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The Other Woman (Or: I’m no good at housework)

by Danielle | Feb 2, 2011 | Blog, Homemaking, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane

  Inferiority is relative. It needs something or someone else to be compared to. A sense of inferiority arises from comparing ourselves to someone else, someone supposedly superior. Why do we do that? Is it helpful? Very often, it isn’t but it can be automatic and...
Keep it in the Family (Book extract from Housework Blues)

Keep it in the Family (Book extract from Housework Blues)

by Danielle | Nov 16, 2009 | Blog, Family, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane

If, for whatever reason, you don’t take on external help (and even if you do – you’ll still have to tidy up before they come!), it makes sense to utilise existing labour sources. I’m referring to The Others. The people you live with. Now you may be thinking...
Keep it in the Family (Book extract from Housework Blues)

Dust, vacuum…create? (Book extract from Housework Blues)

by Danielle | Oct 17, 2009 | Blog, Cleaning, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane

  The results of housework are all too fleeting. You spend your time performing boring tasks and before long, they need doing again. There’s not much scope for any earth-shattering achievements, right? Wrong!A surprising side-effect of monotonous jobs is the...
Looking after No 1 (Book extract from Housework Blues)

Looking after No 1 (Book extract from Housework Blues)

by Danielle | Oct 6, 2009 | Blog, Family, Health, Housework Blues (extract), Staying sane

  Women are instinctive nurturers and carers. Historically, we are the caretakers of the species. Even in recent times, women who work full-time still tend to be the ones who make a house a home, administer TLC and know/care how each family member likes their...

“I hate housework

but this book enabled me

to at last make some form

of peace with it.”

~ Amazon ReviewMPWHbook 

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