Household tasks you despise

Xiney

Disclaimer: I am not posting this thread in tLL on the basis that housework is "wimmins work" but rather because After Hours is awash with the unwashed and there are plenty of guys around these here parts anyway.


Right.

What household tasks do you absolutely abhor? Do you do them anyway?


Personally, I hate ironing. Actually I'm not sure if that's fair since I've ironed things less than a dozen times in my entire life, but it's recently become necessary. I also just burnt my thumb on the stupid thing and I don't know what I'm doing because I've never seen anyone iron a damn thing so I never learned. If it was up to me, I'd become a millionaire so I could send my husband's shirts out to the drycleaner and have them come back perfectly pressed in those little clear bags.

I love cooking, though

Pherekydes

Most things don't bother me, but one which does is segregating the rubbish. We have a bin for plastic bottles, cardboard and paper, a bin for general waste and a bin for food waste, plus a recycling facility nearby for glass bottles and textiles, but our lot, my OH included, dump everything in the one bag, and it's left to me to segregate it. Paper, bottles, uneaten lunches and even rubbish from the bathrooms, if you know what I mean. If I wasn't around I'd hate to see the state of the bins.

I'm the primary housekeeper in my house, btw.

If I can blackmail someone else into washing the dishes it is a good day
I hate the idea of the dirty dishes sitting in a dishwasher.

In any kind of mixed living arrangement, a lady should never have to deal with the bin. That is a rule....honest.

I hate putting clothes on the line if it is cold outside. Which it is always.

Cleaning the venetians is preety painful too.

Mostly though organisation bugs the hell out of me, the idea that everything has a place and should be in that exact place.
Thats the thing that gets to me when I'm living with neat freaks.

themadchef

Mostly i get a great satisfaction out of cleaning. Sick, i know

Cleaning windows though... i really hate cleaning windows.

445279.ie

I HATE ironing :mad:

Stheno

Moonbaby wrote: »

In any kind of mixed living arrangement, a lady should never have to deal with the bin. That is a rule....honest.


Thats the thing that gets to me when I'm living with neat freaks.

Agreed, hate dealing with the bin, especially if you don't have dogs/cats to feed leftover food to and housemates who chuck everything in.

I like order to an extent, like ironing, sorted clothes, no rubbish, general cleanliness, but the neat freaks who go mental if you elbow a picture and it moves ten degrees drive me freakin nuts.

Bins tho, can't stand the feckers, especially the "chuck everything in, till it reeks sort"

I can even cope with pissed on toilet seats rather than bins.:eek:

ETA: Actually I downright love laundry, washing, ironing, hanging up with all hangars facing the same way, in a color graduated fashion, according to function with cross reference, e.g. shirts that go with suits, dresses that match accessories.........................










.................... I might be a bit anal/OCD in that regard.

nouggatti

nouggatti wrote: »

I can even cope with pissed on toilet seats rather than bins.:eek:

Good god I wouldn't go that far.

It drives me nuts when housemates leave big dirty black pubes all over the bathroom, for you deal with before you can use it.

jos28

I love ironing, I usually iron and watch all the stuff I've recorded on the Sky+ box at the same time. I love the smell of ironing and folding things(in colour order). Jeez, I'm sad.
I HATE cleaning the bathroom and the oven. The bathroom takes ages to clean and two days later its manky again. We could organise a swap. I'll do your ironing if you clean my bathroom.

Stheno

Moonbaby wrote: »

Good god I wouldn't go that far.

It drives me nuts when housemates leave big dirty black pubes all over the bathroom, for you deal with before you can use it.

Ah ffs I wasn't going that far, I was talking about male housemates/partners who can't lift the seat!!! and leave the appropriate gross staining???? :eek: Thankfully I've discovered that announcing "I'll be back in fifteen minutes, as I've to go to the loo, picking up one's car keys and arriving back, lead to toilets being cleaned in some cases, in others, one needs to move out!

jos28 wrote: »

I love ironing, I usually iron and watch all the stuff I've recorded on the Sky+ box at the same time. I love the smell of ironing and folding things(in colour order). Jeez, I'm sad.
I HATE cleaning the bathroom and the oven. The bathroom takes ages to clean and two days later its manky again. We could organise a swap. I'll do your ironing if you clean my bathroom.

Ahhhhh the smell of ironing, that clean, freshly washed and happily creased free clothing, love it Not to mention the sight of a nicely arranged wardrobe.

I'm now worrying, I also love cleaning bathrooms, and cannot abide a dirty oven, I know several people who will attest to that as I've visited their homes and due to their inability/lack of desire to cook, I've cleaned their ovens whilst cooking their (delicious) dinner.

ETA: Maybe I have a problem, I even obsessively clear their tables of rubbish and lecture them on how to clean dishes prior to putting them in the dishwasher?

Actually, housework is good, all housework, apart from the bin /shudder, but I've dogs, who eat 99% of what goes into normal bins

brianthebard

jos28 wrote: »

I love ironing, I usually iron and watch all the stuff I've recorded on the Sky+ box at the same time. I love the smell of ironing and folding things(in colour order). Jeez, I'm sad.
I HATE cleaning the bathroom and the oven. The bathroom takes ages to clean and two days later its manky again. We could organise a swap. I'll do your ironing if you clean my bathroom.

+1, except for the sky+ box, don't have that. But ironing is grand. I hate cleaning the bathroom. It would be ok if it were my own bathroom but its not.

Stheno

brianthebard wrote: »

+1, except for the sky+ box, don't have that. But ironing is grand. I hate cleaning the bathroom. It would be ok if it were my own bathroom but its not.

It would be so much worse if you had to shower/bathe in someone else's yuckness rather than cleaning it tho?

brianthebard

I'm trying not to think about it thanks....

Pherekydes

Oh yeah, I forgot! I hate cleaning hairs out of the shower plughole. :mad:

Stheno

Pherekydes wrote: »

Oh yeah, I forgot! I hate cleaning hairs out of the shower plughole. :mad:

Even worse, when you have been dying for a bath and go up and discover some long haired house person has deposited enough hair to cover Sean Connery's head and you've a choice to clean or ignore.............


/shudder, especially when said hair is unidentifiable from known clean housemate or disgusting smelly and unwashed one, who washes once a month. /shudders compulsively

banshee_bones

ewwww yeah another one here for the bathroom thing, wouldnt mind if it was just mine but when your sharing... not so much!!!!

Pherekydes

nouggatti wrote: »

/shudder, especially when said hair is unidentifiable from known clean housemate or disgusting smelly and unwashed one, who washes once a month. /shudders compulsively

Ah jeez, stoppit. I'm eating chicken legs and having a beer while watching the game.

/blanks mental picture


I'd rather unblock a sewer (which I've done) than remove a clump of hair from a plughole.

Stheno

Pherekydes wrote: »

Ah jeez, stoppit. I'm eating chicken legs and having a beer while watching the game.

/blanks mental picture


I'd rather unblock a sewer (which I've done) than remove a clump of hair from a plughole.

Ah sorry but it has to be said (far better to get these things out)

I'd a truly horrific experience yesterday, in desperate need of a bath, I spent five minutes pulling vast amounts of hair in excess of six inches long out of a plughole, finally cleared the bath of the existence (visually) of other humans, ran a bath, poured in lots of bath oil/foam, then got in.........................





















................................the feckin immersion wasn't on, it was freezing, the shrieks could be heard on Mars Sometimes there is no justice, the feckin bath is now spotless.

jaffa20

I really hate cleaning the floor

CeilingCat

Moonbaby wrote: »

It drives me nuts when housemates leave big dirty black pubes all over the bathroom, for you deal with before you can use it.

+1 *shudder*

nouggatti wrote: »

I've visited their homes and due to their inability/lack of desire to cook, I've cleaned their ovens whilst cooking their (delicious) dinner.

PMSL... I've just come straight here from reading the 'Stingiest things you've seen stingy people do' thread over at the After Hours forum... for a sec there I thought I was reading the same thread - people had the nerve to let you cook AND clean as a guest in their house?!


I love ironing... I find it very relaxing. That and hoovering, don't know why. I don't mind bin related stuff generally but I hate having to root through bins separating recyclables from non recyclables when people don't separate them.

Dusting :mad:
Oh how I hate dusting....

Stheno

CeilingCat wrote: »

PMSL... I've just come straight here from reading the 'Stingiest things you've seen stingy people do' thread over at the After Hours forum... for a sec there I thought I was reading the same thread - people had the nerve to let you cook AND clean as a guest in their house?!


Dusting :mad:
Oh how I hate dusting....

Well they have, but I've been known to arrive at friends houses to cook dinner with proper knives in case they don't have decent cooking knives and I get caught short whilst preparing a gourmet meal (surely there are others like me who love cooking and don't want to detract from it?)

Ever tried roasting a duck in an oven that starts smoking when you switch it on as it hasn't been cleaned for a year?? I have..............


Maybe I'm less of a clean freak than a foodie? I like my food prepared and cooked lovingly in a clean environment?

As for dusting, you've reminded me dusting is the household chore which is the equivalent of being the spawn of satan

Chinafoot

Has to be the bins. I gag everytime I have to go near them.

Edgedinblue

I really hate cleaning windows, toilets, and ovens&microwaves. dont mind hoovering but cant stand the sound of them!! ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Gauge

- BINS! Hate them, especially when there's dried stuff dribbled down the sides.
- Other people's dishes that have been sitting around for days.
- Cleaning manky food/dried up liquids out of the fridge
- Cleaning the fat/grease out of the George Foreman dish- no one else notices when it's full and it overflows, stinks and sticks everywhere! I don't even use it :mad:
- Cleaning the oven- the smell lingers on me for days

I kind of like clothes washing and ironing- there's something comforting about it!

Snowie

laundry I hate it,

Xiney

We have a green standup bag/bin that we use for the recycling. If it goes in the regular bin it's garbage and it's not coming back out again. I can't even fanthom going through it!! I'd kill my husband if I had to do something that gross because he couldn't separate his rubbish at the source. Honestly. I think he'd do the same to me.


As for drains... they don't bother me anymore. Nothing could be worse than what I had to do in first year of university.


I lived in a house with 16 other people. There was me and two other girls plus two boys on the top floor, and two bathrooms. Our bathrooms were almost always the cleanest because we were on the top floor so anybody who was going to use a bathroom that wasn't "theirs" was probably going to go down stairs rather than up them.

However, about three months in, one of the the shower drains stopped draining. You would be showering and the water would gently creep up past your ankles... 'til you were standing in a bucket of water muddied with your own filth and dead skin. Gross. We complained to the janitor that came 'round every week but he didn't do anything.

Eventually, after Christmas we came back and nothing had been done yet. I had come back though, with a screwdriver! I also stole several pairs of latex gloves from my chem lab. As I got down to work, putting on gloves, one of my housemates, Aaron, goes, "God, you women are so paranoid. How bad could it be down there? You don't need gloves to clean out a drain..."

So I told him to stick around. I unscrewed the cover of the drain... and reached in. What I pulled out looked like a hairy, yellow animal of some sort, the size of a tennis ball. Honestly I don't know how to describe it, it was just a lump of probably 10 years' worth of dead skin and trapped hair. Absolutely vomit worthy. I asked Aaron to hand me the bin and he looked pretty green, haha.

I think he understood why I put the gloves on.

Puddleduck

I hate all of them. Equally. I dont mind dusting but then again an armless monkey could do it.

allabouteve

Pherekydes wrote: »

Most things don't bother me, but one which does is segregating the rubbish. We have a bin for plastic bottles, cardboard and paper, a bin for general waste and a bin for food waste, plus a recycling facility nearby for glass bottles and textiles, but our lot, my OH included, dump everything in the one bag, and it's left to me to segregate it. Paper, bottles, uneaten lunches and even rubbish from the bathrooms, if you know what I mean. If I wasn't around I'd hate to see the state of the bins.

I'm the primary housekeeper in my house, btw.

Leave your OH, marry me. I love you.

nouggatti wrote: »

I'd a truly horrific experience yesterday, in desperate need of a bath, I spent five minutes pulling vast amounts of hair in excess of six inches long out of a plughole, finally cleared the bath of the existence (visually) of other humans, ran a bath, poured in lots of bath oil/foam, then got in........................

Jesus H. Christ. I feel ill.:eek:

Malari

I don't mind most tasks. The everyday stuff like laundry, cooking, dishes, bins, general tidying I don't even think about. I love the ironing - listen to the iPod at top volume when doing it. Don't mind vacuuming - the worst part of that is hauling the damn thing out of the storage closet.

I actually don't like cleaning the bathroom too much though. All those wet hairs. Ick.

piscean

I hate cleaning the bathrooms and I hate drying up the dishes - especially cutlery!

Left OH home alone this w/end and when I came back yesterday he told me he'd been busy cleaning - I looked around to see what he'd done - his idea of cleaning was hoovering the sitting room!! Men eh!

Snowie

piscean wrote: »

I hate cleaning the bathrooms and I hate drying up the dishes - especially cutlery!

Left OH home alone this w/end and when I came back yesterday he told me he'd been busy cleaning - I looked around to see what he'd done - his idea of cleaning was hoovering the sitting room!! Men eh!

I have to say as a dude ....

I enjoy hovvering i let cutlery dry it's self. I dont Iron because theres no point... i dont mind washing up as its theriputic I dont mind cleening bathrooms, as bathrooms should be cleen and it takes all of 10 minites if you just get stuck in hair in the plug holes is easilly removed with a coctail stick...
Moping take as few minites, rubish goes in a bin... In total it doesnt really bother me play some tunes and get stuck in and thats about it ....

Xiney

I let the dishes dry themselves, too. dish rack ftw!

I figure it's more hygenic to air dry.

AnnieB82

Bins and lawn-mowing for me, I try the whole ' but that's a man's job' approach in an effort to get out of them. I usually end up trading ironing for my oh takling the above!

jellie

everything.. im useless. particularly hate ironing & washing up. although i find blaring some loud pop music & singing along makes it less painful

LorraineL

Hate emptying the dishwasher.

Actually enjoy cleaning the bathroom. Great sense of satisfaction from a shiny, clean fresh smelling bathroom. When my OH was living in a house with two other guys, I used to love going over and cleaning their bathroom.

Hooked

I guess by living on my own and being a single male, I'm used to cooking (love it), cleaning, ironing and doing all the above mentioned duties and have to say - none of them get to me.. I was just beginning to think I was a right weirdo until I remembered when I get home I want to light the fire...

Jesus Christ Monkey Balls... I HATE cleaning out the fire!

And when I'm chucking the ashes into the bin I seem to always forget to dodge the mini-mushroom of dust that explodes out of it.

And I'll forget again in about 30 mins time! Why.. oh why...

sam34

i despise ironing... when in shops i actually choose my clothes based on whether or not they are likely to need to be ironed...

purplegeko

sam34 wrote: »

i despise ironing... when in shops i actually choose my clothes based on whether or not they are likely to need to be ironed...

I might be on my own here but i love ironing - i find it relaxing somehow. But the job i hate has to be toilet cleaning or dusting it just ends up dusty again a few days later.

sam34

purplegeko wrote: »

I might be on my own here but i love ironing - i find it relaxing somehow. But the job i hate has to be toilet cleaning or dusting it just ends up dusty again a few days later.

strange isnt it... id rather clean toilets than iron a shirt!

The Sweeper

I can't abide ironing. Probably because I'm crap at it and it seems to take me AGES. I kid you not - it feels like it takes me 20 minutes to iron one pair of trousers and one shirt for work. And they never look ironed either - certainly not with the pristine crispness I get when I pay someone else to do the ironing! I just can't figure it out.

Nothing else bothers me too much, I just get on with it, but ironing - bleh.

Embrace the crumple.

Poccington

I cannot stand cutting the grass or cleaning the bathroom.

Ironing is fun though :pac:

Toots

I absolutely hate ironing!! I don't mind doing the washing, like sorting the laundry into the machine, but I really hate putting it on the clothes horse and then taking it off later and putting it away. I usually try and bribe my OH to do that

MJOR

emmm cleaning the shower door! bang and the dirt is gone my ars€

love "cleaning", hate "tidying"

hate emptying the dishwasher, and the bit after you've washed and dried the clothes when you've to fold them and put all the socks together and put them away - I HATE that bit.

Love making the kitchen and bathrooms sparkle though

Pythia

Cleaning out the cats' litter tray is pretty horrendous.

Wibbs

Ironing. Defo ironing.

St Bill

Hooked wrote: »

And when I'm chucking the ashes into the bin I seem to always forget to dodge the mini-mushroom of dust that explodes out of it.

And I'll forget again in about 30 mins time! Why.. oh why...

You forget because the end result is worth it......just like having babies :pac:


I hate household chores so much, I pretend it's not me who's doing them. I imagine some other fool is emptying out the bin, not me

Saibh

Definitely ironing
Emptying dishwasher - and if i don't use the dishwasher, would rather wash the dishes than dry them.

GirlInterrupted

I quite like most household chores. I don't mind the bins, I sort of enjoy ironing, I like the bathroom clean, so I don't object to cleaning it. I actually love vacuuming and dusting (sorry). I find most of it quite theraputic.

The only chore I could say I dislike is cleaning windows. And cleaning the oven.

Ainm

I absoultely hate washing windows, there are always streaks
Don't mind the other stuff - toilets, dishes, hoovering etc

Queen-Mise

i hate all things housework. i want to be rich so i can pay someone to do it all for me. in the meantime i have a husband

patchybaby

i hate emptying the dishwasher with a passion....spesh if it's still that drippy way,i do howver LOVE cleaning out and setting the coal fire,i get immense satisfaction sitting back and having a gleaming hearth.....i don't let my partner near it....sad i know