In article om,
Michelle Fulton writes

"Malcolm" wrote in message
news:577b71b978279dbf99536976d6026765@TeraNews. ..

Good point, but in reality I doubt there are many obsessively house
proud people about.

Not anymore, because the mother is out working nowadays. She used to have
more time to clean, and did.

That is not self evident. Research in the UK has shown that women
nowadays spend very little less time cleaning than they used to, despite
so many more of them in paid work.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm