Quotes About Chores

I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

I'd never understand little kids. You ask them to clean up their toys, and it's like the end of the freaking world. You ask them to do a big kid chore that they won't be any good at, and it's like an early Christmas present.

When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world.

Leave them," said Isabel. "Jamie can iron them himself. It's very therapeutic for men to iron. Therapeutic for women, that is.

Telling our kids what to do—"You get to work on that lawn right now." Telling our kids what we will not allow—"You're not going to talk to me that way!" Telling our kids what we won't do for them—"I'm not letting you out of this house until you clean the living room.

This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, "Honey, do this," and "Honey, do that" around the house.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes–and six months later you have to start all over again.

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Saturday morning I vacuumed, dusted, folded laundry, repotted an ivy plant that had outgrown its clay pot months before—anything to avoid having to sit down again with those damn freshman papers.

to mow the lawn.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.

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?

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

Cooking's a bother.

You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world.

There were more meetings here of the reunion committee and this kept him busy, especially the assembling of mock yearbooks made up of the classmates' autobiographies that Gloria had accumulated via e-mail. Bev did household chores

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

Man may work from sun to sun,But woman's work is never done.

Take out the papers and the trashOr you don't get no spending cash;If you don't scrub that kitchen floor,You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no more.Yakety yak, don't talk back.

I am grateful for the lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning, and floors that need waxing because it means I have a home.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.