How can I let my inner Housewife out?

Question

At my house, I do almost all the cleaning, and 98% of the cooking, no matter what kind of joking around I have done on here before. Why? Because I am an excellent cook and enjoy watching other people eat the food I put so much love into. Cleaning? Well, I do that because I am ever so slightly obsessive/compulsive. But I enjoy it as well. I have a large home and when I vacuum it is almost like zen. And I like polishing silver and copper. I live in the desert, and there is a lot of dust so I walk around half the time with a duster in my hand. The cans of vegetables in my cabinets are alphabetized for crying out loud. I love staying at home and sitting by the pool. I don't want to go anywhere, ever. Except to the grocery store, or the liqour store maybe.
So my question is this. Do you think I am a housewife trapped inside of a working husbands body?

Answer 1

Holy crap, are you my alter-ego? I don't alphabatize my canned goods, but by god, everything has a place and if it isn't being used it better be there. I also love cooking, I OCD clean like nobody's business, and if the house is a mess I just can't relax in it.

Answer 2

LOL - Looks like you already are letting her out! You were looking for a job recently, could any of your neighbors or relatives need a housekeeper? I'd start part time, first, if I were you.

Actually, I think you should be commended. I hate cleaning, but I do like staying at home, sitting by the lake, and occasionally going to the grocery store, where I can buy all the liquor I want. So, I "commend" you to come clean my house. Then you can be a working husband/rent-a-housewife, and not have to worry about nit-picking those short hairs anymore ;o)

Answer 3

When I had a roommate, I did all the cleaning. I would vacuum everyday just so there would be new vacuum lines in the carpet. Then I would actually ask her not to walk on it. I had made a little path through the apartment that I thought was suitable so that the majority of the carpet remained undisturbed. I live alone now.
So, yea, I understand your ocd.

Answer 4

I will raise my children like my mother and father did. They have four children, Jacob, Isaac and Alice (twins) and me (Kara), and we all have our own values and beliefs. My older brother Jacob is 26 and is married and has recently had a daughter. He decided to take paternity leave for 1 year while his wife went back to work after 2 weeks. His friends told him his wife should be at home but he says that he doesn't think it makes him less of a man, he just wants to be with his daughter. My older brother and sister, Isaac and Alice, are 20 and at university. Isaac studies History while Alice studies Engineering even though History is meant to be for girls while Engineering is meant to be for boys but they don't care. I am 15 and my favourite subject is Physics, which, again is meant to be a boys subject. I learnt about sex at school when I was 11 as it was really awkward when my parents talked about it. I hate wearing make-up and find jeans and T-shirts better than dresses (I haven't worn a dress in 3 years). I want to do something with law or physics when I'm older as that is what interests me. I never knew about stereotypes until I learnt about them in school and why they are wrong. One stereotype that I got, when I was in America, was that people expected me to be posh and, for some reason, to know the Queen. I will raise my children as my parents raised me, as they let me be who I wanted, not what society wanted.

Answer 5

Yeah! Do you have special places for things to go in the fridge? I really get annoyed when the sauce bottles are put on the middle shelf instead of second form the top

... and don't you hate it when your misses does "a quick grocery shop" and buys the wrong sized cans? I mean ... how am I meant to line them up in the pantry in "Masterformat" when they are all different sizes? .... and .. well... don't even get me started on toilet paper scrunchers that fail to fold the edges back in when they're done!

I didn't realise that you work from home too. It's the only way to keep some control over my environment .... *shudder at the thought of working in an office without my own personal WC*.

My wife cleans the shower screens ... in the nude. That's a spectator sport!

Answer 6

NO WAY - I ain't fallin' for it. PLEASE, tell me this ain't so! PLEASE tell me this is just a cheap trick to make the ladies go Awwwwwwww! :-) You're making us look bad. And just when I was beginning to think you were actually a pretty decent guy! :-)

I mean, I can see the cooking bit, I can even comprehend the occasional grocery shopping torture and the rare visits to the liquor store; BUT GETTING A KICK OUT OF CLEANING [a Zen experience as it maybe]?????? YOU MUST BE PULLING OUR LEGS. ... Think about it: Do you suppose all "them" eager ladies would still be doting on you so much, or desperately wanting to hire you because of your inner cleaning obsessions, if cleaning was any fun??? Try asking 'em to take the dog for a walk, or do the laundry while you're doing the cleaning - see if they still love you as much!!! LOL

Here, try this antidote, my friend; maybe it'll CURE your inner Housewife Syndrome (lol):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waia83h6Y2k
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Answer 7

Anything is possible. I was a working wife trapped in a housewife's body until I got out. I hate cooking and I hate cleaning and sometimes I just want to strangle the little ones until they stop fighting.

Answer 8

Well I need a house wife I am a bachelor student and in need of Consuela to come in and do some spring cleaning. So yes you can unleash the power of the housewife or at least the cleaning lady in my home.

Answer 9

Definitely check for a second pair of genitals the next time you sit down to take a piss. j/k

Seriously though, so you like staying home and putting vegetable cans alphabetical in your cabinet instead of going with your friends to shoot pool, drink beer, look at other women, listen to AC/DC, and watch sports. We're all weird in our own way.

Answer 10

I'm like that too (y'know, except I'm a chick). People think I'm nuts or obsessive. Alphabetizing cans is...well, I'd say wierd but then again I fold and rotate my husband and son's boxers so they don't just wear the same 3 on the top over and over. They think I'm really wierd for that one...
Whatever, nothing worng with being proud of your home.