How much time does housework take up in your life?

If Boyfriend had to answer for me he’d probably say ‘not much’ although I am adamant that I do more than he thinks, I just don’t like doing the jobs that get your hands wet, like cleaning toilets. I am good at general tidying though – putting things into neat piles, plumping cushions, organising folders into colour order, that sort of thing. Just don’t look at my bedroom floor.

Seriously, don’t. It’s shameful. At the moment it resembles my bedroom as a teenager, where I had so many clothes on the floor I actually once trod on a guitar without realising. (True story. When I discovered it I had to stick the back back on with duct tape.)

In fact, looking through this infographic from Co-operative Insurance I wonder whether I might be slacking in other areas too. I’m slightly doubtful that I will spend anywhere near 167 days helping my children with their homework and my food shopping tally has got to be way off, as Boyfriend doesn’t trust me to do that, complaining that I never come home with things you can actually make meals from.

I tell him that mushy peas on toast is definitely a meal, but he’s far from convinced.

How do you think this infographic compares with your lifetime of chores? 

This ‘Life time of chores’  infographic was supplied by the team at Co-operative Insurance Image

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I have had at least 17 awesome blog ideas this week. Unfortunately, my brain having turned into some sort of old sponge over the last few years, I can’t remember any of them. I know that whilst out for dinner on Monday night for example, I said ‘I should definitely blog about that’ at least three times. What the ‘that’ was though, I have no idea.

Lots of blog ideas come to me in my sleep, but by the time I wake up and try to write them down, what felt like the most ground-breaking or hilarious idea I have ever had has turned into something really lame. It’s a bit like when you have a dream that feels like a Hollywood blockbuster until you try to explain it to someone – ‘Well, we were in our house, except it wasn’t our house, and there was thing creature that was really scary but has a jam jar for a head…’ View Post

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Do you ever look at infographics and wonder ‘what does that even mean?!’

I do.

That’s the thing about statistics though isn’t it? You can make them show whatever you want if you just display them in the right way. It was following this train of thought last night that led to me buying the domain name madeupinfographics.com. (As you do). I thought it might be fun to just make stuff up, present it nicely and see if people still liked them as much even if they weren’t conveying any useful information. It’s basically what I do with my blog anyway, but with more charts.

The slight hitch in my plan is that until this morning I had never actually made a made up infographic, (or a regular one for that matter), but I figured it couldn’t be too hard surely?

This is my first attempt.

Would you read a blog of made up infographics?

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