Its only staggering in the context of having to spend all of my free time and energy making money for someone else
Feel free to start a business of your own. It takes 200% of your free time and after paying employees there's often nothing left to live on.
"I hate being a housewife. You cook, you clean, you do laundry, and then six months later you have to do it all again."
Joan Rivers
Unironically me with anything to do with dust
It just doesn't bother me. I sanitize stuff, but I can raise a whole dust bunny farm for 6 months before I touch the vacuum cleaner
six months?!!
Hey, go argue with Joan.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you may understand it better but it kills the subject
Remember housework used to be considered a job that needed a full time adult to attend to
Yes, back in the day when clothes were washed by vigorously rubbing them against a washboard, and then one-by-one cranking them through a wringer / mangle to dry them. Rugs were cleaned by taking them outside, hanging them on a line, and beating them with a carpet beater. Clothes were expensive, so any time they were damaged it was up to the wife to sew and mend them, and often she'd be sewing new ones too. Bread wasn't something you bought at the supermarket, it was something you made at home using basic ingredients like flour and water. Eggs came from a backyard chicken coop, and the wife had to feed the chickens too. And so on, and so on....
The 1950s and 60s had many of our modern conveniences and yet the standard was for 1 adult to handle the household
The 1950s are a really atypical time in history. The US was the victor in a world war, and the only country whose infrastructure didn't get absolutely smashed. Workers still had labour protections won during the great depression. And, full electrification with easily available electrical appliances was brand new.
I'm only able to keep up with it during my summer break from teaching. That said, I've told people that it's a matter of energy, not time*. I get my house spotless in two hours a week, but doing just one 90 minute lecture drains me to the point that the last thing I want to do is clean.
*Note: Folding clothes can fuck off, somehow that nonsense takes an hour with minimal impact on my home.
That's my issue. Our house isn't very big, just a smallish farmhouse. It doesn't take long to actually clean it. But after working full time as a truck driver, coming home and having to clean while I'm mentally exhausted from work is why our house looks like a pig ran amuck in it (we have pigs, they don't come inside the house often)
Now you get the appeal of minimalism. If cleaning is taking too much time, then reduce the amount of things you have to clean.
Having a mid physique means all the textures were made for you and don't warp in weird ways.
They can be the same thing. COMPETITIVE HOUSEKEEPING YEEHAAAW!!!!
The only one I do is EXTREME IRONING!!!
DomestiCORE 6000!!
This is why polyamory took off
I honestly see the appeal of it
Doesn't the amount of dishes just skyrocket tho
Yeah but that's why you get a partner who is good at dishes and doesn't mind doing them if you vacuum. You just happen to be better a vacuuming. It's the same idea that makes trading with other countries better than doing everything local.
I don't mind doing dishes, as long as those end up in the sink or colse to it. Don't make me clean those up across the home.
I know it's a joke, but please hear me out... Just get roommates to share chores with.
The majority of people out there are not cut out to be poly.
The majority of people I have known in poly relationships are not cut out to be poly.
This is why polygamy took off.
The difference? I personally haven't had any good experiences with any of these words
Polygamy = man has many wives
Polyamory = person has many partners
As i understand it, it’s all about how much misogyny is at play
a man with multiple wives is polygyny or a harem.
polygamy can be any gender, but if I were to guess, polygamy is one-to-many relationship (man with multiple wives, woman with multiple husbands), while polyamory is just a group of people all in a group relationship
As you age, the amount of effort increases. At least, it seems to.
The amount of effort it takes me not to eat everything and destroy my mid physique
Status as parent confirmed.
Get a robo-mop, OP
If there'd be a roboter able to clean the whole bathroom, I'd buy it right away. Cleaning the floor is actually the quickest of my cleaning tasks.
Just make sure it has a proper roller mop and not one of those dirty rag draggers.
One of the reasons it is important to find a decently paying part-time job: so you can have enough time for these things.
A decently paying part-time job is so rare that it’s basically an oxymoron
No, that's just a high paying skilled job that does part time. Medical jobs are plentiful or specialty things.
Fair, but at part time hours I could never afford cost-of living. My partner and I are both full-time skilled healthcare workers and find that the increases in cost of living are putting a squeeze on our monthly budget, which often leaves me wondering how the rest of the world manages.
I'm a corporate goober, fully institutionalized. I know no other life.
The notion of part time seems so absurd. I'm not saying it is wrong or bad, but just so puzzling, like a concrete life preserver.
I would love to work part time, but nobody would hire a part time cybersecurity leader. The effort it would take to make that institutional change to job sharing would be tremendous. It would just be easier to hire someone else for a little more money.
Start working on a cruise ship where you don't need a house.
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