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    Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day

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I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

by Phyllis Diller Found in: Housework Quotes,
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The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste read more

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.

by Lady Hasluck Found in: Housework Quotes,
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At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

by Rose Macaulay Found in: Housework Quotes,
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I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

by Roseanne Barr Found in: Housework Quotes,
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Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

by Phyllis Diller Found in: Housework Quotes,
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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

by Katherine Whitehorn Found in: Housework Quotes,
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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's read more

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

by Crystal Eastman Found in: Housework Quotes,
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My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it

by Dottie Archibald Found in: Housework Quotes,
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