do people actually have 2 hours a day available just to clean?? that's just nuts. i have very little time available to myself in mya partment and there's no way in hell that i'd spend two hours of it cleaning.

i'm with you, valkyrie, i highly doubt i spend as much as 10-15 hours a month cleaning, and my apartment is not that messy. yes, there are days when it's messier than others, but still not so bad.

Very few people would admit to not having much of a life to allow that. Even the "average" SAHM or retiree doesn't have the time on her hands to allow that.

COME CLEAN
 

COOOOOOOOME CLEEEEEEEEAN, COOOOOMe CLEEEEEAN!!!!!

Subtle hint to clean freaks, I am not! Reform me, Paleeze! Come Help Me!:)

While I do not have Piles, I have a lot of Treasures sitting around!:D

Although I appreciate the implication that I must be terrible at cleaning because I don't devote a lot of time to it, that's simply not true. There's nothing wrong with being efficient, and when you have interesting things to do, you become more efficient at doing every day tasks around the house. Quantity does not equal quality. I'd much rather read a book, hang out with friends, go to the gym, have quality time with Mr. valkyrie or play with the cats than clean for two hours every day. At the end of my life, I don't think I'll look back and say, "Wow, I wish I spent more time cleaning!"

Anyway, you'd be surprised to know that my sex drive is just fine despite my lack of devotion to dusting and scrubbing the toilet. ;)

I always say:

"Housework done properly will kill you."

My house was clean last week. Sorry you missed it.:p

I think they may count laundry. That is about 2 hours for one load (washing, drying, putting them away)

maybe they don't count mutlti tasking. Like if you do three loads of laundry (6 hours there) and you sit on your but the whole time and then you do about 1 hour of of everything else. Maybe that is about7 hours.... Maybe these women just have a lot of clothes to wash?

thats it. I'm gonna be a slob for now on :D

I think the 15 hours of week of housework statistic may have been a result of divorce lawyers trying to fix a value on being a housewife. ..

"Well of course she contributed the same to the marriage she did 15 hours of week of housework and you can't put a value on that!"

Correlation is not causation.

There is porbably a third or fourth variable that could explain this finding. What kind of women spend more time cleaning? What kind of job do you have if you have to hire someone to clean your house (or can afford it). I read a study that the more education you have, the less you have sex. Now while education doesn't explain sex drive either, you can realte it more easily to stress, or societal hangups, or what have you. This is probably an extension of that theory.

1) Don't question this study, just go with it. Some things don't need to be explained.
2) Don't read so much. :p

I think it's a right wing conspiracy and the study was funded by the Christian Coalition








just kidding guys :p

I have a 3000 sq foot house and it doesnt take me that long to do and that is the similar list of things i do do to the house.


15 hrs.....dang try more like 5 a week,,,,than again i am compulsive inc leaning daily and keeping it up so not much to do whenit is clean huh?

You are all forgetting something...there is another way to have the house cleaned, without working up a sweat...


...they're called children!


They have their duties each day, and it sure helps to have three extra people cleaning the house up...and doesn't wear everybody out, especially mom and dad so they have energy for, uh....other pursuits. (It's also nice to have grandparents living close by to send the kids off for a weekend night every now and then, too!)

What is another way to kill your sex life?That is correct!

You're fired.