Myths about House Chores - part 1

I came up with the "officially-first-post-topic" while I was thinking about the reason why we clean, and tidy up our houses.

From my point of view, cleaning and neating the place we live in is an ordinary thing that we all grew up doing it while we are in our parents' household until we depurture to pursue a life living in our households.

Regardless if it's a big massive house or a small apartment, that place is the place we eat, sleep, watch tv with our families, and do some other tasks related to our outside activities (work, studies..).

With time passing by, I came to realise that some of the things I personally believed in regarding house chores turns to be false:

- We clean our houses to "keep" it clean and neat

We do so many things in our houses and in case of presence of children, "keeping" the house clean it's kind of unrealistic.

We all live with people around either room-mates or family members, so there will be something that occurs suddenly. The process of cleaning, neating, and organizing house chores (instead of trying to "keep" the house clean) should be an "ongoing process" to make our living places clean and neat.

- The housewife is responsible of house chores

There are people who live by the thought that women and especially wifes are the ones who should be doing the house chores, I don't want to dig deep into this but what I can say clearly about this matter is that ((everyone is responsible about the place they live in)). Having the temporary comfort of someone there to take care of all the mess and managing house chores is quite irresponsible and shows a sense carelessness toward yourself and others (family members, room mates..).

Of course there should be a leading role in this process but you are not supposed to do everything ! Let others be involved: Let them pick up their dishes after meals, help with emptying the dishwasher and loading it with dishes, sweep and dry the bathroom floor after bathing/showering .. or any daily essential task.

- "We can do it once a week and it will be fine"

In the case of working parents, or students, working and studying can take the most energy and they end up being exhausted and uncapable of properly taking care of the cleanness of the house/apartment.

(We can do it once a week) method is not really effective and I will state it in the next post.

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