when things pile up for a bit, then whem a huge surge of cleaning. I do just about every bit of cleaning around here, though so far I've managed to avoid doing the windows. [:'(]



redwoodgirl -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 2:31:29 PM)

Back when i was a new mother, I could get the sheets off, washed and dryed, and back on the bed while my um was still
sleeping in it!
Now, the sheets still get washed of course, but i only have blankets and duvets that dont have to be tucked in,
one flick and the bed is made.
Vacuuming i can do all day, i think the motor puts me in a trance [sm=sleepy.gif]



kittinSol -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 2:32:28 PM)

I fucking hate it. I still do it: not a sucker for perfection, but I can't live in a hovel. 



StrictnSaucy -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 2:33:21 PM)

Like most, depends on my mood.
We are lucky in that we get a cleaner in once a week to give the house a top to toe going over. She comes in on a Friday. We then spend a couple hours on Saturday or Sunday morning redoing some of the things she has done (our old nanny used to clean and told me there were several tricks cleaners use to make something look like its been cleaned when infact its just been given the once over). I always re-bleach the toilets, hand basins, showers and bath, clean the fridge and do a few other bits and pieces. And I actually find it theraputic - I guess its easy when you dont feel over burdened.



LaTigresse -> RE: Housework - love it? hate it? (1/23/2009 2:33:49 PM)

I don't think hate is a strong enough word for how I feel about house work. Fortunately, I do less than half at the farm.

I am cool with a little mess, but filth, especially in the bathroom or kitchen, I cannot stand. I say this as I know 3 days of dirty dishes are sitting in my sink.... It's been a very rough week and I've had to spend most of my waking hours, and some I should have been sleeping, dealing with other crap. Tomorrow the kitchen gets an overhaul before I can even think of cooking in it.

I almost never ever dust. I rarely have to clean the bathroom. The floors only occasionally also. Generic dude usually does all of that. I do clean out the garage a couple times a year and the barn is all my problem.

However, I tend to be the one that makes sure all the vehicles (except the piece of shit lawn tractor I didn't want to buy) are kept serviced and washed.

I guess it all evens out in the end.



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