Worst household chore?

[KarlaB]

Not like any are fun, but I think the ones I dread most are washing the floor & washing the tub and shower. Ugh! How about the rest of you??? :)

[mommy bear]

I especially hate cleaning toilets!!! ( I live with 3 males)
I'm also not fond of ironing and dusting.

[MK]

Dishes. I just dread them, and put them off until we don't have utensils or glasses. We don't have a dishwasher, so it's a real pain, and when I work early morning/middle of the night shifts, I am just too tired.

[Diane]

What I hated the most was cleaning the shower and toilets. These jobs have been passed on to dh. LOL Also, it seems as if I'm ALWAYS scrubbing my kitchen floor... I don't HATE doing it but I get SICK of having to do it so often. It's light colored and shows EVERYTHING. I'm okay with doing the laundry but I refuse to iron, so dh has also taken that job over. He does a MUCH better job than I do at it anyway. LOL I'm lucky because when I hate to do dh doesn't mind doing and what he hates to do I don't mind doing... so it works out.

[KarlaB]

Originally posted by Diane P.
What I hated the most was cleaning the shower and toilets. These jobs have been passed on to dh. LOL Also, it seems as if I'm ALWAYS scrubbing my kitchen floor... I don't HATE doing it but I get SICK of having to do it so often. It's light colored and shows EVERYTHING. I'm okay with doing the laundry but I refuse to iron, so dh has also taken that job over. He does a MUCH better job than I do at it anyway. LOL I'm lucky because when I hate to do dh doesn't mind doing and what he hates to do I don't mind doing... so it works out.

Same thing with dh and I. He hates dusting and I will do that ANY day to get out of washing the floor! :) We do pretty well at filling in with what the other doesn't like. I guess I am just lucky that he does help put.

[AnnW]

Not necessarily awful..but I just hate folding laundry or emptying the dishwasher.

I hate the tub the most, but folding laundry is right up there. Dishes and floors don't bother me much. However, I'd gladly do tubs and laundry if I could get out of cooking. Thank goodness my kids like to cook. I sometimes think we'd starve if it all depended on me.

[kacee]

How about everything!! Not I am with annw. I hate folding clothes. The bathrooms always gets pushed to the last thing that I do.
As for folding clothes, I have been rewarding myself by watching Oprah while I do it. That does help some..

[Sheryl]

If it needs to be ironed, I won't buy it. Most things that should be ironed I hang to dry instead of the dryer. I have a steamer for standby. I purchased it for our wedding for all the bridesmaid dresses and mine for touch ups between photos and the main event!

In my very close to 30 years of life, I have had a dishwasher for the last 1 1/2 years. I don't mind doing dishes anymore. That used to be my worst dreaded job.

Bathrooms are ok if I can keep the dd's and dh out long enough to let me get if completely done, like they can't use the other bathroom... Dd #1 likes to clean around the sink and use lots of soap and water. She also likes to organize my hairclips.

[PamE]

I don't so much mind the sorting, washing and drying it's the folding and putting away that makes me cringe. Dishes used to be a dreaded job too (even WITH a dishwasher) but now dd is old enough to unload the dishwasher for me I don't mind loading it at all. She's also starting to help put the clothes away. Ya'll probably laugh at me but she's nine and I'm just now "letting her" do these things. She's been asking forever to help me with stuff like that but I'm so particular I didn't want to follow her around and re-do stuff :0/

[MaryL]

I'm with you Pam E. I don't mind sorting, washing or drying the clothes...but I hate folding and I always put off putting them away!! Can't wait until my kids can take over this job! Not too long until then, the oldest can reach all of his dresser drawers!! I'm not a big fan of cleaning tubs and the shower stall either. But I do it! Dh tidies up the kitchen each morning after breakfast while I am getting ready for work. When I come home each day at least the kitchen looks neat!

[kat]

I have to admit I also hate scrubbing the toilets. I live with 2 males, oldest Ds just moved out. Dh is pretty good to help out. He used to do all the dishes but I got tired of never being able to find things afterward because he never puts anything in the same place twice. I am also convinced he never had stacking toys when he was young because the concept of putting smaller things inside bigger ones is completly foriegn to him. So I told him I would do the dishes if he would vacuum 3 times a week and mop at least once. Also the new ocean breeze palmolive dishwashing liquid makes doing the dishes more pleasant for me. Somethimes I'll even choose to do them by hand just to smell the stuff. I know it's sad!! :(

[Sheryl]

Originally posted by kat
I am also convinced he never had stacking toys when he was young because the concept of putting smaller things inside bigger ones is completly foriegn to him.

I hear ya on that one!

[Leigh]

I have always hated dishes, and now that I live on the third floor in an apt. bldg. and the laundry room is in the basement, I hate doing the laundry. I can't wait until we move into a house with a washer and dryer in the house. Then I won't mind doing it again :)

ps 4 more to go and I lose the newbie

[Melody]

laundry. anything to do with laundry I hate, folding, ironing, putting it away...even switching from washer to dryer I dread.
I don't mind the other stuff. I guess dishes are the best because it's just a matter of unloading and reloading the dishwasher. When growing up my brothers and I would take turns washing and drying and we would turn the stereo up real loud and have fun while doing them. Sometimes we would actually get everything done after a food fight too!

[beth c]

My least favorite is folding and putting laundry away. A very close second is scrubbing the floor-a never ending job around here. We live in the country w/two boys and two dogs so you can imagine how dirty it gets.

[angie r]

I think it is so funny that everyone hates laundry. Good thing we don't live in the day when you had to take it all to the creek and beat it on a rock!!

I also dislike laundry, the putting it away more than anything. My dh does all the laundry while I work on Saturday's. After this saturday I am not going to work anymore. I hope this doesn't end his laundry duty!! As far as ironing goes...I didn't even own an iron until 7 months ago. I only got that because my dd had these little dresses that need a little pressing. I tried to iron them with my curling iron and that didn't work!!! rofl 8o

[Edited by angie r on 02-18-2001 at 05:51 PM]

[Diane]

If I had to take my laundry down to a creek and beat it with a rock... my family would NEVER have anything to wear... cause it simply wouldn't get done. LOL Up until a few years ago my mom still didn't own a dryer and she still did her laundry using a ringer washer. When that finally broke down it took a lot of convincing just to ger her to buy a "normal" one. LOL I remember it taking her FOREVER to do her laundry... then she'd go outside and hang all of them outside on the clothesline, even sometimes during the winter when she ran out of line down in the laundry room. I remember her carrying our stiff, frozen jeans into the house and waiting for them to thaw out before she could iron/fold them. LOL We've come a LONG way... thank GOD! :)

[Linda/NE]

Good thing I clicked on this link--I have to put my son's clothes in the dryer so he has something to wear to school tomorrow!

Laundry isn't so bad, but if I can I just wash and dry a whole bunch of loads and pile on the loveseat. Then when there's something I want to watch on tv, I sit and watch it.

My least favorite chore is cleaning the kitchen. I don't have enough counter space so I don't have a place for everything. The worst part is washing the floor!! That is the room where everyone comes in--I'm so tired of the mud!!

[Suz]

Laundry, laundry & laundry!!!