I think I’ll suggest this remedy to my wife..........
No. I think it is deeper than that. I think a woman’s house reflects what her life is like. When I’m getting pulled in all directions, housework isn’t a priority. Looking at a sink of dishes, piled up clothes to wash etc gets to me. I feel out of control. It’s depressing. When the house is clean and organized the rest of my life seems organized too. We eat out less, appointments aren’t missed...life is calmer.
Don’t tell my bride, she is obssesive-compulsive. One speck of dust and it’s “all hands man your stations.”
Good suggestion from the country that gives us “How Clean Is Your House?” on BBC America. What degrading hovels these Brits live in!
I love it when the cleaning duo tells the filthy blighters off before teaching them how to get the horse manure off the kitchen floor...I kid you not.
Gosh, do you suppose there's any chance that depressed people might do less cleaning and play less tennis? Nah.
Let's take a trivial statistical correlation, pick the least likely causal sequence, and publish. Nobel Prize, here we come!
20 minutes a week of house cleaning? The place would look like a redneck shack in no time at all. How about a couple of hours a day? Unless it’s a very small house.
But the principle makes sense.
1) It’s depressing to live in a messy house.
2) It’s important to get exercise.
3) It’s always satisfying to do physical work, and do it well, in a way you can take pride in.
If you run around the block, you’ve gotten a little exercise. If you really clean up a room, you have accomplished something.
What a bunch of crap.
Ladies, don’t fall for this.
I feel so much better and on top of the world when my cleaning woman and man come twice a week and clean my apartment from top to bottom. They do what ever needs to be done to include electrical and pluming fixtures if repairs/replacements are needed. Also, they paint the apartment once a year (whether it needs it or not).
Obviously, I do not live in the U.S. of A.
For those few hours, I feel like a princess.
So there.
Funny no breakdown by sex. I suspect this is far more true in women than men. Studies of brain activity and hormone levels show women create the chemicals that create a feeling of well-being by “building the nest” as it were, cleaning and decorating. Men create them whole doing nothing after a period of stress (i.e. vegging out after work).
Sure it does. I could guess at the next healthful habit but let’s not be crude.
Sure as h*ll does. Ask my Husband and kids during that magical time of the month. They are grateful that I like to clean.
“Housework helps combat anxiety and depression”
Not as much as paying somebody else to do it!
I dance around to 50’s music when I swiffer my floors. It’s head rotates which makes it easier for some of the trickier dance steps.