Is housework 'real' work?

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I feel that way about building my home. It is an extension of myself. But ovens, especially cheap thin skinned busted thermostat beasts, they are inventions of the devil. And supplied by the meanest of landlords. So they get zero respect seeing as soon as a third element goes I know they'll simply swap it out for another one, and we start all over again...