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Quotes of the Day for 2 May 2005 - Housekeeping

The magazine Good Housekeeping was first published at Holyoke, Massachusetts on this day in 1885, and it's still published regularly 120 years later. Having never actually opened a copy of this august periodical I can't make any comments on the content, other than to say the concept is lost on me. One of my favorite bumper stickers says, "My only domestic quality is that I live in a house". Well, actually, I also cook, wash enough dishes so that I can eat the next day, and do laundry whenever I run out of socks. I also don't seem to have saved any quotes that proclaim the benefits of good housekeeping.

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's a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

House-keeping ain't no joke.
     - Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
     - Whoopi Goldberg

Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
     - Mason Cooley

Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
     - Barbara Dale

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
     - Laurence J. Peter, 1919 - 1990

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