No, not alone at all. It's been pushed at me or at friends several times and just . . .
It is based around several assumptions. It assumes things about your heteronormativity, that you are or wish to be in a relationship, etc. But the fundamental assumption that doesn't work for me is that what's important in housekeeping is having a PRESENTABLE house: that you want people to walk in and go "oh, what a nice clean house!"
From this, you do start with things like the sink, because this is a visible "CLEAN! SHINY!" and it will encourage you, etc. Likewise for the "nice clothes everyday" and "swishing the toilet everyday" and the obsession with decluttering*. Et cetera, et cetera.
This is not my philosophy of cleaning. Having a clean and tidy house is actually very important to me, but it's not about people seeing it. It's about me seeing it, and using it, and the fastest, easiest, most EFFECTIVE ways to clean and tidy and use my house.
Which is why, although my sink is always washed out of, you know, food? It languishes water-spotted. But my dishwasher is regularly filled and emptied, and my counters are washed.
*I have a use for cluttering, but for example, my desk accumulates clutter through a month, and then loses it - not because I "clean up the clutter", but because I do my bills, answer my letters, answer my cards, etc.
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Date: 2010-02-13 09:21 pm (UTC)It is based around several assumptions. It assumes things about your heteronormativity, that you are or wish to be in a relationship, etc. But the fundamental assumption that doesn't work for me is that what's important in housekeeping is having a PRESENTABLE house: that you want people to walk in and go "oh, what a nice clean house!"
From this, you do start with things like the sink, because this is a visible "CLEAN! SHINY!" and it will encourage you, etc. Likewise for the "nice clothes everyday" and "swishing the toilet everyday" and the obsession with decluttering*. Et cetera, et cetera.
This is not my philosophy of cleaning. Having a clean and tidy house is actually very important to me, but it's not about people seeing it. It's about me seeing it, and using it, and the fastest, easiest, most EFFECTIVE ways to clean and tidy and use my house.
Which is why, although my sink is always washed out of, you know, food? It languishes water-spotted. But my dishwasher is regularly filled and emptied, and my counters are washed.
*I have a use for cluttering, but for example, my desk accumulates clutter through a month, and then loses it - not because I "clean up the clutter", but because I do my bills, answer my letters, answer my cards, etc.