Which daily chore do you despise, or at least try to avoid?

[Tiramisu]

I have a problem with putting away laundry. I have at least three loads waiting for me, and I'm hiding out here.

[TheBugs]

Me too. Putting away laundry is the worst. It should be the best chore, because the laundry is clean and smells nice. But I would rather clean the bathroom or take out the garbage than put away the laundry. It is just so tedious.

[MomtoCandJ]

Folding and putting away laundry, dishes (I'm sure if I had a dishwasher it wouldn't be near as bad)

[FaithManor]

I truly, deeply, passionately, dislike cooking and meal planning. I've been doing it for so long now, I can hardly think straight when I sit down to make a list. I can't avoid it. I think I have permanent brain fog from it. Unfortunately, I turned out to be good at cooking...stupid me, I should have burned a lot of food when we were first married and developed a bad reputation so sandwich and salad would have been the norm.

 

When the last kid leaves, dh better start cooking or become comfortable with sandwiches and salads or eating at his mother's house. I have no problem at all with her feeding him, and I'm happy with a boiled egg, celery sticks, red peppers, and cashews night after night, LOL!

 

 

[Belacqua]

I have never liked unloading the dishwasher. As soon as my son was old enough to take on the job without endangering himself or my dishes, I passed the baton. 

 

[trulycrabby]

Cleaning the bathrooms. I'm the lone female in a house of men, and apparently none can hit the toilet. Yes, it's a daily chore here. Bleh...

[HRAAB]

I only get to choose one?

 

Well, since there's a pile of unfolded laundry spilling out of the laundry basket onto the floor, I'll start with that one. 

[Lisa in SC]

Cleaning the bathrooms. We have three full baths, and 2 men plus 2 boys who use them, so it's daily here too. Yes, they could clean them, but they don't clean them thoroughly, so the urinal smell never quite goes away if they do it. I'm constantly telling dh that if it were possible, I would hire a live-in maid, and her sole responsibility would be to keep the bathrooms sparkling. This will never be possible, but a woman can dream...

[ErinE]

Unloading the dishwasher. Every morning, I get up and unload the dishwasher before anyone else is up and about. Every morning, the same question, "Are these dishes clean or dirty?" Every morning, dishes get put in the sink. It's not the unloading so much as the lack of thought.

[Flowing Brook]

Windows, I hate washing them,cleaning blinds, and hanging curtains.  I swear my dream house has no windows in it. I am going to hang pictures of the outside instead.

[TravelingChris]

I have come to really hate the chores that hurt me.  Lots of them do that but picking things up from the floor is the worse- that one starts a back spasm and a neck/shoulder spasm. 

[PentecostalMom]

Bathrooms.  Little kids make messes in bathrooms.  Ugh.

[mom2bee]

I have the worst time completing the last 7% of almost any task: putting away laundry, dishes, floors, etc...

 

I hate cleaning so much that by the time I get down to the tail end, I can barely stand to go any further, so usually, I don't.

[Critterfixer]

Sweeping out the back door area and the garage. The prevailing wind blow everything right back in a full 75% of the time, and it seems closer to 100% when I do it. Sneeze city. I pay a premium to the boys to deal with that aggravation for me.

[Mandylubug]

what a depressing thread :(

[Mandylubug]

I hate cat litter and putting away laundry

[kitten18]

Unloading the dishwasher.

 

I can't figure it out, it only takes 3 minutes and I don't even have to get my hands dirty/wet. I just hate it.

[kitten18]

Windows, I hate washing them,cleaning blinds, and hanging curtains. I swear my dream house has no windows in it. I am going to hang pictures of the outside instead.

I just don't do that stuff. :)

[Cinder]

All of them! I dislike anything to do with laundry most of all.

[Dandelion]

My "top 3" in order of magnitude of loathing:

 

1) Putting away laundry

2) Folding laundry

3) Unloading the dishwasher

 

 

[Jacqueline]

I don't think we will ever conquer Mount Laundry. I think I'm going to start requiring my teens to do their own because they have so much of it!

[tabinfl]

Cat puke cleanup, cleaning toilets, and the worst of all... Washing pots/pans or dishes with food stuck to them. I don't know why this disgusts me so much, but ugh. I will leave casserole pans to soak until my husband gets tired of looking at them and cleans them himself.

 

Oddly enough, I don't mind scooping the cat box, and even sick kid cleanup duty doesn't faze me. Leftover food in the sink, though... ick ick ick.

 

Also, I love dusting. Immediate gratification!

[texasmama]

I will do your family's laundry if you will clean my house. Deal? :)

[Lara in Colo]

Cleaning the bathrooms. I'm the lone female in a house of men, and apparently none can hit the toilet. Yes, it's a daily chore here. Bleh...

 

I had a friend with the same problem

 

She took a washcloth and cut it into 4ths and gave one piece to a child and made them clean the entire toilet area (mainly the floor and seat)  and told them that was their permanent job.  One child on each day of the week.

 

It magically became better

[Lara in Colo]

Cat puke cleanup, cleaning toilets, and the worst of all... Washing pots/pans or dishes with food stuck to them. I don't know why this disgusts me so much, but ugh. I will leave casserole pans to soak until my husband gets tired of looking at them and cleans them himself.

 

Oddly enough, I don't mind scooping the cat box, and even sick kid cleanup duty doesn't faze me. Leftover food in the sink, though... ick ick ick.

 

Also, I love dusting. Immediate gratification!

 

I don't mind dusting either!!!  I just don't ever do it.

[Lara in Colo]

I can most of the laundry but the sock sorting is done maybe 2 times a year.  I really hate sock pairing.  If I had the money I would buy all new socks, and have them labeled for each child so I could stop having to examine each sock and figure out their mate and owner.

 

** sigh** I just have a basket in the middle of the living room as a permanent fixture and let the people dig.

 

After that it would be the clutter of "important" things I have no idea what to do with.--- rocks that are "really cool" or bottle tops, or weird things found on walks.  I usually put them in a basket and clean out the basket every now and then

[Chris in VA]

Scrubbing the bathtub.

I'm so neglectful of it, it's a good thing we have overnight visitors several times a year or it wouldn't get done.

[Chris in VA]

Oops--I see you said "daily chore"--

Prob dishes, then. I usually set the timer for five minutes and promise myself I can stop when it goes off. Gets me going and I usually finish then.

[bodiesmom]

Planning and cooking dinner.

Abhor.it.

[Maela]

Meal planning and prep. Putting away laundry. Washing dishes that are difficult to get clean.

[Donna]

Folding laundry.

[DawnM]

UGH!

 

ALL of them.  I hate cleaning.   Hate it.

 

My 9 year old seems to love it.  I have resorted to paying him as of last week.

 

I told him if he washed all the windows inside and out on the first floor (it has been over a year) and did a great job and even dusted and cleaned the sills, I would pay him $1 per window.  

 

I have also resorted to each child having his own laundry basket and doing his OWN laundry!  It has been 3 months now and it is WONDERFUL!  I only do my own and towels/household items.  

 

Kitchen I can never seem to keep clean, ever.  I need a better system for that.

[Lanny]

I am in charge of the "pooper scooper". Nobody else in the house is willing to do that job. We have 3 medium size dogs and 5 incredibly tiny dogs.  I do that job, every other day...

 

I'm also in charge of the trash and garbage, and I take that out to the street, twice a week. I am going to do that, in a few minutes... Hopefully, before it rains, because I hear thunder, as I write this post...

[Luckymama]

I hate sweeping the kitchen floor.

 

(I like to cook and bake, I do a load of laundry per day (less often now that the older kids are in college), and dh unloads the dishwasher every morning :D)

[G5052]

Laundry.  Ugh.  I hate it so much that I'm behind about 80% of the time with it.

[Excelsior! Academy]

Sweeping the floor.  It needs done 3 to 5x daily here. We have lots of tile.  Lots.  Surprisingly I don't mind mopping. 

[fairfarmhand]

Paperwork...anything that involves filing, grading numbers to be balanced, mail, bills....ugh. HATE IT!

 

I'd rather clean the whole house.

[SKL]

I don't "despise" any daily chore, though I get stressed out by not having enough time to do them and still act like a normal human.

 

The one I like least is (this is going to sound terrible) providing dinner.  Especially if it involves cooking.  I would rather our nutritional needs cut off after their afternoon snack and resumed in the morning.  I dislike having the evening broken up by those pesky dinners.  Oddly I do not feel this way about providing breakfast, lunch, or snacks . . . .

 

I think it's because dinner takes so dang long, no matter how simple you try to make it.  Between setup/prep, eating, and cleaning up afterward, half of the evening is shot.  Blah.  I wish there were more Panera/Chopotle type restaurants so I could outsource most of these functions without guilt.

 

I love laundry, though.  Seriously.

[AdventureMoms]

Washing dishes/kitchen cleanup. I like to cook, I don't mind laundry, but dishes....ugh.

[Miss Marple]

Hmmm...pretty much anything that will just have to be done again 24 hours.

[Baseball mom]

I can most of the laundry but the sock sorting is done maybe 2 times a year.  I really hate sock pairing.  If I had the money I would buy all new socks, and have them labeled for each child so I could stop having to examine each sock and figure out their mate and owner.

 

** sigh** I just have a basket in the middle of the living room as a permanent fixture and let the people dig.

 

 

I use to have this problem but I read a tip that has changed my life and done away with the permanent sock basket at this house.  I bought a small mesh laundry bag for each person in the house.  It has a zipper and a little hanging tab. Got at walmart for less than $2 each. Took a sharpie and wrote each persons name on their bag.  Got some command hooks and hung the bags near the dirty clothes hamper. 

 

Ready to wash.... just zip & toss in washer then dryer.  No matching whose socks are whose.  Fold socks and rehang the bag.

 

After seeing that this system worked I ended up getting 2 bags for each person.  That way if someone changed socks while washing there was already a new bag in place.   

 

This has been soooooo worth the investment of bags and hooks.  Oh and I started a "program" where if I found your dirty socks out you owed me a quarter for each sock.  It worked even better then.

[Baseball mom]

I hate cleaning the bathrooms :ack2:

[SKL]

For me, the main way I approach socks is to buy almost all identical socks.  So instead of pairing them up I just put them in piles of the same size and color and "fold" them into pairs in the end.

 

For me the most tedious thing about sock washing is having to turn them all right-side-out.  I have asked my kids to do this themselves, but they are far from being reliable on this point.

 

I do think that mesh bag idea is a great one, as long as being in a bag doesn't stop them from getting clean.

[AdventureMoms]

 

For me, the main way I approach socks is to buy almost all identical socks. So instead of pairing them up I just put them in piles of the same size and color and "fold" them into pairs in the end.

 

For me the most tedious thing about sock washing is having to turn them all right-side-out. I have asked my kids to do this themselves, but they are far from being reliable on this point.

 

I do think that mesh bag idea is a great one, as long as being in a bag doesn't stop them from getting clean.

 

I do this though I do not pair and fold. Dd (5) has various colored socks - she can dig through the sock drawer or wear them mismatched, I don't care. Twins (2.5) have all one brand, all one style. I throw them all in a drawer and just grab 2 (or 4) when needed. Once they know how to turn socks right side out (DD can, twins can't yet) I will leave them inside out too. They can turn them before washing or before wearing. The sock drawers aren't pretty inside, but it works.

[Baseball mom]

The socks get clean & dry in the bag as long as you don't wait until they are super stuffed to wash.  Guess how I figured this out.  :glare:   The bag I have will hold a week worth or more of socks but I generally toss the bags in every few days when washing. 

[Mom2TheTeam]

Dishes!  I hate washing dishes.  I have no problem popping a few dishes into the dishwasher, but actually washing pots, pans or whatever else doesn't go in the dishwasher, I truly hate and always have.  I have dry skin and my hands hurt for hours afterward even after several applications of lotion.  So, often, my husband comes home to find the dishes from the entire day still in the sink.  He'll say, "So, you had eggs for breakfast? And, I see you had pasta for lunch." :blush:

 

I don't mind laundry.  But, now that we have 6 kids all 7 and under, I just can't get control of the laundry.  We have a community clothing area for the entire family's clothing...it's located on my love seat.  :lol:  (Seriously though, it's a problem!)

[Miss Marple]

Socks:  with 4 sons who all have the same size feet, confusion reigns.  My solution:  buy each son a different brand.  Unfortunately I forget which brand goes to whom.  My final solution:  Match the socks and stick them all in a basket in the alcove near the boys' bathroom.  Let them pick out their own socks from the basket.

[Slartibartfast]

I hate putting away laundry, vacuuming, and putting away the dishes.

 

I will wash dishes all day long I don't know why it annoys me to put them away.

[Excelsior! Academy]

Paperwork...anything that involves filing, grading numbers to be balanced, mail, bills....ugh. HATE IT!

 

I'd rather clean the whole house.

 

Amending my comment.  I can. not. stand. paperwork.  I am afraid of the consequences of going paperless. I could clean, toilets, gutters, cat litter boxes, before paperwork.  My dad was a CPA for years.  How anyone would choose to do paperwork and taxes for a living is beyond me!!!

[SKL]

My kids share clothes to the extent their sizes permit.  So at least I don't have to worry about "whose is whose."  They also share a room, closet, dresser drawers.  "Mine" has never been big in this house.