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What's one thing you HATE doing but have to do?

240 replies

bakerypots · 25/09/2020 20:58

Mine is brushing my teeth. It just feels like such a chore because I'm clearly very lazy.

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supercee · 25/09/2020 21:41

Bored?! Yes it's boring too. *invented.

feelingsicknow · 25/09/2020 21:43

Hair washing here too. It's ridiculously thick and I wear it up almost every day so maximum I need to do it is once a week. And I still can't be fecked.

Am debating whether I can get away with two monthly blow drys (money-wise) and just leave it the rest of the time.

Frazzled13 · 25/09/2020 21:44

Filling in my sodding timesheet at work.
I work in financial services and all time has to be charged to a client but a lot of my work is 15-30 minutes jobs, so I can end up with 20 clients on it on a day. All with different 15 digit time codes. Arghhhhhh
Typing it out like that I realise that it is not a big or difficult job. But I just hate it.

Mummiepig · 25/09/2020 21:48

Washing and drying my hair
Getting dressed on my day off
Going to get petrol
Really hate them all, such an effort

thesearethegoodolddays · 25/09/2020 21:50

School run!

Enrico · 25/09/2020 21:50

Agree with the insurance/utility/broadband crap. When I think about luxury of choice this is not it. You have to have it, getting it isn't a treat and it's such a fucking neverending ballache. You should just be able to have one, it doesn't change, they don't rip you off and you don't have to think about it again.

ShrimpSymphony · 25/09/2020 21:51

Brushing teeth and washing hair

hurraz · 25/09/2020 21:51

Washing my hair
Making any type of phone call
Having to talk to the neighbour when I leave the house and they happen to be standing there
Answer the phone at work

Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel · 25/09/2020 21:52

Washing my hair. Hate it.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 25/09/2020 21:52

Reading meters and putting in readings. (Old house, meters up high at either end of house.) And the annual search for new car and house insurance.

crazychemist · 25/09/2020 21:53

Phoning people about banking/bills etc. God I hate being on hold, it feels like such a waste of my life!

wishfull888 · 25/09/2020 21:54

Weekday meal planning & cooking, I really wish there was a pill.
Cleaning floors
Finding (lost) lids to Tupperware

TaVeryMuchLove · 25/09/2020 21:57

Taking makeup off - especially waterproof
Flossing teeth

fucknuckle · 25/09/2020 21:57

doing the dusting. i fucking hate doing the dusting.

Serena1977 · 25/09/2020 21:58

Ironing

Gertie75 · 25/09/2020 21:59

Putting the bins out.
Washing my hair.
Taking the kids to the park.

UsernameTaken76 · 25/09/2020 22:00

Dusting. I like cleaning I find it therapeutic it I hate dusting. Just fucking why

LunaNorth · 25/09/2020 22:00

Putting the supermarket shop away.

It gives me the rage. I don’t really know why.

daisychain1620 · 25/09/2020 22:01

Food shopping, cooking and making packed lunches. Quite a contradiction as I love love love eating lol. I need a chef!
I don't mind washing my hair, it's the drying of it after I can never be bothered with.

ShellsandSand · 25/09/2020 22:04

School run. Hate, hate, hate it. Didnt mind so much when we lived around the corner and I could walk with them but we have moved to another town and I just fucking loathe driving the school run. Parking is a nightmare, kids running all over the joint. It pains me.

SerenityNowwwww · 25/09/2020 22:08

Laundry. If I ever won the lottery I’d not buy a mansion or a rolls Royce, is hire someone to do my laundry.

SpeedofaSloth · 25/09/2020 22:08

Making packed lunches. Aaaaaaaargh.
Ironing.

Potnoodleforbrains · 25/09/2020 22:09

Hanging washing out!!

AnxiousPixie · 25/09/2020 22:10

Always hated ironing, stopped about a year ago and no one has noticed/is too polite to mention. Either way, no more ironing for me!

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 25/09/2020 22:11

Dishes (always leave them till last thing)

Putting away clean washing. I don't mind hanging it up wet though.

Food shopping. Its so mind numbingly boring. I have packing it onto the checkout, back into the trolly, then into the car, then into the house to then have to throw all the old stuff away and unpack it all. Mind numbing! and my lot aren't very experimental when it comes to food. Infact we have the same meals all the time, so I buy the same stuff constantly, and all they do is complain.

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