Housewife, housewife..

You have a wonderful idea! I'm sitting here still exhausted from all the work I did yesterday while my husband's family was here. Before they got here I cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed the house, spot cleaned the white carpet where my husband's daughter had brought in a deck chair and left black marks all over the carpet. I haven't finished yet, but I'm about half done. When I get the spot cleaning done then I am going to clean the whole carpet. Also while the entire family was here I did a lot of other clean up chores like washing the dishes from lunch and dinner. I then collected the trash through the house twice and put it into my storage room. When the daughter and her husband were ready to leave she acted like I didn't do a thing all day....and she made all kinds of rude remarks about the amount of my stuff that was in the storage room and that I need to get it out of the room and put into storage so that the family can use the storage room again.. By the time she finished with the rude remarks I felt about as tall as a worm's belly...only shorter. The other thing about a house wife's work is including nursing, doctoring, being a nanny, taking care of the family's pets, oh and driving people to various places. Most families couldn't afford to pay the wages of a live in person to do each of those jobs. Like you said the world only values money, so trying to come up with an amount to cover the brownie points would be a job in itself. I figure that it would come to around $25,000 to $900,000 a month per job. That is "IF" you could find someone who would take the job!!!

I would say least appreciated work is motherhood and being wife as well. I am not aware of what a brownie points is?

Good idea, I always worked and also did house work, it's a lot of work at the end of the week.

wouldn't that be somethin'? i'd be content with jest a kind word from time to time..

Good thing I learned cooking and laundry all by myself so I won't have to net much

For me it is the most respectable and responsible job. It's the biggest social service that one can do.

I think people need to teach others how to treat them. If they tolerate disrespect that is what they will get. If they demand to be valued they will get that. I have to admit I don't feel the same way about stay at home husbands, as I do about stay at home wives though.

Only when the housewife goes on strike would the others realize her value.

Also brownie points for even though your children have grown up and left for the looking after them still albeit by phone or whatever. I said to my youngest a couple of days ago I have worked for more than 30 odd years in the house looking and caring for you two and doing your Dad´s work too and he thought that was funny just does not see that as work. More brownie points for us girls like this hear hear.

A housewife works for no pay but has the satisfaction of knowing she takes care of her family.Without her the family would fall apart.

@vandana7 I like your idea. Housewives work very hard and need to be recognized for all they do. It is not an easy job.

This is a very amazing post, and I would agree to every single line.... but then I would also agree to what @sharon6345 said. I think all women need to draw a line, beyond which they should not make themselves suffer. If any work is making you crib, it isn't worth the effort...

Yes, I'm agree with you.

you have a very good explaination

I agree Housewife are least respected in our country but I feel that Housewife themselves are doing great job that no one can do it. In my opinion,mother should not be doing everything to their children every time but to teach them and work should be divided among the family members

And she can convert the points to cash and use it for her ‘me’ time.

There is nothing wrong for being a housewife. The house will not be clean if there is no housewife. Who will take care of the kids?

Oh Vanny, you will never forget to compliment yourself.You better get me something to eat I am okay with brownies as well

Well said. Housewives deserves the equal respect as others. They performed all the household duties. If they stopped performing their duties, everything will be stopped.

You're right. However, I have a very high regard for housewives or for anybody thats doing right. The society does take housewives for granted and that's really bad. However, I know of really respectful people that treat their housewives like precious stones. They sacrifice to give kids a sound upbringing by been available 247. They really should be appreciated more and I salute people that already recognise their immense value.