household duties

Work at home

Household duties are the tasks required to maintain a home—cleaning, cooking, laundry, dishes, yard work, and the like.

The phrase often appears in discussions of how such work is divided: She was tired of shouldering all the household duties.

The term implies routine obligation rather than occasional projects.

Related

budgeting · paying bills · mopping · meal planning · grocery shopping · elder care · dusting · spring cleaning · gardening · sanitizing · decluttering · window washing · repairing · emotional support · vacuuming · laundry · folding laundry · making beds

Categories
Opposites
obligation vs. leisure

household dutiesleisure activities

Pursuits during free time

recreation · hobbies · entertainment · relaxation · free time

domestic vs. professional work

household dutiesoffice work

Administrative job tasks

job · job duties · occupation · career · salaried work

routine maintenance vs. neglect

household dutiessqualor

Dirty, degraded living conditions

disarray · slovenliness · dereliction

Family

household, house, hold, duties, houses, housed, housing, holds, held

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G