keeping house
Maintaining a home
Keeping house is managing a household—the ongoing work of cleaning, cooking, organizing, and maintaining a home.
The phrase often implies this as a primary occupation: She's been keeping house for her elderly father since he broke his hip.
Someone who keeps house handles domestic responsibilities, whether or not they hold outside employment.
- home economicsStudy of household management
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- sinkBasin with drain
- doing dishesCleaning cookware and tableware
- cleaningRemoving dirt and mess
spring cleaning · dust · decluttering · making beds · child-rearing · cooking · meal planning · floor · caregiving · laundry · taking out trash · delegating · food preservation · chore chart · scheduling · inventorying · sweep · menu design
keeping housegoing to work
Traveling to employment
breadwinning · working for a living · office work · professional life
keeping housedrifting
Moving without purpose
nomadic living · vagabondage · wandering · couch surfing · homelessness
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