There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

[H]ousework, if it is done right, can kill you. – John Skow, about the message of Erma Bombeck’s early columns in the 1960s,

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. – Simone de Beauvoir

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. – Author Unknown