Abstract: This paper seeks to present and describe the double-edged character of the household space of women small-scale miners in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte. Using De Certeau’s concept of tactics, the daily and ordinary experiences of women in the household, on the one hand, can be reckoned as locations of creativity and imagination. Living in a community where women are not provided with equitable livelihood opportunities, women small-scale miners reinvent themselves in the household and create something new, inspiring, and useful. On the other hand, from Foucault’s perspective, the household may be regarded as a space of women’s resignation to power relations and hierarchical structures that compound their daily struggles to make ends meet. Their decision to continually reside in their neighborhood where they do small-scale gold mining is a manifestation of their disciplined resignation to the unfair and impinging structural and cultural relations in the mining community.