Originally Posted by
jp1
An amusing sidenote to underscore how seriously mom took her routine and methods for keeping house. A few years after dad retired mom discovered that she had osteoporosis when her ankle broke in several places as she tried to stand up from sitting in a chair. During the first couple of weeks after this dad attempted to do the vacuuming and other housekeeping. Apparently he was ok at laundry but mom found his vacuum skills to be lacking. They ended up developing a shared approach where he would situate her on one of the kitchen stools in the middle of the living room. She would vacuum around herself while he placed the other one 6 feet away or so. When she'd finished the area around the first one he'd help her move to the other one. While she was vacuuming around it he would move the first stool to a third location. And so on and so on and so on until she had completely vacuumed their condo. They did this every week until she had recovered enough to vacuum normally. After hearing that story I thought it was hilariously naive on his part to have assumed that he could have had any useful advice to offer her on housekeeping...