Cost Benefit Analysis
Checking on the furnace and doing three loads of laundry: 8 trips up and down the basement stairs.
Doing the dishes: 1 pair of waterlogged hands.
Taking out the trash: 1 trip into the bitter cold.
Doing the shopping: 2 trips into the bitter cold, and contending with crowded parking lots and crowded shops.
The glow of home-makerly pride: priceless.
Doing the dishes: 1 pair of waterlogged hands.
Taking out the trash: 1 trip into the bitter cold.
Doing the shopping: 2 trips into the bitter cold, and contending with crowded parking lots and crowded shops.
The glow of home-makerly pride: priceless.