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flowerjen
central, NJ
Zone 6b
March 11, 2008
2:11 PM | I HATE to do the dishes. You know the stuff that is not supposed to go in the dishwasher, there seems to be so much of it (even though I try to buy stuff that can go in the dishwasher). We have double sinks that are too small and shallow(have all the filters under the sink-reverse osmosis, sediment etc) so I can't fit a cookie sheet down into the sink, annoys me to no end. The previous homeowners were def not cooks eventually I'd like to redo the kitchen but that's not in the near future.
So what chore do you hate the most???? |
Bubba_MoCity
Missouri City, TX
March 11, 2008
2:19 PM | Annual cleaning of the mold on the outside of the house, driveway, landscape timbers, dog houses, etc.
This year I'm trying Jomax - much easier than power washing, so far. Now to see how long it lasts. |
threegardeners
North Augusta, ON
Zone 5a
March 11, 2008
3:57 PM | Toilets!
Hate them with a passion, especially with a man in the house... |
McGlory
Southeast, NE
Zone 5a
March 11, 2008
3:58 PM | Folding laundry and putting it away, a never-ending task at my house. |
KaperC
No. San Diego Co., CA
Zone 10b
March 11, 2008
3:59 PM | Yep and yep. Pots and pans - I too have small sinks - AND toilets!!! |
ves522
Jim Falls, WI
Zone 4a
March 11, 2008
4:38 PM | Yep yep and yep. Plus another yep! I just hate housework. Don't get any satisfaction out of it because it will just have to get done again too soon. Maybe I need to refrase that. A smidge of satisfaction when it is first done knowing it won't stay that way. I'd rather be gardening or reading or crafts even cooking. |
Bubba_MoCity
Missouri City, TX
March 11, 2008
4:43 PM | threegardners,
Must have been one that was not in the service or never had to clean his own.
I was taught to sit when I was about 6-7. Stepfather told be in no uncertain words he was tired of sitting in my pee - no electricity, and a 5-gal pail with a home made seat - very dark at night in the house.
DS discovered the same thing when he was in technical college - had to clean his own apartment. |
suire
Boston, MA
March 14, 2008
7:13 PM | Hi,
I do housecleaning ( also do garden design and gardening half the year) for a living. And there are a few things that bug me : black appliances, bathrooms used by hairy-bodied men, picking up dozens of kids little toy pieces strewn all over the floor so I can vacuum, and new clients who, before I arrive to check their place, get it way cleaner and tidier than normal so I give them a lower estimate.
Every little smudge and dust mote shows on black appliances so its difficult to get them looking perfect even when they are clean.
Men are lovely creatures but getting bazillion hairs and hair fragments off a bathroom floor is no fun.
People should get stuff off the floor before I come. I tell them, they say yes, then they don't.
Cleaning your house before a cleaner comes to give an estimate
just isn't fair. I need to see how a family really lives so I can accurately judge the time I'll need to spend and set a regular fee accordingly.
Those are my cleaning beefs. Overall, I really don't mind cleaning, though my own place is a mess. I like being self-employed.
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MistyPetals
North Augusta, SC
March 19, 2008
8:57 PM | Cleaning, it's an avoidance issue that should be discussed with a pro.
Uh, why is it that the more I clean, the messier...
This message was edited Mar 21, 2008 6:41 PM |
WUVIE
Hulbert, OK
Zone 7a
March 21, 2008
4:37 PM | I'll step foreward as the weirdo. I love to clean. I won't use the
dishwasher even though we have one. It's perfectly understandable
why someone would detest loading, unloading, loading, unloading.
Ugh.
If I had to pick a job I didn't particularly care for, it would be doing
things no one notices. Such as taking down things from the top of
cabinets, cleaning and putting them back. No one can tell.
I could work all day long doing things no one would notice. But
darned if you do the other things they would spot the chores you
decided not to do.
LOL |
bigcityal
Menasha, WI
Zone 5a
March 21, 2008
4:40 PM | I hate the cleaning to do the cleaning. I don't mind sweeping and mopping the floor, but to pick up everyones else's junk beforehand to do so is annoying. |
ncgardenaddict
Kannapolis, NC
Zone 7b
March 21, 2008
4:41 PM | Picking up after other people (AKA husband and child.) Also turning off the lights for them.. My son is only 5.. My husband acts like he's 5! BWAHAHAHA! |
mgpaquin
Savannah, GA
March 21, 2008
6:29 PM | Cleaning any toilet or bathroom any male uses. Is it that they can't aim, or that they won't?! Oh -- cat litter too. Oddly enough, I love doing laundry and cleaning the kitchen. Vacuuming I could live without... Closing every single drawer or cabinet door that my husband ever opens... |
threegardeners
North Augusta, ON
Zone 5a
March 21, 2008
6:43 PM | Mine does that too mgpaquin!! I can come home and follow around the house everything he did all day just by the open cupboard doors and drawers. He even leaves the drawer open under the stove where we keep the pots, then has the nerve to complain to me that there is cat hair in them!! |
gloria125
Greensboro, AL
March 21, 2008
6:44 PM | Dr. Phil says, 'You teach people (husbands) how to treat you'.
Sounds like the DH here need a little teaching. But, Bubba your step father was out of line. A five year old boy shouldn't be made to do something he wouldn't do in the Army! |
stovetop
Bunkie, LA
May 13, 2008
8:56 PM | I hate all of it, but i would have to say the worst is folding clothes & putting them up.
This message was edited May 13, 2008 6:57 PM |
ooojen
Lewiston, MN
May 22, 2008
5:14 PM | I don't like washing the pots and pans either, but for me the worst is cleaning the refrigerator. It's a pain taking everything out & deciding what to keep and what to toss.
I have the great good fortune to be married to a man who has good aim. However, intelligent though he may be, he still hasn't figured out the intricacies of the toilet paper roller, as in how to put a new roll on when the old one's used up. |
Doe41
(Audrey) Dyersburg, TN
Zone 7a
May 31, 2008
4:07 PM | I don't mind folding clothes and putting them up. When my kids were teenagers, I folded their clothes, put them on their beds to put away, and usually they ended up on the floor!
I don't like housework, period! I have 2 ruptured discs in my lower back, and it hurts me to stand very much. I think that's why I hate it so much! I live alone, so there's not a lot to do, if I could just keep up with it!
Doe
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nanbernier
St. Robert, MO
Zone 5b
May 31, 2008
7:52 PM | I hate cleaning the floors. Syssiphus had his rock, I have the floors that only stay clean long enough to put my cleaning gear in the closet. |
sallyg
Anne Arundel Co., MD
Zone 7a
June 21, 2008
12:40 AM | Dusting. I never do it! It would kill me if somebody said I had to go around the living room, moving stuff on tables to dust, and put it back. So boring and pointless.Who ever got sick from dust on a table??? DH has said a couplle times how he used to dust for his mother -at some point- as if I should try to train one of my kids. Forget it I don't give a carp.
Generally, I won't do a cleaning job unless I can see a difference afterward.
My youngest adopted toilet cleaning as his Special Job. I Can't explain it, just appreciate it.
I don't mind laundry too much, or dishes. I just do the minimum amount of daily stuff to keep from being pigs.
I would work like a dog all day in the yard but not in the house. No joy in maintaining the inside of a house. |
ooojen
Lewiston, MN
June 21, 2008
11:51 AM | "DH has said a couplle times how he used to dust for his mother..."
Gosh, it sounds like he's all practiced up. No point in setting amateurs to a job when you've got an experienced expert on hand ;)
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sallyg
Anne Arundel Co., MD
Zone 7a
June 21, 2008
12:54 PM | Great point!! |
mgpaquin
Savannah, GA
June 21, 2008
8:23 PM | Oh, sallyg, you are SO on the same page as I am! I'll work like a dog in the yard, but housework? Not so much! |
sallyg
Anne Arundel Co., MD
Zone 7a
June 21, 2008
9:19 PM | Yay, a fellow outsider ! I envy my friend with the neat as a pin house...a little. She does absolutely nothing in the yard. I mean nothing. Neither the hubby. How is this humanly possible? |
Heidillyho
Stanwood, IA
June 25, 2008
10:19 PM | The only household chore I just absolutely hate and dread is the dishwasher. I hate unloading the stupid thing. Thankfully, I have three kids so I rarely have to do it! I actually LIKE doing housework. I like ironing and vaccuming and all that stuff that you can do without having to think about it. I use it as time to just mentally unwind and destress. Same with weeding the garden. It's my therapy. |
newhobby
Tolleson, AZ
Zone 9a
June 27, 2008
4:35 PM | I can't stand unloading the dishwasher either! I can't stand the bending and reaching (back is out of whack) but I'll be bent over for hours in the garden and only complain when I am all done =0)
I'm lucky as far as laundry goes cause I don't like that either- DH does most of it if I let him sit and watch sports and I keep up with our two little ones! Yeah, I am spoiled because he loves to cook too!
As for the toilet, not too bad even though my 3 year old boy is now potty trained! I use clorox wipes on everything and then use those little blue disposable toilet scrubbers- easy as pie!
The vacuuming doesn't bug me as long as everything is picked up by the mess makers before hand. I tell my 5 year old daughter that anything left on the floor will get sucked up and trashed...works pretty well ;0) |
DanceyTx
Midway, TX
Zone 8b
July 3, 2008
9:58 AM | I hate Dusting!!! Sometimes I think I have too many knick knacks to have to move around to do a good job of dusting. I have already given some of this 'cutsie' stuff away. lol
We live on a dirt road way out in the country and dusting could be an every day chore. But not for this garden gal! |
flowerjen
central, NJ
Zone 6b
July 3, 2008
12:21 PM | Swiffer duster is the best, I hardly ever move all the little stuff. |
katym
Deatsville, AL
Zone 8a
July 6, 2008
10:21 PM | My most hated chores are dishes (we dont have a dishwasher, so I have to wash everything by hand). And the other thing would have to be folding clothes and putting them away. Dusting comes in at the top of the hated list, too. It doesnt get done that often if I can help it. I have two sons and the oldest is good about helping with some chores, especially bathroom and washing clothes as long as I tell him first what can/cant be washed together. |
sallyg
Anne Arundel Co., MD
Zone 7a
July 6, 2008
10:50 PM | The other night, I had just finished washing dishes, well, putting them in dishwasher and washing pots etc by hand, and rinsing out the sink and drying my hands. Then here He comes with a bowl. So I put it in the snk. And he looked at me. Like, Aren't you going to put that in the dishwasher now instead of leaving it in the sink? No, I am not. I did my job. I am done. It will sit until next time it is dishes time! When I started having kids, I decided that my standard would be that if I got the sink emptied once a day, I was doing pretty well. And if I didn't , nobody would croak. |
katym
Deatsville, AL
Zone 8a
July 8, 2008
8:37 PM | Hey, that's my standard, too, Sallyg! Ha! |
newhobby
Tolleson, AZ
Zone 9a
July 9, 2008
9:37 AM | Amen Sally! I have a daycare and do have to keep up a little more but I only load up after each meal! Sometimes I 'forget' in the evening and DH assumes I am exhausted (most of the time I am) and will do it for me ;o) |
willowwind
Moundridge, KS
Zone 6a
July 16, 2008
2:23 PM | What an interesting thread to read. Funny how different we can be. I'm with Dancey on the dusting. I hate anything that gets to my allergies...dusting sweeping etc. 'cause I end up with swollen, red eyes and nose, feeling miserable. Sadly it's a vicious circle though because then when I don't do it it builds up and I really get bad. I'll do any cleaning, washing etc. that involves "wet" quite happily. Sometimes I can talk DH into the dusting as it doesn't bother him so much, but other times it's all for me and Claritin. We live in the country too, although our road is paved. Still, with all the time spent coming in and out and our sand driveway, we drag in so much dirt it isn't funny. The dogs and cat don't help either, but they're worth it. I just pray when people from town come out they'll understand and not just think we don't clean
Kathy |