Is life too short to clean your own house?

I am helping my life to be a long one, by cleaning my own house. I am 76 years of age and I make the chores around the house into exercises. Bend at the knees put the dishes in the dishwasher. Reach up high and take down a plate.

Get on your hands and knees and wash the kitchen floor, making long sweeps with your arms. Every month I change the interior decoration in one room. Pushing furniture and lifting tables. I have the radio on and I dance while I vacuum and I vacuum like I am skating. When I am standing at the kitchen counter I walk standing still while I make a pie.

I sit down and watch television and make myself get up for every commercial and dance or move to the music background.

Life will be too short if you don't clean your own house, in my opinion.

I belong to Flylady.com. She teaches how to spend just a little while every day, do things in baby steps, and the house seems to look pretty clean. When I actually do that, I find she's right.

Life is short, and I can't spend it all on cleaning. But, can clean for a little while every day. Don't need a maid service.

I worked for a year for one of those services. You are not wasted your life cleaning your house. I was always surprised by the people who cleaned up first. We also went into some messes that a hazmat team should have been in. I have actually used oven cleaner to start to clean a toilet. HA HA If I had a house that big, I would want to move. Eventually we will probably want someone to do the heavy stuff.

First, of course the maid service companies are trying to drum up business so they're handing out that line.

But, if you are spending a whole lot of your time just cleaning and neatening up your home--then you are wasting your life. I knew a guy who would vacuum the sidewalk in front of his house every day, and wash down the front door every day, scrub the walls and ceiling in the kitchen and bathroom once a week, lean outside the apartment windows (8 stories up) to clean the outside of the windows every week. Etc. If you want your home that spotless, you would need to hire a maid so you'd have time enough to go to the movies, have lunch with friends, have a dinner party, cruise the bookstores, and all those other things people do for enjoyment. If you have a large home, you probably could use some help keeping it clean too. But if you've got a smallish place, and can manage to keep it basically clean most of the time, then you don't really need a maid service--although perhaps a few times a year it might be good to hire one to do the larger, messier, harder cleaning chores (outside windows, walls in kitchen/bathroom, maybe cleaning the oven and frig, those types of things you don't normally have to do all the time just to function). I used to spend almost the whole day Saturday cleaning before I'd let myself relax and start my weekend, before I'd let myself see my friends, before I'd allow myself to do other things but I quit doing that; decided my friends and family are much too important to put them second to a spotless home. Our place is messier then it used to be but too bad, I've got better things to do with my free time. The kitchen and bathroom get cleaned at least every week (usually more often depending on the mess made) but the rest of the place gets done when it needs it.

Oh heck no. Part of life is cleaning, and cleaning your house. It's one thing that separates us from the animals - clean, and the dignity to know what that means, and to maintain the responsibility. I was a paramedic in the 1970s in a large city. I saw the inside of many homes. I was always disgusted at how dirty some people could be. I thought, tens of thousands of years ago, people lived in dirt floor caves and wore animal skins. What's different now is that we live in houses, and we wear cotton. But the filth is still there. So I'd go home and clean, and I still do it.

Cleaning services certainly have their gimmicks!!! I personally never felt that life was too short to clean my own home. I've always enjoyed doing so & if you feel the same way, then no, you haven't wasted your life doing so & don't let people eager to get your money in their hand, make you feel as though you have.

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life IS too short to CLEAN HOUSE PERIOD!

good that you clean your own house - but unless you really NEEEED help, maid service is more a WASTE OF MONEY than a WASTE OF YOUR LIFE!

now, for me, I NEED A MAID hahahaha. i'm a horrible house keeper but don't waste my time worrying about it until its necessary!

If it was not for my cleaning lady - I would not be alive. I cannot clean house because I have emphysema and am tethered to an oxygen machine 24/7 - but as I live alone, I do not make a mess! I do sometimes dust the table tops off but that in itself is too exhausting for me. But if I could do my own cleaning - believe me I would - Sue's a doll and does great work - but I pay her accordingly!!!!!!!!!!! CJ

DO you want to live in filth, then yes you have wasted some of your life. I actually like to know that when I wake up in the morning I have clean shower to step out of and a pair of clean underwear to put on. So, NO I don't think you are wasting your life cleaning your house. Besides they are just saying that to get people to call and pay for their services.

I much prefer to live in a clean home. Now that I'm disabled it's hard for me to keep up but I make a small list of things each day and I try to do a little at a time so nothing gets too far behind.