# Household chores/tasks you LOVE to do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 31, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785 "2003-01-31T02:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/1 "2003-01-31T02:24:58Z")
I’m moving into a new place this coming Saturday and I have to clean up the new place a bit as it has been vacant for a few months. I hate cleaning but I was ecstatic when I noticed a broken window in the kids bedroom! I worked as a glazier back when I was 21-22 and it was a fun job. I loved cutting the glass, setting it and warming up the putty in my hands, then rolling it out into long strings like the snakes you used to make in grade school art class. I hired movers to move all my crap,I may accept my girfriends help to clean up but there is no way anyone other than me is glazing that window. BTW, I am horribly sick right now with tonsilitis and strep, am all medicated up yet I seriously entertained the idea that I could run over to the new place and finish prepping the window so I could go get the glass at the supply house in the morning! What chore/househod repair things around the house do you love to do? ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/2 "2003-01-31T02:56:18Z")
I really enjoy cooking meals but only when I’ve got the time to put some effort into it and am not rushed. Also really enjoy grocery shopping right from planning the meals to writting the shopping list through to unpacking it an putting it away. Its a good thing for me that leechboy loves grocery shopping to as its a cheap way for us to go out and have fun together 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/3 "2003-01-31T04:50:28Z")
I love to clean the lint trap in the dryer. Really. I’ll come to your house and do yours. ---
**Author:** ![Trob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Trob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trob)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/4 "2003-01-31T15:05:22Z")
I have to agree with leechbabe. I love the whole food thing. Shopping, cooking and even growing my own veggies. And I also enjoy curing my own meat and stuffing my own sausage. Oh and making my own pasta. I am thinking about a career change to catering. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/5 "2003-01-31T17:08:34Z")
Back when I lived on the east coast, I used to LOVE scraping the ice off the windshield of the car. Something very very satisfying about it for me. Nowadays, I have to settle for the squeegee, which is a poor alternative. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/6 "2003-01-31T17:49:32Z")
Another vote for grocery shopping/cooking. I don’t know why but I REALLY like it. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/7 "2003-01-31T18:09:57Z")
Yeah, I love grocery shopping too – all that interesting food! And you get free samples! Cooking is fun as long as I don’t have to do it every night; I usually try to make enough leftovers to last two or three days. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/8 "2003-01-31T19:11:12Z")
You people are sick! ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/9 "2003-01-31T19:34:54Z")
There are lots of chores I like to do. Whilst I love to cook, not too keen on the shopping bit. Love shoveling snow - especially when the dog is enjoying the snow too. Making the bed, especially with fresh sheets from the dryer/tumble Hoovering (vacuuming) Folding laundry fresh from the dryer/tumble Hanging laundry on the line in the summer Mowing the lawn ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/10 "2003-01-31T20:27:12Z")
I’m gonna echo the Grocery Shopping answer. My favorite is the cereal aisle. It always takes me ages to decide, but it’s like a grown-up version of the candy store. The deliberating makes it fun! Also–spring planting. I’ve got beds around my porch and beneath my front window and every year I’m so excited to go to the nursery and pick out a whole slew of flats–something different every year. And then I go home, and get to dig in the dirt for _hours_! And when I’m done it’s like instant gratification. Where once there was only bleak, empty, scrabbly little dirt beds, there’s now dark fresh earth elegantly dotted with bright beautiful flowers. It’s SO satisfying. My mom keeps trying to get me to plant perennials, but where’s the fun in that ? ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/11 "2003-01-31T20:36:13Z")
I quite enjoy cleaning the bathroom ( actual bathroom for you Americans, not the toilet ), especially when there is a build up of grime. It must be some sort of achievement thing! ---
**Author:** ![kirk280980](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@kirk280980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk280980)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/12 "2003-01-31T23:59:39Z")
Vacuuming and doing laundry… they’re both incredibly satisfying. Even more worrying is that I now quite like ironing, something I always refused to do until recently. Even better if you’re pressing starched sheets :). Loading the dishwasher always gives me a bit of a thrill, too - because I know I don’t have to stand at the sink and wash the pots myself! I’ve had that machine for three years now, and still the novelty hasn’t worn off yet. And yes, I know I need to get out more. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/13 "2003-02-01T01:01:41Z")
Ooh, I forgot about the dishwasher! my new apartment has a really nice Maytag so in anticipation, I have not washed a single damn dish spoon, cup or anything. (except of course my precious precious kitchen knives) I loaded up a moving box with nasty week old dishes, ran over to the new place this morning, popped them in, hit Heavy Wash and voila! sparkly clean! Oh man I dont think the novelty will EVER wear off Can you tell I am back to having a dw after 4 years without one? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/14 "2003-02-01T01:39:20Z")
I like preparing meals, whether it’s something as simple as heating a can of soup and making sandwiches or coordinating the preparation of a full meal. I usually try to keep a supply of staples and what I call “no-brainer” meals on hand, so that if I forget to take something out of the freezer or suddenly don’t feel like fixing anything fancy I have something to fall back on. Shopping for me consists of checking the ads for what’s on sale and stocking up on supplies based on that. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/15 "2003-02-01T21:21:03Z")
I like cooking and I love grocery shopping and that’s where you’ll sometimes find me on Friday nights at Costco buying food… and using those new Maytag Kenmore laundry machines that are front load, they rock, so doing laundry with new machines are very much an enjoyable satisfying experience. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/16 "2003-02-01T21:38:55Z")
I really like cleaning and organizing drawers and closets, rearranging bookshelves, and washing windows. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/17 "2003-02-01T22:56:16Z")
I like to split firewood. No, really. No… _getyourhandoffmyforeheadIam NOT SICK !!_😛 It’s very satisfying to all my senses… smell of the fresh cut wood, sight of the pieces splitting cleanly from the ax head, etc. Plus the reward is sitting in front of the fire. mmmmmmmm… I also like to cook. This is because I like to eat. I also enjoy redecorating (painting !). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/18 "2003-02-01T23:06:31Z")
I could easily hand wash dishes and vaccuum all day. If only it paid better. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/19 "2003-02-01T23:07:51Z")
Too bad we don’t live in a commune. We could trade off the chores. Iron? whatzthat? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785/20 "2003-02-01T23:47:35Z")
**big alex** , you must hold the secret to bathroom cleaning. Please tell me what it is. I hate cleaning the bathroom so much that I hardly ever do it, which just makes it worse, ya know? I think I hate it so much because I’m so bad it. No cleaning supplies seem to really do the trick. So what is the secret!? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/household-chores-tasks-you-love-to-do/151785.md?page=2)