Worst Household Chores

[wstphal]

Also, before anyone bashes my boyfriend for still living with his parents we both work and help with the rent. But we just can't afford an apartment, and believe me we'd love to. lol

The person most concerned by that is YOU, and if you are OK with it, ignore anyone who criticizes!

 

[Maligator]

Dishes, by far. My boyfriend and I are living with another couple in a house and, while we all make a big show about doing our own dishes as soon as we dirty them - it doesn't always happen. Seeing a messy kitchen tends to stress me out, so I'll just do them..which is creating some bad habits from the roomies.

 

[dionythicus]

I changed the way I do the cat box. I have one of those two piece boxes where there is a cover. I take the bottom and line it with a trash bag and then put the litter in. When I change it, I just untuck the open part of the bag from under the catbox and lift up and throw it all away. It's worth the extra trash bags and litter because I don't have to deal with scrubbing cat boxes.

We have three covered cat boxes with liners, and two larger boxes that are too big for liners. It's a chore to clean five boxes, but liners make it easier. Its still the worst thing to do for me.

 

[Tula_Montage]

For me it's not hoovering, but clearing the floor of junk before I can start to hoover. I tend to just throw things on the floor ie if anything is on my bed preventing me from sleeping in it, it gets chucked on the floor. The same goes for if anything is on my chair, clothes, rubbish just anything that I cant be bothered to find a home for at the time.

Putting everything back in it's correct place after a week of this recklessness, is a major pain to sort out.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

I don't wallpaper, so I guess it's N/A for me

I picked dishes, bathroom, laundry, and picking up the dog dirt...with dishes by far being my most hated of them all.

I actually don't mind laundry all that much...but only when I have a laundry room on the main floor of the house, and I can kind of mindlessly do it here and there.

 

[Lucille]

We have three covered cat boxes with liners, and two larger boxes that are too big for liners. It's a chore to clean five boxes, but liners make it easier. Its still the worst thing to do for me.

You must have a LOT of kitties.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

We have three covered cat boxes with liners, and two larger boxes that are too big for liners. It's a chore to clean five boxes, but liners make it easier. Its still the worst thing to do for me.

I like using liners too, easier to clean when I do a complete litter change.

I used to use covered boxes, but found that I tended to spot clean them less (the whole "out of sight, out of mind" theory I suppose) so now I have 2 open topped litter pans (that have a snap on top part to make them taller so litter won't be swept out as much). I'm thinking of getting a 3rd box though...my 2 cats are uber finicky.

 

[requin]

Fortunately my boyfriend is willing to do most of the chores that I hate. :grin01: We switch off on most chores though.

I'm not too picky, I like to tidy & organize things, and I enjoy cleaning in general (even bathrooms) because I find it satisfying to see how much better things look after they're cleaned. I like to do laundry but I make my boyfriend put it away so I consider that to be a "split chore."

I don't mind cleaning the cat box, but I dislike cleaning the fish tank. I do most of the snake maintenance too and I generally enjoy that. When we had an aquarium I also took care of that which was fine...except for vacuuming the gravel, which is a pain.

I think my least favorite is vacuuming. Lucky for me, my boyfriend likes it, or it would almost never get done, especially not now that my poor sweet Roomba died.

 

[dionythicus]

We have several cats. I had to line the area around their boxes with black plastic, floor and lower portion of the walls, because our male tends to miss the box, no matter how high the sides are. That's why the automatic cleaning box didn't work, he peed on the mechanical parts. Sweet cat, but I wanted to kill him. lol

 

[crackerhead]

Dishes, by far. My boyfriend and I are living with another couple in a house and, while we all make a big show about doing our own dishes as soon as we dirty them - it doesn't always happen. Seeing a messy kitchen tends to stress me out, so I'll just do them..which is creating some bad habits from the roomies.

In grad school I had a room mate that never cleaned anything. She did laundry maybe once a month. Never in the year I lived with her did she clean her bathroom and the kitchen forget it! I admit to being messy but compulsively clean in my own room, but common areas need to be kept clean. Luckily we had separate bathrooms. Her's was foul to say the least. When it came to the kitchen I spent the first 6 months of our cohabitation cleaning up her forays in cooking/eating. I finally lost it when I came home from a very long road trip conference. I was sleep deprived, hungry and in need of a hot shower. I entered what possibly was the kitchen I remembered. Dishes, pots, plates and food covered most of the usable surfaces. Spilled crud caked the stove, the sink was full of congealed lard water and the floor was sticky. Luckily she was in class at the time or I would be writing this from a prison cell. Once I regained some semblance of control, my solution was to take all the dirty pots, cups, silverware and plates and place them is the middle of her bed with a polite note stating she could wash these along with her cloths given it was nearly the end of the month anyway. She was a tad upset with me but the point was made. She took meals, read that as take out, in her room from then on. My point is, say something to your room mates now before you are forced to some drastic measures.
Terri
PS - I kinda like house cleaning. It's cathartic and when I'm done I feel like I've accomplished something. I don't like it when my roomies mess it up though. I figure if I have to clean it, only I should get to mess it up!

 

[Russell]

I put other. I don't do chores. I have a wife. *beats puny little chest*

ok ok, I only tease! But she does tend to most things around the house. What I hate is taking out the garbage on cold wintry nights the night before garbage day.

 

[diamondlil]

I pay the boys to do the chores!:grin01:

 

[desertanimal]

I forgot about picking up clutter. That's really the worst for me. If something has a place, I can put it away, but if it has no place, I wander around aimlessly with it in my hands until Kristi takes it away and sends me to clean. I'll happily clean bathrooms and kitchen, put away laundry, wash windows, etc., as long as I don't have to tidy up.

 

[snakemom1961]

I forgot about KITTY LITTER. That has to be the worst job, which most times I can get my kids to do. But once in awhile I have to do it myself, and I HATE IT!...lol

 

[petpro553]

I didn't know people still used wallpaper...lol...seriously, In California I cant think of one persons house with it...

 

[jazzgeek]

Shut up and make me a sandwich.