Housekeeper or cook?  Figure out what kind of housewife you are!

Housekeeper or cook? Figure out what kind of housewife you are!

In fact, there are a few other types of housewives: explains the owner of a cleaning agency.

Housekeeper or cook?  Figure out what kind of housewife you are!

LouiseAkbayeva
blogger, cleaning agency owner

There is a widespread popular classification of women in terms of housekeeping: there is a maid and there is a cook.

I don’t know about you, but this typo really annoys me. Deliberate culture, reference to high society: not “housekeeper”, but “maid” – a completely different shade appears, one can even be a little proud. It’s a shame there isn’t a more elegant definition for the second option: a cook is a cook.

But what does this mean in itself? That women are indeed divided into types in their housekeeping style, and an attempt has been made to categorize this one way or another. Some people really like to cook, others like to clean the house.

But let us remove the merciful veils and expose the astonishing: we love nothing. No cooking, no cleaning, no laundry, no ironing. Neither cook, nor maid, nor washerwoman. No, well, maybe some people like doing homework, but it clearly doesn’t fall into the category of “undoubted pleasures.”

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But, due to many unfavorable circumstances for her, the woman is forced to manage the household. And indeed, she does it based on her type, which is not limited to a simple maid or a cook:

Type 1: The mother.

A housewife, a wife and a mother who feels responsible for everything. The house is messy, the children are idle and underdeveloped, the husband has eaten too many pears and there is work too.

These women try to translate all their ideas about a healthy family and a comfortable home into frantic jumps around the house: while the soup was boiling, she quickly put the child to bed and while the machine was washing, she wiped the grounds.

This housewife never achieves anything, she owes everyone everything.

Advantages of this type: she really does a lot, way more than a normal person can handle.

Disadvantages of this type: she believes herself to be irreplaceable.

What to do to make your life easier: forgive everyone I owe.

Type 2: Impotent chamomile

Oh, lunch isn’t ready. Damn, the faucet is leaking. How to pay for electricity?

Advantages of this type: with it, you feel stronger, higher, faster.

Disadvantages of this type: with his stubborn unadaptability, over time he even gets tired.

What to do to make your life easier: At least take full responsibility for something, like a big problem. Even if you don’t want to at all

Type 3: Body of commissioners

Everything burns in her hands, everything is done, the house is well maintained, her husband is washed, he doesn’t look away, there is always hot food. But life, to an insulting degree, often makes this woman realize that she has more responsibilities than anyone else in the family, no matter how much she protests. And even if the baby immediately washes his bottle and the husband starts the morning with a vacuum cleaner and cleans the cat’s litter box, in 99% of cases there still remains an almost indelible part of family life: household management. .

Buy more milk, make a vacation schedule, buy and try on winter shoes, change bed linen – these actions should be done regularly, kept in mind and at least delegated, if not most of them .

Advantages of this type: she is a very good strategist, plans and monitors the implementation of plans.

Disadvantages of this type: The marshal is good, but I want to demobilize myself more and more unbearably.

What to do to make your life easier: throw away less.

Type 4: Eternal Independence Day

The opposite of the first type: this woman claims exceptional freedom in everything and excessively monitors not only her borders, but also her view of her borders.

She sincerely believes that she has exactly the same responsibilities as other members of the family, including the dog, and even better if she has no household chores: “Why me? is his favorite question.

Advantages of this type: She doesn’t care about herself, but she doesn’t care about others either.

Disadvantages of this type: The sphere of interests lies anywhere, but not in the family.

What to do to make your life easier: take a femininity course. Haha. Joke.

Type 5: Lucky butterfly

This woman is incredibly lucky: everything is done by her husband, her children, her housekeeper or her magical elves. No, she will be happy to help you, but the main problems of everyday life have been successfully solved by other people for a long time.

Advantages of this type: amazing organizational skills.

Disadvantages of this type: no one knows, she doesn’t show them under any circumstances.

What to do to make your life easier: don’t do anything, everything is already fine.

Type 6: Perfect Perphenon

This woman, immediately after the greeting words, begins to talk about her perfectionism, presenting it not as a problem, but as her main advantage.

Confusing the endless improvement of the smallest details with high quality, such a housewife torments herself and her family, endlessly adjusting bedspreads and leveling curtains and pillows, demanding that all members of the family conforms to the standards and algorithms that it invented and created: first clear the table, and only then wash the floors. The floors must be washed with the addition of a product, always one and a half caps.

The whole family is exhausted, trying to hang the laundry correctly and choose the only washing programs allowed, but they make mistakes, skip steps and generally do everything wrong, which makes Perphenona furious, because the problem is not not her, the problem is only the stupidity of those around her.

Advantages of this type: As a rule, these housewives have a very well-organized life: their house is always clean and beautiful.

Disadvantages of this type: Should we consider it a personal fault that the whole family wanted to strangle his wife and mother a little?

What to do to make your life easier: Don’t demand that others live up to your standards.

All this classification gives, first of all, the opportunity to take a closer look at oneself and understand what the problem is when everyday life does not always go as it seems.

And the universal general advice for all types of housewives will be advice to find a balance (My God, how new) – but not between work and family, as is usually advised, but between impeccable image in your head and the real features. of your private home. The ideal home can only be found in “Ideal Home” magazine.

5 tips from professional cleaners

  • Don’t create a chain of tasks (if I have to wash the floor, I will first clear the table, wash the cups, wipe the sink, then I will take care of the floor). I decided to wipe the floor – just wipe it;

  • Use only practical and pleasant tools and means – a good cloth, a handy mop according to your size, a floor cleaning liquid with a pleasant smell, etc. There is no need to drag an eternally greasy sponge around an eternally dull sink;

  • Do not restore cleanliness and order at the same time: if you vacuum a sofa, you do not immediately need to arrange pillows beautifully on it. First, clean everything everywhere, then tidy everything everywhere. Reduce cleaning time by 40%;

  • Don’t think much about the things that need to be done, but don’t really burn yourself – wash the curtains or call the sofa dry cleaner. It doesn’t burn. Set a date in your head when you will resolve this problem – say, March of next year – and turn off the voice in your head.

Source: The Voice Mag

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