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Today’s question:
QUESTION: What is the one household chore that you hate the most?
Talk about it.
Dishes
The four horsemen of the chore apocalypse:
Picking up dog poop.
Cleaning toilets.
Washing windows.
Scrubbing pots and pans (but plates, not so bad).
Cooking.
Laundry. Why?
The need for physical cash and to constantly buy quarters.
The wash.
The fight over carts and machines.
The dry.
The fold.
The putting away.
The easy listening soundtrack at my favorite laundromat is a plus however.
What about the one that confirms heavy over usage of fabric softeners and perfumes, dyes, etc. causes lung diseases and long term asthma , bronchitis, or COPD. ?? Only an allergy specialty doctor or a comparable qualified referee licensee can make that determination.
Probably bathtub/shower because it’s a knee killer.
But I haven’t done any of that stuff since getting married.
I have other chores.
Yep,…that’s my #1,…but it’s my chore, ugh.
I guess that is as good enough reason to get married as any. I can kind of relate, when I met my ex-husband in New York City in 1970, he started to cook for me, and since I lived the single life for a number of years I was not into cooking, so I thought if I marry him I won’t have to cook. We did get married and then he was transferred from NY to Milwaukee, and I didn’t have a job, so I thought I should make myself useful, so I went out and bought a cookbook and started to cook, and found out I really liked it. I have Gourmet magazines from 1976 thru the nineties, and umpteen cookbooks, and over the years have host many dinner parties etc.
Rattlesnake eradication.
I still vividly remember the excitement when my old man hit a rattlesnake on the head with a shovel then cut its head off with said shovel. Looking back it was foolish of him and he should have just ignored it or called animal control. 10/10 man and father, but it was foolhardy. It is a blessing nothing bad happened to him.
Vacuuming. I can’t do a quick once over because I’m too meticulous when I work and I will move most of the furniture so I can do a thorough job. It’s a work ethic I’ve had most of my life. My motto is, If you’re going to do a job, do it right the first time. Consequently, I don’t like to vacuum because it’s too much work.
Only move the furniture once a month at most and buy a cordless vacuum. It is mucho easier.
Get a robot vacuum for daily vacuuming, then you can do the thorough job as needed 😉
Robot Vacuum???? True Story to Follow:
Friend got one of those really expensive fancy robot vacuums… AND… At about the same time a new puppy.
Anyone see where this is going?????
Puppy had an “accident” right about the time the vacuum went to work… Friend was in shower and noticed a most gross smell…. YEP!
Smear, Smear, Smeared all over the kitchen floor and family room rug….. I was dyin’………….
I got my mom a roomba once. It was kind of a joke because I saw it advertised after she was saying she wished there was a vacuum that just did the job by itself and put itself away afterward. It couldn’t get from the wood floor on to the plush wool rug though. It was kind of fun watching it trying, and sometimes getting itself stuck halfway up.
I agree I would have to say vacuuming, just logging it around and if you have stairs it is so much more difficult.
# 1: ALL
All of them, wish I could get a house cleaner.
In my daughter’s teenage years, I hated doing the laundry. There are just some things a father shouldn’t know about their little girl.
Raking leaves from the neighbors trees out of my back and front yards.
Raking the shag rug with that damn shag rug rake, mine is down to just a few tines and I’m having a hard time finding another for some reason.
Cleaning the litter box. My cat takes daily medication that causes her to drink more than a pint and a half of water a week, all of which ends up in the litter box. – and she pees in the same corner. It produces about a pound of day of wet litter.
Cats can be trained to use the toilet. There are videos and instructions online that show you how.
@Dawg… I ain’t sharing my crapper with my cats! My male cat stands instead of sits and his aim isn’t very good… typical!
Laundry!
Either mopping terra cotta kitchen tiles or heavy duty cleaning of litter boxes.
Dusting.
Pulling weeds
Making the bed! Seems so senseless since your just going to tear it apart every night to sleep in it.
Everything except cooking, with an extra ugh for outdoor chores, scrubbing bathrooms, and mopping.
mopping floors
I was going to say taking the garbage carts to the curb because the big ones when full are impossible to maneuver. Then, I saw vacuuming which I loathe. Then, I saw cleaning the toilets which I loathe even more, then I saw doing the dishes … Then, I remembered mopping, and laundry, and cleaning the furnace filters, and washing the windows, and dusting the furniture, and going out to get the mail everyday, and raking leaves, and mowing the lawn and trimming the ivy …
So, I’d have ti say all of it … equally. But, I do it anyway because it’s the price of living in a single family home which is how I prefer to live.
Housekeeping in general. In the 1990s I had a housekeeper who came twice a month to do that. That was for an apartment but when i bought a house I just didn’t unpack stuff that much and it was easier for me to do housekeeping but after awhile things started piling up. Ugh!
I don’t like to do any chores, I have more important things to do.
I do like to cook👩🍳
Mopping & Vacuuming…My arm hurts from all that constant push & pull action.
Cleaning the tub…Got dizzy from inhaling all that bleach.
The one where who left the lights on and no one answers.
Dusting! Hate it!
I love doing my chores. All of the above! I think while I am buzzing around cleaning. I really like my tasks. Also cooking and gardening and washing my pretty black Honda Accord. It is fun.
@Ilovepopcorn….Maybe cut back on the Red Bull and Adderall.
Gutters. I’d rather scrub 100 toilets then do the gutters of a 3 story house. You’re up on the ladder, trying not to fall off, snaking this thing down the gutter, hoping you don’t die, sweating, some bird almost flies in your *********** face while you’re doing it… Gutters suck on anything but a 1 story house.
Anon ~
Holy Cow,…You Win!,…LOL!! That is one nasty/dirty job.
For my Hubby, it’s the 32′ Queens Palm Tree, and not safe.
Time to cut the darn thing down.
Anon, You,…Please stay Safe!
Nytemuvr: ha ha I don’t need drugs or Redbull to be enthusiastic and energetic. I really LOVE TO CLEAN, COOK AND GARDEN. I zip around and zap the chores. Yes I do. My neighbors wonder too where I get my energy. However I go to bed early because I am usually totally exhausted after my busy day. So getting a lot of sleep is why I work fast. End of this boring story.
Pick one, anyone. Yep. Hate it all.
The never-ending rotation from closet to closet, culling out things and trying to find a family member who wants them…. or else lugging them in Brünhilda to donate them at charity thrift shops.
All of them. I am so tired of house work.