What is your least favorite household duty?

[lynnestankard]

I HATE housework! I have a secret theory - 'Why bother............ I'll have to do it all again next week'!!

(Vaccuuming is my biggest hate though!!)

Lynne

[davidpizzica]

Sounds like a great theory!

[anna_66]

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

I will have a disherwasher one of these days!

[Tonya]

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!

[Cincy'sMom]

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

[Rachel]

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.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

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??!!?!

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.

[Logan]

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!!!

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).

[EssTer]

washing dishes...I hate that LOL

[NoahsMommy]

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.

[Logan]

I do not envy you, Kelly. I remember those laundromat days. I could fill 7-8 washing machines at a time!! I was so happy to get my washer and dryer in my first rental house, after my divorce.

[ILoveReptiles]

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.

[Cincy'sMom]

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).

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!!!

[carole]

Gosh I am in SHOCK, I honestly thought all americans, owned a dishwasher.lol

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.

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by carole
Gosh I am in SHOCK, I honestly thought all americans, owned a dishwasher.lol

Oh Carol, a LOT of Americans don't have dishwashers. 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. LOL!