Quotes About Chores

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

I just work around the yard. There's always something to do around the house. You fix one end of it and the other end breaks. It's very normal. I love it.

I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.

I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

Give girls and boys equal education for a better life but also train them to do their own chores.

I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

I love to clean. I love to cook.

I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.

Das ist so ziemlich alles außer Geschirrspülen.

If I can do it, men can certainly do it. It's interesting now to talk about equality in the home and involving men in household chores such that women don't have to over extend themselves doing both her job and coming home and doing all the household chores. So, that kind of sharing the load is something that I have seen in my family growing up.

Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.

What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age.

I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.

The idea that doing dishes is unpleasant can occur to us only when we are not doing them. Once we're standing in front of the sink with our sleeves rolled up and our hands in warm water, it's really not bad at all.

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

What's your least favorite thing to do? Why?