What is the one household or yard chore that you dread. The one you hate the most.
Me... I have French doors with little windows in them. I hate cleaning those little windows on both sides.
Household Chores
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Miss Mary
Doing laundry start to finish: washing, drying, folding and then putting it all away, where it's supposed to go.
What happens is I end up with clean clothes, sitting around in baskets. Some on the first floor near the laundry room, some carried up the stairs, but sitting in the hall, waiting to be put away.
I know if someone asked my husband this question, he'd suggest I pick 2 days a week and really do the laundry completely!
One time it helped having a clean basket of folded towels nearby. The hose behind the washer split and we had inches of water in there, going into the kitchen too. Hubby ran to the basement, shuttng off the main water valve. I mopped up all the water, shut off the valve to the washer, we replaced the hose within an hour and I just rewashed those towels again. Trouble is he didn't buy it when I said it was good thing I had that clean load just sitting there!
We also bought stainless steel hoses, b/c that was the second time a rubber washer hose split on us. And on every out of town trip, we shut off the washer valves. Once that happens, you can see how the water would just flow until you get home. An hour later, 2 days later, gasp - a week later.
Got off on a tangent there...he he
M.
What happens is I end up with clean clothes, sitting around in baskets. Some on the first floor near the laundry room, some carried up the stairs, but sitting in the hall, waiting to be put away.
I know if someone asked my husband this question, he'd suggest I pick 2 days a week and really do the laundry completely!
One time it helped having a clean basket of folded towels nearby. The hose behind the washer split and we had inches of water in there, going into the kitchen too. Hubby ran to the basement, shuttng off the main water valve. I mopped up all the water, shut off the valve to the washer, we replaced the hose within an hour and I just rewashed those towels again. Trouble is he didn't buy it when I said it was good thing I had that clean load just sitting there!
We also bought stainless steel hoses, b/c that was the second time a rubber washer hose split on us. And on every out of town trip, we shut off the washer valves. Once that happens, you can see how the water would just flow until you get home. An hour later, 2 days later, gasp - a week later.
Got off on a tangent there...he he
M.
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Miss Mary wrote:Doing laundry start to finish: washing, drying, folding and then putting it all away, where it's supposed to go.
What happens is I end up with clean clothes, sitting around in baskets. Some on the first floor near the laundry room, some carried up the stairs, but sitting in the hall, waiting to be put away.
I know if someone asked my husband this question, he'd suggest I pick 2 days a week and really do the laundry completely!
One time it helped having a clean basket of folded towels nearby. The hose behind the washer split and we had inches of water in there, going into the kitchen too. Hubby ran to the basement, shuttng off the main water valve. I mopped up all the water, shut off the valve to the washer, we replaced the hose within an hour and I just rewashed those towels again. Trouble is he didn't buy it when I said it was good thing I had that clean load just sitting there!
We also bought stainless steel hoses, b/c that was the second time a rubber washer hose split on us. And on every out of town trip, we shut off the washer valves. Once that happens, you can see how the water would just flow until you get home. An hour later, 2 days later, gasp - a week later.
Got off on a tangent there...he he
M.
Miss Mary- again I think we are living the same life just in different states! I hate laundry. I also have no problem getting it downstairs, washed, dried and back upstairs,but folding it and putting it away are often a challenge. In our house the love seat gets the pile of laundry, that is where I fold, and that is where the kids are supposed to pick up their laundry daily and put it away. Well, the folding and the putting away don't always go as planned, by the time we get homework, dance classes and soccer practice out of the way, they are lucky if they get dinner, never mind putting away laundry!
We also had washer hoses burst 2x and then got the stainless ones! Lucky for us we were home both times. We did have the tube to the ice maker leak while we were away for 2 weeks
, flooded the basement. We now have copper tubing there!
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Miss Mary
LOL Lauren!!!! I think we are living dual lives at times too...he he
I tell my family sometimes, I think we're just floor people. Shoes, coats, bookbags, junk, all gets flung on the floor too. And these laundry baskets. Also, someone will be rooting around for a clean pair of sox, and the clean laundry gets spilled onto the carpet.
I also like to read the newspaper spread out on the floor.
Ah heck, who needs dressers or closets - let's just live out of laundry baskets!!!!
Seriously though, Jim has suggested I choose 2 days a week, say Wednesday and Saturday. Start the laundry early, finish it and put it all away by dinner time. Has that EVER worked? Well, once in a blue moon! And forget that ironing phases...whooee, those items have a permanent place in a laundry room closet in yet another basket, waiting for an ironing blitz day!
Here's my argument sometimes too - you can wash a load in 30 minutes but it takes 60 to dry. So you have clean, washed loads all backing up. Ugh!
Next problem is we drip dry 75% of my teenage daughters wardrobe's. They hate when T's or jeans shrink. So we need to space their laundry out, since we don't have an outdoor clothesline....
It's all so much work, that we usually do a load a day around here. At any given moment, we have clean laundry either drip drying, being fluffed in the dryer, folded in baskets, or going back into the washer.
Mary
I tell my family sometimes, I think we're just floor people. Shoes, coats, bookbags, junk, all gets flung on the floor too. And these laundry baskets. Also, someone will be rooting around for a clean pair of sox, and the clean laundry gets spilled onto the carpet.
I also like to read the newspaper spread out on the floor.
Ah heck, who needs dressers or closets - let's just live out of laundry baskets!!!!
Seriously though, Jim has suggested I choose 2 days a week, say Wednesday and Saturday. Start the laundry early, finish it and put it all away by dinner time. Has that EVER worked? Well, once in a blue moon! And forget that ironing phases...whooee, those items have a permanent place in a laundry room closet in yet another basket, waiting for an ironing blitz day!
Here's my argument sometimes too - you can wash a load in 30 minutes but it takes 60 to dry. So you have clean, washed loads all backing up. Ugh!
Next problem is we drip dry 75% of my teenage daughters wardrobe's. They hate when T's or jeans shrink. So we need to space their laundry out, since we don't have an outdoor clothesline....
It's all so much work, that we usually do a load a day around here. At any given moment, we have clean laundry either drip drying, being fluffed in the dryer, folded in baskets, or going back into the washer.
Mary
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It just never ends, that is what I think I hate the most about it. Other projects you can stand back and say "wow,that looks great,I am glad I did that"or something like that. With laundry, you get it all put away and think you are done, and then you walk past the hamper 
and there are at least 2 more loads there! I just hate it!
and there are at least 2 more loads there! I just hate it!
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Miss Mary
LOL again....
I read an article about a mom who became obsessed with the perfect house (picture Bree from DH here). She couldn't stand knowning there was a dirty sox in the hamper. She'd get up in the middle of the night just to wash one item, so she could open that hamper in the morning and see that is was empty. Her family started to feel guilty for soiling their clothes! This mom could never really rest, she was on the go almost 24/7. She got help and could let somethings go around the house. But when I try to get all the laundry done, really done well, I think of her. And know I just could never worry that much about it all - as you said, it's a never ending chore!
Our laundry loads are about to go way down. Oldest is flying the coop in less than 24 hours now!
Mary
I read an article about a mom who became obsessed with the perfect house (picture Bree from DH here). She couldn't stand knowning there was a dirty sox in the hamper. She'd get up in the middle of the night just to wash one item, so she could open that hamper in the morning and see that is was empty. Her family started to feel guilty for soiling their clothes! This mom could never really rest, she was on the go almost 24/7. She got help and could let somethings go around the house. But when I try to get all the laundry done, really done well, I think of her. And know I just could never worry that much about it all - as you said, it's a never ending chore!
Our laundry loads are about to go way down. Oldest is flying the coop in less than 24 hours now!
Mary
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Miss Mary wrote:LOL @ Shawn....my first thought about the silver? So does Bree!!! How ironic too......
Mary
*snicker* Yup! And I've loved to do it since I was a teenager. I have small, but strong hands now.
Speaking of Marcia Cross...eh, I don't wanna hijack. I'll take this over to the DH thread.
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OK GUYS.....since no MALES have chimed in here, "I'LL DO IT!" 
Doing household chores don't bother me the LEAST bit, I figure, what the HECK, I live here TOO......in fact, me thinks that's one reason Michelle grabbed me, I mean, a MAN doing HOUSEWORK 
ACTUALLY, now that I think about it, I'm NOT too found of folding the laundry, other than that, LET ME AT 'EM....and YES, I EVEN do WINDOWS!
Dennis
Doing household chores don't bother me the LEAST bit, I figure, what the HECK, I live here TOO......in fact, me thinks that's one reason Michelle grabbed me, I mean, a MAN doing HOUSEWORK ACTUALLY, now that I think about it, I'm NOT too found of folding the laundry, other than that, LET ME AT 'EM....and YES, I EVEN do WINDOWS!
Dennis
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azsnowman wrote:OK GUYS.....since no MALES have chimed in here, "I'LL DO IT!"
Dennis
all I want to know is do you have a brother?lol just kidding but seriously I hate folding laundry the worst with three kids takes forever and it's never done.
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Miss Mary wrote:LOL Lauren!!!! I think we are living dual lives at times too...he he
I tell my family sometimes, I think we're just floor people. Shoes, coats, bookbags, junk, all gets flung on the floor too. And these laundry baskets. Also, someone will be rooting around for a clean pair of sox, and the clean laundry gets spilled onto the carpet.
Mary
Can you add me to the hate laundry list? Actually, I hate all housework, unfortunately. I think I am rebelling - my ex was a total perfectionist, but he didn't want to actually (gasp) do any cleaning himself (he learned both the "house must be perfect" and "men don't do housework" from his mother, so I have to give her some of the blame for his attitude).
Now that it is just me and the kids, things have gone waaaaaay downhill.
Now that I am working 30+ hours a week instead of being a stay at home mom, my clean laundry sits in the baskets until I can't stand it any more; I would rather be outside with the kids. A wise person told me that my kids will not remember that the laundry didn't get hung up and put away immediately, they will remember that mom was outside pitching for baseball or drawing with the sidewalk chalk with them.
Kim
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I hate emptying the dishwasher. Weird, huh! Finally dawned on me a few months ago why I hate it so much. It was completely sub-conscious but --- my folks owned a cafeteria during the 50's and my first job in the place was running the dishwasher --steam beyond belief -- no air conditioning --rinse water so hot you could burn your hands on the silver if you didn't let it cool down.
Don't mind loading, just the unloading.
Don't mind loading, just the unloading.
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I don't hate them...I just put them off.
When I was younger, if the boys nicked the paint on the wall, I'd buy some spackle, repair the scrape and then repaint the spot (or the wall if I had to).
Laundry has never been a problem since once it is started I can go do something else. I have even become pretty good at folding fitted sheets into something that resembles a square!
I don't care much for summer yard work in Arizona. Blazing hot by 9:30 am and every last tree that grows seems to have thorns that reach out and grab ya! And any cactus plant will chase you if you get within a foot. Those things will sting you just for looking at them!
Cleaning the pool after a messy monsoon storm is no fun. Leaves and mud and all things in between. But then, I guess I am blessed for even having a pool.
Worst of all domestic challenges for me? Cleaning out the fridge!
When I was younger, if the boys nicked the paint on the wall, I'd buy some spackle, repair the scrape and then repaint the spot (or the wall if I had to).
Laundry has never been a problem since once it is started I can go do something else. I have even become pretty good at folding fitted sheets into something that resembles a square!
I don't care much for summer yard work in Arizona. Blazing hot by 9:30 am and every last tree that grows seems to have thorns that reach out and grab ya! And any cactus plant will chase you if you get within a foot. Those things will sting you just for looking at them!
Cleaning the pool after a messy monsoon storm is no fun. Leaves and mud and all things in between. But then, I guess I am blessed for even having a pool.
Worst of all domestic challenges for me? Cleaning out the fridge!
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