You are a terrible housewife if you find these 5 things in your home.
Every woman considers herself worthy of the title of a good life partner. She cooks well, looks after the children, and greets her husband with a smile. But is this enough to be called a truly diligent homemaker? Not at all.
There are little things that a woman simply does not notice and, out of habit, passes by them.. She thinks everything is fine. But then a guest arrives and sees a shoe dump in the hallway, a dusty mirror, and painted wallpaper. First impression: there is no owner in this house. So that visitors don’t think about you like that, let’s do an audit of your home.
The content of the article
Pile of shoes
The first thing that catches your eye when entering the apartment is the mountain of shoes in the hallway. Winter, demi-season boots, shoes, summer sandals, sneakers, sneakers are in disarray, taking up a lot of space, interfering with the passage. Go through your shoes and leave the ones you are currently wearing. Place it in a corner on a neat shelf, in a special cabinet. Distribute the rest into boxes, hide it in a closet or put it in the pantry. This will give your hallway a pleasant look; it will immediately seem more well-groomed and spacious to guests.
Dirty furniture, shabby wallpaper
Armchairs, sofas, and other furnishings in the room must be clean. Stains on the upholstery do not contribute to the guest’s desire to sit on such a “throne”. Therefore, such furniture should be cleaned using modern household chemicals. If you can’t wash it, try updating it by replacing the upholstery.Wooden interior items can be sanded and varnished.
With wallpaper it's much easier. Remove dust with a vacuum cleaner, try to wash contaminated areas with ordinary water. If the wallpaper has peeled off in places or is torn, then you cannot do without replacing it with new ones. As a last resort, when major repairs are not expected, make original patches.
Dead flowers
It’s nice to enter the apartment and feel the pleasant aroma of spring and summer flowers.. But how everything around dims when you see a fading bouquet. Nothing lasts forever under the moon, even the most beautiful rose tends to die. You should get rid of such flowers immediately, even if this bouquet was given to you by a loved one. Replace it simple a sprig of lilac, a bouquet of field daisies - the room will immediately take on an attractive, cozy look.
Dust and dirt
The first enemies of the housewife are dusty, dirty pieces of furniture, window sills, glass, mirrors. Even daily cleaning does not always help. It seems like just yesterday everything was washed and cleaned, but today you see the same problems.
Dust spots, dirty spots, and garbage not only reveal a lazy housewife. This is also an additional breeding ground for bacteria, a threat to various diseases, such as allergies, gastrointestinal diseases and others.
Therefore, make it a rule to do wet cleaning every day, wipe mirrors, windows, furniture at least once a week, and take out the trash in a timely manner. Everything in the house should be sparkling clean.
Towels, potholders, mops
As a rule, guests rarely enter the kitchen. But is it pleasant for you to wipe your hands with an old, battered towel, or to put a torn kitchen mitt on your hand? Doesn't the mop, modestly tucked in the corner, catch your eye? But all these “little things” will immediately attract the attention of a neighbor who happens to drop by.Therefore, try to ensure that the towels are clean, tidy, and do not show holes. The potholders must be intact, without any marks. Mop and vacuum cleaner out of sight! Without regret, get rid of tablecloths with stubborn stains and replace them with new ones.
Conclusion
The inspection of the house is completed. Of course, if you look more thoroughly, you can find some other things that indicate you are a careless housewife. Stacks of old newspapers, magazines, a lot of various trinkets, an old “grandmother’s” sideboard... All this requires attention and some care. The main thing is to notice these “little things” in a timely manner. Throw away excess or donate to a charity; what needs to be done is to put it in order. Then no one will dare to say that a sloth lives in this house.
If things are 70 years old, then they are antiques.
You need to have the imagination of a woodpecker to replace antique furniture with modern chipboard furniture.
Translated article or something:
“As a rule, guests rarely come into the kitchen...”?
Get all your clothes out of the house! And the hostess is out too!
Should you clean the windows every week? Wipe it yourself.
And if there is a small child in the house, then it turns out that I have to wash the upholstery or change it every day, and the same with the wallpaper. Rave.
We live in a world of careless housewives. And most are happy! There are friends whose ideal apartment you go to under pressure, and there are those who joyfully jump over the mountain of shoes in the hallway and happily sit down on the “stained” sofa. Psychologists also believe that sterile cleanliness in the house is a sign of a serious mental disorder :)
Was it written by a teenager or the wife of an oligarch?
What does grandma's sideboard have to do with it? We are talking about cleanliness and order in the house. Stupid note!
I agree 100%
Sexist article! Maintaining order in the house does not belong to the woman alone.
What makes you think that the article is sexist?
I’m 53, I’ve been a terrible housewife my entire adult life, and this doesn’t bother my husband and I at all?
I'm a terrible housewife. I work seven days a week trying to feed 4 children, naturally I don’t have the strength to maintain cleanliness. Should I not sleep at night? Or live with a deep inferiority complex?
Should you live for yourself or for your guests, author? This is my swamp (Shrek)
Hello! There is no call in the article to live for someone, these are just tips for housewives
If you do wet cleaning every day, you will die ahead of time. There are other things to do around the house. As far as I know, normal people wash their floors on Saturdays once a week, and everything is fine.
Stupid article.As for dust, shoes, oven mitts, ok! But here's the renovation. If you’ve already gotten into sexism: order is a woman’s responsibility, then continue in the same vein: if there’s no money for repairs, man...
Alas, there is shabby wallpaper and the need to do a good repair (which is unrealistic in the near future, for various reasons. Everything else is little things, one weekend is enough to get rid of.
All of us who work should feel guilty that we are not the housewives from the series. And the article convinced us of this.
And I liked the article, probably because everything is exactly the same for me, except for my wallpaper, I agree. Not ripe for repairs and no money. For the rest, you don’t need money, just the habit of tidying up, don’t save, don’t clutter, don’t regret (like suddenly it comes in handy, well, I’ll use it again). In the morning I get up half an hour earlier and have time to tidy the beds, wipe the dust, check the flowers, prepare the trash for take-out, clean up the toilet))))
Stop a galloping horse.....
Nope, they don’t jump past me))) I lie, sometimes they jump: an older student arrives and starts doing a warm-up for my cats and his younger brother)))
And I liked the article... And as for wallpaper... I simply don’t have any. All the walls are painted with a pleasant paint - somewhere beige-gray, somewhere just gray-beige, somewhere textured plaster. Very comfortably! wiped with a cloth - and everything was clean. Of course, it’s good to wipe the floor every day... but only when your husband helps. If he is vacuuming and you just use a rag to go everywhere, that’s fine. And so - if you wipe it once every 3 days - it’s not dirty at all. Shoes and jackets, of course, need to be put away and taken out according to the season. That's right!
It's complete bullshit, discovered America, damn it! All this is clear and obvious. Just to write something. Anyone who doesn’t comply with all this either doesn’t care and it’s normal, or doesn’t have the time (or health). Now such a housewife must have an inferiority complex? And family happiness certainly doesn’t depend on such bullshit.
If you follow the test, I am an ideal housewife. Nice! Nobody calls for scrubbing everything to the point of insanity, but there’s no need to neglect it either. Believe me, it’s not difficult. When I was a small child, we had a terrible floor (new building) and under the linoleum there was a cement floor and dust accumulated within 24 hours. My neighbor and I washed the floors every day day!!! and not only in the apartment, but also in the stairwell (corridor for 8 apartments, dirt was dragging around). You can choose wallpaper, even cheap ones, in an original way, and even re-glue the furniture (paint it, update the old 70-year-old one, rearrange the modules) with something. Believe me, a person who lived in the USSR (an era of shortages), lack of money and lack of goods (there was nothing in stores and through connections). I put things in order as the season changes, everything is in boxes and on the mezzanine!!! Kitchen mitts, towels are like this now beautiful and cheap...doesn't wash out...in the trash!!!
What a habit of labeling “every woman considers herself worthy of the title of a good life partner”; I never thought so, I don’t think so, and I was convinced long ago that life was not given to devote every minute of it to eternal cleaning; cleaning - out of necessity, the rest of the time - for pleasure, otherwise on your deathbed there will be nothing to remember, and only regrets will remain
It seems that “on the Internet” the word “granny” has become a dirty word! The rest has already been discussed in the article! A good housewife is one whose home is comfortable.
And what the author is calling for is an ikea showroom.
The house was a mess for 20 years, and the citizen author believes that he will be able to motivate the bungling owner to restore order and cleanliness. No, dear author, a miracle will not happen. Everything will remain in the same disgusting form, because the owner needs to be replaced a long time ago.
Thanks to the author!
There is an easier way - do not invite idiots and gossips into your house.
That is, if I have my grandmother’s sideboard, then I’m a careless housewife? What nonsense? Yes, I live in an apartment where 90% of things are 70 years old, so what? Well, I don’t have the money to buy something new instead. Now think: if things are 70 years old, how well were they made?