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  • Fund advisor Joe Whitholm recommended "householding," or treating as a single entity, the seven libraries 'individual accounts to reduce fees and increase yield.

    The Barnstable Patriot 2010

  • Essential creative, non-productive and reproductive human activities, such as householding, child-rearing, care, child and adult education, and the arts, will be key values in an ecosocialist economy.

    unknown title 2009

  • We do not have records from the most humble of farms, but even they do not seem to have been isolated householding cocoons.

    History of Markets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • When Schalk Willem died, Hester had six proper beds and only two minor children; though shared householding suggests that older children and/or nieces and nephews might well have been in residence, too. 60 Had Sparrman come to Halve Dorschvloer and Misgunt as Thunberg did, he might have been offered a bed and not a piece of floor by the hearth.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • I try to be minimally competent about basic householding stuff, and I managed to do this without falling off the ladder.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Bardiac 2007

  • So my question: Is placing a book on the cat one of those consensus-based household decisions that requires consulting your partner in householding, or does that only apply when objects actually get attached to the cat?

    Acquiescing to the Inevitable Requests « Whatever 2007

  • For all this, you are to observe that every season is the worst season ever known, and that the householding population of our watering-place are ruined regularly every autumn.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • The other joy of householding is that empty space fills up with junk.

    Homeowner's Blues Steve Perry 2007

  • More householding stuff: The semester is simply not convenient for gardening.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Bardiac 2007

  • I do find this stuff fascinating though--any attempt to quantify how darn CONSTANT parenting/householding is.

    Time with the Kids Becca 2006

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