Tuesday, July 15, 2014

What is my hobby? My hobby Is House Work Part 4

Now, I promised that I would take you through a typical weekend and how I approach the weekly house work. Generally on Saturday morning whether Her Majesty leaves for work or not I will rise shortly after 8am and strip the bed. Before I get any coffee or breakfast I start a laundry load with hot water for the bedding and any white socks, underwear, bras, etc that will fit in one load properly. 

Laundry takes TIME to run, so it must be started first. Once it is underway I will eat a light meal and have some coffee and check my email and whatever on the computer (well I do that when she is not home because basically the computer belongs to her on the weekend mornings when she is there. ) This brings me to pit fall #1 – internet surfing can be a HUGE time waster! Don’t sit there until noon avoiding doing your work! And I haven’t even mentioned internet porn. 

Keep yourself chaste for your Mistress, your Queen, your very Owner!! Being home alone with the internet is a dangerous time for the man who is on an honor chastity regimen! Get up and get started on your chores quickly! Remember that the ‘love energy’ you have growing within you belongs to her and not to you! So keep her foremost in your mind during this time.  Being home alone with the internet is as much of a danger time as being in bed alone or being in the shower. Be on guard and be strong. Sacrifice for her sake!

Once breakfast is done, I set to work on room number one. That is always the kitchen! You will spend more time in the kitchen than any other room because food is prepared there and messes always follow. Put any dishes away that ran in the dishwasher, and put any dirty ones you have in there. Next wipe off the counter tops. Try to catch all the crumbs but if some fall on the floor it’s OK you will sweep soon.

Around this time the first load of laundry will be done. Move it from the washer to the dryer. This is the time critical item of the day. The dryer takes more time than the washer and washed clothes should always be backed up waiting on the dryer so get the dryer going quickly. Once the dryer is running the whites, start filling the washer with cold water and detergent. (Put the detergent in as it fills. Don’t pour it on the clothes and burn them. Let it dissolve into the water as it fills. THEN put the clothes in when the washer is full.) 

If your house is like mine the bedrooms and the laundry room are at different ends of the house. So you will do some walking. A GOLDEN RULE for house work is “DO NOT WALK FROM ONE END OF THE HOUSE TO THE OTHER EMPTY HANDED!”

Think on that rule throughout your day because you will walk back and forth A LOT. And there are always things that need to move from one end to the other! ALWAYS! Cleaning supplies, laundry, trash bags, or just trash itself. 

Carry the empty laundry basket and something along with it to the back rooms.  Often I will grab something I will use later for bathroom cleaning. Fill the basket with colored clothes and take them to the laundry room.

 

Her Obedient Little 'Laundry Bunny'


Once that second load is underway, you should either continue your counter top work or if everything at hip level and above is clean start sweeping the floor! The kitchen floor takes more time and effort than any other surface in the house I think. It MUST be clean and it attracts food crumbs, dirt and just junk. Sweep it two or three times a week and wash it at least weekly. 

Now IF you are a really submissive scrubby hubby type washing the kitchen floor offers you the opportunity to indulge your cleaning and woman worshiping fantasies while you are doing something useful. There are probably a number of you reading this who have long dreamed of getting down on your hands and knees with a scrub brush and scrubbing that floor until it shines! 


Well here is the good news and the bad news, sometimes it actually NEEDS THAT! Now that is a task I reserve for when I am completely alone at home. Watching a man doing that is just TOO “Pussy Whipped” for most other people to handle including your Mistress and I would blush myself to death if someone else saw me doing that! But there are times when the dirt is so tracked onto it that no other way will clean it!


I don’t do it often but when I do, I really do get that warm glow of totally submissive service and of being owned! I work the brush HARD against that surface and I build up a good sweat before I am done and generally I can enjoy stiff back muscles the next day or two to remind me of my earlier subservient bliss! 

Mostly I just use a mop and a bucket with some pine cleaner in it. When that is done be careful about walking on that floor for a while. It is slippery and more so, it will attract any dirt your feet or shoes can carry. Generally when I clean house I do it in a t-shirt and a pair of gym shorts with bare feet. You know that old saying: “Men should be barefoot and doing housework at all times!” well anyway I WISH it were an old saying or at least a saying that is becoming popular now! So you guys get out there and promote it for me!


At this point the kitchen should look presentable. Depending upon circumstances you might want to bake some kind of snack or desert at this time. If it comes from a mix it takes little time and BOY when the Mistress comes home and her house is neat, clean, and pleasant and she can smell a freshly baked cake or a pan of brownies you have the opportunity for your Woman to feel content and HAPPY! If not, it can take longer and taste better! Either way. She may have had her doubts about you before but if you clean well AND BAKE FOR HER then you will be ALL HERS now! She will never want to let you go!
  
Bake Someone Happy

The next major chore now that the kitchen is in order is generally the bathrooms. This is usually the grossest and most degrading of the rooms to clean for obvious reasons women do not enjoy cleaning the bathroom. That makes this your golden opportunity to serve! 

I start my maintenance bathroom cleaning by using window wash on the mirror AND the faucet. Let the stuff sit on the faucet after you spray it there until you are done with the mirror. The nasty stuff like tooth paste may take a couple minutes to loosen. Then you can rub it clean.


Next clean off the sink top and counter and dust everything then use some Comet cleanser in the sink and on the surface. Rub it good with a sponge. Be careful to use the right amount. Too much makes a mess and too little does not clean anything. Now put things back in place all cleaned up. You will probably have to clean the soap dish and any toothbrush holder you have now. 

When you are done, wipe the whole area with a paper towel to remove any left-over grit. This is the way you can go from the average guy doing this to a higher level of service. Grit screams “Look at me! I JUST washed this and I did a half-assed job.” A smooth clean surface just says ‘class’ and 'service'.
Get rid of old chips of soap and replace them with a fresh bar.  I just throw ‘em out. Don’t try to be too economical. Make things look good. Few people are so poor that they can not afford a new bar of soap every couple of weeks.
Now How Did This Little Sweetie Get In Here!? I Mean I Would NEVER Fantasize About Dressing Like This And Scrubbing the Toilet... Well OK I Might Just A Little...

Next comes the big one. The toilet! This is the nastiest, most degrading job in the house. But by the looks of our picture it seems that SOME of you rather enjoy it! ;) Frankly along with scrubbing the kitchen floor and apparently ironing, there are no household tasks that the subby hubby dreams more about! Well good news! There are times when you DO have to get down on your hands and knees and scrub the inside of the bowl with your hands! LUCKY YOU!

The first step is to use some kind of industrial product to wash the surfaces down inside the bowl and under the water. I find the usual products make the water so darned blue I can’t see if it is clean or not at the bottom! So I start at the bottom and STILL I have to flush more than once because of this.
Many of you will have hard water stains in your toilet and the best way I have found to clean those is to use a pumice based scour stick. Here is a link on Amazon to buy them if you don’t have something like that already:

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=scour+stick&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=1676149785&ref=pd_sl_5pfa3y44i6_e


This is the FUN part where you get down onto your knees and stick your hands and face into the bowl itself to clean it good! (Get the gross stuff out first though and just clean the water stains like this.)
If you have suffered from water stains for a while and you clean it like this, Mistress will be SO HAPPY that she won’t ever let you stop cleaning house for her! Lucky YOU!
Another thing that you can do to rid the toilet of hard water stains is to use vinegar on them. First clean the bowl as best you can using conventional methods. Then soak a bunch of paper towels in vinegar and stuff them up under the rim of the bowl. Let them sit there over night to work their magic. The next day remove them and scrub again. MUCH of the hard water issue can be solved in one of these two ways.


Next task is to wash the outside of the bowl and the floor down around and behind the toilet. Boy! If you are looking for a way to swallow your pride and feel like a domestic lackey, just try to keep that area truly clean from week to week. It is a definite an 'on your hands and knees' kind of job. I use Windex and a bunch of paper towels. 

Make sure you dust off the toilet paper holder. TP has a way of putting off a lot of dust and this is just one of those tiny details that add up to a good job.
If you plan it right when you wash the kitchen floor with the mop you can continue and mop the bathroom floors at the same time. I often wash the bathroom carpets and toilet covers and let them dry out back if it is a nice day.

We have two bathrooms, so I repeat these steps now in the other bathroom and constantly listen for the dryer buzzer. Hey! The house is starting to shape up now! Oh the dryer just went off. Go get the clothes and carry the bathroom cleaning tools that you keep in the laundry room or kitchen to the other end of the house if you are done with both bathrooms. And change out the bathroom drinking cups as well. 


Next it is time to fold and hang up the laundry and probably start the load with the bath towels in it.
The next thing for me to do is straighten the living room up and make it look inviting. This is where I often divide jobs and do one every other week. You will definitely want to throw out old newspapers and clean up the mail and the 'what not' now. Straighten the magazines and books. You might wipe down any leather chair or couch and or vacuum the fabric or under the cushions. Fold any blankets and put them and any pillows up correctly. 


This finally brings me to time waster #2 - DO NOT turn on the TV! Men have a habit of staring at the TV like zombies and it can RUIN your entire day of housework! Put on some high energy tunes on an iPod and work to that sound track. It will keep your energy level up and you will not be as distracted as you would be with the television keeping you company.
Now DUST boys DUST!  I use a Swiffer brand duster (not the SUPER SEXY AND ULTRA FEMININE FEATHER DUSTER of fantasy-ville – DARN they just clean better) They really pick up the dust and don’t just swirl it around.

Do all of the book shelves, and the mantle, and the tops of the picture frames. Do the door frames, do the TV and the DVD player etc... DO EVERYTHING where dust could accumulate! When I dust I usually do the entire house all at once instead of one room at a time. 

Next I take some Windex and clean the TV screens, the fish tank, and any picture that is dusty too. We have glass doors and I do those at this time as well. 


The next step is to dance with the broom!  Sweep the corners and all around the ‘other rooms’ other than the kitchen now. And finally I vacuum the entire house. 


Whew! Doing all of that and putting all the remaining laundry away generally takes me about 3 to 4 hours and when it is done, I feel very good about how things look.

Good Job! Her Ladyships Castle Shines!
She used to tell me how great everything looked and how happy she was with my efforts each time she came home. Now she does that less and less. But that is fine. That tells me that I have been good enough at my chores to raise her level of expectations and now she simply expects a certain level of service from me as the norm. I kind of enjoy that now as I have gotten better at what I do and it shows that she trusts me to BE her house work hubby (or male wife) now and I think we both enjoy that relationship.

Shortly before she comes home do one final walk through the whole house. Make certainly there are no obvious messes just laying out or cleaning tools you forgot to put back. Then make sure the lighting is soft and inviting and there is no loud music or TV or anything annoying. Your Queen should enter a warm, gentle, and inviting home. She should feel good about coming home, not annoyed.

At last Her Majesty comes home! She sits on the couch with her iPad and says “I’m hungry and that cake you baked sure smells good!” “Shall I get you a piece my Queen?” (Yes I DO call her ‘My Queen’ at home and she likes it! – I haven’t been outed by her on that count yet! But I don't think that I would really mind if I was. I mean shouldn't EVERY home be a Matriarchal Monarchy? Wouldn't that be heaven on earth?) 

I present it to her tired and hungry majesty who has come home to a clean, orderly and peaceful home and is now being fed and doted upon by her adoring male wife. My basic chores are done and my next task is up to her...

Her Majesty Has Now Been Served And Is Pleased. Heaven On Earth...

8 comments:

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    1. Why Thank You, Mistress Kathy!

      I have to admit that despite all appearances to the outside world, being called a 'good boy' by an 'assertive lady' such as yourself is really a rather special treat for me...

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    2. Great tips for cleaning. My wife is having guests this Sunday and she is wanting to the house perfect. And I do agree about washing the kitchen floor you can sweep it as much as you want but to really get it clean you need to get on your hands and knees .I enjoy your posts. R R

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  2. To get the house 'perfect' is going to take more doing than what I wrote about here.

    It will take HOURS in each room organizing, eliminating, cleaning, and detailing every nook and cranny!

    What I wrote about here in part 4 is basically my routine every Saturday so that I can get the Maintenance Cleaning done. I have not really written much about deep cleaning yet, although I must admit that those house work articles have proven more popular than I thought they would be. Maybe I'll do one soon.

    In order to pass muster and approach the state that I like to think of as "Woman Clean" for this weekend, I suggest that you start TONIGHT and each night this week by spending an hour or two getting parts of the weekly maintenance cleaning done and do the best deep cleaning job that you can do on the rooms they are most likely to visit. The Living Room, the Kitchen, and the Guest Bathroom come to mind. If you can get all that done, and have a little time, you can spend Saturday afternoon either baking or making exotic drinks (that extra touch really makes a difference and WOW what a feeling when the Mrs. tells her friends "Yes thank you. My husband made these. He's such a little whiz in the kitchen.")

    I think that if you spend an hour or two each night and dive in early on Saturday you could REALLY impress her with your efforts!

    Best of luck!

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  3. Try using the Eureka steamer for your floors. Works great. A mop and bucket just push dirty water around, especially if you have tile floors. Pushes the dirty water into the grout lines. And remove your shoes at the door. The soles of shoes are filthy with dirt, bacteria and viruses . Just think, those shoes walked into the men's room that day. And no bare feet. Bare feet release an oil which adheres to hard floors, making them dirty in no time. Try flip flops and keep them by the door when you go out, and put them on when you come home. If my wife ever saw me with shoes on in the house, I would be punished so severely.

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    1. How nice!

      Maybe we CAN have our own on-line version of the "Scrubby Hubby Club" after all.

      Thank you for your contribution All Hers.

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  4. dear surrendered husband,

    I’m new to your site, and I am totally blown away with your dedication, candor, intelligence, and especially your realism. It’s definitely one of the best of its kind out there on net.

    I’m really in awe of the way you are so dedicated to housework. Let me comment for a bit on your entire site, which I’ve been reading this past hour.

    I see in you things I have only partially developed in myself. You seem to be really shedding the old persona of the patriarchal male (something I am trying to do and admire in you), where everything revolves around him and his ego. It’s really just a crutch for most men. Yecch! I see you as exploring a new and better way of being a man: building a life around your wife and serving and pleasing her and becoming as much as possible the kind of man she and other women desire. As you say, it’s not her duty to please you, but you’re duty to please her. In short, being a man can be living a life that is more dependent on a woman than independent. But I also see you as trying to find a balance between serving women and some older ways of being a male (chivalry, etc.).

    But the devil is in the details I guess, and I’ve learned a lot from the ways you’ve moved forward with your life. I really loved your posting about being a “classy guy.” I hadn’t thought of some of the things you’ve mentioned, but they all made good sense. And I like the idea of learning to empty your mind when she speaks or has a task to give you that conflicts with one you “want” to do. The term “male sassy mouth” is very apt and unfortunately that’s a problem with many men) I think women naturally lead men, especially in close relationships. Why fight it? Why not be proud of being a follower? As you say, what’s wrong with being “pussy whipped”? I’m with you: it’s definitely more deeply satisfying and something to be proud of. And I can’t end without saying that I also share with you the feeling that seeing women advance into places of status and leadership and replacing men who don’t deserve it is also satisfying on a deep level.

    I plan on reading through your blog several times and making notes and things to change about myself.

    Yours,

    LS

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    1. Wow! Thank you so much for your kind and DETAILED words!

      As I said when I first started this "I am not going to fit easily into preexisting categories here."

      Early on I asked a guy if he had read my blog. He said "No. But I will. You are that guy trying to become a cuckold right?"

      Uh, no. DEFINITELY NO!

      I think that if you start from the premise "What do women want?" And think about it a bit you may come up with a different answer than I did, but the one that I came up with is 'To be loved, and to feel safe, to 'finally have my natural royalty' acknowledged, oh and to have someone clean the house for me too!"

      ;)

      I think that chivalry (at least I hope so) is about to make a come back. I would like to help lead the way if I can. I think of it as an earlier and very manly version of 'Serving and Revering Women'.

      It's about protecting them from predators AND showing that you think of them as a higher form of life than yourself! Women CAN open their own doors of course. But when you do it FOR THEM, you are treating them as royalty, and in the heart of every girl is a Princess and in every woman is a Queen.

      She (in general) will feel content and will tell you if you ask them that "IT'S ABOUT SHOWING RESPECT".

      I think this form of 'respect' is more akin to reverence. As for me, I find women to exist somewhere on the chain of being between men and the angels.

      LS please feel free to comment or ask questions in the future. Positive comments (and discussion) are the reason most people blog.

      SH

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