I have to agree with those who hate folding clothes and unloading the diswasher. I loathe these tasks with a passion.
I also hate unpacking after a trip. I will live out of my suitcase until the last possible moment, tripping over it on a daily basis, rather than just put everything away.
As for housework I irrationally love…
I am an ironing fiend. I love it! My iron was a Christmas present, and I was thrilled.
Count me in on the hating to unload the dishwasher thing. I don’t know why I hate it. It doesn’t bother me to load it, and it doesn’t bother me to put away hand-washed dishes. Still, I’ve been known to handwash an entire dishwasher-load of stuff and then dry it and put it away because the dishwasher was full and I didn’t want to empty it. Stupid, huh?
Oh, Bibliocat, you might try a dusting method that traps the dirt and hair instead of just moving it around. Spraying a cloth with furniture polish before dusting works very well, and ostrich feather dusters are supposed to have a lot of static cling to collect all the gunk. I had a lambswool duster that was wonderful for trapping the dirt, and I adored it. Unfortunately, Dolly the Vicious Attack Hound also adored it, and the first time the cat managaed to pry open the cabinet where we keep the cleaning supplies, that was the end of the duster.
Erm… I thought that was making the bed…
I do have an ostrich feather duster! Unfortunately, my cat (a neutered male) seems to think it’s either his long-lost lover or his baby, and whenever I got it out to dust, he’d follow me around meowing pitifully. If he gets hold of it, he disappears under a bed and is either trying to have conjugal relations with it or is trying to nurse it.
Very weird… damn cats. :rolleyes:
I also have a Swiffer duster, which works really well. It’s more the moving stuff and having to put it back that annoys me.
I don’t mind cleaning the bathroom, loading or unloading washers, dryers, or dishwashers, folding clothes, or making the bed, but I hate dusting, vacuuming, and cleaning the cat litter. My husband and I have worked out an arrangement - I haven’t vacuumed or cleaned litter in years now, and neither of us dust. Hey, I didn’t say it was a perfect arrangement. As long as my mom comes over every couple of months, it’s a-okay.
I hate cleaning tile - specifically the shower. I use a shower spray periodically, and I have a bleach solution that I spray once in a while, but it really needs cleanser and a brush taken to it. I know it has to be done. I expect I’ll do it right before we move so the new owner starts out with a semi-clean shower.
I don’t mind laundry or dishes of vacuuming. I’m not too crazy about dusting. But I hate scrubbing tile.
I don’t mind cleaning the bathroom. It never gets really dirty, and since it’s such a small room I can have thw whole think sparkling in less than 1/2 hour, and I feel like I’ve accomplished something.
I hate folding clothes. I recently even hung almost all of my 1 year old daughter’s clothes, because I didn’t feel like folding tons of tiny shirts.
I hate putting up dishes once they’re dry and I hate vacuuming. I just hate lugging out our huge, heavy old Kirby and then putting it back up.
Putting away freshly washed dishes from the dishwasher. They’re SOOOO squeaky clean that, against dry finger tips, they have that 'fingernails on a chalkboard" feel.
And this IS for good reason (to me), HAND washing dishes. HATE it, absolutely despise it.
Housework done properly can kill you. I don’t want my epitaph to read: She kept a clean house.
I irrationally hate with a passion folding laundry and cooking. I have some bad memories assoiciated with these tasks… long story. It’s a purely irrational hate because folding laundry can be done in front of the tube, it’s a no brainer. And cooking, and I 'm a good cook, well, you get to eat it.
Cleaning my room.
I usually keep my door locked, and I pick my stuff off the floor when I feel it gets very messy. So I don’t see why it’s necessary to keep the floor visible. No need for anyone to see it but me, and I don’t mind!
Oh how freaky – my most irrational household hate chore is just what the OP mentioned, I cannot stand hanging up clothes. I’m not overly nuts about folding them and putting them away either, but it’s the hanging up thing that breaks me every time. Putting skirts on skirt hangers is even worse than putting shirts on regular hangers.
Oddly enough, I enjoy cleaning the bathroom. I think what I like about it is that it looks so clean so fast. The kitchen, for example, tends to get dirty about as fast as I clean it. (Anyone else have an SO or housemate who inevitably puts an dirty glass in the sink at the very moment you have just put the last clean dish in the cupboard? Pardon me while I have a nervous breakdown.) But the bathroom, I can usually maintain that sparkling clean for a few hours at least.
In the bathroom, the thing that I hate (and I maintain this is not irrational at all) is cleaning hair out of the drain. It’s my own hair, but once it’s in a soap scummy drain, it’s the most disgusting substance on the face of the earth. I literally gag while I’m doing it, and sometimes I have to stop, rest, and get the gagging under control before I start again.
I’m with you, though probably cooking is the thing I hate the most, closely followed by cleaning the kitchen after someone else has done the cooking.
Have you tried one of those hair-catcher strainer things?
All of it. I’m not a tidy man and make no apologies for it. I have a high tolerance for clutter and feel that no one on their death bed ever said “gee, I wish I had spent more time cleaning.”
Cleaning the rabbit cage. It’s on the small side (cage not rabbit), so it has to be done at least twice a week, and even then reeks to high heaven. I hate it hate it hate it.
Second, cooking. It generates a TON of work. First you plan the meals for the week – there’s at least an hour gone. Then you shop for the food & put it away – minimum, hour & 15 minutes. Every day, you make the food – say 1 1/2 to two hours minimum, including the b’fast, lunch, & dinner meals. Then you have to rinse the plates, load the dishwasher, wipe the counters, put the leftovers away… oh kill me now.
I love to eat, but is it worth the trouble? No, no, no. If I didn’t have two kids to feed, not to mention a husband, everything I ate would be premade.
Mrs. Furthur
Hey, uhh, wanna come hang out at my place?
In addition to bathroom cleaning, I hate ironing. It’d make sense to iron a whole stack of business shirts on the weekend while watching TV, but I always end up ironing just one shirt every morning before work. Hate it, hate it.
I also don’t like putting clothes away, but I’ve found a solution to that. I have a few spare bedrooms in my house, so one room has become The Clothes Room. I throw cleaned clothes into semi-orderly piles on the floor of said Clothes Room, and burrow through the piles when I need to get dressed.
… possibly the Clothes Room is the reason I have so much ironing to do, but that’s the way it goes.
I hate taking out the trash.
And doing the dishes. We don’t have a dishwasher, so I have to do them all by hand. My hands get all dry, and it takes forEVER.
Also, the kitty litter.
And washing clothes. It takes soooooooo long. Especially since I live in an apartment building, and I have to run upstairs and down so many times.
Doing anything other than tossing clean clothes in a different pile than the dirty ones.
Ok, I do hate housework, but I hate it rationally. I have very good, convincing reasons to hate it. Still list it?
I’ve picked up a couple over the years, but they never seem to catch all the hair. It doesn’t help, I think, that our bathtub is very old (let’s call it “vintage”) and the drain area is somewhat uneven so I don’t think the hair catcher is making a good seal. The one that worked really well also caught all the water , making it not very productive for taking a shower.
If you have a particular brand of one that you would recommend, I’d definitely check it out!
Cleaning the Frigidaire. I hate cleaning up the muck that has accumulated…you know, the spilled milk and little dried shards of carrot tops and old meat cake. Just hate to do it. The worst part is the clear platic drawers that have to be hand washed and dried and NEVER get clean. I wish I had a high powered hose and a drain hole in my kitchen floor so I could just rinse the damn thing out.