Category: Housework Quotes SMS

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

My second favorite household chore is ironing.  My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.  ~Erma BombeckWL

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.  ~James Dent

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they’re ended. ~Colley CibberMCTO

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

If the shelves are dusty and the pots don’t shine, it’s because I have better things to do with my time. ~Author Unknown

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin.  Or maybe I mean why.  ~Katharine Whitehorn, "Nought for Homework," Roundabout, 1962

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean.  ~Erma BombeckDMCD

Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.  ~Author Unknown

The meal’s complete when the kitchen’s neat.  ~Author Unknown

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

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes.  ~Dave Barry

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.  ~Cecil Baxter

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.  ~Kin HubbardCUL

This is a honeydew day.  That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house.  ~Jim LemonCG

One only needs two tools in life:  WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.  ~G.M. Weilacher

I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on.  ~Roseanne Barr

Please don’t feed the dust bunnies.  ~Author Unknown

Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land.  It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.  ~Chuck Clark

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

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

Vacuums don’t clean houses.  People clean houses.  ~Everybody Loves Raymond, "Humm Vac," written by Lew Schneider, original airdate 19 March 2001, spoken by the character Marie Barone

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.  ~C.E. Cowman

Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell; while others may go hungry, we’re eating very well. ~Author Unknown

Law of Window Cleaning:  It’s on the other side.  ~Author Unknown

Law of the Workshop:  Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.  ~Author Unknown

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, www.robertbrault.com