Comment on This world is cruel…

Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All my hobbies are chores I choose to do. 😔

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What kind of chores are you doing? Going out to the barn and shoeing the horses?

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  • Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You never cooked before? Or mowed the law?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hobby cooking and cooking to survive are very different things. Also, are you under the impression that gardening and lawn mowing are the same?

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      • Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you cook, you cook for a purpose, you don’t throw food away just because you’ve cooked for the sake of cooking, you eat it, or serve it to someone else to eat. In the end it’s a chore fulfilled still.

        And lawn mowing is a part of gardening, just as pruning flowers and dealing with seedlings is. Sincerely, what do you think gardening is? Vegetables and fruit trees? No, as a hobby and chore it’s so much more than that. If you own a garden you want it to be presentable in at least some capacity, that requires taking care of it by planting bushes, trimming them, dealing with pests, seeding new grass if a heatwave destroyed it, etc.

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    • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As someone who cooked for a living, home cooking is fun! It’s like making art, but you get to eat the art! And gardening isn’t mowing a lawn, my plants are well kept and the process of seeing the effect of small changes you make to placement, water schedule, additives is like having a pet :)

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      • Katzastrophe@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cooking for others is fun, I agree. I love baking for others myself. Even have my own chocolate chip cookie recipe that managed to impress the local grandma club.

        I also think there’s some confusion about American and European gardening, here mowing is just considered as much a part of taking care of a garden as is dealing with seedlings, etc. There’s an expectation too, to keep proper plants apart from grass on your property, so gardening is much more chore-like here. Bushes are a popular alternative to fences, and those need trimming after all

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