What's the most awkward household chore for you?

Anything that involves going up a ladder. An amazing number of household chores and maintenance seem to involve doing this.

Not just because I am vertically challenged, I also have had osteoporosis for many years and I have suffered from fractures on three separate occasions relating to this.

Basically any household chore counts as "most awkward" in my book - and yet I'd like the house immaculate.

To that end - I keep doing and redoing housework timetables - so that I do a "little something" every day - so there's never too much to do on one day. My concentration got pretty shot at the way it's taken a lot more time/effort than it should have to renovate the house in the first place (ie have it darn nearly gutted) and dealing with the troublesome neighbours I've had. But I'm working on it and hoping everything has calmed down finally (only took about 12 years to swat these things outa the way.....so I can get back on with "life as normal").

Latest revamp of housework timetable being:
Monday - kitchen
Tuesday - ironing and a machine wash
Wednesday - bathroom
Thursday - hall
Friday - study
Saturday - sitting room and a 2nd wash
Sunday - bedroom

The only things I iron anyway are clothes - and, as long as bedding/towels/teatowels are clean that's good enough.

How to get torn between everything was spotless as I grew up (Armed Forces brat and a mother who didn't go back to work until I was a teenager and then only part-time!!!) on the one hand and remembering what the houses were like of various academics that I knew when I was an adult on the other hand and thinking "there's gotta be a happy medium" between "Who wants a life anyway?" on the one end and "There's way more important/interesting things to do than housework on the other hand".

CariadAgain - how organised ! When do you do the skirting boards, I ask in jest. Myskirting boards have not been touched since they were painted 2 years ago.
And to answer the OP’s question, I hate housework !!!

Cleaning windows for me too, always end up smeary no matter what I try!

Cariadagain: that’s a neat timetable.

#lazygran

Ironing. I dislike ironing, I certainly won't learn now.

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That's the best timetable!

Under the bed. No excuse really. It’s a low bed with just enough room for the cat to get underneath. He comes out festooned in dust and goodness knows what. Do I feel ashamed? No. Just grateful that he’s done the dusting for me.

crazyH

CariadAgain - how organised ! When do you do the skirting boards, I ask in jest. Myskirting boards have not been touched since they were painted 2 years ago.
And to answer the OP’s question, I hate housework !!!

The plan is skirting boards at the same time as floors for the kitchen and bathroom. I've got a long-handled thingie - so I can stand whilst doing them. It's still a work in progress to nag myself into getting back to normal fitness and then staying there - so I don't do getting down on my hands and knees for kitchen/bathroom floors these days at the moment and I've bought a sorta long-handled scrubbing brush to deal with that (as well as the Flash mop thingie I got recently).

Other skirting boards will have to be done yearly as part of a springclean.

I've been working my way towards buying various long-handled thingies as far as possible to do housework with. I cheat with the outside of windows etc and whichever windowcleaner is currently coming round the area gets paid to deal with the outside of the windows when he turns up - ie around about every 2 months. I could do those myself and have in the past - but it's easier to pay him to do it and I've now got a conservatory I've had added and there's no way I'm going to try and do the conservatory roof myself and so he does that too.

CariadAgain Tip! I use a long-handled shoe horn to 'flick' hankies etc from below the headboard out to the side where I can get them.

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BlueBelle

All if it I hate housework such a waste of time as it all needs doing again the next day ☹️

Me too!

And me 😭

As Quinton Crisp once said
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Behind the radiators/toilet/cooker/fridge etc etc. I now get a deep clean done twice a year and it has really made life much easier to cope with.

The top of the kitchen units- the high ones. I wanted the cupboards to go up to the ceiling but because of the fan system they couldn’t.
I do cover the tops with kitchen paper so that makes it easier but I am finding I’m not quite as nimble as I used to be when hoisting myself onto the workbench. Thank goodness they are very sturdy.

yogitree

Behind the radiators/toilet/cooker/fridge etc etc. I now get a deep clean done twice a year and it has really made life much easier to cope with.

I wish - I've tried that twice - ie employing someone to do spring cleaning level of cleaning for me.

1. It was a friend who does this as a sideline - and I landed up paying her for coffeebreak and lunchbreak time too and part way through she broke off deciding she felt too ill to finish it.

2. I then employed a cleaning firm and it was a married couple and a cleaner they employed. The cleaner they employed hadnt done my shower glass properly (ie the 1' or so nearest the floor). So I said about it and she still didnt and, in the end the head honcho out of them went in and did it and the glass their employee swore couldnt be cleaned at that height could be - as he did it. I bit my tongue - rather than saying to her that she'd be able to kneel more readily if she lost a few stones surplus weight - but that was clearly the reason she was struggling with kneeling and obviously didnt want to do so (errrrrm....so why was she working as a cleaner then? Duh......). It's not an awkward, older style size of shower - it's a modern-size big-enough-for-2 one that's perfectly easy to access (that's why I chose it in the first place when I had the bathroom gutted).

Not surprisingly - I feel a bit flummoxed as to how to get a decent standard firm for springcleaning level of cleaning after that....

I hate cleaning the bathroom. I have a shower room too but never shower because I cannot bear cleaning the shower cubicle. We have very hard water which makes it worse.

Changing the duvet cover and pillow covers!

I only have a single bed, but it's amazing how much time and struggle to take off the cover and one pillow case, then put new ones on!

I end up exhausted after what seems like forever!

Thank heavens I don't have a double or king-size!

Also, microwave cleaning!

TBH I pretty much hate them all equally!

making my bed - duvet cover is a pain.
ironing - no room.
cooking and cleaning - can't stand for very long.
gardening - can't get down and dirty any more - thank goodness for my lovely gardener.
cleaning or painting skirting boards - can't get down to them.
pretty useless all round!!

Cleaning the curved doors on the shower, picture rails and that awkward bit behind the radiator and above the skirting board I have had a grey fringe of cobwebs on view several times!

I'm with Bluebell on this. Housework should be made illegal. 🤣

All of it from house to garden. Every day I say I am going to de-clutter so its easier to clean and I allow something to distract me. I went with a friend to view a couple of houses yesterday and I feel so down, they were so clean and stylish. I wish I could throw things out and buy new and fresh but I can't as I'm always watching the pennies so I hang onto these things in the hope of getting some money for them at a carboot, ha! How do people live so tidily.

Cleaning the curved doors of the shower, picture rails and I have had a grey fringe of cobwebs between bottom of radiator and skirting board on several occasions!

Mirror wardrobes and windows are no problem now I have a karcher window vac. Got it for Xmas from my DS.
I hate cleaning the shower as I always get soaked. Can't do it unless I'm well covered as the cleaning sprays bring me out in a rash.

Bending over to weed the garden or empty the dishwasher. I immediately get acid reflux.