cleaning house
time to do the dishes
the semester is over and so it’s time to get to the millions of other things, like this blog, that i have not been doing because I have been busy with school.
in a way, i think it’s far more satisying to let the dust and dirt really pile up so that when I finally do get around to cleaning, i can see the difference.
today, my apartment looks MUCH better than yesterday, and when I cleaned underneath the bed there were not one or two little dust bunnies hopping around, but lots and I got them all!
If I were to constantly clean-up a little bit all the time, I would never get the satisfaction of really getting the gunk out from behind the faucet.
after spending hours writing a paper about Simone De Beuavoir’s theories on domesticity in Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, I have come to the conclusion that times have not changed much; the sad truth is that women, as financially independent and liberated as we are, still do most of the housework most of the time.
So, as part of my subversive, radical feminist agenda, I don’t really dust unless I must…
Maybe I am just making excuses.
May 10, 2010 at 4:26 am
I wish I had read this sooner! When I was young, before you were born! It is a brilliant insight. I mean it. Why clean up a little bit of dirt when you can do just about the same amount of work and get it all at once. It is very energy efficient (both yours, as the cleaner’s, and of the earth’s, saving water, cleansing material, washing rags and dust cloths, etc.).