What chores do you not enjoy?

If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore

 

I can imagine that easily enough. Four kids and three meals any given day (at least in the summer) makes quite a pile of dishes.
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Sarah Sylvia Cythina Stout would not take the garbage out......

 

Cleaning the bathroom. Its not well ventilated, only a small exhaust fan and no windows.

 

Vacuuming. Possibly because we have a heavy, clunky machine.. I tend to clean the bathroom instead and let the wife do the vacuuming.

 

There's a reason they're called chores you might reckon.

 

Cleaning the shower, but when I start seeing I have more varieties of slime growing in there than a rainforest I must capitulate.

 

I hate mowing the lawn. I'd buy a cow to do it for me, but then I'm sure the chore I hate most would be taking care of the damn cow. Figures.

 

does going to work count as a chore? Not that I hate the job or anything but just having to go there feels like a chore.

 

Yardwork in general. Especially gardening. Carrying anything upstairs. We have a steep staircase that my mother struggles to climb.

 

I also hate being free tech support for my family and friends. I'd rather hand wash and dry dishes than run a dishwasher. Even seems dumb to me, but it's the truth.

 

Dishwashing! I do all I can to avoid this one.

 

Taking out the garbage.

Vacuuming out the car.

Grocery shopping - I figure 8 years in the grocery business soured me on anything to do with a grocery store. I detest it with every fiber of my being, but when hubby does it he comes home with stuff that completely blows the budget, or weird spices/marinades/sauces that sit around and never get used, or the fixings for just one meal. He hates shopping too, so I just do it.

I don't hate much else. We live in a condo so there is no yardwork or snow shoveling. I don't mind most chores, I just detest a select few.

 

Shoveling snow, although this upcoming winter will be my first without snow, so that may change.

Never been a huge fan of doing dishes either, but seem to be getting used to it.

 

writing my weekly newsletter for the squadron. it sucks up valuable time i could be studying or sleeping. not that it isn't enjoyable, but if it were up to me, I would make it bi-weekly just to get enough time to investigate and research stories i want to put it and it would also put me in far less of a time crunch than i'm in now

 

I do not mind vacuuming or mopping, however I dislike sweeping the floor.

 

I have an 11 year old that has to do the housework that I tell him to. He gets the shit jobs:
loading and unloading the dishwasher
cleaning out the litterbox
taking out the trash and then taking the trash to the curb on Thursday night
mowing the yard (ok, most of the time I'll split it with him, because I'm nice and it's such a bitch)

We split sweeping and mopping and the general upkeep.

He does not do the following (due only to the fact that he's not good at it and I kind of like it done right, but God I hate it):

Folding the laundry - My son can't seem to figure out how to correctly fold a shirt, so I'm always stuck with the folding. I think I dislike this because I'm stuck in one spot and the laundry is hot. It makes me hot, therefore uncomfortable

cleaning the bathroom - I hate this job. It wasn't so bad when it was just me and my son, but now there's another guy in the mix and he has horrible aim. When an 11 year old boy can shoot it into the toilet and you can't, something is wrong. It's just gross.

Sorting the laundry - it's such a tedious task, I only do it when I have to. Otherwise, the clothes are getting washed in cold water.

Weeding - I don't do it. I can't stand it. Seriously, I have weeds growing everywhere, I don't give a fuck. If someone has a problem with it, they can fix it. I'm not touching those stupid weeds.

 

Litter boxes... definitely

Next up would be laundry.... all that folding and I never fold it correctly, though I swear the "correct" way is like the secret password of the day, it changes.

 

Anything that involves human hair, excrement, or (not and) the aftermath of anything undertaken by my wife. She doesn't exactly puck up after herself.

In exchange, she cleans our bathroom, and for this I am eternally grateful.