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Least favourite chores

33 replies

loadofcrap10 · 28/01/2019 21:21

Today I mopped my bathroom floor for only about the 4th time since it was laid 4yrs ago. I bloody hate washing floors. I wet wipe the floor around the loo once in a while, well, maybe a couple of times a year.... Filthy, I know but am sure the bathroom didn't smell.
Who else has a chore they hate doing. Cant believe I'm the only mucky cow here.....

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user1483390742 · 03/02/2019 16:39

Laundry...sorting,washing, hanging, drying, folding, pairing socks, finding clean clothes in the wash baskets because lazy DCs couldn't be arsed to put stuff away. I bloody hate all of it!

bibbitybobbityyhat · 03/02/2019 16:39

Mopping the kitchen floor.

Emptying out the fridge and dealing with out of date food.

Changing the king size bed with it's ridiculously thick heavy mattress which sits in a wooden frame.

Putting clean laundry away.

bananallamaz · 03/02/2019 16:49

I hate emptying the dishwasher - love loading it and clearing the sides but emptying it but does my head in. I tend to just take a few bits out as and when I need them (usually mugs and spoons) then when it's half empty take the rest out. Such a pita!

I haven't cleaned the oven in the 4 years I've been in this house - that's a blue job, I just can't do it.

Mopping makes me angry so I sweep and hoover hard floors instead, if and when it needs proper mopping I ask my DM for her steam mop and she comes round and does it for me (because she's territorial over that steam mop!)

I haven't ironed for years because I hate it so much.

Changing bedding - I used to enjoy this, the satisfaction of nice clean bedding, but since upgrading to a super king size bed it's become the most frustrating thing to do. I have to do it in stages with tea breaks otherwise I really lose my temper with it.

Palaver1 · 03/02/2019 21:14

Cleaning out the fridge properly I do it but hate hate hate it

uncomfortablydumb53 · 06/02/2019 14:08

Changing my bed... hate it, but so worth it

Bumblebee39 · 06/02/2019 15:35

Tidying up

Cleaning I don't mind so much once it's tidy
But getting it tidy? No sooner have I tidied it up and it's a mess again without me ever getting the chance to clean it

Also hate putting washing away

Not a big fan of cleaning walls but seem to do a lot of that. My kids get mucky hand and foot prints everywhere somehow

justtakingabath · 06/02/2019 18:46

@palaver1 - I have a fridge tidying tip! each time you go in to take something out to use it, grab something else that's on its way out. Somehow it makes cleaning out less of a chore as you have less rotting food / veg to deal with. I know it's not part of the cleaning exactly but it does help it seem less annoying!

Palaver1 · 06/02/2019 20:50

*Justtakingabath
Thanks for the tip ..

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