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What is your most hated household task?

138 replies

Slightyamusedandsilly · 06/02/2026 19:45

For me it's hoovering. Or vacuuming, whatever you call it.

I'd rather clean the toilet or wash the floor on my hands and knees than hoover. Bloody hate it.

OP posts:
BlackCat14 · 06/02/2026 21:47

Changing the bed sheets, I always dread it!

cinnamongirl123 · 06/02/2026 21:48

All of them. Working full-time, DC etc…I’m just exhausted. (But ironing was my most hated - gave that up years ago)

Advocodo · 06/02/2026 21:49

Cleaning bathroom shower screens!

80smonster · 06/02/2026 21:51

Loos, bins and tidying up after other people.

FeelingFineNow · 06/02/2026 21:53

I love hoovering which is a good as we have two extremely fluffy cats who spend their days rampaging around the house leaving fluff everywhere.
So I hoover at least three times a day.
I hate mopping the floors
Cleaning the oven and worst is putting laundry away.

CatsMcGoo · 06/02/2026 21:53

Mopping! Never managed to learn to do it properly so just feel like I’m pushing mucky water around the floor 🤢
And emptying the kitchen bin.

Upstartled · 06/02/2026 21:55

Bathroom cleaning, hate, hate, hate it. Always come out of the room looking like I've been waterboarded.

fipsandchish · 06/02/2026 22:00

Tidying.
I love cleaning, but hate tidying. I’d rather spend all day on my hands and knees scrubbing floors and skirting boards with a toothbrush than spend half an hour folding and putting away the laundry, or 5 minutes straightening up the living room.

Slightyamusedandsilly · 06/02/2026 22:03

Gingercatlover · 06/02/2026 21:01

Dusting and bathrooms.
Love hoovering, have mine out at least twice a day.

Do you want to be friends?

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popcornandpotatoes · 06/02/2026 22:06

Changing the beds, hate it. Don't mind vacuuming but I have a lovely powerful cordless

ednaclouda · 06/02/2026 22:09

hate putting the shopping away husband organises the fridge whereas i just bung it all in

Mumoftwoboysaged4and5 · 06/02/2026 22:12

Cooking. I have perfected the art of healthy 5 minute meals because anything longer is a massive chore.
Love hoovering, tidying and changing beds though.

pinkpony88 · 06/02/2026 22:21

Ironing! ☠️

pinkpony88 · 06/02/2026 22:23

Lovelivingbythebeach3 · 06/02/2026 21:29

Cleaning the shower trap!!!

I just did this tonight. Grim but so satisfying 😍

Kickinthenostalgia · 06/02/2026 22:45

Washing up, taking stuff off the line equally unloading the dishwasher because you have to then put everything away 😭

GoldenPearls · 06/02/2026 22:47

Our kitchen cabinets are white, we are battling some mould and they get dirty very often. I cannot climb well on chairs, so climbing up and down to clean them is quite nasty...

having to take stuff off from surfaces and re-arrange after dusting

landlordhell · 06/02/2026 22:49

Hate:
bins( luckily DH does it) and ironing.

Like: hoovering , cleaning in general and cooking.

JoWilkinsonsno1fan · 06/02/2026 22:49

Cooking night after night its soul destroying!! I love baking and making bread, but thinking up dinners each week and cooking them after work - no just no!!!

greengreengrass3 · 06/02/2026 22:49

I quite like hoovering, and don’t really mind ironing but I hate putting anything away be it the food shop or clean washing

landlordhell · 06/02/2026 22:50

FeelingFineNow · 06/02/2026 21:53

I love hoovering which is a good as we have two extremely fluffy cats who spend their days rampaging around the house leaving fluff everywhere.
So I hoover at least three times a day.
I hate mopping the floors
Cleaning the oven and worst is putting laundry away.

Wow! Three times?? I do once a week!

MidnightMeltdown · 06/02/2026 22:54

Cooking. Especially if it involves having to measure out ingredients. I find it so tedious.

Morepositivemum · 06/02/2026 22:54

Queenage
Cleaning the inside of the windows. They never look clean and always smear. 40 years I’ve been cleaning the windows and 40 years I’ve failed to stop them looking like the dog’s licked the glass.
A basin of hot water and washing up liquid and use newspaper to clean. Dry off with dry newspaper- they gleam!!!

CheeseWisely · 06/02/2026 22:57

Cooking. Thankfully DH does the lions share and I take all the laundry and admin.

JuliettaCaeser · 06/02/2026 22:59

The cooking is fine. It’s the buying and thinking what to make that I HATE. Heard some advert for a food delivery company saying most families have 6 meals on repeat - no shit!

Arran2024 · 06/02/2026 23:00

Hand washing dishes. I hate it SO much. Thank goodness for the dishwasher, but there is always stuff that can't go in.