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?

Only Last time I tried to clean the oven I dropped the baking tray onto the open glass door, cracking it and resulting in us having to buy a new oven (solved the cleaning problem though!)

DH tried to defrost the freezer with a sharp implement that pierced the gas thingymebob and resulted in us getting a new freezer (solved the defrosting problem though!)

Apart from the expense - I quite like doing chores

Thanks for making me laugh jazzchickens! Might try your method, ha!

allbie - just make sure you wreck the freezer a week before xmas and you have a food delivery coming within 2 hours. Couldnt make it up !

Ironong, but I dont see the need.
Dusting.
Cleaning windows.
Cleaning skirting boards.

Ironing....anything I can get away with I do lol!!
Pairing socks.

Quite a long list really:
ironing
putting stuff away
cleaning the oven
changing beds, DH does this.

We have a cleaners too, I love them. They are hungarian, some with better English than others (you get 3 of them at once). A couple of weeks ago they told me the house was extremely dirty and I needed to clean more . I think that was after a particularly busy work week.

However I have been trying, don't want to upset the cleaners

cleaners not a cleaners!

Three sets of bed linen changed every week? Not in our house! Once a fortnight for us and if that makes me a complete scutter I don't care!

We've lived in our house for 6 years and the oven has been cleaned approximately [ahem] twice ...

I don't mind doing most of the chores, although am guilty of the 'once-over' rather than thorough approach. I dust all the surfaces once a week, but the blinds rarely get done and there are some wicked cobwebs up near the ceiling - but I can't reach them so they don't exist

My pet hate is planning the weekly menu and writing the shopping list. Inspiration deserts me the moment I sit down and pick up a pen and I end up bored and frustrated. Hate all aspects of the food shopping, actually, from going to the supermarket to heaving the bags from the car to the kitchen to upacking the bags and desperately trying to find space in our packed cupboards to put it all away! But I couldn't shop on a day-by-day basis either so it's a necessary evil.

I don't like doing the floors. I've been known to do the bathroom floor with antibacterial wipes rather than get the mop out.

I do like putting washing away, wiping our glass dining table and waking up in the morning to a clean kitchen (though that only happens when PILs are staying).

Cleaning the grout in the shower - hate hate hate the endless bloody scrubbing and the fact that no cleaning product yet invented seems to make the job remotely easier. Anything else I can cope with, so anyone who lives in Oxford and would be prepared to scrub grout in exchange for ironing, dusting, hoovering or cooking, please let me know!

Cleaning out the coin trap in the washing machine- all that time for no actual gain.

Also ironing, which I solve by never doing any. Clothes look unironed approx 5.7 seconds after they've been put on anyway, so why bother-oh?

Must add my 2p to this list
Ironing can't stand, the standing around bit of this (or sitting down) have always hated it. In the old days (single) I would put all my laundry away in the right place and iron a few things at a time e.g Shirt for work Or set of t-shirts Never like that pile of lundry to just stare at me back!
Cleaning the oven that's why I get someone else to do it.
I like making the beds, hoovering and dusting & tidying. It makes me feel that my world is in control!

Ha ha - Octaviapink I know what you mean! I'm in Oxford too but not about to swap grout-scrubbing for other tasks, ta very much! I do find that the exfoliating gloves you get in Boots or Body Shop do a good job at getting the reddish water stains out of the grout, if that helps.

Funny story that just about sums it up!

A woman was sitting at a bar enjoying an after work cocktail with her girlfriends when an exceptionally tall, handsome, extremely sexy, middle-aged man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him.

The young-at-heart man noticed her overly attentive stare and walked directly towards her.

Before she could offer her apologies for staring so rudely, he leaned over and whispered to her, ?I?ll do anything, absolutely anything, that you want me to do, for £20.00 on one condition.?

Flabbergasted, the woman asked what the condition was.

The man replied, ?You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words.?

The woman considered his proposition for a moment, and then slowly removed a £20 note from her purse, which she pressed into the man?s hand along with her address. She looked deeply into his eyes, and slowly and meaningfully said ? ?Clean my house.?

Octaviapink the only thing that works (but it really does work) is neat thick bleach and a toothbrush! Laborious to say the least, but once you resign yourself to it at least you know it will be gleaming at the end of it.

cleaning the oven here too. Can never do it properly and hate the smell of the cleaners. Does anybody know a 'natural products' way of cleaning the oven.

i never get round cleaning the oven..its too much for me lol

i NEVER iron but otherwaise i keep on top of things by doing little and often

VENETIAN BLINDS- i have attachment on my hoover that looks like hairy triangle, you just hoover the dust of with that, takes 5 minutes

oh and i have like 'magic' cloth for mirrors and windows..

I like my hoover - it's a small upright dyson which is light enough to lump upstairs easily, and do the sofa with one-handed.

Still bloody hate hoovering though. And mopping. Anything to do with floors...

But the most depressing thing is having to wade through and shift piles of DH's and DS's junk before you can even clean.

I hate changing the duvet cover and cleaning the oven.

ATM its ironing. It's so hot we've only been ironing as we need or doing a few work clothes and leaving the rest.

...same as OP, putting the clean washing away. I have too many clothes so when all washing up to date (like now due to the wonderfully hot weather) my drawers are overflowing and there isnt enough room so we end up with little piles in bedroom. Seriously does my head in....we have already donated 2 black bags full of clothes to charity this month

I dont mind my ironing.. I find it quiten satisfying..

I hate cleaning the bathrooms

As for the rest of it.. what is the point??? I mean you brush and mop all your downstairs floors .. 10 mins later ds runs through in muddy shoes

you clean the kitchen to sparkle.. then you have to make and eat tea

YOu tidy your ds's room... 10 mins later he trashes it looking for his special football top

you dust and hoover and 4 days later you would never know

I feel like a hamster on a wheel..