Seniors, Are You Still Doing All the Chores Around Your Home and Garden?

Hi, I'm new here hope you don't mind me joining in, we live in a ground floor flat which is much easier for us now than having stairs to climb. We do all our own chores and gardening but not car maintenance!
 

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Mary..:)
 
MaryB said:
Hi, I'm new here hope you don't mind me joining in, we live in a ground floor flat which is much easier for us now than having stairs to climb. We do all our own chores and gardening but not car maintenance!
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Stairs can be a chore in itself at our age, I have a basement where I do my laundry, and tend to the cat's litter box, and that's enough, especially if I'm carrying things. We live in a ranch style home, so no upstairs rooms thankfully, lol. When I was a child we lived in an apartment on the third floor, so two flights of stairs. Only now do I realize what my mother went through pulling up the grocery cart, etc.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Stairs can be a chore in itself at our age, I have a basement where I do my laundry, and tend to the cat's litter box, and that's enough, especially if I'm carrying things. We live in a ranch style home, so no upstairs rooms thankfully, lol. When I was a child we lived in an apartment on the third floor, so two flights of stairs. Only now do I realize what my mother went through pulling up the grocery cart, etc.
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SeaBreeze, that is the same here with the basement laundry and kitty box..Oh and all my Christmas decor, which is a chore at Christmas, and after. Also live in a rancher.
 
Hi everyone...I'm new around here...want to start posting......

We do all of the chores around the house....Hubby helps pretty much...not laundry, though....LOL.....We take care of the front lawn...we do get a weed and bug control company in the summer....we have a lot of bushes and our backyard consists of cement around the pool and stones in the whole yard....I plant the flowers and keep everything clean in the yard....but mosquitos in the summer are awful after 6 PM....We do have a screened gazebo...my favorite place to be in the summertime....sometimes I take my puter out there or my reader...I made it look comphy in there....

My hubby will be power washing the house this week and he cleaned the gutters in May.....We have a pool that I maintain....of course we are retired, I have time to do this....when I worked I had a cleaning lady every 2 weeks....Not anymore....it get's very expensive...and we have a 3 bedroom ranch which is not a mansion....

So nice to be here....Look forward to getting to know everyone......♥ peppermint....:)
 
Vixen said:
SeaBreeze, that is the same here with the basement laundry and kitty box..Oh and all my Christmas decor, which is a chore at Christmas, and after. Also live in a rancher.
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Not much Christmas stuff here, lol...just a tiny plug in ceramic tree that I get out of the garage once a year. As a running joke, I always complain to hubby that I have to put up the tree again. :p

peppermint said:
Hi everyone...I'm new around here...want to start posting......

We do all of the chores around the house....Hubby helps pretty much...not laundry, though....LOL.....We take care of the front lawn...we do get a weed and bug control company in the summer....we have a lot of bushes and our backyard consists of cement around the pool and stones in the whole yard....I plant the flowers and keep everything clean in the yard....but mosquitos in the summer are awful after 6 PM....We do have a screened gazebo...my favorite place to be in the summertime....sometimes I take my puter out there or my reader...I made it look comphy in there....

My hubby will be power washing the house this week and he cleaned the gutters in May.....We have a pool that I maintain....of course we are retired, I have time to do this....when I worked I had a cleaning lady every 2 weeks....Not anymore....it get's very expensive...and we have a 3 bedroom ranch which is not a mansion....

So nice to be here....Look forward to getting to know everyone......♥ peppermint....:)
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Glad to see you're posting Peppermint! :cool: My husband does some of the cooking, he's a much better cook than I am, and he helps with the dishes too sometimes. I like to do certain things like laundry and vacuuming. The skeeters have been really bad this year, I just went out before to turn on my lawn sprinkler, and came back in scratching the skin off my arms...hate that itching! :eek:

We both do the gutters, depending on who's in the mood, and we have vinyl siding, so I just hose that down when I want to play with some water, with the little power nozzle. I was always the cleaning lady here, lol, and I just do what's needed...no white glove tests in my house, I'd fail each and every time. :)

Kaya said:
Yep. Hubby and I do it all. Takes us some time, like you Seabreeze, but it does get done. Eventually.
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I hear ya Kaya, I wasn't in a hurry for that stuff when I was working, sure ain't gonna get in a hurry now. :p
 
In addition to the mowing ( about 7 or 8 acres ), gardening, canning, etc. right now I'm rebuilding a bridge. It's about to wear me out, stripping off the old timbers, painting and crawling on my knees putting on new boards, drilling holes and bolting them down. I'm less than halfway across right now. Once finished I should never have to bother with it again though.
 
vixen your yard is gorgeous! I putter around with gardening when it's not hot outside, but I have a lawnmower guy do the rest.
 
rkunsaw said:
In addition to the mowing ( about 7 or 8 acres ), gardening, canning, etc. right now I'm rebuilding a bridge. It's about to wear me out, stripping off the old timbers, painting and crawling on my knees putting on new boards, drilling holes and bolting them down. I'm less than halfway across right now. Once finished I should never have to bother with it again though.
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You and your wife are very hard working there! I admire you, I couldn't keep up with all that every day.
 
Dear husband and I have always had a good working relationship as far as household chores and duties go.

Being the fulltime homemaker that I have always been, I tackle all inside, with the exception of gardening, being that gardening is my passion, otherwise, anything related to maintenance, in addition to outside work, dear husband handles.

It's been like that since day one, and we've always found a happy balance in it.

I like it, because it reminds me of how things were when I was growing up and in my childhood home. Women's work was in the house, and a man's, outside.
 
We live in an apartment so don’t have to worry about lawn, but we wash our own windows inside and out, do 99%of any inside maintenance ourselves, trim the bushes and trees because they only do it once a year and it gets messy looking. We also have a flower garden area that we plant ourselves...but the way my back and knees feel right now, we may be doing the planting lying down next spring 😎
 

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