Girls just want to have fun...
I've always been one to talk to my kids about the lures of advertising, but I have come to the slow realization that I have a weakness, and am the perfect "mark" for certain types of products and their advertising. So here it is for all you market researchers:
I will buy anything that makes housework look easier or more fun.
If I've seen the ad, it's in my cleaning closet. And I am always disappointed. No matter what I buy, I cannot get housework to look as much fun as it does on TV. Even with the stereo pumped up, and doing the little "Swifter " dance, dusting looses it's interest really quicklyfor me.
I really don't mind housework, it's the repetitive nature that gets to me, so I'm always on the lookout for something to make it a little more fun and a lot less work.
I want to be the mom that smiles when the dog and the boy track mud all over the carpet, because, volia, I have my secret weapon, "Product X"
Grass stains on all of his new jeans.... bring it on... Red wine spilled on the sofa, just let me grab those extra absorbent towels. Bathroom clean up? 2 squirts of that spray bottle and I'll be blinded by the shine, and getting the thumbs up from a muscular bald guy. I want to look sexy with a toilet brush in my hand.I want to be joyous when potato chips are ground into the carpet, for the opportunity to pull out my cordless vac. I want to purposely burn the lasagna pan so that I can later take it out of the dishwasher, spotless. I will not cringe at fingerprints and bathtub rings, I will embrace them For I have cleaning products with aromatherapy scents that help me relax. Zen housework.
I want to have as much fun as the "Swifter" lady.
5 comments:
Well good luck on that! I don't think housework itself is EVER fun. I do however, like the feeling of a cleanhouse, after the cleanin is done!
I love the feeling of a clean house too. Trouble is after doing all the housework...(remember I have 5 kids)...I am usually really tired and I have trouble enjoying it. After I get the kitchen clean, dishes all done, counters and table clear, I always take a few moments to just stand in the middle of it and take it in. By the time I get up the next morning the ambiance is lost with breakfast/lunch preparations and homework strewn over the table. I think of my mom's house and reassure myself there will be relief someday...
I think I am sounding rather negative today. I don't mean to..I love my kids. I just wish they were born self-cleaning...lol
One day, long ago, I had someone call my house and tell me I've won a "free" carpet shampoo on a room of my choice (no strings attached of course). Well, my living room had Koolaid and ravioli all in the carpet so I said "hell yeah, bring it on over here."
A Kirby Vaccum Cleaner salesman shows up and plugs in a VCR tape of dust mites and lice and dragon like critters (viewed with an electron microscope) that live in carpet. He then did a little magic, some shucking 'n' jiving and then HYPNOTIZED me into buying this $2000.00 vaccum cleaner. (complete with handy attachments and two extra bags!)I know he hypnotized me because I'm smarter than that....I think.
Anyway he convinced me....I mean "hypnotized me" into financing this thing without my wife's permission. Oh, yeah! You can bet that went over like a big lead balloon!
I was then promptly laid off from work and sold this $2000 miracle machine to a friendly neighborhood pawn broker for $400. Hell of an investment, huh? I still have emotional bruises from that.
Oh wow..I had the same experience only it was my husband's fault. He let the guy come over. It wasn't a kirby ..but something like it. I honestly think I have blocked it out, so horrible a memory. And to help you not feel quite so bad about it..that hypnotizing works oh so well...my house is mostly tiled. Only carpet in the bedrooms.
Whew! That felt good. Blogs are great for confessions aren't they?
OH ME TOO! I want to like housework again. I want to have a CLEAN room that stays Clean. NO toys on the floors, everything, in it's place and NO DOG HAIR ANYWHERE! But since my Living room is the toy pit. The laundryroom always has laundry and the kitchen has tumbles weeds of dog hair. I think the clean house is just for t.v or the super rich with a built in cleaning lady. WHICH I AM NOT!
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