Quotes About Household

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

We never talked to each other in my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

Every father says the same thing: "Where's your mother?"

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Parents sleeping = You being quiet as a mouse. You sleeping = Parents decide to vacuum for 2 hours.

Her presence in our household was the country air and the social life of a farm of fifty years ago transported into our midst by a kind of inverse journey in which the holiday destination travels toward the traveler.

It is true that those same servants who cannot bear our tears will have no hesitation in letting us catch pneumonia, because the maid downstairs likes draughts and it would not be polite to her to shut the windows.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

If it moves, starch it. If it doesn't move, starch it. If it seems it has enough starch already, it hasn't, so starch it again.

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.

Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.