Sunday, February 7, 2010

Is cleanliness REALLY next to godliness?

Naturally since we have children our home isn't pristine, but it doesn't rival a garbage dump either. It's mostly picked up. Since I don't work outside the home I should, in theory, have enough time and energy to do my daily household chores. Notice I said "in theory" because you see, there are certain chores that I abhor. Certain chores that no matter how much free time I have I don't want to do them. Number one on that list? DUSTING! So I was pretty surprised when my last poll closed, and the winning chore for "least repulsive" was dusting. Ugh.
  • 2 people voted for laundry. Is it weird to say that I like laundry? I love the satisfaction of seeing something really dirty come out of the washing machine looking and smelling clean. But I don't like folding and packing the clothes away. Sometimes the clothes hang out in the laundry baskets for a few days before they make their way into our dressers. :-P
  • Nobody chose taking out the trash. This is David's job in our house although I often bag it up and put it by the back door. But he has to take it out to the trash bin. Trash is a man's world.
  • 1 vote for doing the dishes. Dishes are okay. But if my dishwasher ever broke I'd be crying. Seriously.
  • 2 people don't mind vacuuming or washing their floors.
  • 3 for dusting. In the Sowers household we like pets: cats, fish, and dust bunnies. To quote a lady from church, "You can write your name in my dust, just don't write the date."

Happy cleaning!

3 comments:

Stephanie Goblirsch said...

There should have been a "All of the above" option. I dislike all cleaning most of the time!

Nikki said...

I broke down and dusted today. Mostly because I kept walking past some shelves in my upstairs hallway and noticing how filthy they were. *groan* The only chore I like is laundry. Everything else is cruddy. I don't like touching crusty food on dishes, I don't like lugging the vacuum all around the house, cleaning the bathroom is just not pleasant in any manner. I could go on and on. But laundry is good. :)

Amanda said...

I think it was I that voted for dishes...I like doing them. :)