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To: TheMom

You hire someone to do the housework. If you can’t afford that? Barter. Maybe you love to cook. Trade off two great dinners for 2 hours of cleaning windows, etc.


10 posted on 01/01/2009 1:18:35 PM PST by Palladin (When will Bill Ayers start bombing buildings again?)
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To: Palladin
Amen to all that you state. When I hear people say, "but I don't LIKE housework," and they are out in the workforce.

I ask them who does the laundry, cooking and cleaning. Usually, it is them, when they get home from an 8 hr day and on their weekends.

I took care of the "housework" mostly during the day, spent time with the family after dinner (which hubby and kids cleaned up)and enjoyed many things on the weekends.

Most women today are overworked, overstressed and burned out. They complain that they don't have enough "time for themselves" yet can't imagine not holding a full-time job or worse yet state, "We can't get by on just one income" (as they both drive expensive cars, eat out most of the time, send kids to expensive classes, camps, dance, etc. lessons and take vacations regularly to Disney!

24 posted on 01/01/2009 1:43:30 PM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Palladin

” Trade off two great dinners for 2 hours of cleaning windows, etc.”

When I was 6 I made a deal with my mother that if she would clean up my room and make my bed I would bake cookies once a week.

The only drawback was that I had to leave the kitchen like I found it.


119 posted on 01/02/2009 10:51:14 PM PST by dalereed
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