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The Most rewarding of household chores

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,017 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I find hoovering very relaxing myself.

    Hate changing the duvet cover though. It's always bunched up wrong in the corners for a night or two afterwards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Preparing the BBQ, it's just so manly. Getting the coal lit, adding it to the BBQ, getting it up to temp, bit of elbow grease to remove the remains of the last cook up. And all of this accompanied by a nice cold beer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I find hoovering very relaxing myself.

    Hate changing the duvet cover though. It's always bunched up wrong in the corners for a night or two afterwards

    You have to pull the corners of the duvet right into the cover and give it a massive shake. I still get it wrong too though :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,017 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    You have to pull the corners of the duvet right into the cover and give it a massive shake. I still get it wrong too though :o

    Yea I do that but it still doesn't be right :p


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Spraying Mr Sheen on *everything*. Is there cocaine in it or what? I can't get enough.

    I like that Glade "Shake & Vac" business too.

    Ooh and taking off vacuum head, and vacuuming all the edges of the carpet by the skirting boards. suck it up you bitch, suck it all up!!!

    I also like leaving the house, with a wild stream of febreeze on my trail. The trick is not to get it on your self, so you don't end up smelling like Hawaiian Breeze all day long.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    A good old session of passive-aggressive hoovering. I sometimes think I'm hoovering on a podium at Nuremberg. Aryan mastery of the hoover wand, perfect poise. Blitzkrieg for the skirting board. Woooosh, thaack! thaack! thaack!

    Raus raus raus!

    A cheeky veiled 'Heil' salute to the neighbours and the moment has passed. It is done. Like a mortar team retreating from the Russian front, I gather up the various parts in a solemn but slightly breathless manner and put them away for another day.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yea I do that but it still doesn't be right :p

    Squash all four corners of the duvet into the corners of the cover then shake holding the top two corners

    If that doesn't work shake again holding the bottom corners


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yea I do that but it still doesn't be right :p

    Turn the clean cover inside out.... Grip the corners of the duvet and of the cover and SHAKE it down .... works a treat and corners all sorted.

    PS make sure the cat is well out of the way first. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I find hoovering very relaxing myself.

    Hate changing the duvet cover though. It's always bunched up wrong in the corners for a night or two afterwards

    I LOVE the sound of a vacuum cleaner.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,523 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Korvanica wrote: »
    Cutting the Grass

    This one for me. Though disposing of the grass is always a pain, there's just so much of it. Need to cut the grass every week here in the summer!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


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

    I'll just leave these here:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Mr.Plough


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭PMBC


    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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭bmwguy


    Riding the aupair


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭FobleAsNuck


    blowjobs


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭redbel05


    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...


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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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