Household Management Quotes

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

I can't stand unpacking.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

Stay at home mom is still a job.

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

I love dogs, but they are a big responsibility, and with four children, having one would be too much.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.

That's how I judge a winner - how somebody manages their family and raises their family.

I hate women because they always know where things are.