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Beyond the Surface: Uncovering the Unseen Work at Home

    In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it's sometimes difficult to manage a household, keep the family together, and pay proper attention to every detail. Moreover, often it's precisely these tasks that remain invisible because only the end result truly matters or appears spectacular. Yet, these invisible tasks are the ones we're talking about here, they consume a lot of time, disrupt our daily routines, because often even we, the ones performing these tasks, don't see them as tasks. Let's face it, they're this invisible.

    Let's take a few simple examples:

    • Dinner – in the worst case, it's 10 minutes for the family, in the best case, it's half an hour, an hour of activity. But what does it take? Even if we include cooking, which often gets overlooked, preparing dinner involves many other factors: shopping (and here, preparing the list, going there, coming back, unpacking), pre-cooking preparations (unpacking, slicing, peeling, etc.), packing away, setting the table, washing up, storing leftovers.

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