{"id":190,"date":"2008-04-11T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-10-03T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T13:03:25","slug":"a-clean-house-is-a-sign-of-a-wasted-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"A clean house is a sign of a wasted life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nShelrie, Lani, and Damian
\n10 April 2008<\/p>\n

My mom arrives tomorrow, and the house is not yet clean. \u00c2\u00a0I place responsibility for the messy house directly at the feet of the two devoted minions of Chaos who follow\u00c2\u00a0behind me\u00c2\u00a0and undo all my work.<\/p>\n

While working against Chaos and\u00c2\u00a0its two little minions who live in my house\u00c2\u00a0this past week, I realized that we have a cultural lie that, for some reason, we all support and even nurture:\u00c2\u00a0 the idea that we can raise children, decorate our house like the homes on HGTV, and keep the house spotless while making home-cooked meals every night.\u00c2\u00a0 No one wants to be that person<\/em> who says, “You know what, my house actually looks like a tip right now and I am unable to keep it clean.”\u00c2\u00a0 What a loser.<\/p>\n

My house is only 1300 square feet (small by today’s standards, normal by 1970’s standards), and I cannot keep up with the housework.\u00c2\u00a0 How do housewives with 2500 sq ft houses do it?\u00c2\u00a0 Really.\u00c2\u00a0 How do they do it?<\/p>\n

So I’ve decided to be that person<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe people will think “What a loser” or maybe people will think, “Finally!\u00c2\u00a0 Someone came forth and told the truth!” but here it is:<\/p>\n

My house very often is one ginormous mess and I cannot keep up with the housework and I don’t make nutritious home-cooked meals every night.\u00c2\u00a0 So take away my June Cleaver badge — I hated trying to vacuum in heels and a meticulously-ironed dress anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shelrie, Lani, and Damian 10 April 2008 My mom arrives tomorrow, and the house is not yet clean. \u00c2\u00a0I place responsibility for the messy house directly at the feet of the two devoted minions of Chaos who follow\u00c2\u00a0behind me\u00c2\u00a0and undo all my work. While working against Chaos and\u00c2\u00a0its two little minions who live in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}