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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
Oct 1, 2025
Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.
Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.
People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.
Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.
The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
A good home must be made, not bought.
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.
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