Quotes About Chores

Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is.

Can we talk now?" she asked. "Nay, we need to . . . load the dishwasher." He padded into the kitchen and took his time rinsing everything in the sink before stacking it into the machine. He even scrubbed the pot he'd warmed the soup in. When he closed the dishwasher, she was waiting there, holding a mop. She offered it to him. "Do you want to clean the floors now? And sweep the porch? I think the antlers on the moose head need polishing.

I could be a housewife… I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.

Feeding the chickens was one of his favorite chores of the day—he enjoyed the way they greeted him with clucks and coos, the warmth of the eggs taken from the nest boxes. The chickens gave them so much and asked for so little in return.

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Laundry Day

The Prestige of Laundry

Do your best not to die, sweetie," he said quietly. "She's the only one who knows how to work the dishwasher.

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.

I can make eggs. I can do a quesadilla. But the last thing I want to do when I come home is cook and clean up dishes. I'm not that domestic a girl.

All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.

My wife says to do the dishes, and I'm like, 'Yes, baby. I can clean up.'

I do the laundry. I do the shopping. I do the dishes.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

I go to my mom's house and she'll make me do the dishes or clean up.

I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.