We at The (real) Stepford Wives Club have established that a clean home is a happy home. We have shared some of our cleaning regiments and routines. In the future we will discuss individual cleaning or housekeeping practices. For this time, however, we would like to discuss how we spend our down-time, or rather how we do not spend our time.
We do not idly watch television, the television is generally reserved for sporting events our husbands enjoy. We do not wind away the afternoon watching soap operas, Oprah Winfrey or Jenny Jones (really are any of those people still on the air?). We don't watch the latest Hollywood gossip, nor do we care who got arrested, caught cheating, or the latest marriage, birth or divorce. These are all people we do not know in real life, why should we need to know their intimate details?
We don't watch the news either. If we want to know about something that's going on in the world, we talk to our husbands and ask for their thoughts. Very often they will say that we shouldn't concern ourselves with it. Again, the view we are most concerned with comes from our kitchen window and our own backyard.
Our time, when we are not cleaning, cooking, or tending to our families are spent mostly reading or engaging in a hobby. Some of us enjoy sewing, scrapbooking and even making our own cards for special occasions and holidays. We enjoy reading, especially books on cleaning. We recommend Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendleson. She covers everything you need to know about properly cleaning your home. We very much consider that book to be like the Holy Grail of cleaning!
