To log or not to log... that is the question...

daily activities, no

but when i spend 4 hours hand washing/waxing my 4x4 truck, yes

or if I do a deep cleaning to the house and my heart is beating hard, yes.

Personally, i do not. If people lead busy lives like that, increase your daily activity level. I know some people who logged 10 mins of cleaning... really, 10 mins... good for you now go eat half of a cracker and get the calories back! Track exercise... not mundane tasks.

I typically don't log mundane activities - what I typically log is walking, running, circuit training, yoga, etc... However, under the circumstance that I bother to actually clean the house (a rare feat!) I will log the activity as light cleaning because I'll usually do it from anywhere from 2 hours to upwards of 4 or 5. Obviously with a break here or there, but I'll be on my feet and moving the entire time, so I count that as activity.

If I work up a sweat.... I log it! lol If I'm flying like a bat out of hell around the house cleaning, that is really a work out and it is worth logging. Or if I'm up walking my baby for an hour, I don't see that as any different as people logging a moderate walk. To each his own I suppose.

some of it i do, some i dont. i dont count walking up and down the stairs when im doing laundry. id count when i scrub my floor on my hands and knees. i dont count vacuuming, but id count mowing the lawn. when i walk my kid to school, i log it. when i walk to pick up my produce box i log it as walking + carrying 15lbs. but i also have my activity level set at sedentary

If it is extra activity...like dancing with the girls....that is a workout to me. My goal is to add and keep those extra activities in my life so it depends on your point of view and what tour personal goals are....I wouldn't count vacuuming or mopping but if I was doing spring cleaning all day I mifht count some of it, depending how active I am. When I work 14 Hours in a day there is no time for the gym...but I do not use the elevators atwork...I hall it up and down 8 stories and count my steps....I usually just document the steps for my benefit knowing I am getting some exercise in.

I don't log regular stuff.

I DO log, soccer coaching, gardening (if I am digging and moving things, carrying around big bags of mulch, etc) and anything I get dressed in workout clothes to do, ie 30DS and C25K or a good run or walk.

I don't log grocery shopping, house cleaning, laundry, anything that is a normal day to day thing.

This topic comes up a lot and I must first say that I appreciate the respectful way OP addressed the question. It is often brought up in such a nasty way. Some people use different headings to account for their exercise just to have a category that matches their perceived calorie burn but then undervalue the time..ie...when my basement flooded and I worked three days in a row carrying soping wet boxes up the stairs etc I counted it and looked for a heading that I thought would account for the work and maybe underestimate it a bit to avoid eating too much...the following day I was smart enough to wear my HRM..and my logging was pretty close the day before. The first day I figured vigorous cleaning would be good with the heavy wet stuff and the stairs etc...I worked for 4.5 hours but only counted 1.5 hours to account for times where I was emptying a box or being asked a zillion questions by my kids etc. When my mom first started her journey it was a big deal for her to walk to the mailbox or run a vaccuum..now that she has done a a 5K she doesn't log mailbox trips anymore.

I don't think about my cleaning, cooking, shopping, wagon-training enough to even remember how much or how intense it is/was. I'm always doing something...even if it's walking the halls of my home like a drill instructor barking at my kids LOL (which I reall don't do often). There's always laundry to fold or cereal to sweep or pots to put away. I just consider it a part of my normal activities because doing otherwise would mean I'm strapped to my HRM from the moment I awaken to the moment I sit down. It's just not practical to log it as exercise. Furthermore, I also feel like I'd be lulling myself into a false sense of security and fooling myself into thinking that I could eat more than I actually should. I'd rather underestimate my burn than overestimate.

Having said that, I also realize that doing certain things is truly laborious for some. The energy and endurance it takes to strip the bed and remake it was not lost on me after I had hernia repair surgery several years ago. And bending down to clean a tub or hauling groceries from the van into the house in the rain can be a huge deal. So, I don't begrudge anyone who feels justified in logging such things. I just choose not to.