<p>^^^</p>
<p>I know that some don’t like to sort dirty silverware into the baskets before the wash, but it does make it easier when putting them away. </p>
<p>I don’t like loading/unloading the dishwasher either, but taken in comparison with having to hand wash and dry all one’s dishes, it’s a piece of cake. In fact, reading this thread has actually made me quit my inner bitching about it. Every morning, when I feed the dog, I go ahead and do it, because until he has eaten and gone outside to take care of business, there’s no point in getting all comfy with my laptop and coffee anyway.</p>
<p>“Every morning, when I feed the dog, I go ahead and do it because until he has eaten and gone outside to take care of business, there’s no point in getting all comfy with my laptop and coffee anyway.”</p>
<p>Yes, it is almost a “feel good experience” when we can multi-task a bit. When I’m waiting for something to cook in the microwave, I’ll empty the DW or do something like that. </p>
<p>Another task that I hate, and some here have mentioned, is bringing groceries in from the car. </p>
<p>You all are funny. I dislike house work and paperwork. We load the dishwasher as we dirty dishes - I really can not stand dishes in the sink - and have found that if I do a smaller load daily, there is less to unload, and if I wash at day’s end and unload while I get breakfast and sack lunch made, I can grab dishes and utensils straight from the dishwasher and never put some of them away. I also use the dishwasher as a big drain board, washing some things as I cook for reuse. Makes the whole business less tiresome, for me. I have accused my H of not knowing what the inside of the dishwasher looks like! But as someone who had her first dishwasher upon marriage, I love that machine. Do the 3rd level silverware racks make unloading easier?</p>
<p>Oh, and as for laundry, I am hanging all shirts and pants, straight from the dryer, so the only folding is sleepwear, socks and undies. H has the same black socks, so I just stack them anymore, expecting him to know to pull 2 out per day. I roll the towels as per Martha. </p>
<p>Our big bugaboo is clutter. One help is using those clear plastic drawers at the bottom of closets. I also found a smaller drawer that fits under the sink, so all the head cold stuff is in one of those now, with other stuff stacked on top.</p>
<p>I buy all the same dress socks so I can just throw them in the drawer and we can just grab two. I actually bought mens dress socks for myself the last time I needed some because it was summer and I couldn’t find womens knee high black socks, and my fiance liked those socks so much he bought some for himself, so now we have all the same socks.</p>
<p>I used to roll my socks, but fiance liked his folded instead and complained, so now I do neither and just throw them in–and no more complaints! I can’t tell if I am really bad or really good at this whole lady of the house thing.</p>
<p>Emptying the dishwasher; cleaning the tub. Other than those two things, I enjoy cleaning the house. I have no clutter (I hate hate hate clutter) so my house is very easy to keep clean. </p>
<p>^^^^^Ditto. I grew up in a chaotic and messy household. I try to keep my house very very neat. </p>
<p>Yes, the 3rd tier silverware rack does make it easier. i have one and love that it opens up more space in the lower rack. Honestly when if I ever move, I am going to design a kitchen that has 2 dishwashers. I hate when it gets so full that I am stacking things on top of each other. With kids and their friends, my dishwasher is always overflowing. Then when I unload water spills out of the bowls, pots and glasses. Hate that.</p>
<p>^^^We sold our home before we had found a new one, so we rented a big, beautiful house in our same neighborhood for 3 months. The owner had raised 4 sons in that house. She had 2 dishwashers, which I totally understood. Can’t imagine the amount of dirty dishes four boys could generate.</p>
<p>I only have 2 sons and it amazes me how many dishes we go through when they’re both home to visit. </p>
<p>As someone who has never had a dishwasher, ever, I find the complaints amusing. Over the years I’ve noted grousing about the emptying process. So when I redesigned my kitchen decades ago, I didn’t put one in, though there is space in one cabinet. I thought I was raising kids to wash dishes, but between violin practice, homework, plays and sports, they rarely had time. I listen to the radio, and wash dishes fast, with a drying cabinet for cups so they can be put away wet. No big deal, though being single certainly keeps work to a minimum these days. The kids know to wash their own when home, and the drainer in a sink is right by where dishes are stored. </p>
<p>Mopping floors is something I really dislike, but I just found a swiffer wet jet for the tile bathrooms and tried it out yesterday. It was fast and easy, so those floors might stay cleaner. I sweep and shake rugs out a lot, clean spots with a rag when I see one, so things don’t get very dirty. </p>
<p>Another disliked task? Cleaning ceiling fans and ceiling light fixtures, as they are so high up. </p>
<p>I don’t hate doing laundry, but I hate that no one in my family puts their clean clothes away. I used to bring all the laundry upstairs, sort and fold it, and “deliver” it to each bedroom. Then the stack of clean clothes would sit there, or it would get scattered from being rummaged through for something in particular. Or if I left it in the hallway, I would see the door open a crack in the morning and a hand reach out to grab a clean pair of underwear, while the rest of the stack would stay in the hall for days. Need I mention I have boys?</p>
<p>One day my H complained that I put his clean socks in the rocking chair in our room. That was the last straw. I announced that I was sorting and folding clothes on the table next to the dryer, and if anyone needed clean clothes they could go downstairs and get them. The next day, my younger S appeared and picked up his clean clothes and said “Thanks, Mom!” Wow, I got thanks instead of complaints! I should have done this years ago!</p>
<p>jeannemar: That’s why my sons have been doing their own laundry since they were 11 or 12 years old. I got tired of spending time doing laundry, folding it, delivering it to their rooms only to have them never put it away. When it got impossible to tell the difference between the clean and dirty clothes on their bedroom floors, I quit. It was one less thing I had to teach them when they left for college.</p>
<p>LOL! That’s what me and my siblings did (and we were girls…girls and boys aren’t THAT different). My mom would place out the laundry and we would just rummage through it for things we needed or dig through a pile to find our underwear! :)) </p>
<p>Our habits never changed. We do our laundry; however it’s not uncommon for a stack of clean laundry to on our desk chair or on a stool in our room. </p>
<p>Honestly, I am amazed that some of you have put up with doing laundry this long. I started doing my own laundry when I was around 12/13 (maybe before, I don’t remember). I couldn’t imagine my mom doing it through high school and whatnot. </p>
<p>Then again, my fiancé does it now so it’s not much different… </p>
<p>romani, you’re a lucky woman.</p>
<p>I count my lucky stars every day 
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<p>I hate cleaning out the refrigerator and ironing. I do them as rarely as possible. When my mom was alive and came to visit, she couldn’t stand a dirty fridge. She pulled out a stool, got a basin of hot water, and cleaned away, and I let her do it. Now it usually only happens if I spill something or something explodes in the refrigerator. </p>
<p>I resent being the one who replaces the toilet paper roll. As I throw away the empty cardboard cylinder I am only reminded that I’m the person of last resort, at least on housework.</p>
<p>Since downsizing and moving to a big city apartment, I have some new chores that were never in our original contract. I now walk home groceries in batches in a metal cart, several times weekly. This is bumpy but at least socially bonding with my neighborhood. </p>
<p>I must move the car once weekly on streetsweeping day by sitting inside a freezing cold car, double parked for 90 minutes, watching it all like a hawk to ensure I get a new space for the coming week. Now you know why I don’t drive to a grocery store; I could never repark on my block!</p>
<p>I think back, when as one comedienne said, “for a single lady, housework means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.”</p>