What chores do you not enjoy?

Eating.

No, really.

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Cleaning the oven. I'm too tall. It's cramped. The interior is lined with black metal and the substance that I am supposed to be removing is also black.

I'm too OCD to do the self-cleaning oven thing. It isn't self-cleaning. That's the logic that killed so many grunts in Vietnam with the original M16.

 

According to the history books, due to the shortage of weapon cleaning kits and lack of operator manuals detailing the maintenance process, some of the poor saps in olive drab issued the original M16 were falsely told that it was self-cleaning. The direct impingement gas system combined with the wrong type of propellant (dirty old military ball type, instead of the newer and tested stick type), the aforementioned lack of maintenance training and weapon cleaning kits when used in the sloppy jungles of South East Asia killed more than one round-eyed 18 year old. Totally fucked a lot of grunts.

/threadjack

To stay with the thread:

I hate cleaning the upper receiver of the AR15 (M16) type rifle. Biggest pain in the ass of any gun I've ever owned aside from a Ruger Mark II pistol.

 

Cleaning the shower.

Other than that, it's all fine.

 

Fucking yard work. Even the equipment maintenance is too often and expensive when you compare the engine run time. I could complain on and on. ...why does the spindle on a weed eater spin in the direction of your shins and cause bodily harm? If it turned counter clockwise it would throw the trimming and rocks away from you. SOMEBODY FIX THIS

 

You have to hold the trimmer to your left and work moving backwards, which is counter intuitive for most people. I'm half-assed ambidextrous so it doesn't bother me.

I hate performing just about every type of indoor housework: Sweeping, mopping, vacumming, cleaning counter tops, showers, toilet bowls, etc.

 

I have no problem mowing the lawn or maintaining the bushes, but weeds. FUCK WEEDS. My landscaping in my backyard is some sort of weed super-breeding ground that cannot be contained

 

Dishes. I'm really good at getting a lot clean quickly, but I've hated doing them ever since I got the hernias. Reminds me too much of that job.

The crud on the oven walls looks different than black metal though.

 

We got a portable one for around $120 at home depot. It wasn't too bad.

 

Mopping the vast expanse of tile floor in this giant house is super boring. I almost miss vacuuming.
I find yard work fun, tho'. I consider it the equivalent of playing outside. Gotta sweep the walk pretty frequently too on account of the dry dustiness. Don't mind the excuse for outside time.

 

Meh for chores, revisited four years later, in current descending order of dislike:

1. Picking up chihuahua shit from the back yard, the rug beside the front door, the kitchen floor, the living room floor, inside his crate, or anywhere else he decides to unload.
2. Cleaning the kitchen countertops, especially after girlfriend prepares any meal
3. Scooping the litterbox
4. Cleaning the bathroom
5. Sweeping/mopping the floor

The last two are a lot less soul-sucking now with a spankin' new bathroom and newly refinished floors within the last year. But now that they've been redone, it makes taking better, frequent care of both more necessary.... and I'm still lazy.

I don't really mind other housekeeping-type chores, and my house is pretty small, but honestly I wouldn't mind hiring a monthly or every-other-week cleaning service, just to deal with all but #1 and #4 on that list.

 

folding clothes.....

 

Housework in general.

Hanging up shirts to dry. We let our laundry pile up, so when I do it there are many shirts, which I place on hangers to dry.

Tedious. Foul mood.