Its only staggering in the context of having to spend all of my free time and energy making money for someone else
this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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Let alone doing that at the same time.
Feel free to start a business of your own. It takes 200% of your free time and after paying employees there's often nothing left to live on.
Yeah, and a start up investment of oh about your entire life savings if not multiple times that, which if your business fails will be nearly impossible to recoup and leaves you with either mountains of debt at worst, or at best ten thousand tacky tchotchkes that you thought seemed cute or humorous at the time but it turns out no one was willing to pay $50 for just to have crowding their living spaces... 🤷♀️
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"I hate being a housewife. You cook, you clean, you do laundry, and then six months later you have to do it all again."
Joan Rivers
Unironically me with anything to do with dust
It just doesn't bother me. I sanitize stuff, but I can raise a whole dust bunny farm for 6 months before I touch the vacuum cleaner
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Remember housework used to be considered a job that needed a full time adult to attend to
We could just go back to dirt floors
You need to coat them with cow dung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung
Mopping and cleaning doesn't sound so bad now, does it?
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Yes, back in the day when clothes were washed by vigorously rubbing them against a washboard, and then one-by-one cranking them through a wringer / mangle to dry them. Rugs were cleaned by taking them outside, hanging them on a line, and beating them with a carpet beater. Clothes were expensive, so any time they were damaged it was up to the wife to sew and mend them, and often she'd be sewing new ones too. Bread wasn't something you bought at the supermarket, it was something you made at home using basic ingredients like flour and water. Eggs came from a backyard chicken coop, and the wife had to feed the chickens too. And so on, and so on....
The 1950s and 60s had many of our modern conveniences and yet the standard was for 1 adult to handle the household
The 1950s are a really atypical time in history. The US was the victor in a world war, and the only country whose infrastructure didn't get absolutely smashed. Workers still had labour protections won during the great depression. And, full electrification with easily available electrical appliances was brand new.
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I'm only able to keep up with it during my summer break from teaching. That said, I've told people that it's a matter of energy, not time*. I get my house spotless in two hours a week, but doing just one 90 minute lecture drains me to the point that the last thing I want to do is clean.
*Note: Folding clothes can fuck off, somehow that nonsense takes an hour with minimal impact on my home.
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Now you get the appeal of minimalism. If cleaning is taking too much time, then reduce the amount of things you have to clean.
Wanting less, buying less, and spending less are the open secrets to success.
Then invest most your income, and you have a lot of time and money (relatively).
Then I'll finally be able to afford to want more, buy more, and spend more
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Having a mid physique means all the textures were made for you and don't warp in weird ways.
They can be the same thing. COMPETITIVE HOUSEKEEPING YEEHAAAW!!!!
The only one I do is EXTREME IRONING!!!
DomestiCORE 6000!!
This is why polyamory took off
I honestly see the appeal of it
Doesn't the amount of dishes just skyrocket tho
Yeah but that's why you get a partner who is good at dishes and doesn't mind doing them if you vacuum. You just happen to be better a vacuuming. It's the same idea that makes trading with other countries better than doing everything local.
I don't mind doing dishes, as long as those end up in the sink or colse to it. Don't make me clean those up across the home.
I know it's a joke, but please hear me out... Just get roommates to share chores with.
The majority of people out there are not cut out to be poly.
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Status as parent confirmed.
Get a robo-mop, OP
If there'd be a roboter able to clean the whole bathroom, I'd buy it right away. Cleaning the floor is actually the quickest of my cleaning tasks.
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Just make sure it has a proper roller mop and not one of those dirty rag draggers.
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One of the reasons it is important to find a decently paying part-time job: so you can have enough time for these things.
A decently paying part-time job is so rare that it’s basically an oxymoron
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Life was a lot easier, before we made it so easy.
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