What is your most hated chore?

Tbh I hate all domestic chores! I only iron if we are going out somewhere where others might notice! I have never ironed sheets underclothes, towels , pillowslips and many other items in my life!! Ironing bed linen? why? who's going to notice? My least favourite chore is tidying up! Mr JW is very untidy and drives me mad! He is however, a good cook, which does mitigate things somewhat!

*ironing king size duvet covers" - am I hearing aright???!!! Does anyone seriously do this thing??!!

ironing first , ironin second to ironing last. they can put men on the moon but cannot invent something that never needs ironing? so called clothes that never need ironing do not exist but just false advertising.

Taking the bins out. But since lockdown actually any household chore. It's endless and no longer have that thing that I can take myself out to lunch, without worrying.

Most of it to be honest these days. I used to be so spick and span.
Since lockdown I can't get motivated. I would rather be doing jobs in the garden.

I don't mind food shopping, even with a mask on, but I loathe putting it away. I try to have a system whereby the fridge is clear and tidy before I go, the shopping is packed logically ( fridge/freezer, larder, bread bin, fruit bowl, utility, wine rack.....but I still hate it and generally refuse to cook on shopping day, all that food puts me off. In fact, I hate cooking, although I love baking. Will knock up a batch of cakes, cookies, bread ( even fancy ones), but dislike 'sensible cooking' like dinner. If I lived alone, I wouldn't bother, it would be crackers, cheese, sliced apple type eating, other than home made soup which I quite enjoy making. I don't iron bedding, but run the iron over some clothes as needed, and a pile of fresh ironing is quite satisfying. I have a problem with skirting boards too, bending is tricky and knealing is a complete nono at the moment. I find cleaning the bathrooms strangely satisfying though. I love a clean house, but not keen on the work involved! Like lemon I use an oven cleaning person, when he came here after lockdown I could have hugged him, but didn't of course! Funnily enough he reported being very very busy, he put it down to all the lockdown baking going on

Lovebeigecardigans buy a Dyson easy for cleaning the stairs just use the hand held bit.
My pet hate, gardening. Done some today, prefer housework at least you can look at room when cleaned and admire your handy work. Gardening is never done

Ironing, ironing. Ironing and again ironing so don’t do it.
Got a self cleaning oven. My dd gets her cleaned by a steaming process.

I loathe putting away the shopping. I’ve gone from having a huge kitchen with umpteen cupboards and a walk in larder to a tiny one with limited cupboard space. Everything balances on everything else and topples over. A complete nightmare
I hate the thought of ironing but once I start, I actually quite enjoy it. It’s quite therapeutic and I ‘think’ a lot while doing 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.

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.

Alexa

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.

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!

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!

Witzend -

@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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.