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Original poster

Which household task do you hate most?

33 replies

emkana · 28/02/2007 19:01

At the moment putting washing away is right up there.

I've got piles to do and I DON'T WANT TO!

sigh...

OP posts:
SherlockLGJ · 28/02/2007 19:02

Recycling

Saturn74 · 28/02/2007 19:03

Cleaning the oven.

fryalot · 28/02/2007 19:04

am going to wait till you have about 100 posts and then post "all of the above"

ScottishThistle · 28/02/2007 19:05

I hate emptying the dishwasher!

bristols · 28/02/2007 19:06

Ironing. Have let it build up so much that DH has agreed to an ironing lady. Yeah!

Califrau · 28/02/2007 19:06

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DrMarthaMcMoo · 28/02/2007 19:06

I loathe putting washing away too. And ironing. And getting it out of the tumble dryer and pairing up all the socks.

Laundry related stuff really.

REIDnotREEDorREAD · 28/02/2007 19:07

has got to be the ironing! i HATE it!

peanutbutter · 28/02/2007 19:07

recycling.

in the manner of The Grinch "LOATHE entirely".

hate washing the milk cartons, tuna tins, coffee and jam jars etc etc.

hate them stacking up on the side until one of us cracks and takes them outside.

hate standing in the windtrap where they're kept and stamping on the cartons to make them flat and then the eye watering smell of the carrier bag holding the empty wine bottles .

DarrellRivers · 28/02/2007 19:07

picking up leaves in the garden
actually i hate most of it , no the oven, i hate the oven and i never clean it, I am going to get a firm in to clean it when I can't bear it any more

saltire · 28/02/2007 19:07

washing dishes, ironing, hoovering, cleaning the toilets, washing the kitchen floor, putting clothes away, cleaning the bathroom, dusting, cleaning windows, cleaning the cooker,emptying the bin,taking bottles to the bottle bank,washing the walls down after mindees have drawn on them, hoovering the stairs.............................was i only supposed to pick one

washingqueen · 28/02/2007 19:08

Hope you don't mind me joining in....Cleaning the boys pee from around the toilet - blurgh!

SlightlyMadScientist · 28/02/2007 19:08

I'm with you Em - laundry esp the putting away...

Tortington · 28/02/2007 19:10

ironging - puting away.

so i dont do either - this means that clothes get piled into a crner until i shout at dh ( unfairly - tough shit)

Cloudhopper · 28/02/2007 19:13

Tidying up toys. I just hate it - such a pointless waste of time when they all come out again the next day.

Groundhog day of toy removal.

colander · 28/02/2007 19:21

Hope you don't mind me joining in either, but cleaning the bathroom is the worst. Don't mind ironing, and I now pay someone else to clean the oven every year, otherwise that would be the worst. When I can't see through the glass at what's cooking any more I know it is time to give them a call.

Muminfife · 28/02/2007 19:24

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Lilliput · 28/02/2007 19:25

How much does an oven clean cost? Mine stinks every time I put it on.

KTeePee · 28/02/2007 19:34

Definitely oven cleaning on the basis that it is the thing I put off the most....

DarrellRivers · 28/02/2007 20:23

oooh colander, how much does it cost for the oven clean?

HuwEdwards · 28/02/2007 20:29

putting ironing away. god I hate it.

ghosty · 28/02/2007 20:30

Tidying up

colditz · 28/02/2007 20:31

Putting clothes away

DeviousDaffodil · 28/02/2007 20:36

emptying the dishwaher
cleaning the oven
tidying
All ofit

Troutpout · 28/02/2007 20:42

putting cutlery away