‘Bama Mama’ offers paid service to parents of Alabama college students doing laundry, groceries, and cleaning their room: ‘Isn’t this infantilizing?’

Isn’t college where young people are supposed to develop their independence? It isn’t uncommon to be kind of useless when you are 18. It is traditionally a time to take those first steps into a semi-adult world, but adulthood, like any other skill, can only be figured out through experience that even a lot of …
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‘It’s laundry day’: Laundry memes for responsible people washing, drying, and folding their clean clothes

Are you also waiting for the weekend to relax, and BAM! The laundry basket is full?  We’ve all been there once or twice. We work all week, we are responsible adults, we do what we have to do, and we’re expecting the two days off we have to do absolutely nothing. But just when we …
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Housewife Claims Her House is in Shambles And Needs to be Cleaned All Day, Despite The House Looking Like This

Is there literally anything in this house that constitutes the label «in shambles»? One of the hardest things about living with other people is agreeing on a standard level of cleanliness. Everyone grew up in a different environment where «clean» meant something different. For some people, «clean» means that there is no literal trash on …
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‘Whistle while you work’: 25 spotless memes to get your moods up for the weekend clean-up

When did we start getting obsessed with cleaning up everything?  Apparently, that’s a software update that hits after your 20s. Those teenage days of not caring if everything is tossed around, our clothes on the floor, and the dishwasher full are now long gone.  Our weekends used to look like going out with friends and …
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Overworked wife refuses to clean house on Friday night so that her lazy husband’s friends can come over Saturday morning: ‘I run a home-based daycare for 12 hours a day. This requires a lot of cleaning all day long.’

Why should she have to clean the house when she’s been cleaning the house all day long? Are you one of those people who are usually kind of blase about cleaning, but then freak out and clean everything when you’re about to have company over? If so, you’re just like me. I try to keep …
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Dad Demands Stay-At-Home Mom Working Part Time Pay Half The Bills, Despite Her Covering Household Expenses With Her Paycheck

They need to get on the same page with their finances. It is incredibly helpful for couples to combine their finances. For one, it helps them be more honest about their financial decisions. It’s not that most married couples are dishonest about their spending. It’s just that if you don’t have a joint account, it …
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Airbnb charges extra $150 ‘cleaning fee’ after guests leave one Hershey kiss wrapper and beds unmade: ‘This is all normal cleaning’

Have you ever been scammed out of a fee in an Airbnb situation?  Fees are getting out of hand. They are so often tacked onto things that don’t need to be tacked onto. And the only one who suffers is the customer. If you’re not willing and able to fight back against them, then you’re …
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Cruel husband punishes wife for not putting cleaning supplies back in their ‘proper places’: ‘The issues are small, like me forgetting to push out the air fryer against the wall after using it

If he wants the cleaning done a specific way so badly, why doesn’t he clean the house himself instead of making his wife do it all?  There comes a time in everyone’s life when they need to overcome their fears and face their neuroses. I’m not saying you should go on Maury Povich and let …
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16-year-old tells dad, who charges her $800 per month for rent, that he’s a bad father: ‘If I don’t pay rent I get kicked out until I do.’

What kind of parent charges their 16-year-old $800 in rent? If your parents are asking you to pay rent to live in your childhood home, there’s a good chance they don’t even want you to pay rent and want you to move out. Many parents are willing to be a soft place for their adult …
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Kids hire professional cleaners to prove their mom’s complaints have nothing to do with actual cleanliness: ‘Mom was a spite cleaner’

Getting out of house chore duty is a tale as old as time, but these kids took it to a level that required a GoFundMe, a film crew, and two professional cleaners with nearly three decades of combined experience between them.