I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home…. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby. – Nancie J. Carmody
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse. – Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. – Simone de Beauvoir
Peoples dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. Its what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. – Barbara Kingsolver
A stores best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization. – James Cash Penney