No Time To Clean!
September 23, 2008
It appears to have become some kind of trend that people no longer clean their houses. In saying that I do not mean that people wallow in their own filth, just that they now employ people to do this for them.
To make matters worse, instead of doing cleaning people now watch programs on it instead. How Clean Is Your House was a big hit on Channel 4, though in all honesty, I though it the most grotesque program ever.
House cleaning in London is big business. Yell.com alone lists 120 businesses in the area. It is official; we live in a fast paced country; with no time to look after our homes, having to invite strangers in to deal with our mess. It is not even a luxury, but a necessity in the city. Gone are the days of the wife staying at home and keeping the house… now we working women have to do it all. How on earth I am to keep house, work and then bare and rear children is beyond me?! They say it will come to you when the time comes but I honestly just can’t see it! I know (or at least hope) that I will have a cleaner at some point in the future, so I should really get off my high horse.
With less time to spend with family and friends, the work/life culture (swaying heavily to the work side of things) is what we now are used to in Britain… The Rat Race! I want to live on the continent, with a shorter working week and a brilliant concept called ‘siestas’, it is definitely the way forward! The British always moan about other Europeans, but let’s face it, we’re all completely jealous!
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