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What chores do you hate?
« on: June 25, 2013, 09:12:31 PM »
I really hate emptying the dishwasher.  I loooooooove having one (didn't have one for my first year in the UK).  I am happy to load it up and run it, but I totally procrastinate emptying it.  When I was single, I would just use the clean stuff out of it for days before getting around to emptying it.

I also hate hanging clean clothes.  I can fold all day long, but hate the hanging.

Apparently I have issues with clean items! 

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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 09:35:30 PM »
I strongly dislike washing up and I completely despise washing the tub/shower! And I refuse to do windows. That's what rain is for I say.  ;)


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2013, 09:38:59 PM »
Dusting. My #1 all time least favorite chore.

Next would be picking up the dog's poo. LOL!
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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2013, 10:05:36 PM »
Mopping the kitchen floor. Kills my back.
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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2013, 02:13:51 AM »
Pretty much all chores except laundry.


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2013, 08:21:20 AM »
I hate dusting too! And I swear there is more of it without the air heating system that I was used to in the US! Also cutting the grass--I break out in a rash (also not a problem in the US) and my husband has really bad hayfever so the grass is always being left too long and then it is so much worse!


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2013, 09:25:30 AM »
Despite my crappy housekeeping skills, (No I take that back, I am good at cleaning, I just have really no time to do it), I have a few chores that I do like. I don't hate them all.    

I really hate emptying the dishwasher.  I loooooooove having one (didn't have one for my first year in the UK).  I am happy to load it up and run it, but I totally procrastinate emptying it.  

Yes! This!!!  My most dreaded chore ,probably!   Have no issue loading it and running it.  

I have actually enjoyed doing the washing up now that I have a great pair of washing up gloves and an apron.  It's my revalation that I hated doing the washing up because I hate water dripping down my arms.  But with washing up glovesthat doesn't happen and an apron shielding the splash onto my clothes and I am a much happier dish doer.  But putting 'em away after still sucks!!!!!!   :P

I completely despise washing the tub/shower!
Yeap.  I hate bending in strange angles and I LOATHE wet feet which always happens when cleaning the tub.  

I also hate mopping the bathroom floor.  My hair just gets everywhere.  

Dusting, oops, am I supposed to do that?  :-[  

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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2013, 09:35:33 AM »
Is it sad that instead of proper damp dusting, I typically just vacuum stuff off and only dust once every 2-3 months or so? Typically the day before our house inspection everything gets done properly, but other than that? Nope.

Laundry is the only thing I actually keep up with. Granted, I think that has more to do with the mountain of socks of my husbands that need darning and with how few good socks he has in his drawer than anything to do with liking it!


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2013, 09:47:18 AM »
I have actually enjoyed doing the washing up now that I have a great pair of washing up gloves and an apron.  

We generally use the dishwasher as it uses less water than washing up by hand, but I love washing up the old-fashioned way! If I do it, I slather on hand lotion, then put on my washing up gloves and get the water good and hot. By the time I'm finished, my hands are lovely and soft!!

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I also hate cleaning the shower. It's massive, so you have to get all the way in to do it and there's a rainfall type shower head which is great for showering, but not so great for cleaning. It means I wind up getting completely wet so I have to strip down, put on a shower cap, etc. Ugh. It's such an ordeal!
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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2013, 11:23:49 AM »
I hate cleaning the floors.  My HB is lovely in every way, but he is very messy and constantly spills stuff and/or leaves a trail of crumbs everywhere.  So i have to clean floors every day, and sometimes I feel pretty aggrieved about it.


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2013, 11:31:16 AM »
I hate cleaning the floors.  My HB is lovely in every way, but he is very messy and constantly spills stuff and/or leaves a trail of crumbs everywhere.  So i have to clean floors every day, and sometimes I feel pretty aggrieved about it.

I think it's possible we live with the same man! Do you think he could get back and forth between Scotland and Cornwall quickly enough to annoy both of us??

I refuse to clean the floor every day, though. My back hurts so much when I mop that I'd be in traction if I did it more than once a week! Consequently, we live in squalor.
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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2013, 12:05:21 PM »
Consequently, we live in squalor.

Yay for squalor! That's how we roll here.  ;) :D

My guy leaves a mess in his wake everywhere he goes - floors, counters, never puts stuff away (like tools, his camera, his shoes, pens & stationery, kitchen stuff, little dirty sock balls, etc etc etc) unless reminded & sometimes not even then...

Chores I hate?! Hahaha - well let's just say I ***like*** doing laundry, everything else is drudgery as far as I'm concerned - refer to aforementioned squalor!  ;D
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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2013, 12:48:40 PM »
It means I wind up getting completely wet so I have to strip down, put on a shower cap, etc. Ugh. It's such an ordeal!

Safe to say my shower would NEVER be cleaned I had to do that!!


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #13 on: June 26, 2013, 01:22:35 PM »
I refuse to clean the floor every day, though. My back hurts so much when I mop that I'd be in traction if I did it more than once a week! Consequently, we live in squalor.

i *should* do it every day, but I don't.  And with my broken arm, there is no way.  I hoovered a few days ago, but the bedroom carpet clings onto hair so tightly that even a hoover can't shift it, so i usually do that on hands and knees with a rubber brush... but until my arm is better, it's just going to have to look a state.  :-X


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Re: What chores do you hate?
« Reply #14 on: June 26, 2013, 01:29:15 PM »
Yay for squalor! That's how we roll here.  ;) :D

But I loathe squalor. I find it so depressing. And ... squalid.
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