Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Erma Bombeck

Tags: humor housekeeping chores



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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Erma Bombeck

Tags: family housekeeping mothers beds



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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Erma Bombeck

Tags: housekeeping cleanliness



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And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!

Dr. Seuss

Tags: housekeeping messies



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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

Phyllis Diller

Tags: children housekeeping



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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Wendy Wasserstein

Tags: life housekeeping aging cleaning



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A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

Jennifer Wilson

Tags: friendship friends housekeeping true-friends real-friends



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Excuse the mess, but we live here.

Roseanne Barr

Tags: life housekeeping cleaning mess messes



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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted

Ursula K. Le Guin

Tags: gender cooking housekeeping storytelling



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And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?"
"Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know.

Carolyn Wells

Tags: housekeeping femininity homemaker



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