<p>“so I actually scrub the shower while I am taking one.”</p>
<p>yes, same here…learned that from an aunt. Didn’t know about H&S. </p>
<p>I spend 2 minutes after showering to squeegee the shower - no scum forms and no scrubbing is needed later.</p>
<p>I’m psyched - Mr B splurged on the top of the line vacuum cleaner. :eek: His reason: vacuuming is so awful that anyone doing it deserves the best tools available. </p>
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<p>ooohhh!!! very nice!!! </p>
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<p>DITTO! I’ll add cleaning the toilet. Which is why, 23 years ago, I started paying other people to do it and I haven’t done it since. Well, strike that, when my daughter had a recent stomach bug and threw up a lot, I did go and take care of the toilet afterwards. So, once in the past 23 years! </p>
<p>I’ll give up a whole lot of things before I’ll ever give up my every other week cleaning crew.</p>
<p>Laundry and bill paying/deposits (Quicken) only things I don’t mind. I like planting, but not all the weeding and trimming. I use to hate using the d/w, but with the Bosch, not bad. Love to bake and cook, but not every day. The s/o is perfectly happy to bring in and eat left-overs. For some odd reason, I don’t mind washing my car and even waxing it. </p>
<p>I have a good cleaning woman, gardener, and pool man. My painter was in the neighborhood and stopped by to say howdy. I met my plumber when I tested his kid, and his wife and I have been friends now for years. My pest control man came by daily after I had tree rats after hurricane. When you know people for over 20 years, they become part of the fabric of your life.</p>
<p>Um… can I say I hate every single thing everyone has listed so far? I can’t delegate any of it (am single). I just hate housework and yardwork (I kind of like snowblowing if it isn’t windy, though). Would LOVE to delegate any of the rest. Which is one reason I am selling my big house this year!</p>
<p>^^^LOL you love snowblowing. My DH LOVES using the leaf blower in the yard. Even more than that, he just totally embraces the job of power washing dirt off patios, stairs, windows, etc. He would happily spend an entire morning doing either or those things. :D</p>
<p>When we listed our house, our realtor loved that about DH, though she always cracked up when she would drive up before a showing to find him out front with the leaf blower.</p>
<p>“I get a Tetris rush when I load the dishwasher” </p>
<p>This sounds like me, GMT! I’ve been known to rearrange things after someone else has loaded it as I’m sure I can squeeze in a few more items! I don’t mind the kitchen stuff. Cleaning bathrooms is another story. I know it is my family’s dirt and all, but I still feel like gagging every time I do it. </p>
<p>" Cleaning bathrooms is another story. I know it is my family’s dirt and all, but I still feel like gagging every time I do it."</p>
<p>I’ve been known to spray Clorox Cleanup around, leaving for a bit for it to disinfect, and then going back and clean. lol</p>
<p>I think that the person who figures out an automated way to get the dishwasher empty and all the dishes on the shelves should win the MacArthur Genius Prize.</p>
<p>“I think that the person who figures out an automated way to get the dishwasher empty and all the dishes on the shelves should win the MacArthur Genius Prize.”</p>
<p>Hey, I’ve often felt that I need two D/W’s. One that’s always empty and ready to be filled, and the other one always filled with clean dishes ready to be used. lol</p>
<p>Our dishes are really oddly sized so that they don’t fit nicely in the dishwasher. It’s really annoying and I can’t wait to get a new set but can’t even remotely justify the cost. </p>
<p>I don’t mind the dishwasher. I don’t even mind doing the dishes when they’re not mine- but the one thing I cannot do is clean out cereal bowls or anything that has milk in it. Ew ew ew EW. Just rinse out the dang bowl! (The kitchen is literally the only part of the house I clean- the rest is my fiancé’s job)</p>
<p>^^That’s why you have a dog! Sorry to those who can’t stand the idea of dogs licking bowls, but hey, then the bowls go in the dishwasher and are blasted with hot temps.</p>
<p>Ive always wanted two dogs named spic & span or wash & dry.
But yes, cleaning up is easier now that we have a dog. ( except for the fluff he pulls out of his stuffed animals, but at least he doesnt eat it)
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<p>My sis does have two dishwasher, alternating which is clean and which is dirty. They rarely put dishes in the cupboard. </p>
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Sounds fine to me. Especially now that there are these drawer dishwashers. :)</p>
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<p>I have zero problem with my dog licking bowls- but if we give her dairy, we ALL pay for it later if you know what I mean…</p>
<p>I hate grocery shopping and doing laundry. Grocery shopping because you have to touch the item so many times to accomplish the task- put it in the cart, take it out of the cart and put it on the conveyer, help bag it (if there is no bagger or if it isn’t the turn style type), load bags into cart, take bags out of cart and put them in the trunk, take bags out of trunk and carry them into the house, unload everything and put it away. It just seems there could be a more efficient way. </p>
<p>Laundry? I just hate that I have to keep stopping whatever else I’m doing to go switch loads and put a load away. I might feel less put out if I had laundry on the main floor, but I’m up and down, up and down the stairs. I admit, it’s better now that I’m in a ranch, but when I was in a colonial- man oh man. Up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down. Being interrupted every hour to take care of it just annoys me. </p>
<p>Shoveling snow and other yardwork. It’s fine to do when the temps are comfortable, but that’s pretty rare. </p>
<p>I don’t mind dishes that much- no dishwasher in my house except for humans. I would rather be loading and unloading a dishwasher, frankly, than washing everything by hand. We use paper plates a whole lot. </p>
<p>"Hey, I’ve often felt that I need two D/W’s. One that’s always empty and ready to be filled, and the other one always filled with clean dishes ready to be used. lol "</p>
<p>I’m not kidding - I know a person that has 2 D/W and one set of dishes for that exact reason. Dirty dishes D/W and clean dishes D/W. When all dishes migrate out of the clean to the dirty, the latter is turned on, then the D/W switch places. Hmmm… I would not mind another Miele in my kitchen! :D</p>
<p>I hate every single chore there is. It’s a good thing we have houseguests once a month or so, or the house would never get cleaned! One of my new year’s resolutions is to stay on top of the little stuff (coffee maker, microwave, etc.) so that the pre-guest cleanup only includes the big things (floors, bathrooms). I’m doing pretty well at that. </p>
<p>OP, you asked why we hate them? First, because it’s sweaty work, and I hate to sweat. Second, because it’s futile. No matter how clean I get the bathroom, it’ll soon need cleaning again. </p>
<p>I once read a definition of housework: Something nobody notices unless you don’t do it. </p>