{"id":105377,"date":"2019-03-26T00:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/womens-lib-freed-us-from-domestic-drudgery-so-whats-with-todays-competitive-cleaning-suzanne-moore\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:03:24","slug":"womens-lib-freed-us-from-domestic-drudgery-so-whats-with-todays-competitive-cleaning-suzanne-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/womens-lib-freed-us-from-domestic-drudgery-so-whats-with-todays-competitive-cleaning-suzanne-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s lib freed us from domestic drudgery \u2013 so what\u2019s with today\u2019s competitive cleaning? | Suzanne Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nForget about gleaming worktops and shiny showerheads. Life is for living, not for tidying your cutlery trayThe world is a mess. Pollution and all that eco-jazz. Your body is also a mess, full of toxins that need cleansing. Your skin is ungodly and needs a good hot-cloth treatment and expensive cream. And your house? Well, it\u2019s an absolute tip.Foxes have eaten my recycling, so rubbish is strewn all over the road. A card was popped through my door offering to steam my carpets, a treatment that seemed more expensive than buying some new carpets. The last man who cleaned my windows disappeared after a complicated divorce and, quite frankly, I can\u2019t be bothered any more. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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