Housewife 'would be paid £30,000'

It's all complete bollocks, of course, but not a bad way of getting free marketing and a link for you social network site. Every year, as regular as clockwork, someone comes up with a breakdown of what housewives (sic) do around the home and just how much it would cost to get it done by professionals. This year it's the turn of alljoinon.com a 'networking site for housewives' - (surely they don't have time to network, what with all that 'gruelling housework'?) to come up with the costings.

...Cooking is another big chore for housewives - who spend about 63 minutes a day in the kitchen preparing culinary delights (sic)for her loved ones. By comparison, an experienced head chef taking home a respectable £16.48 an hour would earn themselves £17.30 for their time...The poll said the average mum trawled the family finances for 39 minutes, which would cost £12.50 if an accountant did it...

There would be one difference though. A head chef would actually cook you a decent meal rather than just reheating something from Marks's in the microwave for four minutes. Most of the women I've known over the years wouldn't actually last 63 minutes in a commercial kitchen, let alone get paid anything.

And as for spending 39 minutes a day doing the household accounts! What sort of books do these housewives keep for fuck's sake - illuminated manuscripts?