Do you account for daily tasks that burn calories?

I do it your way. All those activities are part of one's activity level. Exercise = workouts.

Sometimes. For example I count "gardening" if I'm preparing garden beds, because it's a frick of a lot of hard manual labor and it's outside what I would normally do. But I don't count "gardening" if I'm weeding or planting or watering.

edit to add: And I will count cleaning if I'm doing a deep, heavy clean and moving appliances and furniture, but not if i'm squirting Fantistik on the stove and wiping it up.

The lower the variable the better the results in my opinion. Exercise is fairly quantifiable but is working in the garden? Of course in just starting a diet I realize there is some rough justice in determining numbers (counting calories) anyway.

Perhaps you can think of it this way - if you don't include it but still meet your daily goals you are ahead of the game perhaps. Myfitnesspal also starts by asking what your lifestyle is like to begin with which takes into consideration moderate activity throughout the day.

Under Settings and then fitness profile I have selected sedentary with the thought that I can add things that I do that are above and beyond that level of activity. I still do not count things like cleaning the house or cooking, as I feel that these are what I have done all along without results. I would advise against counting this type of everyday activity if you have selected a higher level of activity on your fitness profile.

Sometimes. For example I count "gardening" if I'm preparing garden beds, because it's a frick of a lot of hard manual labor and it's outside what I would normally do. But I don't count "gardening" if I'm weeding or planting or watering.

edit to add: And I will count cleaning if I'm doing a deep, heavy clean and moving appliances and furniture, but not if i'm squirting Fantistik on the stove and wiping it up.

Same. I only log my gardening when I've spent hours in the hot sun turning the beds and planting. I also log push mowing, we have a pretty big yard. I don't bother with house cleaning as my heart rate doesn't really elevate that much from it.

I don't have a gym membership so any exercise that I can "feel", I log.
I don't count tidying up but on the weekend I spent over 3 hours cleaning & scrubbing. My body ached like I had went to the gym so I logged it.
I think its a personal thing. If you are fairly active, I would say logging cooking and cleaning isn't necessary. But for someone less active, like myself, I log whatever is outside my normal daily activity.

I don't log anything that I've been doing my whole life. I got fat and stayed fat doing those things. They don't count in my book.

LOL This!!

I don't count normal daily chores - cleaning, laundry, etc. However I do log it if it is out of normal. Scooping snow, raking leaves for hours, (not a typical day mowing every week tho) Major yard clean up - yes, normal stuff no. Same with household stuff. wiping counters and running a vaccuum - no - moving furniture and climbing the ladder to clean ceiling fans, and extensive spring cleaning - I log a portion of it. Other stuff - like painting, or remodel stuff - I log depending on how much work it was.

I guess I look at it this way - If it took EXTRA effort than a normal day - it's worth logging (not necessarily eating it all back tho)

I only track those if it's something like heavy gardening or yard work or shoveling snow. If I am out and about all day long doing a lot of walking around I track my steps / calories burned. Otherwise I only track my dedicated work outs for calories burned. I have my setting on highly active because I work out twice a day seven days a week and although I have an office job, I am on my feet moving around about 70 % of my day vs. sitting at a desk. I have tracked very small amounts at times like sometimes in the morning I'll do a quick three minutes of sit ups or a quick three to five minutes of jump rope, that's about 20 to 30 calories and not something I do every morning so I figured it's small but counts toward something.

Sometimes. For example I count "gardening" if I'm preparing garden beds, because it's a frick of a lot of hard manual labor and it's outside what I would normally do. But I don't count "gardening" if I'm weeding or planting or watering.

edit to add: And I will count cleaning if I'm doing a deep, heavy clean and moving appliances and furniture, but not if i'm squirting Fantistik on the stove and wiping it up.

^^This^^

If it's outside my normal daily activity, I count it.

I logged Christmas shopping last year because it was 6 hours walking with a 30# 2 yearold on my hip/sholders/back the entire time. Lol we chose not to bring the stroller and I felt it for days after!

Only if it's something like splitting logs, shoveling snow, or some other very heavy activity. Otherwise, no that's just life.

This!

This winter has been so long I am like married to my shovel :sad:

My days vary a lot and tend to be fairly active without extra exercise. I'm set at sedentary and let my Fitbit track most things.

I don't count my usual daily activities. However, I will count moving furniture/heavy stuff around the house and the heavy duty yard work I do. Other than that, I just count my actual exercise.

Attempting to add some science to the mix
https://sites.google.com/site/compendiumofphysicalactivities/Activity-Categories/home-activity

Also be sure to check out the "Corrected METs" page to get a better idea of what a MET is [because (VO2 ml.kg-1.min-1)/(3.5 ml.kg-1.min-1) doesn't mean much to most of us], and activity category 14, just because it gets asked about.