Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it. – Author Unknown

Vacuums don’t clean houses. People clean houses. – Everybody Loves Raymond, “Humm Vac,” written by Lew Schneider, original airdate

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com