It doesn't happen if we view them as something to be avoided or hurried through to get on to the real parts of life. When a pile of clean clothes or a sparkling window give pleasure in both the doing and the product, we are nurtured rather than drained. What we were learning was the real meaning of austerity. Austerity does not exclude richness or enjoyment. What it does do is help us avoid things that keep us from our goals in life.
Affluence has a real cost.
Its possibilities demand impossible commitments of time and energy. It fails to discriminate between what is wise and useful and what is merely possible. We end up foregoing the things necessary for a truly satisfying life to make time and space for trivia. Like a garden, our lives need to be weeded if they are to produce a good crop. Our conventional world is one which splits us through the heart.