My wife and I are not terribly "domestic".  However, we do whatever it takes to keep our household in tip-top shape.  For example, we've only lived in our current home five years, and we are already considering washing the windows.

Of course, we don't want to rush into anything, so we're just kind of playing it by ear.  You know, weighing our options.

My wife does have occasional bursts of Martha Stewartness, such as when she recently painted our children's bedroom light blue.  In fact, she got rather carried away, and ended up painting much of our house and some of the surrounding properties light blue.

Luckily for the neighbors, who are still trying to get light blue paint out of their hair, such impulses are rare.  Normally, she is content to bake an occasional batch of peanut-butter cookies.  Although one time when I was out of town she had a domestic impulse to throw away my entire collection of semi-rare beer bottles.  She felt that beer bottles were not the decorative accent our kitchen really needed.  Luckily, the bottles were empty, but the collection probably would have gone for at least $80,000 on Ebay, or about a nickel at a rummage sale.

I took the demise of my bottle collection like an adult, although a few of my wife's porcelain kitty figurines disappeared under mysterious circumstances over the next few days.

In my case, housework of any type is the last thing I feel like doing after going to the office and slaving over a hot computer all day.  When I get home, I just want to sit back and work on my computer all evening.  Besides, I do much of the outside work around the house, such as paying the kid who cuts our grass.

I think it would be really great to have one of those robot maids like the Jetsons have.  I'm sure it would be expensive, but I would gladly exchange our son's college fund for never having to clean another lint trap (memo to self: start Christopher's college fund so we can get a robot maid).

If I can't have a robot maid, I would at least like to have one of those automated kitty litter boxes that cleans itself out after the cat makes a deposit.  This is a great example of technology being used for the good of all mankind, or at least for those of us who are "cat people" (we are also known as "morons").

One way to take much of the hard work out of housecleaning is to simply not do it.  Instead, take a 4 inch by 7 inch kitchen towel, pour some Pine-Sol on it, and drop it behind your sofa.  At least your house will smell clean.

Eventually, you will run out of 4 inch by 7 inch kitchen towels and/or room behind major items of furniture.  However, by that time, you should have enough money saved up for a robot maid, or maybe a new house.

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