I should probably start off by defining the “random housekeeper.” Peg Bracken puts it like this: “there are three types of housekeepers: the spotless housekeeper, who won’t stop; the spotful housekeeper, who won’t start. Then there is the occasional or random housekeeper, whose book this is.” The random housekeeper is the girl who can see the value of cleaning oven racks, but who feels like she has better things to do with her time. She gets bursts of cleaning energy which quickly peter out. She starts things and then finds something more interesting to do. She is, in short, someone who understands the importance of keeping a house, but who would still rather be doing anything else at all.
I am definitely one of these girls.
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I once read an article about procrastinating procrastination. when we know that the oven needs to be cleaned we will find all sorts of other meaningless things to do instead, like rearranging our potholder drawer or ironing the handtowels, and then suddenly there's no time left to clean the oven. I have the nicest potholder drawer in town..can't say much about the oven though! :) Pat
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