Tai Kleendo E-Book

alastair macleod

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Divorce, wives out to work, single life style, redundancy, gay partners, there are many reasons why men find themselves doing house work.

I don’t mean washing up occasionally, no I mean full on in the captain’s seat responsible for it all, running a household, doing washing, cleaning, cooking.

We have picked things up. How nice it would have been if we had had a modern handy “How to Do It” book along the lines of “Mrs Beaton’s Book of Household Management.” And how does this relate to Martial Arts?

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Alastair Macleod

Tai Kleendo

The Little Book of Household Management for Men

To Tai Kleendo, the noble and ancient art of cleaning .BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Little Book of Household Management for Men or the Art of Tai Kleendo

Divorce, wives out to work, single life style, redundancy, gay partners, there are many reasons why men find themselves doing house work.

I don’t mean washing up occasionally, no I mean full on in the captain’s seat responsible for it all, running a household, doing washing, cleaning cooking .

We have picked things up. How nice it would have been if we had had a modern handy “How to Do It” book along the lines of “Mrs Beaton’s Book of Household Management.”

But, before we start let’s ask a question few women might dare to ask.

Why do housework at all?

Well there are some sensible reasons like hygiene. The down side risk of no or poor housekeeping are bugs and vermin. MRSA, C Difficile for a start, then there are flies cockroaches, maggots, clothes moths, bed bugs, and so on. Your Environmental Health Department will oblige with a full list. In Mrs Beaton’s days running water closets were relatively new and domestic cleaning fluids were in their infancy. People had to scrub and use hot clean water where they could, to keep nature at bay. Today we use an armoury of chemicals, which is not good for the planet.

But back to this later.

So we have cleanliness or hygiene a good enough first reason. But there is the “Order Out of Chaos” argument. Living in chaos is stressful. You can’t find things, you feel grotty, overwhelmed. A lot of tidying is to get control of a small part of the universe when you might otherwise feel powerless

Another important reason is that in a faster and faster world with more and more data streaming into your home, gaining mental peace is difficult. In this situation cleaning can be a form of meditation.

And there is another reason. Shinto belief is that everything is alive and therefore demands treatment as such.

In our day we are increasingly reaching for connection with reality, for authenticity. Getting close to materials like you do when you polish brass, or wood or wash a ceramic floor connects you with the real world in a way that a video game does not.

Cleanliness, Control, Meditation/Mental peace, Authenticity.

Four good enough reasons. But human beings need something else. Particularly we men. Few of us are multi taskers like women and we need a role. We need to see ourselves as a hero in this scenario.

What role models would we have?

Male role models have often been warriors, sportsmen but cleaners?

Hercules would do for a start. He is the mythical cleaner and cleaned in heroic style. He diverted a whole river to power-clean the Augean stables (note no chemicals).

But there is another issue, male heroes were used to going on a quest with a goal which, once reached, meant you could rest on your laurels. For example the young hero goes off to kill a dragon, has adventures on the way kills the dragon, returns to claim his prize, usually the girl and half the kingdom. Well, cut to cleaning. The role could not be more different. It’s more like the labours of Sisyphus. The Greek giant doomed forever to role a huge boulder up a hill then it rolls down again only for him to have to roll it up again; this goes on over and over again.

Cleaning unfortunately is like that, a never ending story. Our hero Hercules, big though his cleaning task was, as a role model is limited; he only had to clean the stable the once before moving on to another task.