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The Most rewarding of household chores

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    #62
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Murrisk wrote: »
    Pressing the button on the dishwasher.
    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    The ones which result in sex being given as a reward.

    I'll just leave these here:)


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    #63
    Graces7
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    A favourite here is putting shopping away. Filling spaces in cupboards, arranging the fruit and vegetables like a harvest festival on the teak counter .... sorting the freezer stock..


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    #64
    Mr.Plough
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    Washing clothes. Last weekend I washed and hung out 2 loads of colours and 1 load of whites in 2 hours and 53 minutes. It's not a personal record, but it's certainly up there.


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    #65
    PMBC
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    Mickey Mouse wiring jobs like fixing loose wire or replacing fuse in plug top.
    Washing, hanging out, watching out for rain, bringing in and folding.
    Dismantling and cleaning out sink and whb waste traps, resetting, check for leaks.
    Vacuuming ceiling wall corners and wall down to skirting for dust and cobwebs
    Wiping down internal doors and then, the coup de grace, their tops (that's when they're sanded and painted).
    Combining socks for three users in matching pairs
    Making home remedies - today its for window cleaner.

    But the ultimate - reading the newspaper, faithfully, each day so that I can tell my BH all the 'news' and my most difficult task is reading everyone's library books so that they get read and returned on time!


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    #66
    bmwguy
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    Riding the aupair


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    #67
    whoopsadoodles
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    Boscoirl wrote: »
    That's definitely not changing the bed sheets then

    God no, sex once a week on the day the bedsheets are going to be changed but certainly not after.


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    #68
    padd b1975
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    Handing over €30 euro to my cleaner in return for a spotlessly clean apartment.


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    #69
    FobleAsNuck
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    blowjobs


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    #70
    [Deleted User]
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    tipping a bottle of really strong drain unblocker (which is mildly dangerous, hence the thrill of it), into a blocked shower drain, then imagining it dissolving all the gunk, like in the ads.

    Sometimes you can even hear the drain burp and gargle with relief. The sweetest sound.


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    #71
    [Deleted User]
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    I quite like most chores, especially vacuuming and laundry. I hate ironing and cleaning the oven, but everything else gives me some satisfaction. It's a nice switch off for the brain too, doing things you don't have to think about too much.


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    #72
    Parchment
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    Hoovering is fun - i have a Dyson too so i feel like a member of the Jetson family.


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    #73
    redbel05
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    Putting the laundry out on the washing line. My back yard hasn't changed a whole lot in the last 170 odd years as far as I can tell, and I enjoy thinking about the people who would have been doing that exact same chore, in that exact place and what they might have been thinking of back then...


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    #74
    [Deleted User]
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    redbel05 wrote: »
    Putting the laundry out on the washing line. My back yard hasn't changed a whole lot in the last 170 odd years as far as I can tell, and I enjoy thinking about the people who would have been doing that exact same chore, in that exact place and what they might have been thinking of back then...

    That kind of stuff always appeals to me too. The common human experience over time, just the universality of certain aspects of our lives no matter who we are.


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    #75
    Graces7
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    Candie wrote: »
    That kind of stuff always appeals to me too. The common human experience over time, just the universality of certain aspects of our lives no matter who we are.

    Yet so many use a machine for preference...Love it here, as the washing line is under the roof of the open sided fuel bay and I have the view of the mountains all around me ...


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