If we are to keep on having them would prefer ones that give our sims more to do. Borrowing from TS2: plumbing items and counter tops needed cleaning much more often that TS4 ones do, so why not increase it back to that level? Washing windows, sewing machine, pottery wheel, cars to fix and use or sell, hedges, shrubs and bushes got scruffy so sims needed to get out the trimmer and trim them, said scruffies generated weeds that needed pulling. From RL: use of hoes and pitchforks for some sorts of gardening, watering the lawns via a hose, for those who have pools, cleaning them. Not sure this is possible, but when changing wall patterns, have the sims actually put up the wall paper or do the painting.