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I have been cleaning house since I was very young.\u00a0 My mother was a good housekeeper and I guess it\u2019s true that, \u201cApples don\u2019t fall very far from the tree\u201d.\u00a0 When I was first married, I actually thought that the cleaning I did was for my husband\u2019s benefit.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until he went on a business trip years later that I learned who I actually cleaned for.<\/p>\n
I had everything thing all planned out. \u00a0\u00a0I was going to sleep in everyday, let the dishes go, let the laundry and cleaning pile up until the day my husband was coming home.\u00a0 So, I dropped him off at the airport and thought about what I wasn\u2019t going to do when I got home.<\/p>\n
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My plan was to come home and go back to bed and I couldn\u2019t wait!\u00a0 I came into the house but instead of going back to sleep I saw that the laundry basket was filled, so I started the wash.\u00a0 There were dishes in the sink so I did them.\u00a0 I needed some groceries for dinner so I went to the store.<\/p>\n
When I came home, I unpacked everything and noticed the house needed vacuuming and dusting, so I did that too.\u00a0 Then, I thought I\u2019d wash the windows while the clothes were drying.\u00a0 The kids would be coming home from school soon, so I started making dinner.<\/p>\n
Each day I got up early like I always had, got the kids breakfast, got them to school, came home and made the beds, got them to practice and began the process all over again.<\/p>\n
By the fourth day when I\u2019d thought about things, I realized that what I thought I\u2019d do while my husband was away, turned out to be exactly what I didn\u2019t do!\u00a0 It was then that I realized that I clean for myself, not my husband.\u00a0 I enjoy my house because it had that \u201clived-in look\u201d that my friends and family loved and was the reason they came over to visit and spend time together.<\/p>\n
I remember in the early 1960\u2019s the Labor Board printed a list of occupations and their equivalent compensations. A housewife was listed just after a Dog Catcher and very close to the bottom!\u00a0 Today the job of housewife with its various responsibilities would pay about $160,000.00 a year.<\/p>\n
What I want women\/home-makers to know is that you can\u2019t get fired for doing the house work — you don\u2019t get paid in the first place!\u00a0 However, if you\u2019re fortunate, you will have the support and the affection of your husband. The reality is, unless there are piles and piles of stuff in the middle of your living room, a man doesn\u2019t notice what you\u2019ve done.\u00a0 Hopefully, he just loves coming home to you and the kids … and isn’t that the biggest pay off of all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been cleaning house since I was very young.\u00a0 My mother was a good housekeeper and I guess it\u2019s true that, \u201cApples don\u2019t fall very far from the tree\u201d.\u00a0 When I was first married, I actually thought that the cleaning I did was for my husband\u2019s benefit.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until he went on a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[89,410,411,342,409],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dear-heather","tag-family","tag-housewife","tag-housework","tag-marriage","tag-wife"],"yoast_head":"\n