POLL: Which chore would you most like to skip?

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Andrew Millar
8 years ago
I chose other cos there wasn't an all of the above option
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robroyuk
8 years ago
Ironing for me too!
onwh
8 years ago
Food shopping......
Dawn
8 years ago
Dishes! My husband and I have endless arguments about how the drainer has to be stacked. It is the only thing we argue about.... well, you have to have something! LOL!
ali270
8 years ago
Hate ironing , in my family everyone has to do their own .
Olena Tkach
8 years ago
Putting everything on places. When everything is where it's supposed to be, doing all other chores is not something hard. Yet when you find a sock under the fridge and lego pieces all around your bad, and piles of books, toys and clothes at every flat surface of your flat, you just have no more energy when it comes to hoovering or mopping floors
Heather Leithes-Wilson
8 years ago
Ironing can be avoided, line dry then tumble for about 20 mins - no ironing required. But putting the stuff away is another matter -aargh
User
8 years ago
Any housework is a chore, so I couldn't chose one I disliked more than any other. Do love it when everything looks tidy and sparkly though. Best thing I've ever purchased is a dish washer. BLISS! Also for anyone that doesn't like food shopping - do it on line. If you book an off peak time (say in the evening) it's only £1.00. After a while the supermarket offered me an option to pay up front for a whole year for £15.00. That's less than 30p a week!
christiea7
8 years ago
I hate changing the beds. Hate it hate it hate it.
meccamum
8 years ago
I used to hate ironing and let it pile up for weeks. Then I bought a steam generator iron -expensive but worth every penny. It's fast and there's only one setting for all fabrics so you can iron silk, then linen and back to silk without worrying about temperatures. Also constant steam so you only need to iron each patch once. I quite like ironing now as everything looks professionally laundered.
Lexi Revellian
8 years ago
I dislike hoovering, so I bought a Roomba. It does a more thorough job than I do - I just wish it could vacuum the stairs and dust too.
atalantah
8 years ago
Tiding up for sure ;(
Nichola Hanley Rafferty
8 years ago
I love ironing!! It means I can sit at the ironing board catching up on all the TV serials I've missed, whilst feeling smug with myself that I'm doing a necessary chore... Also avoiding some of the other chores like washing up or tidying the cupboards ...
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Gwen Adams Interiors
8 years ago
Emptying the dishwasher! I try to leave it for when my husband is hanging around and I discreetly disappear!
sallyalabaster
8 years ago
Hoovering for me. Closely followed by cleaning the mirrored wardrobe doors... Smear-tastic! As soon as I can afford to replace them with wooden doors, those babies are gone!
k11agl
8 years ago
I actually quite like cleaning the bathroom. Most satisfying after the 'silverware' return to shinning glory after a dose of Viakal!
gedine60
8 years ago
I hate cleaning the bathroom my partners hair gets everywhere hate hate it
Khansaa Ali
8 years ago
ironing from me too.I hate it
fayechild1
8 years ago
Just hate cleaning out the plug in the shower! How come it always seems to be my turn?? I'm sure the rest of the family never do it.
patriciaoconnell
8 years ago
dusting!!!!! i hate having to move all the stuff off the sills etc, and having to dust all them too......!
Emmeline Westin
8 years ago
@fayechild1 - *shudder*
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8 years ago
Dusting long established pieces and finding webs and false widows everywhere!!! Whilst the media have gone into a frenzy over these.. They have been here for about a 100 years and have been making their way slowly north.. but whilst they may not be deadly or even bite most people, they are really fast and do look frightening.. One took up residence in a pocket in my handbag.. I popped bag on a stool overnight (spider must have been lurking under the stool) and the next morning I put my hand into the pocket!!!

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I have had to install lavender smelling discs everywhere... even tucked into clothing that I display... Perhaps the Miss Havisham interior decor will become a thing... My thing!! :( Needless to say I do look under things more.. I have decided not to include a pic of said arachnid as I am shuddering at the mere sight of a photo! : ) )
Jackie Hales
8 years ago
Food shopping & cooking. Unfortunately so does my husband and as I love eating, I force myself to do both!
Bebe Price
8 years ago
Definitely taking out the rubbish!
tiredoldwoman
8 years ago
Tidying . I just can't do it ! I can do piles but can't seem to organise . I'm also a hoarder - I keep bits and pieces in case someone might need it some day . My daughters both have minimalist houses but come to me if they need any ' bits '.
wombat57
8 years ago
Without doubt, it's ironing. The only thing that makes me do it, is the fact that I hate non ironed clothes more than the ironing it self.
caroline343
8 years ago
I'm not good at cleaning windows, I end up with smears. I've tried many products and tips like newspaper and white vinegar, not doing it while the sun is shining. Consequently the job gets done just once a year. I know I ought to call in the professionals, but I'm afraid of the cost and I've got the feeling that they'd want to come on a regular basis and then I'd be embarrassed.
Jan Johnson
8 years ago
My pet hate is cleaning windows and i don't like the way other people do them either. They look just tacky.
jellykelly
8 years ago
Cleaning the bathroom, hate it and so I cheated and got a cleaner :\
minnie101
8 years ago
Cleaning the shower. I've inherited an ensuite with just an overhead shower which means there's no handheld shower to rinse anything off. Cleaning is done in 2 stages, the 2nd being me having to take a shower in order to rinse the tiles down ( whilst trying not to breathe in the Viakal fumes). Or on the occasion my husband does it, he stands in there in his pants with a bucket to rinse the tiles! Not practical at all! I've also got a claw foot bath in the bathroom which means having to lay on your belly to clean underneath with your arm attempting various manoeuvres as a mop won't fit under. I'm sure I'm not alone in this!
honeypoppet
8 years ago
Loading the dishwasher is the most disgusting job known to humanity... (apart from cleaning up puke!) imagine how many germs from people's mouths you are getting on your fingers and flapping in the air....and all that cold half eaten food....bleurgh! Yuk Yuk Yuk
fincahouse
8 years ago
Cleaning the oven has to be my worst.
I hate ironing. Actually I am not partial to any aspect of housework.
User
8 years ago
I voted laundry, but I totally agree with fincahouse, cleaning the oven makes my skin crawl.
house mad
8 years ago
changing beds....stiping them washing ironing and making errrr
artemisia_cp
8 years ago
The two men that I share a house with both say they clean the bathroom but they always forget the bottom of the toilet stand and seem to think that a hair fairy will take away their plughole lost locks! Good job I love the 2 of them.
mari_eliza
8 years ago
Housework generally.
Dawn
8 years ago
Ironing, hands down, ironing.
Iona
8 years ago
Ironing. I don't. As others have mentioned, I also take clothes straight out of the tumble dryer and fold nicely. Since I finished with the city job, 10 yrs ago, am now resident in snowy N Yorkshire and run a small cheese making business I am lucky that I no longer have to wear shirts or ultra smart clothes for work, just a polo shirt, jeans and jumper. Actually no longer own an iron.

Dusting too. Hate it.

Also, my vacuum cleaner is afraid of heights so seldom makes it upstairs. Am beginning to think I am getting slovenly in my old age.
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Mosabox
8 years ago
for me its ironing i hate loathe and detest it for my colleague sitting next to me its all of the above
jelliest
8 years ago
It's gotta be tidying, which goes hand in hand with dusting. It's just so dispiriting that once you've put in the effort and done it, you get about a day to enjoy the effect before mess builds up and that veneer of grey covers everything again.

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