Anything above your eye level doesn’t need dusting.
If you live with someone taller than you it’s their problem.
Your floor doesn’t need to be clean enough to eat off if you have a table.
The table doesn’t have to be clean enough to eat off if you have plates.
If you don’t want to wash the plates buy paper ones.
The floor only needs washing when people start sticking to it.
Collect stacks of fabric to protect otherwise exposed surfaces around the house.
To save power, only wash the windows when you have to turn lights onto find the scissors.
Dust bunnies make care free pets.
Collect lovely sewing tools to display around the house so you can always find scissors.
Someone else will cook if they get hungry before you, just make sure they cook enough for you too.
In case this doesn’t work, always have the nearest takeaway on quick dial.
Decorate your home with a country theme,and note that dust is a country accent,and free!
Biscuits come already wrapped for special occasions including birthdays and Christmas, though the wrapping isn’t always as personal as we would like.
Order cakes from your favourite baker for weddings, birthdays, and visitors. Save home-made for special occasions.
Use the broom handle to hang a quilt,and as using a broom head without the handle is bad for your back, don’t use it!
A strategically placed pile of quilt magazines will hide the dirty marks on the coffee table,though should be substituted with cook books when quilters are due to visit.
Dishwashers, sewing machines, microwave ovens and rotary cutters are essential time-saving tools for every quilter.
Copyright 2010 Judy Butcher, Virtual Quilter
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I whole heartedly agree with everything you said!
Jeanette,
It all sounds like a good planto me!
Judy B
Too Funny!
Billie,
Glad you enjoyed them!
Judy B
LOL love it thanks for putting a smile on my face this moring.
Adele,
Glad you got a smile!
Judy B
Now those are the kind of tips I need.
Maggi,
Don’t we all!
I went to visit a friend for Easter one year …. as she was making coffee the sun was shining on her kitchen window showing all the dirt in a wonderful glow. she said tha t she should have washed the windows before we came, and her sister said, “Why? It’s not Christmas!” Good timetable!
Judy B
I like the way you think!! After all, housekeeping surely isn’t as important as the quilts I’m making for a local children’s charity.
Making ANY quilt is more important than housework …. even thinking and planning is important, though admitedly you can do that much while doing the dishes!
Judy B
Thanks for great laugh. I agree too. LOL. Lois
Lois,
Thank you … I had fun putting the list together, and thought it was worth sharing!
Judy B
My husband said, Honey…You’ve got this covered already! We had a good laugh! Thank You for this!
Barbara,
A housekeeper after my own heart!
Let me know if there is anything I may have missed!
Judy B
My husband asked if I’d written them!!
Vivian,
My husband knows what it is like to live with someone who writes stuff like this!
Judy B
I find this so true and I think I might have to borrow it – print it – and put it somewhere on a wall at my house LOL
forgot to mention that I might have to translate it so my hubby can easily understand EVERYTHING (to Icelandic ) LOL
Tora,
Now that would be interesting … to see it in Icelandic. I don’t think I have ever seen anything written in Icelandic! But if that is the way for your hubby to understand it then it must be translated.
(This is the sort of thing I love about blogging … ‘talking’ to people who live in countries about as far away from Australia as you can get and I know nothing about.)
Judy B
These are all beautiful, but I don’t know what EQ is. Nor the virtual quilter. But very nice!
Rosemary,
EQ is Electric Quilt … a computerized quilt design program. It allows quilters to play with fabrics and block designs with a neat, full colour illustration of full quilts. The program will work out how much fabric is required, and full sized patterns can be printed out … or rotary cutting instructions where applicable.
The Virtual Quilter is where I share designs created in Electric Quilt …they have never been made into real quilts.
Judy B