Quotes About Housekeeping

Keeping flat surfaces clear is perhaps the single most important thing to keep in mind for your kitchen—as it is for any room in the house. A clear countertop makes any kitchen look more organized. Once the flat surfaces start to disappear under clutter, you lose your motivation to keep the area organized and you open the area to attracting more dust and dirt, further compounding the clutter problem. Consider flat surfaces your preparation area—not your storage area!

The question for each of us is one of housekeeping. Are there attitudes or actions we have allowed to take root in our life that are keeping us from the pursuit of holiness?

home, I've been cleaning, and you need to fire your cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned.

Her faculty for hitting the right nail on the head is almost miraculous – especially as all her blows have the air of being delivered at random. Housekeeping!

as long as Mary can't cook and has those awful manners—well, we're safe, nobody else would have her." I perceived that my wife's methods of housekeeping were not so entirely haphazard as I had imagined. A certain amount of reasoning underlay them. Whether it was worthwhile having a maid at the price of her not being able to cook, and having a habit of throwing dishes and remarks at one with the same disconcerting abruptness, was a debatable matter.

It is a pity that I am such a shocking housekeeper," said my wife, with a tinge of genuine regret in her voice. I was inclined to agree with her. My wife's name is Griselda—a highly suitable name for a parson's wife. But there the suitability ends. She is not in the least meek.

shop-bought cakes are a sign of sluttish housewifery.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

Put a stocking over the end of a vacuum to find tiny items.

I don't let housekeeping in when I stay in hotels. It cuts down on all the caustic cleaning products and aggressive water usage, and I never use the little plastic bottles of toiletries they set out.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I love to clean.

To this day I clean better than most maids.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.

What kind of housekeeping do you call this, Peabody?' I pointed out the injustice of the charge in a few brisk but well-chosen words. Emerson mopped his brow. 'Pardon my language, Peabody. It has been a trying morning. And now this!

My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean it twice a week, but let's just say that, in between times, maybe it's not quite so clean.

I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'

I love cooking. I prepare kolambu, maintain the house... just like anyone else.

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.