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What's your absolutely least liked household chore?

61 replies

BibbityBobbityBoooo · 13/07/2012 11:34

None of us enjoy housework, do we? But is there one particular task which you find yourself avoiding for as long as possible until it can no longer be ignored?

For me it's ironing.

Yep. I was looking quite bemusedly (didn't know whether to laugh or cry really) at the mini mountain of clean clothes that have travelled onto the bed in the spare room (aka 'the ironing room' ironic isn't it?) Somewhere along the line the system has broken down.

It's created a sort of clothes waiting room where each item spends its day wondering when it will get chosen to be ironed and immediately worn. In the meantime, they all get to hang about all day with items of clothing they might never otherwise meet: t-shirts mingling with odd socks, shorts hobnobbing with skirts. It's clothing anarchy! Grin

Alas as we are having an actual houseguest next week, the party is going to be officially over today.

What about you? What task do you hate most?

OP posts:
helen1983sweetpea · 13/07/2012 18:42

I with others who don't like cleaning the oven - will have to try and find that oven mate littlefiendsusan. Also don't like hoovering the stairs. Always get tangled up and our hoover is quite heavy.

Pascha · 13/07/2012 18:42

Those oven liners from Lakeland are fucking marvellous, BTW. No more unnamed black deposits on the bottom of the oven that make it smoke when you set it higher than 180°.

noisytoys · 13/07/2012 19:02

Anything kitcheny (washing up, ovens, food bin, mopping, fridge, defrosting freezer) everything I hate is all in one room

Chubfuddler · 13/07/2012 19:03

Ironing.

lucytails · 13/07/2012 19:30

Thanks littlefiendsusan for the tip. Never heard of ovenmate but will make it my mission to find it!

WantAnOrange · 13/07/2012 19:33

Changing the bedding. Hate it. I strip it in the morning, get it washed and dried, all good, don't even mind ironing it, but then I forget to put the clean sheets on the bed so go to get in, when I'm knackered and realise I still have a job to do! I do the same thing every bloody week!

ilovesprouts · 13/07/2012 19:39

mines the bedding .

cybbo · 13/07/2012 20:01

Ooh thanks deaddei

You can get oven cleaning gift vouchers!!

Fiveflowers · 13/07/2012 20:40

I'll happily tidy anyone's house (I love restoring order Grin) in exchange for someone to clean my oven - I can never get it really clean. Sadly I'm outside the area for ovens2new who look wonderful.

MrsRobertDuvallHasRosacea · 14/07/2012 07:59

Cyb...,if anyone bought me an oven cleaning voucher I wouldn't be happy!
I never knew there was a light in my oven till they came.

ethelb · 14/07/2012 08:28

I have someone coming by to clean the oven and carpet in half an hour. But then I am moving. To somewhere with a dishwasherGrin

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