Sentences with phrase «of the chores of»

From the garden to the woodshed, he's out there with us doing all of the chores of country living.

The player has the ability to shake it up every now in then to avoid getting tired of the chores of daily life.

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Shopping for our groceries, especially staples and commodity products, is basically a chore, and the less of it we have to do, the happier we'll all be.

(See Why You Never Saw it Coming) At the same time, in the good news category, once we're free of the drudgery of dragging all the usual stuff home, our actual shopping at the market may once again be an awesome experience rather than an unavoidable chore as well as an opportunity to discover and try new things.

Spending almost 24/7 with someone start to feel like a chore instead of genuine time spent together.

Jurors were also shown photos of a young Tsarnaev smiling as he learned how to dance, did classroom chores and cradled a teacher's newborn.

MacLellan goes on to quote the researchers: «Everyday activities (like household chores or running errands) may afford families quality moments, unplanned, unstructured instances of social interaction that serve the important relationship - building functions that parents seek from «quality time».»

If you're doing something you don't enjoy or that's terribly stressful, you may end up thinking of it as a chore, especially when times get tough.

In many offices, people are sedentary most of the day working on computers or other desk - bound chores.

«Chores build a sense of accountability.»

After working out a schedule, your Alfred will stop by and take care of all your chores: sorting mail, folding clothes, picking up your laundry, and cleaning your house.

Because, as Lythcott - Haims told Tech Insider: «By making them do chores — taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry — they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life.

Your partner may feel alienated from you, taken advantage of, or overburdened with an unfair share of daily chores.

With such a massive soup of tweets constantly boiling over, it can be a chore for busy entrepreneurs to know which users to follow.

You all live in the same kind of cells, sleep in the same kind of beds, eat the same kind of food, do the same kind of chores.

This makes compiling highlights a chore, especially at events like the ongoing U.S. Open, where TV producers sift through hundreds of hours of tennis play to find the best action.

Dishes are one of my least favorite chores — second only to laundry — and the idea that you could buy a type of pan to made the process easier didn't make sense to me.

That shift came as prime - age men contributed a few more minutes of housework, but not enough to offset the gap, suggesting that the tasks like laundry and cleaning are probably being outsourced, while online shopping is more efficient.As they spent less time on chores, women worked and slept more, the data show.

Its 32 stories — among them offerings from Alice Munro, John Cheever, Junot Diaz and Joyce Carol Oates — delve into all aspects of what we do for our paycheques, with work defined broadly «as labour, as chores, as business, as duty, as habit,» inside the workplace and out.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

Now owner of Redpoint Marketing Consultants, which he opened in 2012 in Farmville, Va., Jordan applies those same standards to each project he accepts, even those involving chores he'd rather avoid — and chores that his clients may not even know about.

The average small business owner sees reading stacks of resumes and interviewing multiple candidates as a chore, not an opportunity.

She said in an interview with The New York Times that despite the enormous wealth and privilege that her two children were born into, she has tried to instill a sense of normalcy with regular chores and by being present to maintain her house rules.

The best way I can describe the people we want is like this: There are some people who throw great dinner parties because they really want to take care of their guests, and there are other people who are lousy at it because everything is a chore, everything is a problem.

But, while it's less daunting than it once was, there are still elements of travel that are more chore than reprieve.

A large library of apps handles chores like tracking temperature, sleep and distance run or walked.

And though she can both tidy the house and do the dishes more quickly than he can, they're able to achieve a more efficient division of labour overall by applying the notion of comparative advantage to their chore list.

Rather than using screens as digital babysitters while they get on with other chores, parents should watch along with their little ones if they want their kids to get any educational benefit out of what they're viewing.

Although a few of the major social networks offer search tools that allow you to track most topics, doing it manually will be a chore.

For what kind of chores or behaviors?

Originally, that chore was left to a series of lights on top of Baxter's «head.»

He recalled the sting of getting 50 cents instead of $ 1 for poorly completed chores as a kid, and doesn't want to have to police his children the same way.

They handle more of the regular chores, bill payments, grocery shopping, and caring for the kids.

Robotics labs today are filled with million - dollar, state - of - the - art robots that struggle with mundane chores, such as gripping a cup of coffee or opening a door, even after months of programming.

According to their latest proxies, the boards of Citi and Morgan Stanley have assigned oversight responsibility for the plans to their boards» risk committees, and the board of Wells Fargo has given the chore to its audit committee.

They have a variety of normal household chores.

The Medela Pump in Style Advanced offers a hard - to - beat combination of efficiency and ease of use, making the tiresome chore of pumping quicker and less frustrating.

Any millennial who's ever undertaken the nail - biting chore of explaining technology to an elderly relative may soon sing the praises of a brand new tablet developed by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

If you haven't checked whether your medical expenses could get you a tax break on your 2017 return, it might be worth the chore of digging through records and tallying up receipts.

Comely models dressed in Virgin red were posted in every elevator to spare guests the chore of pressing their desired floor button themselves.

With employees to handle chores such as media production and copywriting, Shipp works just two or three hours a day when he is not traveling and generally takes off all of December and January.

Black says that data - management chores might typically saddle a bioinformatics expert with 40 hours a month of spreadsheet wrangling.

That research helps explain why we don't merely spend all of our time doing pleasurable activities, and why we still somehow manage to do things like work and chores.

As anyone who's nagged a child about doing chores knows, the amount of nagging is inversely proportional to the chores that will get done.

According to the survey, the average worker takes eleven days, but six of them are spent on personal chores and errands.

Documenting your written communiqués is simple enough (just start a file and print duplicates of everything), but keeping track of your verbal communications can be a chore.

You might think of this as a basic administrative chore, but according to Kagan, it's actually more of a literary exercise.

When you're doing the household laundry on Saturday morning, however, there's no reason to think that you do the laundry any better than anybody else does, or that it's somehow demonstrating your commitment to your family to spend hours on that chore instead of taking them to the zoo.

It's all going to the same place, Wesner realizes, and without the conveniences of a modern kitchen, setting, clearing, and washing 10 extra place settings represent the kinds of little chores that can add up.

To satisfy her customers, she often had to resort to sending printouts of drafts through the U.S. Mail — a time - consuming chore.