What job defeats you?

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I quite like cleaning. Probably because I don't do it often enough. I love the nice smells and gleaming surfaces. But I just can't put laundry away. no idea why. There's usually between three and five mountainous baskets of the stuff to put away in our house and I always skulk off and find an excuse. There's worse jobs, like the rubbish, scrubbing out roasting tins, cleaning the loo, which I do without thinking.

Does anyone else have a job they run a mile from?

Ironing. But I send most of it out.

cleaning venetian blinds

Dusting - waste of time so I hate doing it

Clean venetian blinds in the bath/shower.

that what I do, but its still such a faff.

Today, all of it

Actually, the job that really defeats me is hiring a cleaner I can bear to have in my home!

All of them really. Dishes, ironing, bed making, hoovering, dusting, laundry, plant watering, general tidying. I'm waiting to get my motivation back to tackle my house, think it did a runner a few months ago.

I'm very good at buying machines that will do the work for me, though. And chucking stuff out so there is less to tidy and clean!

I would have to say ironing too. I've taught DH and DS (age 17,14,13) to iron shirts, and I now do very little.

I don't mind doing housework, gardening and DIY. I do most of the painting & decorating but hate gloss painting. DH has to do that or pay someone else to.

I hate ironing and washing up. I get out of the ironing but the washing up- yuck! I'd get dp to do but he is so slow!

I don't mind ironing. Hate, hate, hate hoovering and dusting.

If anyone lives near me (West Herts) I will gladly do their ironing in exchange for some hoovering! Sound like a good deal?

Actually I read a thread on here a while ago about how much easier it is to keep someone else's house clean (holiday homes, or a friend's if you're staying) than your own. I really believe this. Also the idea of having a 'housework buddy' to do jobs with - two hours at her house, two hours at yours etc. Except I can't find one ...

Putting away the clean washing - probably because this house doesn't have great storage so I put it off and leave it clean in the box and keep walking past it for a good few days.

unstacking the dishwasher for some reason. hate it.

Ironing cos the pile is so huge. And oven cleaning.

Dusting. The surfaces are dusty again the next day! Dusting is either really hard, or else I'm just doing it wrong!

Getting a duvet into a king size duvet cover

Putting away the washing like luciemule we have little storage and dusting - what is the point!

Never iron anything, hence dh and ds sport the "crumpled look" on a daily basis
Hate putting on the duvet cover with a passion.
Everything else Im ok with tho.. am pretty tidy and quite like hoovering.

Cleaning the oven.

its got to be the washing its amazing the amount you handle one item during the process it is sole destroying - theres the sorting, putting it in the machine, getting it out, putting in to dryer/on washing line, getting in out/in, folding or putting it onto hangers putting it away. and that with out putting it in the basket to transfere it or ironing it!!! all for the delightful children to drag back out, putting it on and getting tootpaste all over it!!!

I really hate putting the cutlery away. I don't know why but I hate doing it.

This morning I had to resort to using a child's 1st knife to make the sandwiches for packed lunches as there was no other cutlery left in the drawer. It was useless. I couldn't cut the sandwiches properly but I soldiered on with it rather than turn around and look in the cutlery drainer.

All of it. This is a very depressing thought - I would dearly love to love all of it, but I just can't bring myself to. Fortunately, my DH cooks every night, but he's one of those 'use everything in every cupboard and drawer just to make some pasta' kind of cooks, so washing up and tidying the kitchen takes FOREVER.
But our washer dryer is broken - it neither washes nor dries, so we presently have most of our clothes in black bin liners waiting for us to get a new machine.
We only just about get it together to get the front room tidy and clean for me to teach in every week.
But I do like a clean toilet and sink. That I can do, mainly because it's really not a big deal to stand there and wipe the sink while you brush your teeth! And we do sweep the lounge floor regularly - otherwise DC3 would undoubtedly die from eating various
It makes us sound very slovenly, but it's actually not that bad around here, although my obsessively clean super-step-mum would disagree!