<p>What home chores do you hate the most…and why? :P</p>
<p>And…confession time…do you delay doing that chore hoping someone else in the family will do it? </p>
<p>I hate:</p>
<p>Cleaning out the fridge. I hate it because I don’t like the unloading, wiping down, and then reloading process. I don’t delay this chore too much, because I know that pigs will fly before anyone else in the family would do this chore.</p>
<p>Taking out the trash. I hate it because it’s gross. I do delay this chore because I know that H will do it. lol</p>
<p>I hate vacuuming, because the machine is always too big and too heavy, but it never does as good a job as I think it should. I never vacuum: Vacuuming was the main reason I went back to work when my kids were babies. It allowed me to justify paying someone else to clean my house, so I could avoid vacuuming!</p>
<p>Cleaning the shower/tub. It hurts my back. I make my fiance do it. I also make him clean out the fridge and take the garbage out. I don’t do anything outside, mostly because most of that hurts my back, too. I do all the other cleaning. Since I am doing 95% I reserve the privilege to assign all the things I find distasteful to somebody else. I don’t mind cleaning bathrooms (except the tub), mopping, sweeping, dishes, whatever. I’ll do toilets. But I don’t do spoiled food or garbage, and I don’t do tubs, snow shoveling, or heavy gardening. </p>
<p>We fight over who will load the dishwasher because we both WANT to do it. He is inefficient and will only wash four plates at a time, and leaves things “to soak” in the sink that don’t really need soaking because he thinks they won’t fit in the dishwasher. If I load the dishwasher properly, he will sneak in behind me and pull everything out. If I manage to wash a full load, he will freak out, take half the dishes out and put them in the sink, and re-run the washer. So if I managed to sneak dishes in, I have to sneak them back into the cabinets before he realizes what I’ve done, too. It’s a complicated dance. The dishes never get done when he does them. Same with laundry, he sorts them into 12 different piles, washes two before he gets distracted, and then the piles sit on the floor all week. I just wash them (in 2-3 loads, not TWELVE), and make him clean the tub for me instead.</p>
<p>Confession: Our lawn in the backyard got to be almost a foot tall this summer because fiance wouldn’t get off his butt and mow it and I refused to do it for him. We were THOSE neighbors. The first half of it was because one of the neighbors stole our lawn mower and I was in no hurry to buy another one just to irritate her. I did eventually say if it is not done by X date, I will hire someone, and he did it and kept up with it the rest of the season. I think that was a one time thing. I probably should have just done it, but it was a battle of wills and to be honest, I don’t know how to start the mower anyway.</p>
<p>Cleaning the bathroom. I think that one is pretty self explanatory lol. Luckily, I’m not the one who does most of the household chores so I’m off the hook for things I dislike. </p>
<p>The other one I hate is taking back pop cans and bottles. It’s gross because they’re always sticky. My fiance does the groceries now though so I don’t have to deal with those either.</p>
<p>Cleaning toilets. I see no reason why a woman living with boys/men should ever have to clean a toilet. However, I’ve not been able to convince anyone else of this. </p>
<p>Washing windows because I can never get them streak-free. </p>
<p>I am a very lax cleaner, I dust a few times a year. Cobwebs live for months on my ceilings. I vacuum when it looks like it is needed. I do keep the kitchen and bathrooms clean, but probably less often than many of you here. My refrigerator is rarely cleaned out, but I find with all the kids out of the house things don’t get as dirty as they used to either. (And there is a lot less stuff in the fridge.) I have never seen any point to making beds, so I don’t.</p>
<p>Ironing, because it is mostly avoidable. When I do the laundry I stop the dryer a couple minutes short and pull out all of the ironables. When wife does the laundry she tends to stuff the clean clothes into a laundry basket all crumpled up and leave them there. Her stuff goes to the dry cleaner but she knows I’m too cheap.</p>
<p>I just hate the monotony of unloading the dishwasher and folding laundry. I am not someone who would avoid it in hopes of someone else doing it - not my style - but I am VERY appreciative when someone decides to take care of it.<br>
There are a lot of women in my neighborhood who are of the “I don’t do…(insert yard work, lawn mowing, taking out the garbage)” - that is not me. If it’s in my capability to do it, I will do my share - and I believe that has led my kids to not be sexist when it comes to jobs either. </p>
<p>Do I love cleaning the toilets?! No, but not a big deal and doesn’t take very long. Just do it and get it done. </p>
<p>I hate bringing in the grocery bags and unloading them. So on the week-ends I sometimes schedule my food shop around a time I know my husband/kids will be home. Then I recruit them all. Just seems such a mindless task.</p>
<p>Hate hate hate vacuuming. Big, heavy, clogs (too much dog hair), dragging up to 2nd floor. OMG this is what I missed most when I “retired” and had to give up a housekeeper. Worse, I can’t believe I let my husband pick out the vacuum cleaner we are now using today. THAT will never happen again…</p>
<p>Ironing duvet covers! Yuck. My mom always made me do it, and I’m, as my baby kiddo says, scarred for life. Mr B would not touch vacuum cleaners except to repair them. His sister made him vacuum the huge rugs when he was a kid, and if he would not do it, spanked his rear end. So when we decided to live together, we made a deal: he would never complain about sleeping under a flat sheet/comforter combo, and in return I would never make him vacuum anything.</p>
<p>I hate vacuuming the stairs, the machine is heavy and awkward, it hurts my back to carry it up and down the steps. I am tempted to change to hardwood stairs when the carpet is worn out, but worry about them being slippery and pricy.</p>
<p>Washing pots by hand. The sink gets so gross and then I have to clean it out. </p>
<p>Also, cleaning the fridge or shower. I don’t mind cleaning toilets that much because it’s easier and I don’t have to do as much like when I’m cleaning the shower/tub or mopping the floors. </p>
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