A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Household chores

So I'm bored and I was wondering what houshold cleaning chore you dislike the most.....so poll me your answer. Did I mention I'm bored.

What do you dislike the most? single choice
	Laundry
	Mopping/Scrubbing Floors
	Vacuuming
	Dusting
	Cleaning Windows
	Cleaning Tub
	Cleaning Toilet
	Making Beds
	Doing Dishes
	Other
Votes accepted starting: Nov 28th, 2007 at 09:22 AM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

I love to clean so don't know what to tell ya on that one

You've gotta be lying! You LOVE to clean?

My mom loves to clean, didn't seem to quite rub off on me though!

Yup, I clean everything every day. But I do only mop every second day now because I wore the shine off my floors. Good thing most of my cleaners come from the dollar store

Oh, and it helps that I have a small house.

I get really overwhelmed somedays....I need to clean my bedroom today it's getting too messy even for me....

You can come clean here!!!!!

Sure, will Mark complain? DH has been known to hide the vacuumn on me. He says it's like living in a full time McDonalds here~You get served your food and have someone sweep under your feet at the same time

Mark would love it!

Where do you get all of your energy from? Lots of caffeine?

No, I was always high energy. Drives my family nuts. Oh, my mom called and said she got me the little Green Bissel machine for Christmas, DH will be thrilled....not.

Cool, share the energy will ya? YOu think he'd be happy to have such a clean, active wife.....you'd die if you saw my bedroom---not dirty, just clutter and lots of it....maybe I will do it all----later.....

Loz you'd think huh? Nope, he complains every day for me to sit down and leave things alone. One day he totally lost it when he seen me scrubbing the inside of the washer~apparently your not supposed to do that.

Loz you remind me of my daughter, her room is a MESS all capital letters as you can see. Says if she cleans she can't find. Go figure. I'm more like Tamara I love to clean, and have everything in order.

Oh I wish you could come to my house and clean! I do not like to do it! My mom is a clean freak and it didn't rub off on me either Loz. I wish a little bit of it would. My house is not dirty. It just gets cluttery. The last thing I want to do when I get home at night is clean house. My house is by no means spotless. I have lots of bins in the basement I need to go through too.

Maybe it skips a generation. My grandma is a clean freak as well but my daughter?....we won't even go there DH tells her to prepare herself because if she ever has kids the 'Board of Health' will be taking them away from her.

Is she that bad Tamara? My house is not like that but it is definitely not always in order. Tristen always has his toys everywhere and it seems like the mail gets thrown on the counter and nobody goes through it for a couple days and stuff like that.

My daughter is like my mother~a pack rat. They can't throw away anything.

You could use the 'other' button.

I am not like that but DH is. I told him that I am going to go through stuff and throw a bunch out and he will never know the difference.

My real answer would be....All of the above if it was a choice!

My daughter is a pack-rat too, was like that forever it seems. I remember cleaning up with her when she was younger and she wouldn't let me throw a thing out, if I cleaned up without her she never missed anything.

I'm a pack rat too lol

I am like jessica--only i don't work outside the house. Mom was sick this fall ansd she knew i could not help her--so she called a friend and asked her to scrub down her porch !!--because that needed done---yep it muct skip a generation-

I am thinking that it does. It sounds good anyways!

Yeah, I'm not dirty or anything but I am a semi pack rat and I have stuff from years ago I just can't throw out....

That's my issue...too much stuff. And no willingness to pitch most of if.

Cindy you can't pick all but laundry, just the ONE you hate the most, let's say Hell was you doing that one chore over and over and over again day after day, which would you hate the most?

I chose dusting. I hate dusting. But if you could look outside my window right now you might understand it. They closed down the freeway intersection that I look over for a dust storm a while ago; visibility about 10 feet. Humidity is about 7% so everything is charged with static. I don't live in an air tight house and don't want to. So all of that dust from all of that wind.....

There may be something to the every other generation thing,,

My grandmother was very clean,, I can remember after meals she would take all uneaten food from plates , wrap the foods up in newspaper and take it straight outside and throw Hmmmmmmmm Some where, , I have no Idea I never followed her,, She scrubed her kitchen floor everyday,, and the bathroom floor 3 times a week,

My Mother is a packrat Big time!! . besides not minding general clutter,, tho the last few years she has been going thru boxes and piles of junk deciphering whether it is of value,, IF she thinks we( her kids) would want it them she mails it to us,, . Sorry to say what I recieve in the mail 80% of it I then throw away or gets shredded and goes into the compost pile ,, UNless it is photographs,, or family history records,, She has been doing this so when she's gone, we "won't be stuck having to go thru it all.. " Thanks for being considerate of us, MOM!! WHEWWWWWWWWWWW

Me?? I'm a tidy freak,, everything has a place , and there is a place for everything ~~~I can use,,IF I havent' used it or worn in 6 months ( besides winter/summer clothes, it gets tossed I don't let papers stack up,, or mail,,,, Because I was told in Jr. high school,, piled papers sitting long term gets paper mites,, I decided wayyyyyyy back then to never let papers collect Mites!!,, and I dust my bed frame and vacuum my mattress once a week so I don't have to worry about,," DOn't let the bed bugs bite!!"

My daughters,,,, Took after My Mother,, See Refererance about BIG time!

tina, i picked mopping, but had i been able to choose 2, dusting would have been the second one. i remember living in 29 palms... when the dust storms would come through... even in so called "air tight" spaces, we would find dust. it was awful...

and i still hate dusting!

she should have made a cindy poll......what household chores are most dangerous, pick all but one!

I'm not a freak after all I do the same thing. In fact I dare all of you to empty your vacuums and then vacuum your mattresses~you will be shocked at the white powder(dead skin cells) that you'll collect. Wait til DH comes home tonight and I show him this topic

I hate housecleaning in any shape, form, or fashion!!!!

And since I got tired of my son almost giving me the white-glove test when he comes over, I got a housekeeper!!! (spoiled rotten! That's what my family and husbands have always told me me!) Do ya think?

It's ok for you to be spoiled rotten Shirley. How often is your housekeeper there? Does she dust? I hate to dust.

Shirley cleans before her housekeeper comes Love ya Shirls!

Then her housekeeper is spoiled.

She would be wouldn't she!

I don't think I could stand a housekeeper, I'd be scared my stuff would get all moved and messed up.....I guess if she didn't move much and just straight cleaned I could handle it.

A housekeeper could come and scrub my toilets and floors and I wouldn't complain! I wouldn't even clean it before the housekeeper came.

now there is an idea---hire a housekeeper to clean the bathrooms, scrub the floors, vacuum the carpets & perhpas wash the rugs---I could do the rest!!!!

now THERE is an idea!!!!

I wish I could afford to do it Carol! It is a good idea though!

I'm very surprised nobody voted for cleaning out the tub yet! After laundry that's my main gripe with housework....I hate doing that. It's not so bad now though that Mark isn't roofing anymore....he used to come home so black and dirty.

Well I really don't mind any of them but I voted for the windows cause I hate dirty ones and the winter here is hard on my level with the yard windows in the family room and my office- I open them and wash them as fast as I can but they get spotted in a week again so thats what I really hate - doing them over and over and it's cold! I like clean windows!
My kids all skipped my cleaning genes too- a couple of the older grands tell me I am way to clean.... none of them are clean freaks though... will have to see if the grands have it as they grown older...
Nana

Nana

If you lived in the country like I do, your windows never stay clean.. THe bugs dust and air keep it that way.. Insects galore......

I try to keep clean, but like Loz says some places are yuk to do .. Bathtub and commode drive me to the funny farm........But one joy I do enjoy, is washing clothes.........I like that job.
Beats me why.......Maybe glad to have a modern washer .. We grew up with the naughty ringer types.
These still amaze me.......

First thing I loved when I got married,,,,,,,,was having 2 bed sheets.. I thought that was class..........LOL