Are You A Domestic Goddess

@p1kef1sh (45681)
March 10, 2008 2:37pm CST
Is your house perfection, the envy of all your friends. Does your baking always turn out right. Are your children immaculate always, like yourself. Does your pets not shed except outside. Are your lawns manicured. Your paling fencing pristinely white. Are Vogue and Homes and Gardens your bibles of good taste. Do you get mistaken for the Governor's wife. Is your car always polished to perfection. Are you always at the top of the Charity Lunch organizer's list of invitees. Does Phi Beta Kappa mean more to you than "Fi beat a Copper". In short, are you a Domestic Goddess?
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@kbourgerie (8780)
• United States
10 Mar 08
How did you know? Have you had a private eye staking me out? Just in case he's given you any incorrect information, let me clarify what he has given you so far. My neighbors are lined up for three states to get the chance to have a look at my house from afar. My baked alaska never falls. My children wear white, with dainty little gloves and flowers in their teeth. My dog whose name is Duchess sports her collar of emerald cut diamonds. A quick warning where she is concerned, alway wear your sunglasses in her presence, because the light from the diamonds is blinding and never look her straight in the eye. She doesn't like that. I manicure my lush green lawns myself in my off moments with a small pair of cuticle scissors. I make the hummingbirds myself from paper machete. No Vogue, because they are simply beneath me, but my house is shown on the front pages of Elegant Lifestyles. I am beginning to become somewhat irritated, however, its becoming really cumbersome, having those photographers underfoot all the time. The Governers wife, NO. You do insult me. However, my cousin Queenie Betty slinks in my backdoor whenever shes in town and needs some ideas for redecorating. My car is in pristeen condition just having been buffed with my makeup brush, good thing I've got several or more. I attend few events as I don't like the idle chatter. Phi Beta Kappa means "fly a bit captain?", the first question asked of our private airline pilots when they are interviewed and finally domestic, no, goddess, yes! I hope this helps to clear up any questions you might have.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
I am prostate before you. Clearly the ideal woman. I might have guessed.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
I think I mean prostrate. You really don't want me prostate before you. Ugh.
@ElicBxn (63253)
• United States
10 Mar 08
I am the "anti-domestic goddess."
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@ElicBxn (63253)
• United States
10 Mar 08
could be - but you'd have to PM me to find out
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
10 Mar 08
I can see you now spilling stuff, leaving piles of washing about the place, not washing up. Sounds like where I live. Are we related?
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@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
11 Mar 08
i guess im not that perfect..but i see to it that all are clean especially on the kitchen and in the bathroom..
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Your too modest. I bet that everything sparkles.
@paulsy (1263)
• Philippines
10 Mar 08
Oh my, how I wish I could be like that! There is nothing more I would want than a perfect home! Immaculately clean home, children smelling like baby powder and baby cologne 24 hours a day, everything in its proper place, and of course, me looking like an angel 24 hours a day...haha! That's a dream! If one part is perfect, there has to be something that's not. If the house is perfectly clean, I probably look trashy and tired cleaning all day. If I looked angelicly fresh and well kept a whole day's time, that means the house must be a mess. I probably didn't lift a finger all day long! However, it could be possible if I had a housemaid designated for each area of the house, including a nanny who would look after each and every need of my kids. Then maybe my kids and I could look nice and pretty my house in perfection all day long!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
10 Mar 08
I am sure that you are being too modest.
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@paulsy (1263)
• Philippines
10 Mar 08
Nah, not modest...just honest!
@dizzblnd (3073)
• United States
11 Mar 08
Everything you just said.. I am the exact OPPOSITE. I wish I was at least a domestic pauper. Alas, I hate to clean, clutter is my life, disorganization is how I make it through. Oh I have been able to change it, but not permanently, I eventually get lazy again. Sigh
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Welcome to Club Normal. Sounds like you are going to be a full member not just a visitor.
@dtroas (479)
• United States
11 Mar 08
That answer will be NOPE! LOL I am in it to live, my home is clean but I have 2 kids. I can cook and it does turn out good for the most part never hear anyone complaining. I do like to have a nice looking yard. Just a live life day to day person here.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Makes sense to me. That's how most of us live, I hope.
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@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
11 Mar 08
Who want to clean when there is a good book to read? I can honestly say I am the opposite to a domestic goddess. I have plenty of relatives who spend their days trying to keep homes that could be featured in magazines. I always feel so uncomfortable in their houses. I wonder where they keep their unpaid bills, the newspapers, the magazines that have not been read, the recycling, the shoes that need to be polished etc. Do they ever lie down on the sofa or put a cup of tea down on their coffee table? Well I guess to each their own. I just hope they get pleasure out of it.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Agreed. Books are far more important. Your house is your space. What you do there is your business including how it looks.
@superbren (856)
11 Mar 08
I like my house reasonably tidy but not like a palace.When you have kids you have to lower your standards or they suffer. No kids should have to be scared to move in their own home.I like the garden nice too but if we are working it could b e an extra week before the grass is cut.My jeep is a mess and thats something i'm a bit ashamed of.Even the kids moan about it,even though all of the mess is theirs.I had a mcdonalds takeaway cup lying on the floor for six weeks.I'm much tidier in my house.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
I refer to my car as "The Litter Bin" because it mostly is. But when I examine the litter carefully, none of it is mine. Unless that is, I have taken to buying young women's magazines and throwing the free make up bags and the cellophane they came in about the car. Odd bits of makeup (rarely my colour) and old text books from school that we were long ago billed for. As for the Cds.... All familiar I am sure. Houses are to be lived in, that's my view. If home os where you all feel safe and secure then you are most certainly a goddess, and bugger the domestic bit.
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
11 Mar 08
Domestic Mom - This is what I do!
Not even close. Our apartment is clean and tidy (most times), my baking is not that great even though my hubby and son still eat it, I don't own any pets, I don't have a lawn but our building manager takes care of the grounds, I don't have a white picket fence (one day maybe but it's likely to be brown), and even though my neighbor gives me her "Better Homes and Gardens" magazines, our apartment never looks like the pictures they have in them but its still home (I am allowed to dream though). As for "Fi beat a Copper" LOL I have never belonged to a sorority or fraternity or whatever they call them. From what I've seen on tv, it's just an excuse to get together and drink and party LOL I can do that without a sorority:)
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
11 Mar 08
Exactly! I'm just glad they don't get sick from my baking!!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Your place sounds near perfection to me. So long as your loved ones want to be there, with you, then who cares?
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@bdugas (3578)
• United States
11 Mar 08
No but my daughter is and it drives me nuts, there is no joy living in her house everything must be just so so, her kids are dressed in their finest, but get yelled at if they come in dirty. Her hair is always done and he makeup on every day even if she has no where to go, she says I live like a pig cause when you come to my house the dog might have toys all over the floor but we live in our house, it is not a showplace and I want to be comfortable, why be that way if it makes life merisible, all of your time is in seeing that every thing is just so so, no time for enjoying life.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
I suppose my question must be, what has made your daughter so perfect? You house sounds fine to me. If you want show homes go to new housing estates and be escorted round. But don't ask me to live in one.
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
10 Mar 08
No Way! I do a good job of things being clean but never spotless and you won't find a Vogue or Home and Gardens book in my home. Our home looks lived in all of the time and I like it that way.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
10 Mar 08
Homes and Gardens houses are nice to look at, but lived in is always best.
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@valerie37 (1002)
• Christiansburg, Virginia
11 Mar 08
I'm nowhere close to a domestic goddess. And I'll be honest in saying this, I probably never will be.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Neither will I. Even if I had the bits to be an "ess" with rather than just a God.
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
11 Mar 08
Umm, short answer? No. lol I don't know anyone like this either. Oh, maybe my Great-Aunt. She is as near perfection as I have ever seen. Clean house, perfect hair, perfect manners, never judgemental... I wish I could be more like her but that just isn't going to happen in this lifetime! I love her to pieces but I could never be that perfect. I am not sure I would be happy with everything so pristine and I know it would drive my husband bananas! I did laundry and vacuumed the living room today...so I am feeling good about myself today! (Only half kidding! lol)
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
I think that having a home that your loved ones want to be at makes you the perfect Domestic Goddess.
• Philippines
11 Mar 08
My baking does turn out well most of the time, but I think I am not a domestic goddess as I cannot completely say that my room is immaculately clean always much more the whole house. My dirty clothes aren't always supposed to be in their right place, my rubber shoes I prefer them not to look clean...lol...my bed isn't made well always. I'm bad in terms of maintaining the orderliness of my things. But I try to.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
I am sure that you work very hard. Live how you want, not how the magazines think that we should.
• United States
11 Mar 08
Domestic Goddess? Nah, but not from my lack of trying. I'm a stay at home mommy so my home and family are my job. I aim to be great at what I do :) But I believe its the beautiful moments you share with your family and friends that are the most important not how tidy your house was when you have these moments. I do admire those who manage to be a Domestic Goddess and live a fun and full life.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Mar 08
Agree entirely. Just that for me the beautiful family moments seem to have totally eclipsed the clean house bit. Ah well, never mind, life's too short.