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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WOHM here. OP's list of priorities--while extensive--seem out of whack. We all love a clean house, and I personally would welcome the chance to vacuum the kitchen floor every single day. But if not everything can get done, you have to prioritize what is most important to the family, not to yourself.

Providing a healthy dinner is probably the #1 best thing any spouse/parent can provide for their family. It creates family time, it saves money, it's healthy and it "nourishes" more than just the body. I work outside the home and still manage to cook dinner (or reheat leftovers!) almost every night. Take-out food and meals out are so rare that they are truly treats. Fast food is so, so rare that we honestly take pleasure in it as a guilty pleasure when on the road, etc.

I'd say dinner on the table, a well-stocked fridge/pantry, a generally clean house and enough clean laundry to last a few days are the basics. Everything else--including daily vacuming and bathroom cleaning--needs to be done on weekends/as possible. Yes, your house needs to be clean, but not spotless.

OP sounds like she values the clean-clean house more than anything else, and prioritizes that above dinner. Which is fine if that works for your family, but I think a lot of spouses and children would expect, want and appreciate dinner from the SAHP more than anything else they do.[/quote]

I think this is true. Frankly, cleaning can be outsourced fairly cheaply and many people do that. It is much harder to replicate a home cooked meal and I do think it has a much more emotional component to it than cleaning. Many people associate food with being taken care of and have memories related to food. [/quote]

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