If you stress about the amount of housework left for you to do, the housework you hate to do or the housework required of you, then you are putting your health at risk. It is generally known stress takes its tole on the human body. It is often the cause of high blood pressure, headaches, and fatigue, just to name a few of its maladies.
Think about it. If you eliminated all housework from your life, would that be a stress reliever for you? I think it would for most of us, myself included. There are just so many hours in a day, so many things to do and housework seems to be the one thing that never gets completely done. In fact, some household duties are ever present no matter how many times you tackle them: dirty dishes, laundry, and mail to be opened, sorted or filed, just to name a few. For mothers of babies you can include dirty diapers.
Is there an answer to eliminating this killer? No, unfortunately it cannot be eliminated for most of us but there are answers to make it more manageable. Getting order in our time, our homes and lives in general is the foundation for making the changes that will get control of the problems with housework.
In future posts, I will share my thoughts from the experiences I have had, the knowledge I have learned, and the skills I have developed. These have come through careers as a teacher and professional organizer and life as a wife, mother and grandmother.
So you are not alone in this journey. Be encouraged there is hope, there are answers and strategies to move forward.
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