As a young woman, Esther Walker had a powerful sense that if you cared about housework then that is what you would end up doing for the rest of your life. So what made her pick up the mop?
If you were, as I was, a teenager in the 90s,was a pain and that’s that. If you were a neat and tidy person, you were a Stepford Wife freak. Added to this, my mum hates nagging and knew no other language to get me and my three sisters to do chores, so we didn’t. I left home aged 18 unaware that a
needed to be cleaned. There’s all that water going through it, though. Doesn’t it, like, clean itself?anything, or cleaned the kitchen after dinner. I woke up to my dinner plates where I left them in the morning. I was grossed-out by it, but not grossed-out enough to change my ways. I think my husband was weirded out by what a slob I was, , but married me anyway.there are two truths: you live in the kitchen and the housework never ends. You can’t buy your way out of it. Trust me, I have tried.
And anyway, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to do housework or that I thought I was somehow too good for it, I just couldn’t find a way to not hate it, to not feel resentful and furious about the endlessness of it. What, unload the dishwasher – again? FML. Then about five years ago arrived a major vibe shift in the form of twin goddesses of home organisation:
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