Quotes About Chores

Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor.

Apart from studies and playtime, I involve my son in house cleaning and other chores.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

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The secret of surviving housework is simply to do it. Pull the plug on the part of your brain that always wants to negotiate everything. You need to change a diaper, rinse a bottle, clean a spill, fluff a pillow? Consider it done. It's a no-brainer. End of conversation. End of story. Not postponing chores-and not spending any mental energy equivocating, temporizing, or stalling-is actually a lot more restful than worrying about what needs to be done.

Hang out? his mother said. Sweetheart, laundry hangs out.

I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

She knew what my mother did not: either you want a clean floor or you want to use a mop, but you can't have both.

That was the mystery and the mysteries are the chores of gods.

It was a busy day, washing and ironing and packing, but although I had so much to do I was happy (I felt like a woman who has just been released from prison).

Sometimes it's nice to have a man around the house. But a dog will clean the dishes.

It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.

Im almost bored enough to clean. Keyword being ALMOST.

It's a real shame that vibrators can't kill spiders or mow the lawn.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Living up the Moyea with plenty of small chores to distract him, he forgot he was a sad man. When the hymns began, he remembered.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

That 'Aww crap!' moment when your mom is almost home and you look around and haven't done anything she told you to do.

You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again

I cook and do my own laundry.

I'm lazy and I do procrastinate about laundry!

My mother says that laundry breeds if you don't wash it.

Washing dishes is the great equalizer. It solves many a dispute.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.