12 Types of Stay-at-Home Wives: Which One Are You

Discover the Different Personalities of Stay-at-Home Wives and Their Unique Characteristics

UMM SLEEPING BEAUTY: Sleeps for a living. Wakes up at 3pm to pick the children from school. Sleeps again after dinner, until fajr. Cycle continues the next day…

UMM FOODIE: Cooks a variety of foods. Eats a lot. Always checking YouTube for the next recipe to try.

UMM HUSTLER: Serial entrepreneur. Works from home and earns cool cash.

UMM HOMESCHOOLING: Enjoys schooling her own children +/- other children.

UMM STUDENT-OF-KNOWLEDGE: Enrolled in several online courses, from professional to Arabic to arts and crafts classes. She’s also teaching other women online.

UMM TECHIE: Always on her laptop, either coding, designing or playing video games. Up-to-date with the latest information in the tech industry

UMM SOCIAL MEDIA: Jumps from one platform to another, chatting with her friends and family. Posting, commenting and reacting here and there.

UMM TELEVISION: Watches TV series and shows all day. Switches from Nollywood to Bollywood and other ‘woods’.

UMM APROKO: Goes around in the neighborhood discussing “burning issues” with other aproko Ummus . 

UMM DIY: Creates different things from scratch. Spends the day fixing electrical appliances, painting the house, repairing leaking pipes, gardening, attending to pets, etc.

UMM RUTH: Always calling and texting her husband. Tells him everything that goes on at home or in the neighborhood. Can’t wait to have him back in the evening

UMM SUNNAH: Spends most of the day doing ebaadah – reciting and memorizing the Qu’ran, observing salatu-dhuhaa, praying on time, listening to naseehah, doing da’wah in the neighborhood, reading Islamic books, etc.

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UMM HOUSEKEEPING: Mops the whole house, washes clothes that seems dirty but not too dirty, washes toilets even when not so dirty, scatters the room and rearranges it “neatly”, irons all the jilbaabs and agbadas, washes all the curtains and window blinds, dusts all the furniture, deep-cleans the fridge and kitchen cabinets, removes even unnoticeable cobwebs, cleans and cleans till Abu Fulaan comes back from work and begs her to rest