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Chores, we all have them, but, do you have a least favourite one? Lately, mine has been bed stripping and washing!
Apparently washing windows.
Oh and cleaning the floors of the bathrooms.
And then there is the top of the kitchen cabinets (with a lot of glass and pottery) which only gets cleaned once a year (bad).
And unloading the dishwasher (so glad I've got kids to do that).
Oh, sorry, you only wanted one least favorite didn't you?
ROTFLMAO, Float On! :laff: No worries, in me mentioning bed-stripping and washing, I was just getting warmed up! :)
You're supposed to wash windows?
For me, it's cleaning the bathroom. Luckily, we have two now, I told DH that I wasn't cleaning the one he used all the time. Period.
Simplicity
11-23-11, 8:35am
Cleaning the oven!!!! I hate hate hate cleaning the oven! First of all, I won't use that deadly commercial oven cleaner stuff, so I try to do it with baking soda and vinegar, but it never all comes off! I suppose if I kept up with it, it wouldn't get so bad, but I hate it so much that I avoid doing it for months!
Good gosh...chores! Erm, toilets and vacuuming are my least favorite.
Mrs. Hermit
11-23-11, 9:41am
Vacuuming & washing the floor hurts. So I avoid them. Bathrooms are not my favorite, but I can whip them up pretty fast.
Pretty much all of them. Confession: I have never once in my life cleaned an oven. I figure if I bake often enough, the stuff will flake off on its own. :laff:
Miss Cellane
11-23-11, 10:16am
Taking out the trash. No idea why, but I'd rather clean a bathroom completely than take out the trash. I've made that swap with roommates before--I'll scrub the bathroom thoroughly once a week if I never have to take out the trash. I've never had anyone turn me down.
jennipurrr
11-23-11, 10:38am
Vaccuuming! I hate the way the vibration feels on my hands. Its like nails on a chalkboard to me!!! I also don't like mowing the lawn for the same reason, but at least I feel like I get a good workout when I do that.
Float On
11-23-11, 10:46am
You're supposed to wash windows?
Only before my mom comes for a visit. Shoot, they arrive tomorrow afternoon.
JaneV2.0
11-23-11, 10:53am
Anything outside.
treehugger
11-23-11, 11:20am
Vaccuuming! I hate the way the vibration feels on my hands. Its like nails on a chalkboard to me!!!
I feel exactly the same way! But I've never heard any one else say that. It activates the tendonitis in my hands and wrists. So, I delegate that job to DH and just don't worry about it only getting done when he gets around to it.
For me, though, my least favorite chore is definitely cleaning the litterbox. I used to delegate this to DH, too, but post-transplant, it's the one thing he can still legitimately play the "kidney card" for.
Kara
1 -- cooking. Yes, it's a chore.
2 -- sweeping/mopping; DH vacuums.
3 -- everything else.
However, I actually kinda enjoy washing dishes {but don't tell anybody :-D } -- it's rather meditative ...
I agree, cleaning the oven is the worst. I think I have only done it once in my life, as I used to move around a lot from rental to rental. I'm not sure if I have ever cleaned the oven where I live now, and I've been here for 15 years. I doesn't appear that I have because it is pretty bad. I figure when I move out someday they will replace the oven anyway for a more efficient model so I think I'll be off the hook. Otherwise, I'm a pretty neat person.
goldensmom
11-23-11, 11:59am
The least liked not so often done chore would be cleaning the outside of the windows. I have to get a ladder, the ground is not level and is usually soft, I get everything situated where I think the ladder is level then step on it and it sinks to one side or the other, finally get up on the ladder and drop something or find I've forgotten something, get all done, put the ladder away, go inside and see a spot I missed, etc., etc.. I also hurry because I don't like doing it and hurrying doesn't help at all.
The least liked routine chore is putting clean sheets on the bed. I don't mind stripping and washing the sheets. I don't like the going from side to side part when putting the clean sheets on. I timed myself once and it took less than 3 minutes so I don't know why I complain. I think its the principle that my husband uses more than half the bed every night but I do all the work. Maybe I should view it like cooking where we are a good fit.....I cook, he eats.
goldensmom
11-23-11, 12:02pm
Wonderful invention, the self-cleaning oven. Set it, lock it and a few hours late it's clean.
Cleaning (and defrosting) the fridge/freezer.
Gardenarian
11-23-11, 2:33pm
Cleaning the refigerator.
I actually enjoy vacuuming and cleaning floors. Maybe we could work out a swap (well, now that I think of it, maybe I could work out a swap with my neighbors!)
KP duty. Cooking or cleaning, either one. Hands down!
IshbelRobertson
11-23-11, 5:15pm
I HATE housework! I pay someone to clean and I pay someone to come in twice a year to clean my oven.
I love to cook and I'm quite happy to tidy/clean up after that... but HOOVER? Or clean windows? Nope!
Sad Eyed Lady
11-23-11, 8:34pm
Dusting, I hate dusting!!!!!!!!!
loosechickens
11-23-11, 8:45pm
The side by side refrigerator/freezer in the motorhome is not frostfree, so must be defrosted and cleaned regularly. We dread it out of all reality based thinking. I take everything out while my husband heats up pans of water on the stove......I sit and read while the frost loosens with the pans of hot water inside, then he cleans the inside and dries the shelves and walls, etc., and then I put everything back.
It take about 15 minutes work, each. The whole thing is over in half an hour, sometimes less. But we dread it as though it were some horrible, dirty, heavy, revolting job and have to force ourselves to do it. When we've finished, we always laugh and wonder why we dreaded doing it so much. But that is all forgotten by the next time, and the whole dread thing starts over again.......
Ridiculous, but there you are.........
Cleaning gutters on the eves for sure. I have several mature trees and have to do it spring and winter with a leaf blower and then running a gardenhose down all the drains to clear any clogs. Bletch!
Second would be lawn watering. I'd don't have a sprinkler system and have an odd shaped lawn in an arid climate. I've looked at ways to reduce the lawn size, but haven't found enough solutions to get away from watering.
All housework comes in third.
I really don't mind doing housework but I cannot stand having to vaccuum out my vehicle.
I really dislike the sound of the vacuum and avoid using it until I really need to.
I'm another that doesn't clean the oven. I figure all the high temps kill all the germs.
Toilets are by far the worst chore for me, it's just plain icky.
So much fun reading through everyone's posts!!! :)
I must say I remember the days (with clarity) in which I had to manually defrost our old fridge! Oh, I hated, hated, hated that job! What a mess!!! Water on the floor, two sauce pans with boiling water on the go, towels to sop-up all the water. Worst part of all, it never lasted.
I can't pin-point my disliking of bed-striping/laundering to any one specific thing, but I have a sneaking suspicion my lack of enthusiasm towards doing such is the result of not being able to actually see my hard-earned effort reflected in shininess. At least with floor-washing and other general cleaning chores/tasks, one is rewarded with that shiny delight afterwards. :)
I thought of one other chore I hate and that is cleaning up the kitchen after canning. There always seems to be sticky messy spots everywhere!
Chores, we all have them, but, do you have a least favourite one? Lately, mine has been bed stripping and washing!
Wow, I'm surprised "stripping" didn't get ****-ed! :~)
I detest: 1) cleaning wall-to-wall carpeting which requires, thanks to my lovely but every-shedding Tuxedo cat, using both a carpet rake over every inch, and then the vacuum cleaner, all of which hurt my back; and 2) getting soap scum off the icky, plastic, molded shower-tub monstrosity. I'm seriously thinking of have a cleaner come in once a month and just to vacuum the rugs and clean the bathrooms.
I keep thinking back to my college days - back when some of us were in danger of getting stomped by a dinosaur while foraging - when I had a cheap apartment with wood floors and an old claw-foot tub. I damp-mopped the floors and filled the tub with water and a pint of bleach, scrubbed the sinks, dusted, and my housekeeping chores were done in roughly an hour once a week. And I had a cat back then, too.
Another thought occurs to me: I seem to need to buy lots more cleaning products and devices than I did back then. Back then I got along quite well with dish soap, vinegar, Comet cleanser, bleach, and laundry detergent. Now I own so many household chemicals I dread the thought of just listing them, let alone using them.
You've given me some good food for thought, Mrs.-M. Thank you for posting this topic. Tomorrow may find me tearing up the d@mn wall-to-wall and thinking of floor paint colors.
Mopping. Only I don't actually mop. The dining room has laminate floors and the only way I can get it clean is to get down on hands and knees with a microfiber cloth and a spray bottle of water. Every other method results in a haze or streaks. If I lived next door to Mrs M, I would swap floor cleaning with bed stripping.
Originally posted by Goldensmom.
The least liked routine chore is putting clean sheets on the bed. I don't mind stripping and washing the sheets. I don't like the going from side to side part when putting the clean sheets on. I timed myself once and it took less than 3 minutes so I don't know why I complain.Wow! Have you ever got me beat by a long-shot! I've never timed myself making a bed, but I do know it takes me much longer than 3 minutes. Darn... I'm thinking you'd make for one ultra quick diaper changer! :laff:
Libby. Ah, yes, those annoying spots and spatters! I always have to wipe down the back-splash/cupboard fronts after making tomato sauces and things.
Jemima. ROTFLMAO!!! Me too! :) Re: household cleaners, I try and stick with just one store bought brand/type, like Pine-Sol. (I know, shame on me for not making my own, however when it comes to cleaners, that's one area where I have always cheated). http://thmg.photobucket.com/albums/v738/LadyFire/Smileys/th_blush-anim-cl.gif
Anne Lee. And boy oh boy, I wouldn't waste so much as a second taking you up on your offer!!! :)
I dust four times a year whether it needs it or not.
Windows - yeah, that's not even on the radar.
shadowmoss
11-25-11, 4:35pm
My Mom is a window washer. She is always washing windows. She previously has come over and washed my windows when I put a house up for sale (luckily only about every 8 years or so) because she knows it's the only time they will be washed while I'm there. I remember washing windows as a kid, but not since. Defrosting a fridge doesn't bother me so much. The rest gets done when I'm going to have company...
early morning
11-25-11, 5:30pm
Hate defrosting the freezer. At least it's in the basement, so water on the floor is not a problem. There's water on the floor every time it rains, lol. Dislike washing dishes (thank goodness for the dishwasher!). Hate washing floors, mostly because of all the crap I have to move to do so. Most of the rest of it doesn't bother me much- I just don't do it unless I have too! ;)
Beckyliz. LOL! I need a little of that!
Shadowmoss. LOL! Gosh, remembering washing windows as a kid but not since, seems like an awfully long, long time.
Early Morning. LOL! I wonder if aging plays a role somehow in curtailing our liking (or disliking) Re: all things domestic.
Unloading the dishwasher. You'd think that getting the dirty dishes into the washer would be the tough part, and the easy part just taking the cleans one out and putting them away. But for some really weird reason I just can't stand having to unload the machine. (The only worse thing of course would be putting away dishes that I had to handwash!)
Believe it or not, Nella, it's both the loading and unloading process of dishwasher use that keeps me away from using mine (for the most part). :) I do cave a handful of times a year in using it, i.e. Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc, but I love good old handwashing/drying!
Anne Lee. And boy oh boy, I wouldn't waste so much as a second taking you up on your offer!!! :)
I think I might have found a way to clean the floors that does not involve hands and knees or immigrating to Canada. However, I would still like to live next door to Mrs. M.
ROTFLMAO! Awww... thank you, Anne Lee! :) Just as I'd love to be your neighbour. I'm afraid that the older I get, I may have to eventually cave, and start doing floors with a mop/fancy fan-dangled contraption. My knees hurt so bad sometimes after crawling around washing.
Anything involving sorting. I hate sorting. I don't wear socks because I hate sorting them. DH and the kids wear socks, but all of the same variety so they only have to be sorted by size. Even that is too much for me. That is their job.
Crazy Stella confession but when I was a dramatic, overly romantic little girl I anthropomorphised socks. I imagined that each pair had it's soulmate and each time they were washed it was like they were lost at sea, searching the earth for their other half. As I sorted I would get anxious, wondering if I had really paired them with their One True Love or if I had just stuck them for the forseeable future with some horrible crook who would make their life miserable until they were washed again. Then, if I couldn't find a match for the sock, I would imagine it to be listless and alone, pining all it's days for a mate that would never come again. I couldn't take the pressure. :)
I also hate unloading the dishwasher. Luckily my kids kind of like it.
I'm not a big fan of bed stripping either, or more accurately of putting sheets back on a bed, especially day beds or bunk beds. Day beds are the worst, and for some reason I bought day beds for my girls. It is impossible to get the sheets even and symmetrical. On a normal bed I do kind of like smacking the wrinkles out of sheets, though. That's satisfying.
Love your sock story, Stella! :) So cute. The part I hate about bed making, specifically bed-dressing after laundering the bed-clothes, is inserting the duvet into the duvet cover, then pulling the corners of the duvet into the corners of the duvet cover tightly, then shaking out the entire mess (both pieces) in hopes of a straight and even end result. But it NEVER goes smoothly! I find myself (every single time I dress a duvet graced bed) mussing and fussing with both the duvet and duvet cover a few times over to get it right! http://th38.photobucket.com/albums/e105/CommentCrazyGirl/Smileys%20Emotions/Snarky%20Mad/th_Dammit.gif
Yes! I can't even do that by myself. I have to have someone at the other end helping.
Just think, Stella, pretty soon your daughters will be old enough to help mom out even more. :)
Yes, they really are getting to be useful little people. Bella is reorganizing the cups and glasses cabinet as I type this after cleaning the bathroom and vacuuming under the dining room table. I didn't even ask her to do that, she just decided to on her own.
I think it will be awesome when the little ones can help too. Just think, 6 years from now baby Travis will be Bella's age and be able to do stuff like clean the bathroom. James will be 8 then and even New Baby will be 5. Cheyenne will be 13 and Bella will be 12 so they can help with laundry and cooking.
It's coming, Stella, and sooner than you think! :) With my oldest two it sometimes feels like, "in a wink of an eye"...
Hosting Christmas dinner, then dealing with all the dishes, and glasses, and silverware, and cups, and saucers, and leftovers, afterwards!
Thanks to my dear mom and SIL (this year) for helping me pull my kitchen back together again. Even then, I was up till well past midnight, on the evening of Christmas Day, cleaning and tidying.
Tussiemussies
12-27-12, 3:37pm
Fiberglass shower stalls that comes in two pieces, you can never get them really clean. They are just a little house for mildew and mold...ugh. Cleaning the toilet, bathrooms and washing floors....;)
Fiberglass shower stalls that comes in two pieces, you can never get them really clean. They are just a little house for mildew and mold...ugh. Cleaning the toilet, bathrooms and washing floors....;)
We had one of those in a basement bath. I bleached the crap out of the seam and scrubbed it hard with a stiff toothbrush so all the little nasties in there were dead. After it dried I covered the seam with a bead of silicone caulk so nothing new would get in there. That held up for years with no mold, mildew, scum or anything else unpleasent (full disclosure, the shower only got used once in a while).
Tussiemussies. If you don't already own a pair of rubber/Nylex household gloves, invest in a pair (a good pair), and toilet-duty will no longer be the icky job it once used to be. :)
Bathroom then the Refrigerator
LOL, Ctg492! Yes, that darned refrigerator! Sometimes I think ours dirties itself! :)
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