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I had to laugh at myself. I spotted the News article 'More housework means more [censored]' on the Dad Talk homepage and clicked on the link quickly and with interest (I guess its a bloke thing).
I followed the link to the newspaper article Spruce home - spice marriage.
The most amusing part was reading some of the comments to the article, my favourite being:
The 1 I get. The .6 is, is that when you start off having [censored] then stop to do more cleaning?
Anyway that's not good enough, according to another article men should have [censored] twice a week to prevent something, think it was heart attacks. ...
I wonder whether there's been a study about what counters the 'healthy effect' of housework - my guesses include: worn out by the children; too much diy; excessive alcohol intake; cold dull winter weather ...
Anyway. If I compare the amount of housework I do now to what I used to do say 5 or 10 years ago I'd have hoped to be so worn out in the bedroom that I'd have to ignore the housework. 😆 Needless to say that ain't the case 🙂
it's hilarious! 23 hours a week doing housework...i think that's what the article said men do. what is that all about?? where do these people live? buckingham palace? if i was termed a 'get up and go person'...i'd be out of the house not polishing the family silver!
i'm a stay at home dad and do most of the housework...definitely a lot less than 23 hrs! i gotta say i don't think the image of me cleaning the can really gets my lovely lady in the mood!
I wonder whether the idea is that we do the cleaning together? It doesn't say that, but maybe all the elbow grease is supposed to get our pheromones going - thus requiring us to be nearby eachother.
😆 Maybe me and the toddler leave more trails wherever we go with biscuits and crackers. I am forever finding cheerios, shreddies and rasins in the kitchen and lounge. I hate crunching them underfoot, so end up brushing up the worst of it. If we've been very 'creative' then I sometimes do this a couple of times a day (with my wife in another room, I hasten to add) 😉
The other thing I do is stack stuff into the dishwasher because I hate seeing 24 hours of plates, cups, bowls, pans on the side (yes, I do this while my mrs is playing rock band on the 360). I even wash big stuff by hand (sometimes with toddler swimming alongside me).
When was the last time any of you swept/brushed/vaccumed the floor?
Hi all
Who does these surveys? I reckon that was commissioned by Kim and Aggie!!!
I help around the house (not enough and to a much poorer standard according to my current wife!!!) Not sure that I am being rewarded with [censored] though!
However the reality is we both work long hours, we have two children who can untidy a room far quicker than we can clean it therefore we only really clean at weekends - unless we know we have visitors.
Other than that we are both too tired!!!
So Survey people ask some normal people like me for a change!
Mario
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