________ Wife.

[2lazy2P]

I have no children, and work full time, but *some* activities that I do in my "free time" include:

*Meal planning for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
*Meal prep including grocery shopping, coupon clipping, veggi chopping etc. My life would be simpler if I had my own prep cook. I also include doing dishes in that.
*Beds - daily make up beds. Weekly wash and clean all bedding. Remake bed(s).
*Floors - sweep, vaccum, mop
*Baseboards - dust and wipe down baseboards
*Doors, walls, windowsills and lightswitches - wipe down and clean off grime/dust/fingerprints
*Dusting - furniture, knicknacks and miscellaneous other items
*Bathroom(s) - remove hard water deposits from shower, sinks and toilet. Clean and disinfect.
*Laundry - stain removal treatment, sort laundry, wash and dry approprately. Put away laundry. Iron laundry if necessary.
*Windows - wash windows. Also wash curtain treatments.
*Ceiling - remove cobwebs and clean ceiling fans.
*Fridge - clean out fridge/freezer, check for expired food, clean shelves, seals, doors, handles and top.
*Cabinets - dust and wipe down. Reorganize and rotate items on shelves.
*Recycling and trash - gather - sort and haul away.
*Indoor plants - water, maintain, and feed as necessary
*Dogs - feed, water, treat, bath, clip nails, clean ears, brush teeth, wash their bedding and toys, vet trips, etc
*Outdoor - sweep porches, mow yard, weed gardens, water plants, run from snakes.
*Miscellaneous - take clothes to dry cleaners when necessary, run errands, schedule vet appointments, doctor appointments, dentist appointments, mail family/friend birthday cards, sympathy cards, congratulation cards, post office trips, pay bills, pick up household items, etc.


This doesn't even cover KIDS!!! And it doesn't cover EVERYTHING!!!

Do you realize how long it actually takes to do laundry? Do you realize how time consuming it is to properly clean a bathroom? Do you have any clue how exhausting it is to spend a whole day running errands?

I'd love a freaking housewife, and I would never ever take advantage of her and I'd buy her flowers every week and take her out to dinner regularly.

Last weekend, I cleaned house all day Friday. Got up early Saturday and ran errands all freaking day including grocery shopping. Came home and finished laundry. Then Sunday, I spent the whole day do yardwork. I didn't get everything done. I was exhausted come Monday and was happy as crap to go to work on Monday morning, only to come home and see trash and laundry and dust and thinking the yard already needs to be mowed again.

I applaude and give great kudos to every house wife and house husband out there. Because it's a daunting and overwhelming job that never ends.

Again, just playing Devil's Advocate here - but mostly everything named off above is not a daily activity. Most of that is either done once a week to once a month. You have to look at it as is there enough work to fill a 9 hour day, 365 days a year? I hardly think so. And besides the point of this is all being done wearing those “comfy sweat pants," listening to the radio running from errand to errand, watch Oprah while the one load of laundry that built up from last night is being folded, etc.

 

[ArkRescue]

Again, just playing Devil's Advocate here - but mostly everything named off above is not a daily activity. Most of that is either done once a week to once a month. You have to look at it as is there enough work to fill a 9 hour day, 365 days a year? I hardly think so. And besides the point of this is all being done wearing those “comfy sweat pants," listening to the radio running from errand to errand, watch Oprah while the one load of laundry that built up from last night is being folded, etc.

UMM .... Oprah's last show was a couple weeks ago .....

 

[2lazy2P]

UMM .... Oprah's last show was a couple weeks ago .....

See! If I was a House Husband I would know this stuff!

 

[ArkRescue]

See! If I was a House Husband I would know this stuff!

I'm not a housewife and I KNOW.

 

[2lazy2P]

I'm not a housewife and I KNOW.

What about Price is Right....does that work?

 

[SoMDGirl42]

Again, just playing Devil's Advocate here - but mostly everything named off above is not a daily activity. Most of that is either done once a week to once a month. You have to look at it as is there enough work to fill a 9 hour day, 365 days a year? I hardly think so. And besides the point of this is all being done wearing those “comfy sweat pants," listening to the radio running from errand to errand, watch Oprah while the one load of laundry that built up from last night is being folded, etc.

Would you like the number to my divorce attorney? I think you're gonna need it.

Mind you, I work full time and I'm a single mom, and I can guarantee you I have enough work to do at home that it is like a second full time job. You don't realize how much has to be done, until you are the one doing it ALL. And I'm not referring to a single person living in a house alone. I'm referring to a home that has kids in it. Kids can wreck a place quicker than I can clean it!

 

[2lazy2P]

Would you like the number to my divorce attorney? I think you're gonna need it.

Mind you, I work full time and I'm a single mom, and I can guarantee you I have enough work to do at home that it is like a second full time job. You don't realize how much has to be done, until you are the one doing it ALL. And I'm not referring to a single person living in a house alone. I'm referring to a home that has kids in it. Kids can wreck a place quicker than I can clean it!

Have two kids plus a stay at home wife - and believe me, she is not employed nowhere close to 9 hours a day.

Not that I care - was just making conversation.

But honestly there is not enough work around the house to keep you going non-stop like there is in the workplace. Just isn't and it is proved in my own household.

 

[ArkRescue]

What about Price is Right....does that work?

Is that show still on the air? How old are you anyway?

 

[2lazy2P]

Is that show still on the air? How old are you anyway?

Yup, that one I know is still on. Drew Carey is the host.

And I am a seasoned 32

 

[SoMDGirl42]

Have two kids plus a stay at home wife - and believe me, she is not employed nowhere close to 9 hours a day.

Not that I care - was just making conversation.

But honestly there is not enough work around the house to keep you going non-stop like there is in the workplace. Just isn't and it is proved in my own household.

Is your house clean? Laundry done? Meals cooked and cleaned every day? Kids bathed? Dogs feed and walked? Grass cut?

I can tell you that days I stay home, I work harder there than I do at work some days.

I suggest you send your wife on a 2 week vacation without the children and stay home with them. You may just appreciate all the things that she does that you don't know about. Then again, maybe not and you can call her out for being a lazy no good stay at home house biatch.

 

[Nickel]

But honestly there is not enough work around the house to keep you going non-stop like there is in the workplace. Just isn't and it is proved in my own household.

Agreed. IMO having/being a SAHM is a luxury. All the menial crap work gets done during normal working hours, and spare time is truly spare time that the family can spend doing things together instead of folding laundry or cleaning bathrooms. And to put my statement into context, I've been a SAHM for about 5 years. When I go back to work, free time will be devoted to what I can spend a good chunk of time on now.

 

[2lazy2P]

Is your house clean? Laundry done? Meals cooked and cleaned every day? Kids bathed? Dogs feed and walked? Grass cut?

I can tell you that days I stay home, I work harder there than I do at work some days.

I suggest you send your wife on a 2 week vacation without the children and stay home with them. You may just appreciate all the things that she does that you don't know about.

She has been gone on away vacation since July 11th and won't be back until the first week of August

Then again, maybe not and you can call her out for being a lazy no good stay at home house biatch.

You're out of control.

 

[Nickel]

I suggest you send your wife on a 2 week vacation without the children and stay home with them. You may just appreciate all the things that she does that you don't know about. Then again, maybe not and you can call her out for being a lazy no good stay at home house biatch.

I didn't get that from him at all.

 

[SoMDGirl42]

She has been gone on away vacation since July 11th and won't be back until the first week of August



You're out of control.

Did she take the kids with her?

I don't deny being out of control, but my house is clean

 

[SoMD_Fun_Guy]

Is your house clean? Laundry done? Meals cooked and cleaned every day? Kids bathed? Dogs feed and walked? Grass cut?

I can tell you that days I stay home, I work harder there than I do at work some days.

I suggest you send your wife on a 2 week vacation without the children and stay home with them. You may just appreciate all the things that she does that you don't know about. Then again, maybe not and you can call her out for being a lazy no good stay at home house biatch.

Or maybe his wife will come back to a wrecked house, dirty laundry everywhere, pizza boxes piled high in the corner, trash overflowing, lawn is knee high, kids covered in mud, toys everywhere. But the dishes and cups will be clean because they never used them.

Just playin off the old stereotype of sloppy male versus neat female.

 

[SoMDGirl42]

I didn't get that from him at all.

I get what he's saying. It doesn't take 9 hours a day to keep a house clean. I agree, every minute is not spent cleaning. But unless everything is being neglected, I think more time is spent cleaning than watch Jerry Springer and eating bon-bons.

 

[migtig]

Again, just playing Devil's Advocate here - but mostly everything named off above is not a daily activity. Most of that is either done once a week to once a month. You have to look at it as is there enough work to fill a 9 hour day, 365 days a year? I hardly think so. And besides the point of this is all being done wearing those “comfy sweat pants," listening to the radio running from errand to errand, watch Oprah while the one load of laundry that built up from last night is being folded, etc.

You and your family obviously do not clean nor maintain your home to my standard. :shrug: Trust me, I clean the house it's a 16 hour day and I do NOT finish everything. I mow the yard it takes 4 hours.

 

[2lazy2P]

You and your family obviously do not clean nor maintain your home to my standard. :shrug: Trust me, I clean the house it's a 16 hour day and I do NOT finish everything. I mow the yard it takes 4 hours.

9 hours a day, 365 days a year this time is spent?? Or are you referring to you work during the day and then this is time spent cleaning after work before bed?

 

[ewashkow]

Again, just playing Devil's Advocate here - but mostly everything named off above is not a daily activity. Most of that is either done once a week to once a month. You have to look at it as is there enough work to fill a 9 hour day, 365 days a year? I hardly think so. And besides the point of this is all being done wearing those “comfy sweat pants," listening to the radio running from errand to errand, watch Oprah while the one load of laundry that built up from last night is being folded, etc.

Quick question-how old are your kids? I took about a week break before I started my current job so that I could deep clean my house before starting another 9-5, and having my 1 year old around "helping" made everything go at least twice as long since certain things had to be done at least twice. As SoMDGirl said, kids can trash a house quicker than you can clean it.

 

[yankee44]

What about at the end of a wedding when the preacher says "Ladies and Gentlmen I present to you Mr. and Mrs. John Doe"