Does it count as exercise??

If you are using MFP to calculate your calories, and if you have your activity level set to sedentary, then it is quite valid to count (and add and eat) the extra movement you do each day.

I have my activity level set to lightly active so I don't enter cleaning, short walks etc but they are still accounted for in my higher activity level setting.
Just make sure you don't add them twice - ie, if you have accounted for them in your activity level setting don't add them in as extra exercise.

You just have to find what works for you. And that is probably going to be different to what works for someone else.
I don't like seeing people being dismissive of someone else's exercise - what seems like an insignificant amount of movement to one person might be a really big deal to another person.

If you are using MFP to calculate your calories, and if you have your activity level set to sedentary, then it is quite valid to count (and add and eat) the extra movement you do each day.

I have my activity level set to lightly active so I don't enter cleaning, short walks etc but they are still accounted for in my higher activity level setting.
Just make sure you don't add them twice - ie, if you have accounted for them in your activity level setting don't add them in as extra exercise.

You just have to find what works for you. And that is probably going to be different to what works for someone else.
I don't like seeing people being dismissive of someone else's exercise - what seems like an insignificant amount of movement to one person might be a really big deal to another person.

I agree with this.
I'm a 2 weeker here, so definitely not a pro, I'm a homemaker so I set my activity to light since I'm on my feet a lot with cleaning, cooking and chasing kids and pets. I only log what is added on to that such as my walks.

What seems like an insignificant amount of movement to one person might be a really big deal to another person.

I find it a whole lot less time consuming to eat at my "lightly active" TDEE and not add in anything that is part of my normal activity in a day. I add on when I do any conscious exercise, using my HRM to estimate calorie burn. I don't always eat all of my exercise calories, but I do stay at a level where my net is at a point a bit higher than my BMR.

As has been said already, setting your level for sedentary and adding in any extra calories used is going to work out about the same thing as long as your measurement of that burn is halfway accurate (whoever calculated my level didn't use anything more than a generic equation, so measuring everything as you do it could be a more accurate method!)

If it works for you in terms of being a usable method, and works for you in terms of getting the results that you want then I wouldn't worry about what "people" say!

I don't track housework or walking around . I track when I take my dog for a walk because I walk fast enough sweat abit.