Name ONE Chore you would happily never do again

[Whoreandpeace]

I am fed up to the back teeth of cooking, or maybe I mean 'catering'. I'm fed up of thinking of meals, of doing a shopping list, buying the effing stuff, preparing it, dishing it up, clearing it away, wiping the bloody kitchen surfaces and then doing it all over again the next day. DH does some days but I'm just fed up with it generally. If it was just me and DH I wouldn't bother. Cottage cheese and tomato rolls every day for me, thank you very much. Name one household chore you would love NEVER to have to do again. Mine is

COOKING

All of it. I am no domestic goddess and if I could afford it would pay for someone to do it all while I did something fun.

One day I will go missing and I will be inside a king size duvet cover having fallen in while trying to change it!

All of it. Try by very best to avoid it at all costs. Hate living in a pigsty but obviously not enough to do anything about it! There are more important things in life.

Pairing bloody socks.

Cleaning the bath. I don't actually do it as I have a cleaner but she had a month off over Christmas and I had to do it badly.

Laundry. Bloody hate it and it's never ending. (And I am pretty lazy about changing sheets/towels and pretty good at making people wear stuff more than once.)

I wish I had a chute i slid it down and then it reappeared in correct wardrobe/drawer a day later.

Cooking here too

I no longer give a fuck about food and could happily eat a bag of salad from the bag with the odd potato with beans

When this last kid moves out I am NEVER cooking again

Cooking here, too. Used to really enjoy it before having children but the daily grind-ness of it makes me want to SCREAM.

Love it when my kids are with their dad and I can throw a potato in the oven.

As an old lady I will take enormous pleasure in living off M@S ready stuff, and giving away my never-used-anyway mountain of Nigellas, Nigels et al to a charity shop.

Rosalie - I had no kitchen for 5 months this year while having an extension built, just had a microwave and kettle in the living room, and I NEVER wanted to see another ready meal after that, not even a posh M&S one!

Ooooh Mutters, i LOVE doing our logs, wanna sawp for some cooking?? ;)

Done.

In a heartbeat.

I loved it the first few years. A decade later, the honeymoon is soooo over.

Hate ironing so stopped about a year ago with s few exceptions. I dust with a cordless fusion and quite enjoy it now. Hate cleaning windows and leave that to Dh when he can't stand it any longer. I hate picking dog poo. Vacuuming stairs, arghh hate that. Love cooking and even preping but hate deciding what to have.

Cooking here too. I enjoy the special ocassion cooking, but can't bear the everyday stuff.

Cleaning the shower cubicle. I'd rather clean the toilet a thousand times.

housework

Laundry and having to cook tea every blooming night so ds can say I don't want that
arghhhh

Oh the ducking heelish chore that is feeding my family. Due to me being a veggie and my son having multiple allergies most meals consist of 3 different dishes madness I know. So that is 3 lots of menues, various complicated shopping lists and then using every frigging pan within a miles radios.

If I had my way I would live on wheetabix, toast and fruit wine.

I like hoovering, really like it but only with a tidy room. Hate clutter, which is a constant state in our house

I dream of having a lady who comes in everyday to tidy, downtown stylee.

Arrrgh auto correct fail, fucking not ducking and hellish not heelish????

Wiping surfaces.

I usually love cooking and am a real foodie.... But I'm 15 weeks pregnant and the mere thought is both gag inducing and exhausting. 4 lunches and breakfasts every morning for dh and kids before I crawl back to bed for a few stolen minutes. Then I have to clean it all up and feed myself. Dinner is also an ordeal to be survived :-/

I also HATE cleaning the oven and we always seem to have piles of laundry everywhere

HATE cleaning fridge, cleaning oven and cleaning shower.
Ignore clothes once they are dry - think that anyone who gets clothes as far as cupboards and drawers must be superhuman.
And SOCKS. SOCKS. Even when my grown up children aren't here, they still seem to be able to leave a trio of unmatched socks. Every time they visit. How?? And I really can't throw them out, just in case the other one turns up...

I read a pretty good book called "Housework Blues" by Danielle Raine (from memory, but definitely Danielle someone), which basically helps people who feel like us get over our resentment of housework. Well, at least learn to accept it while still resenting it, if that's possible! I had a slight issue with some of her suggestions as they didn't sit right with the feminist in me, but she is a feminist herself and completely acknowledges that some of this feels wrong but really works. Too difficult to explain without tying myself in knots but worth a read for the other 98% of what she writes!

My least favourite chore is being a taxi. I am forever having to pick up and drop off the various members of my family. It interrupts my day and l always have to hang around waiting for ages. It has been every night this week. Relentless.

putting clean washing away is the worst job in the whole world. I'd do anything rather than this, unfortunately dp feels the same so we've compromised & do it together with a drink. what have Friday nights come to?!

Laundry . If I could have one housekeeping wish it would be to have our washing washed dried ironed and hung up for by a laundry fairy .

Those who hate changing duvet covers: do you do it by the inside out method, shaking it out? It drives me crazy that people refuse to follow this method as it is SO much easier than trying to shove all the corners in.