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Housekeeping
Housekeeping refers to the management of duties and chores involved in the running of a household, such as cleaning, cooking, home maintenance, shopping, laundry and bill pay. These tasks may be performed by any of the household members, or by other persons hired to perform these tasks. The term is also used to refer to the money allocated for such use.〔("housekeeping" ) ''Oxford Dictionaries Online''. Retrieved 2 June 2013.〕 By extension, an office or organization, as well as the maintenance of computer storage systems.〔("housekeeping" ) ''The Collins English Dictionary''. Retrieved 2 June 2013.〕
A housekeeper is a person employed to manage a household,〔("housekeeper" ) ''Oxford Dictionaries Online''. Retrieved 2 June 2013.〕 and the domestic staff. According to the Victorian Era ''Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management'', the housekeeper is second in command in the house and "except in large establishments, where there is a house steward, the housekeeper must consider his/herself as the immediate representative of her mistress".〔( ''Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management'' ) Web version of the book at the University of Adelaide Library. Retrieved 2 June 2013.〕
==Housecleaning==
It includes activities such as housecleaning, that is, disposing of rubbish, cleaning dirty surfaces, dusting and vacuuming. It may also involve some outdoor chores, such as removing leaves from rain gutters, washing windows and sweeping doormats. The term housecleaning is often used also figuratively in politics and business, for the removal of unwanted personnel, methods or policies in an effort at reform or improvement.〔(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ) Retrieved 2011-01-23〕
Housecleaning is done to make the home look and smell better and be safer and easier to live in. Without housecleaning lime scale can build up on taps, mold grows in wet areas, smudges on glass surfaces, dust forms on surfaces, bacterial action make the garbage disposal and toilet smell and cobwebs accumulate. Tools used in housecleaning include vacuums, brooms, mops and sponges, together with cleaning products such as detergents, disinfectants and bleach.
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