What is your most hated chore?

Oops posted too quick. I am not a housework lover but I think hoovering the stairs is the worst thing. Cleaning up presents from the cats is not a nice chore either.

I hate, hate, hate changing duvet covers. I’m just under 5foot and our king size duvet covers seem twice my size. I’ve been known to climb inside the cover and push and pull the duvet into the corners. It can take me hours and I always need a lie-down on the freshly made bed afterward.
I also hate cleaning the oven (can never reach the back) but as a much loved aunt once remarked, not cleaning the oven adds flavour to whatever you cook in it. She was right too.

I have locked down one of my three toilets as a " covid_ visitor" toilet ..never been so clean and sweet- smelling !

Like the OP it's washing up. We moved into a flat and there was only space for either a dishwasher or a washing machine. It was no contest, we got a dishwasher. So its off to the launderette once every week or so; but I never have dirty dishes hanging about.

Wheelie bins and recycling. In the hot weather I ended up with maggots in the food recycling bin?

My sympathy, males are so messy.

Don't like housework much but it has to be done, by a cleaner twice a week and an oven cleaning man and window cleaner.

Hate all housework. I think it is because I was the only girl. with 3 brothers I was made to do it as a child. The boys never had to.
I like cooking and don't mind the washing. Love to hang outside on a nice day. Never iron anything.

I’m amazed there are still freezers around which need defrosting. I’ve got 3 (2 are in the garage) and I’m sooooo happy all are frost free models. I used to hate defrosting freezers.

I loathe cleaning the oven, ironing and putting shopping away like others posters have said.

Cleaning the shower cubicle. When we had it put in, I had the bright idea of cleaning it after having a shower. I even got down on my hands and knees to scrub into the corners. Big mistake!! I then found I couldn't stand up as everything was slippy and there was nothing to hold on to. The door was a sliding one with quite a narrow access. I ended up scraping my knees as I crawled and struggled over the metal door frame. I am a gran of the short, round variety. It was not a pretty picture and put me off cleaning the damn thing for a long time. Now have a rubber mat and everything gets well rinsed down after a shower.

I enjoy cleaning and tidying anything, house and garden. I regret not having the strength to get at it as I'd like. Sometimes I endanger my life by overdoing the garden work as I enjoy it and get excited by it.

I have to thank gransnet for making my life easier. In a post last year about ironing some people were saying how they never iron duvet covers or sheets so I thought I would try it out. I have never ironed them since that day, I opened windows and within a few hours or next day there are no creases that wouldn’t have been there after a nights sleep. Since lockdown began I’ve haven’t ironed any clothes at all. We bought a tumble dryer and I just fold or hang clothes straight from it. Life is so much better without ironing.

Petera

lemongrove

Cleaning the oven.....so I don’t, and haven’t done for the last six years.An oven cleaning company send someone out to do it .....worth every penny.They do the grillpan and all the shelves too, leave it looking like a showroom new oven.

If you don't mind me asking - how much. When I look online it usually says 'call us to get a quote'

I paid £40 to have my oven cleaned a few months ago and he did a brilliant job.

catladyuk

All of it really but most of all I absolutely hate washing my hair and changing duvet covers, single ones I can cope with but the king sized ones drive me to a frenzy! I've tried all the supposed 'easy' ways to do it and still end up hot and bothered as they don't seem to be any easier at all!

I heard that if you managed to leave your hair unwashed for 2 weeks, then the hair's natural oils would perform that job for you, and it does work - it's probably over 6 months since I washed mine and I've checked that it doesn't smell or anything like that, and it looks good.

I would love to pay £40 to have my oven cleaned but I am so embarrassed by the state of it I would have to clean it before the oven cleaner person saw it!

Craftycat

I'm not bothered about anything much- it all has to be done so I just get on with it. The only thing I do put off until it REALLY needs doing is defrosting the freezer in the kitchen. It is only 4 drawers but it takes forever & I have piles of frozen food sitting around getting warm on the kitchen counters.
Last month I suddenly realised that if I wait until the freezers in the garage are not full I can just put it all in there overnight & let the small freezer defrost properly( Can't believe I never thought of that before!!) I have yet to find a way of not flooding the kitchen. I do put loads of towels down but it still soaks through.

When I was a teenager we had a normal fridge with a small freezer in the top of it. We only defrosted that when you could get into it no longer no matter how much you pulled at it or used a knife to hack away at the ice; so then we had to defrost it!

DanniRae

I would love to pay £40 to have my oven cleaned but I am so embarrassed by the state of it I would have to clean it before the oven cleaner person saw it!

I like it. Bit like my grandmother cleaning round before the home help arrived.

@DannieRae, I did once have an oven cleaning service round. I didn’t do a pre-clean, but I did warn them on the phone that this was not what normal people call a filthy oven, this was my own, super-filthy version.

They assured me that that was no problem, and sure enough the bloke didn’t seem fazed at all.
Best £40 I ever spent - quite a while ago, so I dare say it’d be rather more now.

Witzend -

Like many of us I can’t think of a chore I remotely like?also since lockdown I’ve done even less than before, no one can come into see it anyway. I would really like a cleaner but my husband says Why it looks alright!

As I hate cleaning the glass shower door, I hang a large plastic wipe over tablecloth over it before I shower. Just throw that aside to dry itself...
The glass door remains pristine!

hollysteers, while I like your solution , wouldn't it be even simpler to get a shower curtain and get rid of the doors? Then the shower curtain left opened up will dry as easily as table cloth.

Alexa

Taking the bins out.
Recycling out.
We live on the second floor and it is always such a thing to card it downstairs.

Needs must.I'm always glad when I've done it.

I have come to the conclusion that I don't do "like" or "hate". I find it impossible to decide what to vote at elections, just pick the first thing I see on a menu at a restaurant, and as for household chores, I just get on and do them.

Life's too short to get het up about them.