Household works are designed in order to an exercise of our daily routine. We ourselves changed the pattern designed so by commenting as old pattern and polluted our daily routine. Besides that we are spending money for the same old pattern with a polished way.
In those days we used to clean our teeth with the ash mixed with neem stick, salt and camphor etc., Later it was get commented as unhygienic and tooth paste introduced. Now the same tooth paste asks us whether it contains neem ,salt and coal.
In those days our bedrolls, pillows were kept on the top portion of the room by plotting two long bamboo/casuarina sticks. Every morning we roll our bed from 'floor' (this makes us to bend first), folding the bed spreads (this makes our hands stretch on both sides), keeping all pillows and bedspreads on the top (this makes us to raise our hands) - here we did three types of exercises.
Then for cleaning teeth, washing etc we used to go to the pond or river at the end of our street - this makes us to
walk and thereby tempts us to go toilet.
As for as ladies, they hold the bucketful of water and splash the water on the entrance by adding turmeric and salt _this makes them the wave their hands in all sides and turmeric and salt used as hygiene - protecting our house members)
Then putting rangoli by bending their body and using their fingers invariably (which is now used in foreign countries as a method for removing numbness in fingers)
Bringing water from pond or common well is an exercise obviously.
Cutting vegetables creates the art mentality in the mind (my father to cut cabbage similar to vermicelli) - cooking makes the ladies to have a great concentration and mending up the mind into oneness. - Their entire mind was in preparing different food according to the interest of other house members rather than for herself.
Again in night they spread beds for children and other house members - another exercise.
What else exercise we need more that of these?