Comments on: Dr. Housework: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the vacuum cleaner http://doodaddy.net/2007/03/22/dr-housework-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-vacuum-cleaner/ A San Francisco stay-at-home dad getting the hang of things. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mom, again http://doodaddy.net/2007/03/22/dr-housework-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-vacuum-cleaner/comment-page-1/#comment-6444 mom, again Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:36:54 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/?p=62#comment-6444 I think doing the little bit of cleaning constantly at home has a lot to do with being AT HOME. After all, many of your complaints about WM's non-cleaning habits are echoed by those of us with working dads. I know men who work in clean situations like kitchens, who can't be bothered at home. Hell, when I'm working full-time, I can't be bothered. On the other hand, during the times when I'm an at home mom, I concoct frantically complicated systems of clean this with that, and store those with these, stacked this way up gets the most on the shelf so oh my god do not deviate! Which reminds me that housework is so mindless is that I must create complications to keep my brain working. When I remember this, I can chill. But, I really, really prefer the utensils be sorted into different slots when they go in the dishwasher, so I only have to grab the bunches to put them away. REally. Really. that's my complaint of the day against my working daddy. I think doing the little bit of cleaning constantly at home has a lot to do with being AT HOME. After all, many of your complaints about WM’s non-cleaning habits are echoed by those of us with working dads. I know men who work in clean situations like kitchens, who can’t be bothered at home. Hell, when I’m working full-time, I can’t be bothered. On the other hand, during the times when I’m an at home mom, I concoct frantically complicated systems of clean this with that, and store those with these, stacked this way up gets the most on the shelf so oh my god do not deviate! Which reminds me that housework is so mindless is that I must create complications to keep my brain working. When I remember this, I can chill. But, I really, really prefer the utensils be sorted into different slots when they go in the dishwasher, so I only have to grab the bunches to put them away. REally. Really. that’s my complaint of the day against my working daddy.

]]> By: Doodaddy » In Which I Blog Endlessly About the Free Diapers They Sent Me http://doodaddy.net/2007/03/22/dr-housework-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-vacuum-cleaner/comment-page-1/#comment-2104 Doodaddy » In Which I Blog Endlessly About the Free Diapers They Sent Me Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:50:45 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/?p=62#comment-2104 [...] of my doodads was this cool door I invented for our wine rack, for example. But I also consider the Bissell sweeper to be a parenting [...] [...] of my doodads was this cool door I invented for our wine rack, for example. But I also consider the Bissell sweeper to be a parenting [...]

]]> By: doodaddy http://doodaddy.net/2007/03/22/dr-housework-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-vacuum-cleaner/comment-page-1/#comment-47 doodaddy Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:19:28 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/?p=62#comment-47 @BA~ Thanks, I was particularly proud of that sentence, what with having an SAT word and "ginormous" in immediate proximity! But... do you really think it's a male-female thing? I picked up the habit working at a wildlife hospital -- you <i>have</i> to be systematic and diligent in that kind of situation or risk being buried by poop and fish guts. And it was honed by parenting, that constant struggle of make-sure-it-gets-done on a dozen fronts simultaneously. If men were more frequently the primary caregiver for their kids, or worked in an industrial kitchen, or stage-managed a play, or worked as butlers, don’t you think they'd "get this" too? If that sounds like a rhetorical question, it's not on purpose... I really, really wonder about this stuff a lot. Dd. @BA~ Thanks, I was particularly proud of that sentence, what with having an SAT word and “ginormous” in immediate proximity!

But… do you really think it’s a male-female thing? I picked up the habit working at a wildlife hospital — you have to be systematic and diligent in that kind of situation or risk being buried by poop and fish guts. And it was honed by parenting, that constant struggle of make-sure-it-gets-done on a dozen fronts simultaneously. If men were more frequently the primary caregiver for their kids, or worked in an industrial kitchen, or stage-managed a play, or worked as butlers, don’t you think they’d “get this” too?

If that sounds like a rhetorical question, it’s not on purpose… I really, really wonder about this stuff a lot.

Dd.

]]> By: Blog Antagonist http://doodaddy.net/2007/03/22/dr-housework-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-vacuum-cleaner/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Blog Antagonist Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:36:38 +0000 http://doodaddy.net/?p=62#comment-46 "I’m always cleaning a little, which obviates the need to infrequently clean an absurdly ginormous amount." Poetry, sheer poetry. How come more men don't get this???? “I’m always cleaning a little, which obviates the need to infrequently clean an absurdly ginormous amount.”

Poetry, sheer poetry. How come more men don’t get this????

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