As in laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc. I’ve always referred to them as chores, as in “I finished my chores for the week”, but I’ve had a few people recently take that to mean I’m living at home with my parents at forty. It didn’t start happening until I moved from New York to New Hampshire, but it’s still a rural area.

So what do people call those tasks and where are you located?

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  2. Chores. That’s what they are. I guess you could also call most of them housework. I’m 47, I moved out of my parents’ house when I was 17, I still do chores.

  3. Inside the house = chore, though this is a term usually reserved for things your parents make you do when you’re a kid

    Outside the house = errand

  4. I call them my routine, although some also call them their weekly reset.

    Chores is probably most common.

  7. I think chores is fine. I might call them errands (grocery shopping at least). Otherwise maybe “tasks” or “shit to do around the house”. My girlfriend and I call that kind of stuff “lifemin”, a portmanteau of life admin meaning administrative work for our life…but I don’t think that’s a term that other people use.

  9. Housework, chores are something your parents make you do. Most often I say “I’ve got shit to do around the house”

  11. Housework, yardwork, laundry, cleaning, etc. I don’t think I refer to them as chores really.

  16. I call them chores, although I also like the (brotish?) term “life admin” for the paperwork chores. Bills, taxes, registrations, etc.

  17. I’m in the Midwest and own my home with my partner. We call those things chores, as well.

  18. I really don’t talk of it at all, but housework or chores are things done in/around the house. I do see how “chores” can be perceived as something someone else is making you do, rather than something you get done on your own accord.

    Errands are things that you need to go out and get.

  27. Chores for in my house or on my property. Errands for getting groceries or going to the bank or whatever else.

  31. I call them “have tos”. As in, if I get all my “have tos”done I can do my “want tos”.

    But in general, people call them errands/chores from what I can tell.

  33. I sometimes call them chores, but I’m also liable to call it “my to-do list”. ( I don’t have a physical, written list, it’s metaphorical.)

  34. I call tasks done in the home (cleaning, laundry, etc.) chores. Things like grocery shopping are errands. I’m in California.

  35. Regardless of the weekly tasks, I still consider doing the dishes and taking out the trash chores and I’m nearly 30.

  38. I had a psychology professor who called them “crappy maintenance details.”

  39. Awful.

    But really, if it involves leaving the house it’s an errand. Otherwise chores is probably what I’d say.

  40. It’s adulting. Everyone downvotong those responses are denying the reality that is being an adult.

  43. “I finished all my chores for this week” = “I got all my shit done.”

  46. I say chores, or that I’m chorin’ which I learned from Letterkenny. I agree that it sounds like your mom makes you do the chores or you’re not allowed to go ride bikes, but I don’t mind that connotation. I think it’s funny.
    If I wanted to lose that association I’d say I’m running errands, which means going out, or doing housework if I’m at home.
    I’m in Philadelphia

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