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the small task you'd happily pay someone else to despise for you
means a routine, often tedious task—especially household work—that must be done whether you like it or not
from From an older English word 'char' (or 'chare'), meaning a turn of work or an odd job, which survives in 'charwoman,' the hired cleaner. 'Char' traces back to Old English 'cierr,' a turn or occasion. The American spelling 'chore' drifted into use and stuck, so that today the word carries the faint echo of its root: a small turn of labor that comes round again and again.
- old roots
- From 'char,' an old word for a turn of work
- economic value
- Unpaid household labor exceeds global GDP estimates yearly
- brain trick
- Boring tasks trigger procrastination more than hard ones
- kid science
- Children with chores grow into more successful adults
monday laundry day — weekly household task affecting ~90% of american families
taking out trash — most commonly assigned chore to children ages 8-12 globally
washing dishes — averages 1 hour per day in households without dishwashers