calling all housewives

sorry I am a housewife . . .with kids. Don't remember what I did before they came along! LOL

Hi. I've been a housewife since getting married last fall, and we don't have any kids.

I basically take care of everything around the house, except for taking out the garbage, because I'm too short to lift the lid on the big garbage dumpster thing that's behind our building.

I clean, cook, drive my husband to and from work, manage our finances, etc. I wouldn't say I really have a schedule, I just do what needs to be done when it needs doing. I have been thinking I want to start getting into a routine, as in, doing certain chores on certain days of the week, instead of approaching it randomly as I have been doing. I do clean daily, but I don't clean everything daily. Like, one day I'll vaccuum, one day I'll do the bathroom, one day I'll mop the kitchen and bathroom floors, one day I'll do laundry, etc. I don't do everything the same day.

I love cooking and trying new recipes, so a large amount of my time most days is spent planning and cooking meals, and then cleaning up from planning and cooking meals! I usually spend about two hours just cooking supper, and about an equal amount of time cleaning up. I don't have an electric dishwasher, just my own two hands! The real problem I have though, is that in the evening after supper, I like to spend time with my husband, so I often leave the bulk of the cleanup until the next day when he's at work. Which is kind of gross, I know, but I'm not sure what else to do. Spending time with him is important to me.

My husband doesn't have a lot of expectations. He's really easy-going. He likes to focus on his career and leave everything else to me, and I like it that way too. He doesn't really care how I handle things though. I mean, he never criticizes my housekeeping or anything. He just doesn't even think about it, either way. His career takes a lot of mental energy and I take pleasure in the fact that I can take care of things so that he doesn't have anything else to worry about.

Two things I do for him that might be considered special are, I make him a lunch to take to work each day, and I drive him to work and pick him up.

So, my days are usually busy. I'm not sitting around watching soaps all day. Although I do check into the forums quite often, in between doing other things. When I absolutely have nothing to do, I read. I love reading.

I love this lifestyle. It is what I always wanted. A lot of people don't understand why a childless woman wouldn't want to be out in the workforce, but I don't care. I am happy, and my husband is happy. It's not anyone else's business. I have always been a quiet, introverted person and I enjoy the peace and quiet and having time to just think my own thoughts. I never get bored or lonely, because I am just not the kind of person who gets bored or lonely. This lifestyle suits me very well.

So, did I cover everything? If there's anything else you want to know, feel free to ask.

SweetBella said:

ORCHARD, thank you so much. it sounds like you do a great job. im not on any type of schedule either but i have been thinking about it. like you, i am quiet when i want to be and also an introverted person. the difference i have is that my husband works from home, which i love so much but there are also cons to it but not too many.

do you journal? have any hobbies? have other housewives as friends?

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Yeah, I used to journal, but now I blog.

As for other hobbies, as I mentioned before, I read a lot. Only nonfiction though. I love reading things that I can learn something from.

I love books in general, and love shopping at used book stores and book sales. It's a hobby my husband and I share. We have hundreds upon hundreds of books in our apartment.

I also have an interest in scenic photography. I take scenic photos as well as look at other people's scenic photos online.

I don't really have any other housewives as friends. We're relatively new to this area and don't know many people here. The few ladies I have met at church seem to just sit around complaining about their husbands, and expect me to join in, and I won't do that. So I haven't really pursued friendships with them. I think I've just met the wrong people though!

I'm a housewife with no kids as well... honestly, I'm a bad housewife LOL 'cuz I loathe cleaning and stuff so I don't do it often enough... I make the excuse that because my husband works nights and we live in an apartment, it's hard to clean because during the day, he's asleep and at night, everyone else is But I really should clean more... I do cook on occasion though

I wish I was a housewife with no kids...does that count?

i was a housewife for the first six months that my husband and i were married. then we moved to st louis and i worked for a year until i found out i was pregnant. then, technically, i've been a housewife with no kids for the past five months, but we'll have a baby in december, and then i'll have plenty to do.

it was very difficult at first b/c my entire life, i've been vehemently opposed to the idea of staying home while my husband worked. i've gotten used to it, though. it took awhile for me to get into a routine of doing a load of dishes every morning, making sure the laundry is clean, doing the grocery shopping, etc. we have four dogs, though, so they at least kept me up and busy until i did get into that routine. now, i crochet a lot, usually receiving blankets for the baby, and i read all the time. i'm also pretty introverted and i don't get lonely or bored, which is very surprising to me, but i'm actually enjoying my life the way it is and i'm very much looking forward to being a stay-at-home mom.

Yeah I couldn't do it. I'd get bored. I liked working before I was 7 months pregnant. Now I love being a SAHM.

Some days being a SAHW gets really boring but most of the time I have enough to do. I don't know what you'd consider me, because I do watch my nephew at least 40 hours a week, most times more than that. So some days I feel like a mum

I clean, cook, dishes all that kind of stuff. I wake up hubsand up and get him off to work--he gets home made lunches which make the other guys jealous but I can't see spending $5 a day for lunch at work.

I run our errends and stuff.

I'm also getting more involved with the Church.

If I could work I would but I can't so I try to make the most of my life and most of the time I don't have time to be bored.

I am a housewife and I love it.

My husband works from home too, so we do end up spending quite a lot of time together.

I stay busy running the house, cooking, cleaning etc etc, running all the errands, sometimes help my husband out with his business...

But we also have a couple of horses which take up a lot of time as I exercise them and look after them every day. I'm also thinking about doing some studying, maybe a degree or something, so I have plenty to do to keep me busy. And if God blesses us with children I'm sure I'll be even busier!

I wouldn't swap what I do for anything...I love it!

I am a housewife and I love it, I have just finished painting aswell so I guess I am a decorator also.


I clean the house everyday (dust hoover ect), and cook everything from scratch, buy the shopping, manage the money, iron, keep everything neat, run all the errends. I don't have a routine though I just do what needs to be done.

The only problem I have is that the people at my church say to me that I should be working and it is terrible since I have no kids I have no excuse not to work, and how bored they would be just being a housewife, this really upsets me.
If I worked I could never keep my house as clean as it is and it would be microwave meals for both of us.

I am a housewife with no kids- and my husband is stationed overseas- AND works a crazy mids schedule. It's so hard for me because all the other housewives here have kids ( I call them the stroller club- they go EVERYWHERE together), and I've tried to hang out with them- but I just can't relate to them at all. I am really lonely because of all this, which makes me extremely dependent and overly critical of my husband.

WOW- how is that for my second post EVER????

AutumnAnne said:

I am a housewife with no kids- and my husband is stationed overseas- AND works a crazy mids schedule. It's so hard for me because all the other housewives here have kids ( I call them the stroller club- they go EVERYWHERE together), and I've tried to hang out with them- but I just can't relate to them at all. I am really lonely because of all this, which makes me extremely dependent and overly critical of my husband.

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So is that what you wanted to do-- stay home with no kids?

My husband works 16 hour mids right now- he is an Air Force cop- and I worked for a while, but we literally wouldn't see eachother for days, because of our opposite schedules. Our marriage really started to suffer- and when we went to our chaplain about it- he suggested that if the problem was how much time we spent apart because of my working- to change it. SO I'm home now- and I get to see him more because of it.

Oh I was just wondering if someday you wanted to join the stroller club, maybe when you had more in common.

I can't wait to be a part of the stroller club! My husband and I are going to start trying in January.

Hehe. Good luck.

I'm a working housewife w/no children (hopefully that makes sense ). Anyway, it's hard to work 8-9 days 5 days a week and keep the house clean, keep to an exercise schedule, etc. but I do it.