Household chore is a means for you and your family to live comfortably, it is never the purpose of your life.

Tomoko Inukai

 

 

Surprising 400 proposals for blowing off housework such as washing athletic shoes in a washing machine, sharing cooking with friends in the neighborhood, are made, which are all rational in reality. The critic says that the interest in the outside world and the love for people around you go together. Also she says that domestic work is so important that you should cooperate with each other. From "The Secrets Of Housework " published 50 years ago. 

 

August 23,  2018

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun