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I have a busy weekend ahead: a visitor today; two more either tomorrow or Saturday; and another couple on Easter Monday. That’s wonderful; I love receiving visitors.
Here’s the downside…dust. I have to dust. I have to show them that the stuff I write in my blog is a fabrication and I am, in fact, a tireless and dedicated housewife.
The truth, of course, is that I am a tired and intoxicated housewife. You don’t get to be this funny* without a little dust, a little alcohol and a whole lot of stumbling around in the mind, wondering where you put the duster because you’re pretty sure you bought one once.
A mathematical diagram to explain my dilemma:
VISITORS 
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dust :(
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If I was any good at maths, the dust would be higher than the visitors in this diagram – or is that social sciences? Social ineptitude? Sorry* housework, probably.
Of course, if I was really good at maths, I’d be earning a living from it and paying someone else to dust. Wish I’d paid attention in class now. I knew something didn’t add up.
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*My adjective of choice; the Hub might have a slightly different one.
I don’t see a diagram …
Clearly you are not as good at maths as I am…
If I WERE any good at maths I might understand your NON-diagram. As it is, I leave you with these words of comfort: unless the visitor is a) your mother-in-law or b) my sister, you will find that visitors don’t give a damn about dust – they don’t even see it beause they’re so busy enjoying your company and your …erm… cooking.
Besides, remember all that cleaning you did last weekend? It can’t be dirty again already.
Cleaning? last weekend? I’ll have to go look that up. It doesn’t ring a bell.
Try putting the vacuum cleaner on ‘blow’ rather than ‘suck’ ??
I’m about to attack my housework – not that the daughter would notice but I do! And I think Viv’s probably right other people don’t notice dust.
Vacuum cleaner?
You could have made this into a simple Venn diagram, without the intersection! However I like your new style diagram, and I agree with it wholeheartedly. Tilly, in regards to your dust problem, I read that it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, and having decided to become a tidy person for the first time in my life ( don’t faint) I have managed to have a tidy house (it’s Day 29 in the Big Tidy House). Could you turn this into a diagram please, then I can stick it on my tidy fridge? Then you could also use it yourself to help with the dust crisis. Or maybe just eat some maltesers!
What’s a Venn diagram?
Did you forget my maths situation?
hehe – sounds so familiar – i am trying very hard to make friends with the dust that lives with me
Don’t make friends with it – it will never leave! Ignore it. It still won’t leave but you’ll stop noticing it.
think of it as a meditation…
An interesting approach…
Einstein would SO love you…
He so would, wouldn’t he? We share a hairstyle, you know.
Couldn’t see the diagram either.
I think my lovely readers may have a misplaced faith in my diagram-drawing powers. I’ll describe it instead:
Visitors at the top of the space, in capitals = good.
Big empty space inbetween with nothing whatsoever drawn, written or scribbled there.
Dust at the bottom of the space, in lower case = bad.
I thought you all got me by now
‘Amongst the cobwebs
my attitude to housework
may be discovered’
You write a haiku I can really get behind
Love it.
People like visiting with a bit of dust around . . . makes them feel “superior.”
That’s a positive, I suppose; but I don’t want visitors who feel superior. It’s not nice to be looked down on
Maybe your motto should be
“Dust in case” ?
I like it!!
Oh no, I don’t – I never dust ‘in case’. It’s easier to apologise for them interrupting me just as I was about to grab a duster.
or “Dust in time”?
Better! Love that one
I love the way NR thinks….I will remember that…don’t think Mex will buy it.