Why I Wrote
This Book and The Painful Truth That Comes with It
It's all
about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps.
Making things go faster, but not worse
-Martha Stewart
There are many women in the world that believe it is un-progressive, some
going as far to say that it’s downright insensitive to say that women belong in
the home, but that isn’t what I’m saying at all. I’m simply saying that in most
cases for women, there is a desire to not just maintain the home, but watch
after the children. Whether it be maternal instinct or social conditioning is a
debate for another day, but it’s something that is definitely ingrained in the
hearts and minds of women everywhere. The painful truth of feminism is that
women in most cases at least have the ambition toward being a mother and an
astute wife.
With that said, there are a variety of reasons why a woman may want to
be a good homemaker. A present wife and/or mother is something that is not only
important to have as a component to a family, but is essentially the heart of
the family, or metaphorical glue. It holds the family together and brings in
the nurturing love that men seem to lack, and as a consequence, need so much.
Men are a lot like babies for their entire lives really, constantly in need of
nurturing and attention, and the duty of the woman throughout most societies is
to be the source of this nurturing, the beacon of light that instills love
wherever it goes. If viewed as a duty, it is possible to be a bad wife,
especially if you have the desire to be a good wife. If you don’t have the
desire to be a good wife then this book probably isn’t for you – you’d be more
interested in some sort of specific topic or some other purpose you’ve invented
for yourself, but for the rest of womankind, I welcome you.
This book is broken up in sections of the house. For example, chapter 3
talks about how to maintain the kitchen while chapter 4 explores the
fascinating intricacies of keeping a bathroom sparkling, and so on and so
forth. Life is a lot like a house, with various rooms and various problems. As
a wife, you will run into more problems than keeping the house clean, but it’s
important to get the basics down so that you can give your full attention to
the real problems at hand. Housekeeping, after all, is just one of the many
rooms in a wife’s life, but that’s exactly why I wrote this book – to
substantiate the importance of keeping the home clean and how it serves as a
foundation for the rest of a wife’s work. Love cannot spread if it isn’t in the
atmosphere and the best and clearest way to show that you love your husband as
well as your family and his family is to keep your house looking clean. I’m not
talking, pick-up-the-socks clean. I mean the glossy magazine cover of Good
Housekeeping clean.
This book will focus on maintaining each room of the house and as a
consequence, how to maintain one’s marriage. When I say maintain each room, I
essentially mean that this book will explore how to keep tricky sections of the
house clean as well as how to make it presentable Appearance after all are for
the sake of, well, appearances. It’s always important to gauge the situation before
you get started – what rooms need cleaning first? What is this person likely to
scrutinize over? It’s also important to have emergency plans for whenever
someone really important comes over. For example, part of being married is that
you should expect surprise drop-ins not only from your own family but your
in-laws as well. This means that you should always keep certain places clean,
and the best way to do this is to have a day-to-day routine. With the help of
this book, you can get yourself on the track to being a better wife and making
cleaning as easy as breathing.
They say that men are the ones that are in charge of relationships as
well as the household, but it’s important to remember that women are just as
important because of what they do in the home. If there were no women, there
would be no marriage, and if there were no women, there would certainly be
dirty houses littered all over the world. Luckily this book can rescue your
home from being one of the many second-rate motels across the world and into a
one of a kind beauty where love is born.
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