What are your.... (warning.household question)

FGS where did that because come from, I was talking to DH at the same time as I was writing and must have written what I was saying to him

Likewise glass, I was talking to my sister, on Saturday, and this long spidery thread started waving about in the corner of the room. It was annoying me and I had to jump up and get a long brush thingy from Lakeland. It has been chewing me as to where the spider is because.

phoenix I am a slut, I have just looked up and the light above me has the biggest cobweb I have ever seen... OMG but where is the monster that spun it

OMG icyalittle!

Think I could probably hack my way out of our woodshed though. DH built it many years ago.

I love tidying/cleaning cupboards. It's always been a joke with my family that, if anyone walked through my front door they'd think the house had been ransacked, but my drawers and cupboards are the tidiest you'll find anywhere. My arguement being that there's no point being clean on the outside if you're not clean on the inside. Daft arguement cause visitors [not that I have many] don't see inside the cupboards but they do see the rubbish strewn across the living room .

HATE ironing with a vengeance. It gives me suicidal thoughts. But on the rare occasions when I get to the bottom of the ironing basket, I must admit to feeling smug. I have recently started to enjoy vacuuming. I fear I may be turning into my mother.
phoenix I love your credo. I have said it before, you are a truly talented comic writer.
jingle take care with heading outdoors - my DH recently got locked in the woodshed (accidentally) when the door swung shut behind him. I was working 200 miles away. Luckily he had his mobile phone with him and rang a friend. (Who takes a mobile phone with them to fill the log basket? Well plainly DH does, in case he gets locked in....)

I love ironing too and turning out cupboards. You never know what you will find !

Ah, the joy of lists, jingl I believe that I have admitted this before, but I sometimes make lists that include things I have already done, just for the satisfaction of crossing them off!

I like ironing but my standard of housework depends on how angry / anxious / worried I am. When things are going well the house gets increasingly grubby but DH always knows to steer clear if I'm energetically cleaning usually retreating to the shed.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...I love ironing!
I clean to a fairly healthy standard if visitors are expected. It's worth having a dinner party just to get the house clean - but exhausting. Next day is great - no cooking (as we eat the leftovers) and definitely no cleaning.

I just let all the household chores build up (apart from bathrooms and kitchen) and then have a huge clearing up/cleaning session, usually just before going away or when visitors are expected. I quite like ironing, but only on my terms. I thought I missed ironing shirts but have been on SiL's shirt duty for 2 months while I have been in Oz.......problem cured! What I do like about housework is the feeling of satisfaction once it is done and knowing I have a few weeks freedom

Hate it all, all of it - but love it when it's done. I feel sort of pleased with myself that I consider myself a useless housekeeper but everything is reasonably clean and well kept. Hate changing beds but love getting into a bed with clean linen. Every cloud.....

One of these is what you need henetha. So expensive though!

Some housework upsets my dodgy back... mostly ironing and vacuuming.
Hate it with a vengeance!

I've got a long one similar to that which is great at getting the cobwebs off the walls and ceilings! (When I can be bothered...)

Strangely enough I do have one of those - and a bigger one too. When I have my annual dusting operation, I sometimes do it with a pair of old socks on my hands.

For those who hate dusting, you do use one of these don't you? They are very quick.

Sorry it's Lakeland.

All your comments about not doing housework is very reassuring! I like a clean and tidy house but I hate wasting time doing the chores. I used to have a neighbour who did all the housework according to a daily/weekly/monthly rota and was quite obsessive about it. I always felt her house wasn't a home but her busyness made me feel guilty. Once, when my ex had the kids for a few hours I took myself off for the afternoon and passing this neighbour in the street she remarked that I was 'off out again' in a rather tight voice. I smiled and asked what should I do instead and her reply was that I could 'stay in and do the housework!' I ignored her but I can still hear her voice now, nearly forty years later!

I like cleaning windows and ironing, hate DIY, dusting and cleaning the bathroom. I don't clean the oven. It said self-cleaning and I took it at its word.
I wonder why so many people hate ironing?

Yes I make "to do" lists also jings and not only get more done but also feel a sense of fulfilment and satisfaction when I have done. I like ticking things off the list! Getting stuck in first thing is also my MO. Reckon it's just down to how we are wired!

FlicketyB like you, I find that if I don't get stuck in first thing, the day drifts by and it doesn't let done.

To be honest, I find that the days when I make a jobs list and stick to it, are my happiest days. Don't know if it's the physical moving about, or what.

Oh I wish you lived near me, janerowena. I love ironing shirts, but other half lives most of his life in T shirts. I would do yours.

Yes, I think maggots in the bath would galvanise even me into action...

Okay - confession time: I can't honestly say that I enjoy cleaning, but having grown up in both excessively clean and really dirty (maggots in the bath anyone?) houses - not at the same time - it has left me with a permanent need for a clean and tidy house. I do not always succeed in achieving this, but I try, oh do I try.
Recently the Wonderful Man mentioned that perhaps my eyesight isn't as good as it could be because he had spotted areas that were less than clean, he (not for the first time) urged me to employ a cleaner and then went on to clean said areas himself. I was a model of calm: I did not rip his eyes out, I did not put the mop where a mop should not go, I did not remind him that he is the most untidy person I know, I did not point out his inadequacies (yes, there are one or two). No, I simply told myself that he is indeed a Wonderful Man, aahh. [halo emoticon]

Hate ironing (what exactly is an iron?), oven cleaning, cleaning the upstairs loo which is used mostly by my DH and DS. Why should I clean their hair etc from left up seat grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!. Never wash by hand, why? Must check out the sluts charter Pheonix.