household management
Running a home
Household management is the coordination of domestic tasks—cleaning, cooking, budgeting, scheduling, and maintaining a home.
The term implies organization and oversight rather than the tasks themselves: She handles all the household management while he does the actual cooking.
Someone skilled in household management keeps a home running smoothly.
- laundryItems needing cleaning
- deep cleaningIntensive, comprehensive sanitation
- spring cleaningThorough annual household purge
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- bill payingDischarging monetary obligations
expenses · cleaning · cooking · waste disposal · chores · to-do list · family calendar · organizing · meal planning · grocery shopping · frugal · homemaking · energy conservation · steward · domestic economy · delegation · storage solutions · recycling systems
- homemakingcooking, cleaning, laundry, recipes, baking
- home economicshome economics, cooking, cooking techniques, sewing, cleaning
- Old-Fashioned Homemakinghomemaking, domestic arts, domestic science, canning, preserving
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- cohabitationcohabitation, cohabiting, cohabitants, cohabiting couple, living together
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
household managementsqualor
Dirty, degraded living conditions
abandonment · dereliction · disrepair · slovenliness · untidiness
household managementcareer focus
Concentrated occupational direction
professional life · business management · civic engagement · public affairs · public life
household managementdisorganization
Absence of systematic arrangement
pandemonium · bedlam · mayhem · anarchy