Do you think you are a good housewife?

No . I am compulsive about vacuuming and tidying up 'stuff'. My kitchen is usually pretty clean, but I am pretty lazy about things like laundry and folding and anything outside of my normal cleaning routine.

I am if I may say so the best housewife in the world. I let the clean washing pile up until the pile is too big it starts to topple off the spare bed, and even then I only fold enough so that the pile doesn't topple. I don't believe in ironing, the clothes will iron themselves out over the course that you are wearing them. The meals I cook for myself and DP only borderline on healthy. But I must say my kitchen is always spotless, can't cook in a messy and dirty kitchen.
I love vaccumming though so that is always done, I would vaccum all day if I could.

I think I'm pretty good, but I used to be terrible!

I make sure I do the dishes, the washing (if I need to do any), pick anything up that's been left around, make the bed, wipe the coffee table, change the rubbish bag and anything else that I can find to do. This is everyday. I also cook every night as I don't really like DP doing it. He makes a big mess. I make his lunch every day too otherwise he won't eat.

Twice a week I vacuum everywhere and mop the kitchen, bathroom and laundry. Oh and clean the toilet, but I seem to do that more than twice a week.

Once a week I clean the bath, the shower, do the dusting and wash all the sheets and things like that.

Once every few weeks I clean the windows, the window sills and weed the gardens.

Some of these things are pretty hard to do at the moment, so I just half-arsed do the ones that require bending down.

DPs ONLY job is to take the rubbish and recycling out to the road once a week and he NEVER remembers.

Edited by eomachine

I'm getting better sloooowly
I try to keep the lounge kitchen area clean and tidy, especially the kitchen, it stresses me out otherwise and I cant cook in a messy kitchen.
I never can seem to get on top of the washing, there is always clothes waiting to get washed in the laundry, although I do fold them as soon as they are dry. I HATE ironing, there is always a pile waiting on the ironing board.
I do keep the bedrooms tidy - I find I cant sleep very well if our bedroom is messy.

Well I do about 2 lots of both dishes and laundry (hardly any bench space, and I still wash the baby stuff separately for some reason) a day, and cook nutricious dinners, dust every few days (we have unsealed gib & plaster walls in the lounge - friggin dusty), and clean the whole house once a week, so I think that's pretty good going, especially since I do ALL the indoor housework here.  But there's some stuff I'm terrible about - the showerbox gets scrubbed out when DH has had enough of it and lifts a finger (hey - why would I mess with the one chore he does?!?), the windows never get cleaned (it's a saftey feature - no birds have tried to fly through them yet!), the hard floors usually just get vacuumed rather than mopped, and there's no point cleaning out the inside of the cupboards because they're quite literally falling apart.  A half-renovated house is never going to look that clean compared to the amount of effort that goes into cleaning it, so I keep telling myself that our new house years down the road will reflect my housewifely efforts much better. 

I have a housekeeper!

Housework?????  what is that?

 

eomachine wrote: Oh god I'm a freak. I get it off my mother and I'm not even as bad as her. She is up at the crack of dawn jiffing the bath, pulling weeds, vacuuming, tidying, washing, anything and everything, all while smiling. She loves to clean and I'm turning out like her.

Oh don't worry too much, soon you'll have a baby and you won't care about housework as much Well, you will care.. but the you won't have as much time.. and as the child grows older, and they can make more mess.. you'll give up lol

Oh yes. if you come to my house before and after the kidsa re in bed the house is immaculate - but don't go in the sapre room...or the bathroom, or look in the cupboards....

Oh my gosh, I have a real problem in this territory. I have just started back at work full time this week and have noticed how much I am taken for granted!!!!! (I was working 30 hours but now am working 40)

I wash DP & my clothes 3 times a week, Tyrells clothes are washed every other day.
Dishes are done twice a day. I vacuum lounge twice a week, vacuum full house and mop floors once a week. Iron...not existant in my house. Bathroom is cleaned twice a week. I do the rubbish every morning and then place the main bin and recycling out on rubbish day. I cook at least 5 days a week, 1 day is take aways and by day 7 get your own or go without. I cook for Tyrell once a week that is inside.
Outside our rent covers the lawns, and once a month a weed the garden.

I think that covers it.....this is a huge problem with DP & I as I do the whole lot really!