It is easy to keep putting off cleaning your home, in the hustle and bustle of your daily life.
However, there are some quotes that can motivate you to keep your house and surroundings clean and tidy. You can also write your favorite quote on a sticky note so that you look at it every day and build a habit of keeping your home spick and span, for when guests come over for a visit.
Funny Housekeeping Quotes
These famous housekeeping quotes can serve as inspiration to do your chores and clean your home.
“There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years, the dirt doesn’t get any worse.” – Quentin Crisp.
“Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.” – Mario Buatta.
“A bright person can always think of something better to do than housework.” – Ruby Lou Barnhill.
“My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.” – Erma Bombeck.
“Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it.” – Evan Esar.
“Housework can’t kill you but why take a chance.” – Phyllis Diller.
“The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.” – Roseanne Barr.
“A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.” – Ernest Vincent Wright.
“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ” – Erma Bombeck.
“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.” – Hoosier Farmer.
“Our house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy.” – Unknown.*
“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.” – Ann Oakley.
“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.” – Erma Bombeck.
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” – A.A. Milne.
Interesting Housekeeping Quotes
These interesting housekeeping quotes can help you see how you don't have to be afraid of household chores, including a take on how housekeeping is like a revolving door.
“Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?” – Katherine Whitehorn.
“I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. ” – 'California Demon', Julie Kenner.
“Happiness: A freshly cleaned house.”
“I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.” – Joan Rivers.
“I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can’t find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.” – Celia Cruz.
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” – Phyllis Diller.
“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.” – Lois McMaster Bujold.
“My idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.” – Bette Midler.
Fascinating Housekeeping Quotes
Here are some fascinating housekeeping quotes for all the motivation and inspiration you need.
“It’s all in the attitude – housework is exercise. Slim your way to a clean home!” – Linda Solegato.
“Cleaning and organizing is a practice, not a project.” – Meagan Francis.
“Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.” – Anne Gibbons.
“Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” – Louisa May Alcott.
“Sweeping only moves the dust somewhere else.” – Marty Rubin.
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut.
“My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I’m asleep. But it never works.” – Devon Werkheiser.
“A perfectly kept house is the sign of a misspent life.” – Mary Randolph Carter.
“I was going to clean the house, but then somebody commented on my status.” – Unknown.*
“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.” – Erma Bombeck.
“Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.” – Betsy Farrell.
“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.” – Erma Bombeck.
Inspiring Housekeeping Quotes
These quotes can not only entertain you but can also inspire you regardless of your position on housekeeping.
“Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest.” – Radhika Mundra.
“A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!” – Jennifer Wilson.
“I no longer call such tasks 'housework'. I call them the 'domestic arts', paying attention to all the ways they return me to my senses.” – 'An Altar In The World: A Geography Of Faith', Barbara Brown Taylor.
“The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.” – Marie Kondo.
“I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.” – Erma Bombeck.
“Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up.
Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.” – 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls', Robert A. Heinlein.
“It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.” – Scott Kelly.
“She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.” – 'A Thousand Acres', Jane Smiley.
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