The Right Reasons So That No One Asks Again About Whose Responsibility It Is to Clean the House!

Cleaning the house is an unavoidable routine. Moreover, the house is a place to return to and most of our time each day is spent at home. However, there are still many questions about, “Whose responsibility is it to clean the house, really?”

When in elementary school, you must have learned to read with a subject named Budi, right? In the textbooks, there are often two legendary sentences: (1) Budi's mother is washing the dishes; and (2) Budi's father is reading the newspaper.

Those two sentences seem to imply that only Budi's mother has the responsibility to clean the house, but not Budi's father. Hmm, it shouldn't be like that. Let's look at some reasons so that the question “whose responsibility is it to clean the house?” no longer arises in our minds.

Whose Responsibility is it to Clean the House?

If someone asks this, you don't need to rush to answer with thousands of realistic reasons. Just throw out this one question, “Who are you in that house?” If the other person answers one of the roles in the family, such as husband, child, mother, wife, younger sibling, older sibling, it means they all have the same responsibility.

Now, next, you can provide some reasons like the following.

Keeping the House Clean = Maintaining Personal Health

There are many benefits to keeping the house clean, one of which is maintaining our body health. Hmm, what’s the connection? Here’s the thing, when the house is clean, it means the presence of bacteria, fungi, and viruses is at a low level. Therefore, body health can be maintained because it is not contaminated by bacteria, fungi, or viruses from the environment.

So, don’t just wait for someone else to clean the house. Even if there is a housekeeper, at least we should still be active in cleaning small things around or that belong to us. Tidying up the room after waking up, for example.

Equal Roles

Whose responsibility is it to clean the house? Mother? Wife? Daughter? Aunt? Hmm, it seems that those answers can no longer be considered relate in today’s era, right? When most chefs are actually men, of course, the division of roles based on gender can no longer be used as a benchmark.

Cleaning the house cannot be mandated to be done by anyone in particular. When you create a messy atmosphere in the house, it means you are the one who has to clean it, rather than waiting for someone else to do it. Let’s take responsibility for our own actions.

Maintaining Self-Discipline

Cleaning the house is not just about maintaining cleanliness, you know, but also about measuring how well you manage yourself. This is because when we are meticulous in cleaning the house, it means we are diligent people and are sure to be meticulous in other jobs as well. So, cleaning the house can be a benchmark for that.

Becoming More Confident

When someone asks, “Whose responsibility is it to clean the house?” and you confidently answer, “I help clean the house!” then when guests come and praise the cleanliness of the house, you can be sure that a sense of pride will immediately swell within you.

If that’s the case, there’s no more reason to be lazy at home and let the house remain dirty, right? Especially when the guests are special or important people, surely if we receive compliments for having a very clean house, we would be very happy, right?

Those are some reasons to dispel the question about whose responsibility it is to clean the house. From now on, let’s be more diligent in cleaning the house because the benefits are numerous for our bodies and the surrounding environment.

Author: Nisa Maulan Shofa