housekeeping, n.Definitions

Housekeeping is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it.

Housekeeping is like threading beads on a string with no knot at the end.

Housekeeping is a form of unpleasant work to which a husband patiently gives the best years of his wife.

Housekeeping is often imagined to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. Having kept house and practiced lawy, it is clear that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.