Least favourite household task...

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Mine has got to be anything food related - particularly meal planning, shopping and cooking. I despise it! I'm a good cook but my god do I hate it. Unfortunately DH also hates it as well and I find splitting it very difficult - if DH plans I have no idea what recipe he's using (I have all my recipes in my head) and if I plan, I also have to shop and then DH has no idea how to cook it unless I write it down or use a recipe book to plan and shop, which takes even longer!

All other jobs I'm fairly happy to do and get a sense of satisfaction from. But not the food shopping 🙄

What is yours and why? And any tips for making it more bearable?

Thank you . What do the initials stand for ?

Emptying the dishwasher. Repetitive, involves bending and no satisfaction.

Me and dh are fine with most things but like you, cooking is a real pain. We do hello fresh so it means that between me, him and one of our teens, we can usually get a nice meal on the table with almost no planning/shopping, just clicking the meals we want to order. However I will say that they deliver mank or leaking ingredients sometimes so you have to be prepared to nip to a shop. We have a shop nearby and i don’t mind picking up a couple of things.

Changing the bedding on high beds

Cutting the hair off the hoover brush roller thing!
We’re all hair shedders in this house, plus 2 fluffy cats! So it needs doing often. I find it such a gross job.
Cleaning the gas hob. It’s such a bloody faff. Planning to switch to an induction hob. I hear gas is better for cooking but I don’t care! I can’t wait to just be able to swipe a cloth over the hob and it’s done.

The water here is full of chalk and anything water related has bloody chalk residue on it. Trying to keep kitchen, bathroom and loo free of marks and scale is a daily chore and I resent it a lot.

Hoovering. The. Stairs.

Cleaning the bathroom is a close second.

I don't mind washing up though, especially in winter, with a bowl of warm soapy water. & I enjoy cooking.

Putting laundry away. Endlessly.

Cleaning blinds.

Vacuuming the stairs.

Cleaning the oven.

I do like cleaning the glass shower screen, mopping the floors, dusting and cleaning my kitchen sink with Pink Stuff.

Vacuuming the stairs. Other bits are fine but I absolutely and irrationally hate doing the stairs.

Laundry. Just because everyone is ungrateful!

Food I don't mind because of I get compliments, it seems worth the effort

I think our house stays in an OK state most of the time.

The tricks seem to be:

• no kids
• laminate floors that take 5m to clean
• infrequent laundry/rewearing of clothes

Cleaning be wooden slat blinds. It's such a faff 🫠

@alwayscheery it stands for autonomous sensory meridian response and it refers to the relaxing, tingly feeling you get from certain sounds or visual stimuli. It's correct that it's very personal to each person what relaxes them (e.g. roleplay videos about haircuts or customer service are popular, but I don't like them).

Tidying. I am so rubbish at it. And we have far much stuff so there isn't actually a home for everything. I also hate washing floors.
I don't mind cleaning the bathroom that much, or hoovering, and I quite like folding laundry. It was better when there were babies though, I liked folding all the tiny clothes. I enjoy meal planning, doing the online Tesco shop and cooking.

I can't mop. I don't know why.

Cleaning the grill after grilling bacon or sausages. I hate it with a passion and takes me ages.
After years of loathing ironing my elderly neighbour showed me how to avoid it. She hung clothes as soon as the machine had finished and when taking them down smoothed and folded before putting into washing basket. She also hung shirts and dresses on coat hangers before putting on her washing line. Twenty years later I no longer own an iron.

I agree with all the PPs saying anything food related. The thinking/planning/shopping/carting in from the car/putting away/cooking. I detest the whole thing. I would gladly pay someone to do this.

I love hanging washing out and get excited when it's a 'good drying day'. But I think that's because I don't like having washing hanging all over the house and it's done then in a day.

@alwayscheery its autonomous sensory meridian response. I don’t get the sensation while listening to them while ironing I just find it relaxing.

I love food shopping and would happily spend hours wandering around a supermarket but as for bathrooms! If I could afford it I would pay a lot to never have to touch them again

@RunningFromInsanity ill do your ironing...i LOVE ironing...but in return you have to hoover my house, as i hate hoovering 🤣🤣🤣

Cleaning the oven.
Cleaning the windows.

Absolutely me. I feel like there's a manual out there somewhere on how to do it that I don't know about!

Thanks!
It send me to sleep !!
Love it 🥰

Changing the bin, cleaning the bin.
I hate the bin smell.

I actually like some aspects of cleaning, like hoovering, cleaning the kitchen, I even like putting food shopping away as it’s satisfying seeing a full fridge.

Taking the bins out, we have a fairly even split but that is always DH's job. I'm also a terrible cook so hate doing that, but not as much as the bins.