{"id":88,"date":"2005-08-23T00:21:34","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T06:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-08-23T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T06:22:50","slug":"come-on-guys-its-time-to-clean-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/come-on-guys-its-time-to-clean-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Come on guys; it’s time to clean house"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article in the Seattle Times on Saturday states that only 20 percent of men say they clean house.  Here’s the relevant bits of the article<\/a> by David Bradley:<\/p>\n

\nThis just in: Men don’t like to clean house.<\/p>\n

Millions of women are surely tempted to say, “Tell me something I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

Statistics bolster what women know to be true: A scant 20 percent of men report they perform housework, such as cleaning, versus a vast majority of women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n

The Ohio State University Extension Service says men would need to perform 60 percent more housework to catch up to the current household workload of women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know about you, but I do pretty close to 50% of the cleaning chores.  How did I get this way?  Well it took a little pain and a plan.  We now dedicate Monday evenings to doing house chores.  Nothing else is scheduled.  We found that weekends don’t work well; we’re too busy, too lazy, or maybe out of town.  Anyway what else are you going to do on Monday: go out to eat?<\/a> <\/p>\n

As for the chores, we have the following schedule in place.  For me, having an organized list really helps.  Each Monday I know what to expect and it feels good to get it done.   All in all it takes less than 1.5 hours each time. (Laundry does tend to spill into Tuesday, but the time spent is still roughy the same only counting the load changes and folding.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nJek<\/th>\nTarn<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 1<\/th>\nSweep
Clutter<\/td>\n		Vacuum
Bathroom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 2<\/th>\nSweep\/Mop
Clutter<\/td>\n		Laundry
Dust<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 3<\/th>\nVacuum
Bathroom<\/td>\n		Sweep
Clutter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 4<\/th>\nLaundry
Dust<\/td>\n		Sweep\/Mop
Clutter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article in the Seattle Times on Saturday states that only 20 percent of men say they clean house.  Here’s the relevant bits of the article by David Bradley: This just in: Men don’t like to clean house. Millions of women are surely tempted to say, “Tell me something I don’t know.” Statistics bolster what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}