How Much Physical Work Do You Do?

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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Work in and around your house? Do your own vehicle repairs?

Don't own a house anymore, so wife and I don't do any work/repairs inside or outside anymore. That's absolutely fine with us! Outside is done by a landscape company hired by the apartment complex owners. Any inside repairs are done by complex Maintenance Dept. I do hang pictures on walls and put up wall shelves.

Vehicle repairs are done by a major repair shop. I can change air filter and add fluids, but that's it. Brakes, tune-ups, engine work is left up to people that can do it w/o messing up the onboard computer. A lot of "backyard mechanics" don't even exist anymore. I use to be somewhat of a "backyard mechanic", but just "physically" can't do it anymore. Besides that, if I mess up the computer somehow, big money is involved.

One of the most "physical" things I do is run the vacuum! LOL
 

We do all the housework/chores in our house, and do all the work in our garden. We pay to have any decorating done these days though, and also pay to have everything done with our car.Husband does any DIY jobs also.
 
My husband and I still live in our own home and have a large yard that has to be mowed. Shrubs that have to
be trimmed and painting outside. We have a small vegetable garden and DH looks after all this plus plows the driveway
and does snow shoveling in winter. The car goes to the dealership for regular maintenance.

I still do the housework and don't have a cleaner to help out. If we need inside painting done we have to get a painter
to do it. We used to do that ourselves too but painting around finish needs a steady hand. :)
How long we will be able to do everything ourselves depends on how our health holds up.
 
I seem to spend my life moving heavy weights. Our girl is moving home on Monday and I have been helping her pack up her stuff. I will have muscles like Popeye soon!:D
 
I'm in the same boat as you Raven. We have 12 acres (10 forest, 2 pasture/yard) and so our property is our 'gym'. And every time we get a major storm, it means trees to cut up, wood to stack. Or snow to shovel/plow. And when I think how nice it would be to not have to do it, I remind myself that on a foggy day, I get to listen to the haunting call of the morning doves in the trees around us and I realize that those doves are better neighbours than most people are. And it keeps us a little fitter than sitting on our couch would and considering how much I love spending time cruising the internet, that's a good thing.
 
I live in the country and have acreage too, I do all the mowing which amounts to about 3 or 4 acres, I do all my house cleaning and misc yard work. I hire help for tree work, edging driveway and walks, cleaning off fence rows, all auto maintenance and any painting or house maintenance. I'm outside doing something nearly everyday unless the weather drives me inside.
 
When we put up Christmas décor, inside and out, I do that. Wife decorates the tree b/c she is so darn good at it. Pending RC surgery within the next few months, outside Christmas décor won't go up. Didn't go up last year due to shoulder pain. People in our complex wondered what had happened. Yea, that's how much outside decorating we done. Neighbors loved it.

My brother loves, and I mean REALLY loves, physical work. He hates computers. He works on old vehicles they have, has a Backhoe, and loves construction work (on his property). He retired from the State of PA (heavy equipment repair). He had a Secretary and she done all of the clerical work while he helped out in the Maintenance Garage. Oh yea, he loves getting his hands dirty!

For years I worked in warehousing and was so, so glad to go into an office with a desk and computer and wear business type clothes. I got a job once with a fence installing company. I quit after 2 hours!
 
Other than totally cleaning my two bed two bath apartment every other week my self and preparing my own meals, I do no physical labor and never have. I always paid some one to do the labor thing.I get plenty of exercise with my sporting activities every day.
 
Well, now, let's see. I clean other people's houses so I do a heckuva lot of physical work. On weekends or a rare day off, I putter in the garden or clean my own place. Cleaning my own place takes abuot 15-20 minutes because it's tiny. Gardening is another story. The yard is huge, and there are probably more weeds than there is lawn.

One of these days, I'll retire. Really. One of these days. Either that or fall over dead with a mop in one hand and a dust cloth in the other.

I used to do my own car repairs and maintenance. Yes. I was qualified to do it, operative word being "was". I earned a two-year certificate in automotive mechanics in the days before on-board computers. I got tired of the nicks and scrapes and bruises and broken fingernails, not to mention the ground-in grease on my precious little paws. Bet I went through as much GoJo as a mechanic in a shop, I could still change my own oil or change a tire if push came to shove, but I won't, TYVM! And no, I never held a job as a mechanic; I only took the course because I worked for a diesel engine manufacturer and figured it wouldn't hurt to learn about the push-me-pull-you theory of internal combustion.
 
We own our own home, it's not too large, but has a front and back yard. We both do mowing, hedge trimming, gutter cleaning, painting, snow shoveling and cleaning. Whoever is in the mood will do it. My husband usually does household repairs and vehicle maintenance/repair, so I more often volunteer to do the upkeep chores. We never hired outside help for cleaning or maintenance, but will in the future if we can no longer do those things ourselves. Always did physical blue-collar work as opposed to office work, so I think that's given me some added strength and endurance in my old age.
 
I believe you Rkunsaw, I know you work hard on your property! Have you cleaned up all the broken limbs from the storm you had at home? That's back-breaking work right there, sawing limbs, etc. Hope your back isn't too sore after all that.
 
I own a house & live here by myself.

There's always something around here that needs to be done.

I'm not afraid of hard work either.

I can lie down next it & fall asleep like it wasn't there.
 
I have a gardener called ''Jim''..he lost his wife 10 years ago and was apparently the gardener for this house..When I bought this house I saw him hanging over the fence...''Would you like some gardening done''he said..Would I??

So now Jim has a comfy shed at the bottom of my garden..big squashy chair..with a fridge..lights..an ample supply of Guinness..(because when I ask him how much I owe him, he becomes embarrassed..)

Two packets of tobacco a week..

He keeps the bottom of the garden for himself..plants potatoes..peas....beans..rhubarb..tomatoes

It's a good partnership...
 
I mow my lawn, wash my car, clothes and clean the house. But that's about it. I pay for most anything else. I'm basically lazy and proud of it. ;)
 
I have just helped my daughter move a very heavy wardrobe which was left in the property which she is about to move too. That was very hard work indeed, we should have left it to the furniture removers who will be bringing over all her belongings from her present property on Monday.
 
Twixie said:
I have a gardener called ''Jim''..he lost his wife 10 years ago and was apparently the gardener for this house..When I bought this house I saw him hanging over the fence...''Would you like some gardening done''he said..Would I??

So now Jim has a comfy shed at the bottom of my garden..big squashy chair..with a fridge..lights..an ample supply of Guinness..(because when I ask him how much I owe him, he becomes embarrassed..)

Two packets of tobacco a week..

He keeps the bottom of the garden for himself..plants potatoes..peas....beans..rhubarb..tomatoes

It's a good partnership...
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That sounds like a terrific arrangement Twixie. And I'll bet you have a lovely garden to look out on and you're all happy right?
 

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