What is your most hated chore?

[milestogo]

I hate giving my dog a bath. He thinks he's being water-boarded.

[CanonRay]

1. Making the bed

Utterly pointless

[kimbutgar]

26. My parents made me make up my bed everyday when I was 5 years old

It’s a OCD thing with me. I can’t leave my home without making my bed.

That said I hate washing dishes but do it because I can’t leave dirty dishes in the sink!

[LogDog75]

32. I too make my bed every day

I started doing it as an adult about 30 years ago because I was tired of coming home and seeing the bed covers a mess. Once I started, after a couple of months I notice I was more focused at work. I concluded that by disciplining myself in making the bed every morning I was actually starting a routine which carried over to work.

[3catwoman3]

47. Some years ago, we were in Germany, visiting my husband's son from his first marriage.

The little hotel we stayed in folded the quilts/duvets down toward the foot of the bed to allow the sheets to air out.

I've done that ever since. I like pretty sheets, so this way I get to see them. The bed still looks tidy, and it's a lot quicker than fussing with a blanket and bedspread. I usually don't bother with a top sheet, and when I do, I never tuck it in. I like my feet to be free.

My mom was a nurse, as was her mother, as am I. I can still make hospital corners with the best of them, (been doing it since about age 8) but there's no reason to.

[Ocelot II]

2. All of them. I hate housework and it shows.

Scrubbing floors is probably the most tedious.

[3catwoman3]

43. GMTA. I, too, really dislike cleaning house, particularly vacuuming and dusting.

I used to have a sign hanging from a closet doorknob that said -

You may touch the dust,
But please don't write in it.

There are have been times when you could, like now. And with 4 cats, 2 hours later you can't tell that you dusted, so why bother?

I just a few days ago saw another sign that said - You know that thing about, "Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return."? That's why I don't clean. It might be somebody I know.

[Ocelot II]

44. LOL! I like those. I have cats, too. They are gray and their fur shows on both dark and light surfaces.

Cat fur also creates substantial dust bunnies.

[3catwoman3]

48. We have one black and brown tabby, one tuxedo...

...and 2 Siamese mix siblings - a very dark seal point, and a pale blue point. We need either a calico or orange kitty to make sure all the colors are covered.

[Ocelot II]

49. Excellent!

[House of Roberts]

3. Vacuuming.

I have four cats and none of them are fond of the vacuum cleaner. I'd rather leave the dirt there than terrorize my buddies.

[Girard442]

4. Paperwork.

I hste that moment when you open up a document wondering if there's a "gotcha" there.

[True Dough]

13. Even worse was back in the days

when it was easy to lose a bunch of unsaved work. I had a serious sense of dread if I had typed up a few pages and then something happened to the document and all the content was lost. Starting over again was THE WORST!

[milestogo]

17. Back during the era of Windows NT

I was working for a high level executive. He was writing a speech on his computer. He disiabled the autosave because IT TOOK TOO MUCH TIME. Well at the end of the day he closed the document without saving it.

Next day, he couldn't find it. He expected me to perform some kind of magic. But it wasn't there because he had never saved it in the first place.

[True Dough]

18. I know that feeling as well

After losing documents, I would sometimes spend the better part of an hour trying to figure out if it had auto-saved somewhere. I was just hoping against hope that it could be recovered and spare me having to redo my work. Never was fruitful, but I tried!

[milestogo]

21. I re-imaged a machine that belonged to an engineer.

I had told him to back up his work. I told him I was going to re-image his computer, but he didn't understand what re-imaging was. He always saved to the hard drive because he said it "took to long" to save to the network. We're talking about a few seconds.

So he had no work to show for the last six weeks. He was designing an engine and it was gone. Pretty soon the department head was in my face telling me that they were on a deadline and we had to get it back. "Cmon, we all watch CSI. We know there are ways."

So I started searching and I found a company that could do recovery at the "sector" level, as long as it hadn't been written over. Amazingly we were able to do this over the internet. The diagram was 98% recovered. It wasn't cheap, but the engineering department paid.

Not a technical failure- a communication failure. Engineers are damn smart but they don't necessarily understand IT lingo.

[True Dough]

22. Wow!

That was never going to be a recovery option for me, but fascinating to know it's out there!

[milestogo]

23. I can remember my supervisor saying "that's great, but I'm not paying for it."

A couple of weeks later one of his programmers slipped on the ice and dropped her laptop... the hard drive fell out. So she brought it to me. I had to mail it to the company. The cost was $2K but everything was recovered. My supervisor paid for it.

This is why backups are so important.

[True Dough]

19. I know that feeling as well

After losing documents, I would sometimes spend the better part of an hour trying to figure out if it had auto-saved somewhere. I was just hoping against hope that it could be recovered and spare me having to redo my work. Never was fruitful, but I tried!

[Drum]

5. Peeling garlic cloves, de-seeding lemons.

[Mark.b2]

6. Cleaning the grill...

We use ours lots in the summer, and I can’t stand for it to be nasty. Yet, I hate cleaning. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone and bought new grates rather than clean the old ones!

We have a local company that cleans grill. I’m seriously thinking it’s worth the $100!

[Sanity Claws]

7. Cleaning the cat's litter box

He sprays a bit when he pees so I also have to change the weewee pads that I have around and behind the litter box. Ugh!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Clipping my toenails! 😬

[True Dough]

14. This is why

you should be practising yoga. Then you could just gnaw them down to size!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. That's

stretch!

[Diamond_Dog]

9. House cleaning, period.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if it would STAY clean but I live with 3 men and a dog……

I remember an old Phyllis Diller line comparing keeping a house clean to shoveling your walk before it stops snowing. So true.

[Grim Chieftain]

10. Decluttering

We have a big twelve room Victorian/Queen Anne and every room is filled with items inherited from my grandma and my mom. Of course, each item has sentimental value, so it's not only a chore, but an emotional task as well. It's made worse by the fact that we have no kids and no one to pass it down to.

[Ponietz]

11. Folding laundry -- all that time wasted messing around with something that's already clean!

[milestogo]

12. Ironing was worse.

I still have two irons and an ironing board. I don't know why because I NEVER buy anything that needs ironing.

[Polly Hennessey]

37. It's not the folding I hate, it's putting the folded clothes away.

I have a pile of neatly folded clothes in the laundry room. Now if I could just get the energy to put them away. 🧺

[3catwoman3]

46. I have semi-joked many a time that if I were raising our sons again, I wouldn't bother...

...with dressers. Get 2 giant laundry baskets. One for clean, one for dirty. When the dirty clothes one is full, wash them and switch the baskets. They seldom put anything in the drawers anyway, so why spend a lot of money on a dresser?

[Aristus]

15. Dusting.

Unfortunately, it’s also Mrs. Aristus’s most hated chore. So between the two of us, our house looks like Disney’s Haunted Mansion most of the time.

[Mme. Defarge]

29. Beat me to it!

And today is the day. At leastI have a good audiobook to listen to to lesson the pain.

[Aristus]

41. Mrs. Aristus and I are summoning the courage...

[2naSalit]

16. Cleaning the bathroom...

I used to have to do it for our large family, I hated it then, hate it now even though I live alone. I do it but I hate it, even with gloves on.

[CTyankee]

24. Unloading/loading the dishwasher. I'm in a retirement community so I don't have the awful housework I used to have.

But standing too long in one place is really hard on my arthritic spine...

[Mme. Defarge]

30. Ha!

Each time I remind myself that it’s 10 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.

[bif]

25. Weeding

Especially under the hot sun.

[happybird]

27. Dusting or changing the sheets

Yuck

[Phoenix61]

28. Washing dishes. I don't have a dishwasher

and wouldn't use one if I did as it's just me. Fifteen years of waitressing and I despise touching dirty dishes.

[Skittles]

33. I don't use a dishwasher either

too much work

[Bayard]

31. There's so many, its hard to just pick one.....

I used to be a fanatical house cleaner. No more, no more. I get to it when I get to it. Most horse people I've ever known have much cleaner barns than their houses.

[LogDog75]

34. Cleaning the outside of a toilet

This inside is not problem, squirt some toilet bowl cleaner in the bowl, run a toilet brush to around the inside and under the lip and done. It's not getting down on my hands and knees to spray a cleaner on the outside of the toilet and wipe it dry but getting back up.

[Endlessmike56]

35. Washing walls

[3catwoman3]

45. Oh, gawd, I used to have to help my mother wash walls when I was a kid.

Haven't done it since moving out in 1976, and never plan to do it ever again.

Did you know that you should was from the bottom up rather than the top down? The way my mom explained this "rule" was that if you started from the top, the dirty water from the first pass of washing up high would trickle down the walls and leave streaks that wouldn't wash away.

[Zackzzzz]

36. I don't want to cook schnitzel, ever again.

Delicious but, oil spatter on the glass cook top,
Oil on the counter around the cook top, Oil on the
can that holds the utensils, Oil on the back wall
of the cook top. Oil in the pan. Washing the big,
heavy pan, putting the pan away, Cleaning the sink.
I'm exhausted.

[mike_c]

38. yard work of any kind

I just don't enjoy it. Never have.

[CozyMystery]

39. Changing the sheets

[cksmithy]

40. Any type of house work, I was slave labor as young as age 8, until I married and moved out at 20.

I love working in the garden, pruning, planting, edging the small amount grass in back yard, hand watering, adjusting the water features for the birds that stop by. I do the cooking, clean the pots and stove top, husband does the dishes (load the dishwasher and a few hand wash item) and vacuuming. I do the laundry and folding. He does the mowing, I do the trimming, pruning, he picks it up. I have arthritis and other autoimmune issues, it works out great. We are in our mid 70's. He has clean laundry and I have a freshly mowed lawn. Life is good.

Dusting, polishing, vacuuming, ; these are the things I hate to do.

[Beringia]

42. Visiting Facebook

I do it once a week, but never enjoy it. Just want to see any family pics or visit one person I like who posts about the Palestinians and what is happening to them