I love doing dishes! That's about the only thing. It only takes a few minutes, and you can totally transform your kitchen!
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I love doing dishes! That's about the only thing. It only takes a few minutes, and you can totally transform your kitchen!
all of them..........
but I don't mind mowing the lawn.
Katz
I hate ironing but I love crisp white shirts:( We have an agreement at home that everyone irons his or her own shirts. I hang them in the closet unironed and iron a single one when I want to wear it.:rolleyes:
I have this inspiration from time to time to iron all my fresh clothes and hang them, but usually I do it like Barbara. I don't trust my maid to iron them. I hate ironing bed linen, and since I dry them out in the open air, they are not wrinkled. And I LOVE how they smell if they are not ironed.
I like doing dishes, but still, I hate to spend my time doing this. I had plans to buy a dishwasher since fall, but I only decided now (or had time now), so tomorrow I will finally get it (Easter discounts - Yahoo!).
I can say I like doing everything in the house, but I hire a person, beacuse I have no time for this. I still wish, the day had more than 24 hours :)
I live by myself so I have to do ALL OF THEM! Although I don`tmind vacuuming.
I HATE housework! I have a secret theory - 'Why bother............ I'll have to do it all again next week'!!:D :eek: :p
(Vaccuuming is my biggest hate though!!)
Lynne
Sounds like a great theory!
Well I have to say that doing laundry used to be one of my biggest hates, but since we recently got a new washer & dry I don't mind doing it at all, in fact now I like doing laundry. Before it would take all day, now it only takes a couple of hours!
But all my life my least favorite household duty has been dishes. I just hate doing them. It doesn't take long and it definately makes your kitchen look much cleaner, but I just can't stand doing them so they usually sit in the sink till I just can't stand to look at them any more:rolleyes:
I will have a disherwasher one of these days!
BTW, my mom in law has OCD, (or at least I think so) she vacumns at least 5 times a day because there can't be footprints in the carpet.
And I think my hubby got a tad of it from her...he can't relax if there are dishes in the sink. So...his dinner is always cold because he has to do the cooking dishes before he eats. I refuse to appease him, if he has a problem with it, he has to do them. lol. We never go to bed with dishes in the sink. Thank God I love doing dishes with his wierd peeve!
I have several friends who actually love to iron. I don't understand this, but i tell you, it is true!! I do promise, I am not one fo them, and I try to avoid ironing as much as possible.
When we go to Disney we like to go out to nice resteraunts and after being in a suitcase, sometimes you have to break down and iron your clothes. My first trip down, I was able to disgust a friend with my ironing skills to the point he did my ironing for the week. ( I offered him money to come live with us and be our house boy, but I couldn't match his income!) Unfortunatly, the friend is no longer dancing at the studio, and so I now have to iron my own clothes on vacation too :(
Oh, Pam, it is so difficult to pick just one. Actually I never have liked cleaning out the refrigerator, but now that I have a new one, it doesn't seem so bad. So I guess I have to say vacuuming. Mostly because I have to move the furniture and bend over to pick things up that are sitting on the floor (like a basket with magazines). Then I have to get down on the floor to vacuum under some furniture that is too big to move but sits off the floor, like the couch and the desk. My back really feels it after I vacuum.
Dusting isn't too far behind vacuuming because, well it stirs up the dust. I always feel so dirty after I clean that I try to schedule it right before when I take my bath in the morning.
My husband had selected doing the wash as one of his chores, but that is something I enjoy doing, so drat the luck. I usually end up folding the laundry anyway because I am compulsive about how it should be done. I have been known to refold things that he has already folded.
There is one task in my house that almost never gets done and that is washing off the exhaust fan over the stove. Ick, ick, ick...all that grease. I think I rather just replace it at this point.
I do. I get from my dad, he does it that way too. I'm not sure why but I can't put a dish away unless it's gone through that whole process.Quote:
Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
Let me get this right, you completely wash the dish by hand and then you put it in the dishwasher??!!?!
When I bought a new dishwasher for my previous home, the saleslady told me what a waste it would be for me to pre-wash my dishes. I guess the new models have their own, built in, disposal, according to her (Sears). I get the heaviest stuff off the dishes now, especially silverware, but I never pre-wash the plates and glasses. Hubby is still learning........at least he will get near the dishwasher!!! :p
Of all the household chores, vacuuming is my favorite one, and that's a good thing since I have to do it so often!!! :) I hate to dust, and I hate cleaning the bathrooms (the fumes kill me). :o
washing dishes...I hate that LOL
ANYTHING having to do with the bathroom. Ick....
Since we have to do laundry in the laundry room at our complex, its a horrible chore. We hate it so much we go for at least three weeks before doing it...then, we have to spend all day doing it.
I do not envy you, Kelly. I remember those laundromat days. I could fill 7-8 washing machines at a time!! :eek: I was so happy to get my washer and dryer in my first rental house, after my divorce.
Hmm - I enjoy vaccuming actually. That is, until my back gives out...
I do hate dusting... it's my least favorite thing in the world.
How do you get away without vacuumin too ofoten? We are looking at getting new carpet/floor of sometype and what we have now shows Spot's hair soo much!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Logan
Of all the household chores, vacuuming is my favorite one, and that's a good thing since I have to do it so often!!! :) I hate to dust, and I hate cleaning the bathrooms (the fumes kill me). :o
Gosh I am in SHOCK, I honestly thought all americans, owned a dishwasher.lol:D
Miss Meow, I know all about that ironing your partner does, I had to do it for m first husband who was in the Navy, he taught me well, but do I do that now, NO WAY!!!
David, you will have to get a live in Girlfriend, then you can SHARE the chores lol.:D
Oh Carol, a LOT of Americans don't have dishwashers. :p Most of the homes in my area have them, but I know there are many without dishwashers too. Personally, I have never lived in a home without a dishwasher in my life. Then again, I have only lived in 2 homes in my entire life. :p LOL!Quote:
Originally posted by carole
Gosh I am in SHOCK, I honestly thought all americans, owned a dishwasher.lol:D
In order of hatefulness:
- Dishes
Scrubbing the kitchen floors
Cleaning the Bathroom
Dusting
Ironing
I'll talk it over with jennifer( she only has 11 kitties ) maybe we can work something out!! lol
I hate cleaning the TOILETS, shower and tub. :rolleyes:
P.S. I do not have a dishwasher either.
(well! I'm the dishwasher). lol
I shall quickly tell you how I obtained my first dishwasher, when my daughter was born, hubby and son used to do the dishes, I made dinner of course, well when bubs came along, she was a very active young baby, and never slept much, hence daddy was very tired, and the dishes were getting left until next day, not a sight I enjoyed very much, and I Let him know, so guess what arrived not long afterwards , our first dishwasher, we have just replaced it with a new one, and believe me it was only a matter of days before it was ordered and back in the house, funny thing my daughter had never washed or dried a dish until that time, and she really did not know how.
We even had to re-model our kitchen and make it larger for the dishwasher, but its worth its weight in gold.
I've always hated vacuuming. I think it started when I was a latch-key kid with my Mom and every few days one of my chores was vacuuming before she got home from work. The vacuum we had was a cheapy, but most of all LOUD. I've always been senstive to loud noises, and this thing was just awful. Anyway, while I was running it and the motor was screaming so loud, I kept getting the feeling all the time that someone was coming up behind me. After awhile I kept imagining I suddenly would feel the vibration of a foot scuff on the floor behind me or something. The house would be so quiet and me there by myself, and when I turned that shrieking vacuum on I just about freaked out and I couldnt' get it out of my head that anyone could break in while I was running it and I'd never hear a thing until they were there. Once I got this in my head I was just always terrified to run that thing.
Oddly, I don't think I ever talked to my Mom about this. I think if she had known I felt that way and was having that much fear, she would have just let me wait to run it until she was home. But I was embarrassed of my fear and it is something that held onto me even into my late teens.
I don't have that fearful feeling anymore, but my hatred for the chore and the noise of it (even though it's less than it was with that old vacuum), stays with me even now. I feel my tension level just rise when that motor comes on and vacuuming begins, either by myself or by David. I guess once one has a frightening experience with something, it just always creates a bad feeling with whatever is associated with it.
I don't really like folding laundry either, it's time consuming and when you are done there is no real visible reward for the effort put into it. When I mop a floor or clean up the kitchen, there is the visual reward of it looking nice and clean afterwards. :p
I don't really have a 'least' favourite houshold duty, I detest them all equally. They are never done, whichever one you choose, are they? Tommorrow, the next day, or real soon for sure, has to be done again!:)
I don't mind dusting except I never do it. I never think about it. We got a new vacuume, which it is pretty quiet for a vacuume, I still will not use it very often. I don't mind doing dishs, or laundry. I don't iron, I don't know where hubby put the ironing board, and I refuse to take out trash. As a kid my brother always had to take out the trash. If the trash was overflowing, and I would take the trash bag out and replace it I got yelled at for it by my dad. His thing was I was a girl so I shouldn't have to do it. So to this day I will not take a bag of trash down to the dumpster. I will take the bag out of the trash can now, and I leave it by the door for hubby to take down.
I also have a dishwasher in my apartment, which it works but it leaks all over the floor. So we don't use it for anything except to store dirty dishes when company comes over. :rolleyes:
I don't always fold laundry, I have no problem running down to the first floor to throw it in and come back up stairs, then go back down. I just don't fold it right away sometimes not at all. My husbands work shirts as soon as I take them out of the laundry basket they get hung up on the coat rack.
i like all aspects of housework.....i find it comforting in its constancy of needing to be done.....i like how it all looks when it is done. i only lack the time to do it all in. perhaps when i retire i can just do it and enjoy it. if i had to pick something i find the most difficult, i would say scouring the bathtub. oh, i also love to hang the clothes outdoors and have a lovely washline put up by one of my wonderful son-in-laws! i really enjoy the clothes line!!!
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Originally posted by cubby31682
... a dishwasher...
So we don't use it for anything except to
store dirty dishes when company comes over. :rolleyes:
An here we thunk DAD wuz da onlee wun who pulled dat stunt!
We looze more kitchin stuff dat way!
He's allua tyme *hollerin* bout "Who stole this-or-that?!"
Hey Dad ~
Try lookin inna Dish Warsher Box...
Ya put it in there a munth ago! :p