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housework

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The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

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Housework can kill you if done right. Erma Bombeck

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? Erma Bombeck

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

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Fawn M. Brodie

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. Joyce Carol Oates

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard. Traditional Proverb

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