Housewares rhymes with:
delaware's, software's, somewheres, airfares, americares, armchairs, backstairs, bankshares, daycares, delaware's, fiduciares, forebears, healthcare's, legionnaire's, legionnaires, markair's, medicare's, nightmares, software's, somewheres, tenncare's, thoroughfares, wheelchairs
Housewares sounds like:
hacker's, hackers, hasher's, hashers, hawkers, hickories, highrise, highrises, hijackers, hikers, hokuriku, hooker's, hookers, hoosiers, housework