Why isn't a woman work ever done? I swear it seems i keep going in circles...

Oh yes my days are always like that lol, there is always something that need doing but i do try and make sure i stop at some point in the evening otherwise I would never rest!

i think it is because no one helps you and you are left to the work yourself! i have a family of 4 (including myself) with two capable daughters to help (11 and 15) but i swear, i do most of everything within the house!

Yes it does feel like that quite a bit. My mother just started working last week so I have been doing a lot more cleaning around the house. I still cleaned when she wasn't working but now I try to do more cleaning. I also have to watch my sister while she as at work, or at least until she goes back to school. I don't mind doing any of this. Yes though I do feel like that. It feels like I could wake up and be busy until morning till night cleaning, cooking, and doing whatever else I have to do. Even then I don't think everything would be cleaned and done.

Oh yes. You wrote what I feel every day. In fact you wrote the exact words I feel. I sometimes feel when a man works outside, he gets rewarded by getting salary, a promotion or some other achievement. But what about us? Years after years we are doing the same thing again and again and forget about appreciation,at least or family should try to keep the things in their respective places. Even that would avoid a great deal of work. I some times feel tired of doing these things again and again.

You are not kidding. I am a fellow housewife myself. It doesn't ever really get done. We might as well admit it you know. It is true that the laundry seems to pile up really fast as soon as you turn around. There is always something to do and we just keep on going.

well i think you have to discipline your kids and the rest of the family. its not just one person that has to work everything. tell the kids to wash their own plates, glass and fork and spoon after eating. in washing the laundry, its really hard cause everyday we have to change our clothes. its natural that the hamper has always dirty clothes inside. let it be. we cant do anything about it. anyways, using our washing machine is very convinient to use. just keep the dirty clothes inside the hamper. wash every other day or if you have big family wash it everyday. in cleaning the house. tell your kids and to help you clean so that they will know how hard to clean the house. they will learn and at the same time discipline themselves. because everytime the house will be a mess let them clean it. its a matter of sharing and cooperation in the family. you have to give them responsiblity.

I am in the same freaking boat as you. I feel like I am a maid around here. I don't cook but I do ALL of the cleaning and I'm sick of it. I clean, my husband makes a mess again and it's over and over again. I swear my work is never done. I work at home online, writing articles for pay and I have to write all day and then clean up after him. I am so sick of it. He doesn't even work right now or I would understand. Thank God he will be back to work soon and I won't have as much to clean since he won't be here as often. :)

SOunds like it was written by a fly on my wall...lol I washed every towel and washcloth in the house in one day...took three washer loads...not more than twod days later I had a full load again!!! At least my older girls can pitch in on ocassion:)

Been there, done that when we had children at home. When I went to work full time at a job 20 miles from home and couldn't run home to take care of every little thing, my husband began shouldering more of the housework. He retired 12 years before I did. During that time, he did everything but the cooking. Sorry that I can't be of much help.

Hello Grammafood, Yes you are right women's work is never done, and there are only two people lives in this house my husband and I. I have just done all the washing up and st donw for ten minutes then when I go to get something there water bottles all in the sink, my husband is a keen cyclist and he use more than one water bottle at a time I don't know how he does that, then the washing is piled up and I could have sworn I have done it this morning. I have done the hoovering this aternoon and now look at it the carpet has grown all sort of white bits all over the place, I sure we got gremlins. Tamara

I read this discussion at the perfect time! I was JUST thinking the same thing! Yesterday I did NOTHING but clean & everytime I looked, there were more dishes or more laundry to do... or, my living room STILL needs to be vacuumed... & don't even get me started on the kids room!!!!!!!! HOWEVER, I wont touch that... they're old enough to do it themselves! To be rich & have a maid LOLOL

Lol, you have described me! I told my husband that I wasn't his maid, nor was I Logan's (our son), and that I was going to go on strike!!! Since he works 50 hours a week, and I only work 37, he didn't want to see that happen. So, he has started helping me out when he can, and our son is getting better about picking up his toys.

I think is not a woman issue, is an issue for anybody who is in charge of a house, been male or female. I got divorced a few years ago and the kids are living with me, so I understand how all that work is sometimes not appreciated at all, but I do believe that the ones who are being help, like in these case my kids, if you do what you have to do with love, they will give you a lot of rewards in the love they give you back, even if they do not acknowledge it right away. Just give your best and wait.

I use to go threw that untill some changes were made in our home. Since I took on a full time job and naturally hubby works full time . We both work together in our home life becouse we both like things neat. First my son was tought to take his dirty dishes to the sink . he is now being tought to clean them and or his glasses after he drinks out of them . Laundry is done twice a week .. If I am not working I do it .. If I am hubby is doing it . By 7 pm. dishes are cleaned .. everything is put away that should be and its time for mom and da to relax after our long day. It's really a matter of re trainning those in your hpuse to make your day easier.. :) Just my two cents

in this house there are pixies, as soon as you turn your back more dishes, more laundry, more dust. And there are just two humans who live in this house.

Evry day there is work to be done,jobs to be jobbed and as soon as you have done them you can turn around and they need re diong,its hell,but its the life of a housewife,housekeeper and theres no getting away from it.My sink is always full of crocks and my drainer is stacked high,ans as soon as I turn my back the bin is full to overflowing.

I go through it daily. I can pick up toys in the living room walk into the kitchen to a sink full of dishes, put them away and turn around and all of the toys are all over the place. Whenever I say something to my husband he tells me that I should just let it go and I shouldn't be upset that there are toys out or dishes on the counter. He calls our house lived in - I call it dirty. What makes it worse is that I have little kids and teenagers so I have every kind of mess imaginable. I try to keep the older kids bedroom doors closed but sometimes it seems like the mess creeps out into the hallway.

well, it's really how it is. It doesnt stop as my mom would always say. When I became a mother and I felt the same I almost went to depression because of it until I realize to appreciate small things and there I began loving what I am doing. Now, working at home is a past time, I would definitely love doing aything for my family.NOrmally, they wopuld mess up what I fixed and I don't mind fixing it again if I have time doing it...

I fully agree with you ... my mom does the same .. she continuosly works and has some work or the other ... she never relaxes .. I appreciate what she does for us but wonder if it will ever end. Its sad that she doesnt even enjoy a movie properly.