The worst thing about this daily work is that the results are not visible.
My husband comes home from work and says in a human voice: “How tired you are, you have been sitting at home all day.” After such a statement, I want to immediately get up, give a couple of arguments with a rolling pin, and throw the carefully prepared dinner into the trash can. Or on the head of the questioner. However, not a single woman has yet been able to explain “what have you been doing here all day, it is clear that you didn’t do anything”. We will try one more time.
1. Clean the sink in the bathroom. If a man is still capable of cleaning the bath itself, then he will never pay attention to the sink, even if it is covered in toothpaste.
2. Wipe the mirror. But at the same time the taps, which, after the hygienic procedures of the household, are also for some reason spattered with toothpaste.
3. Clean the toilet. Outside too. Yes, if a man can guess the inside of the cleaning agent, he will never think of wiping the faience friend outside. Wipe the bezel – too.
4. Clean the sink in the kitchen. Wash the dishes – half the problem. Then you need to separate the sink from the remnants of adhered fat.
5. Wipe the kitchen apron over the stove. Before that, men’s hands never reach. They do not even suspect that the apron is not only the one on the strings.
6. Sort the laundry before washing. Yes, men do it infrequently. That is why bachelor T-shirts quickly become the same indistinct brown. You have to dig yourself in someone else’s dirty socks – the children, moreover, throw them in the laundry with a lump.
7. Wipe spilled coffee. I do not know about you, but my man doesn’t wipe out spilled coffee with him. He sincerely does not see what he has spilled. Especially if spilled on the floor.
8. Clean the sofa from cat hair. No, my dear, our sofa is actually deep blue, not smoky.
9. Rinse the coffee maker. Yes, from the inside. The insides of the coffee maker are gradually covered with an oil film – coffee contains fat, by the way.
10. Wash your teapot. Or a french press. Rinse it before brewing new enough. The glass flask also grows cloudy from the tea lees, and from the touch of even clean hands.
11. Wipe the stove. Well, if it is stainless steel, to this surface tightly nothing sticks. And if not?
12. Wipe the dust off the windowsill. Bookshelves – they can be cleaned less often. Street smoke instantly rushes into the open window, which in a day makes the window sill of white gray.
13. Replenish food stocks. For some reason, no one else remembers that tea or bread is over, that you need to buy milk or butter. As if everyone else has some kind of a separate refrigerator where the products never end.
13. Buy toilet paper and toothpaste. And also shampoos, washing powder and other soap accessories. Nobody holds them in their heads either, but they refuse to appear by themselves. As packages for vacuum cleaner, sponges for shoes and other trifles.
14. Wash the cat bowl. Or dog. Waters to a pet may be poured, but hardly anyone will bother to wash his dishes.
15. Clean the exhaust hood. That’s really what hands do not reach. Some do not suspect that this grate should be cleaned. Just silently wondering why she suddenly stopped working normally.
16. Make a shopping list. Otherwise, you can wander around the supermarket for hours and nothing really to buy. But it is necessary to stock up on food for a week. The list of products and it is necessary to make another list – an approximate menu for the week. It also takes time.
17. Make the bed. Why cover her, in the evening, you still go to bed! Indeed, why. You can still not wash – all the same in the evening you get dirty. By the way, the little sluts in one thing are right – it is necessary to make the bed not immediately after waking up, but after 15 − 20 minutes.
18. Wipe the microwave from the inside. A special cover for heating food in the microwave is idle on top. What for? After all, the stove still does not get dirty! Getting dirty Just some people constantly wipe it.
19. Wash the kettle. I’m not talking about scale inside – you don’t need to do this every day, thank God. I’m talking about outside. If the kettle is next to the stove, it will inevitably get dirty. And if you don’t wipe it every day, then one fine Sunday you can spend half the morning trying to restore his human appearance.
20. Water or spray the flowers. Yes, there are indoor plants that can be watered once every five years. But even they need to spray and wipe the leaves.
21. Collect scattered clothes. A rare child and a rare man on arrival gently puts all clothes in the closet or in the laundry, depending on the state of the thing. More often it is “carefully hung clothes on the floor.” Or on the sofa, on the chair, anywhere, just not in place.
22. Ironing. Disgusting occupation, hated by most women. But where to get from him? Especially if the family has a schoolboy who needs neat shirts – the dress code requires.
23. Hang up and collect the laundry. While stroking one thing, another sorted has already been achieved. And you need to hang the laundry so that it will be easier to iron later. For some, this is a whole science.
24. To throw out the trash. Or recall that it is necessary to throw it away. And even better – give the package, which must be conveyed to the garbage.
25. Prepare food, clean up the kitchen, wash the dishes, wipe the table around the sink, sit for a minute in peace and quiet and sneak into the bedroom so as not to wake up the sweetly sleeping husband. The day is over, tomorrow is a new day.
PS One Japanese man, by the way, asked his wife on maternity leave this question every day. Japanese upbringing prevented his wife from answering with a rolling pin, but the man decided to find the answer himself. And he put several cameras in the apartment. Then he thoughtfully looked at the records and repented: it turned out that vegetables and rice would not cook themselves, a small child in a sling is not such a good assistant when cleaning, and indeed, a woman hardly sat down at least a couple of times in a day. Well, now he is convinced with his own eyes that his wife has something to get tired of.