Household Maintenance Quotes

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.'

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage.

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

My husband taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.