We’ve just decided to hire a cleaning company. The dust is overwhelming me. I hate to vacuum and dust, damn hard wood floors and wool carpets, and two cats.
I actually like folding laundry and making the bed. Fresh, clean clothes and bedsheets are good things.
I’m neutral on things like washing dishes and cleaning toilets. Got to be done, that’s all.
On the other hand, no one asked but I absolutely loathe ironing. I suspects this dates from my youth, when I would wake up to hear my father ironing stuff at 3AM before he went to work. Somehow seemed like the most desolate, depressing thing ever.
Also not mentioned, shoveling show out of the driveway by hand was another horrible task (we never had a snow blower like the other Rockefellers on our block). What’s the point, I’d argue hopelessly, it’s just going to snow again!
And, er, based on what I’ve seen here, I guess I should clean my venetian blinds one of these days.
-I love changing the sheets - nothing like fresh sheets
-Laundry is easy. I bring up the clean clothes and fold while I watch TV. Husband puts
away his own clothes.
-Washing dishes is ok - I don’t have a dishwasher unless you count the 1958 model - my
husband! I do a lot of my thinking and pondering while I wash dishes. I let them
dry in the drainer and then put them away later.
-Toilets don’t bother me too much. It doesn’t take very long. I don’t understand how
people just use drop-ins. The bowl is the easiest thing to clean! The rim, under the
seat and the pedestal part - a drop-in doesn’t clean those parts.
-Vacuuming is ok if I don’t have to pull furniture out from the walls. We don’t have
carpeting anymore, just area rugs. But I vacuum the hardwood floors.
- Mopping floors not a big deal.
- Oven cleaning is done by the self-cleaning oven. The stovetop is smooth so easy to
wipe down. - Shower/tub - don’t like it but do it every week. It’s mostly just soap scum on the
walls (neither of us ever takes a bath - only showers so there’s never a bathtub
ring). - Absolutely HATE dusting. I only regularly (weekly) dust what I can see while I’m
watching TV! The rest will get dusted before company arrives. - I haven’t ironed in 20 years. I just get things out of the dryer and hang/fold right
away. I also don’t buy any clothing that requires ironing. - Window washing…UGH I put that off as long as possible. They’re dirty again
within a few days. - Interior of fridge - yuck But I love to admire it after it’s done!
- Cleaning closets - only done when absolutely necessary.
Changing sheets is… okay. But: you know how inserting a USB device blindly requires at least 3 attempts? Especially with King beds, I end up alternating correct and incorrect multiple times. I had thought the corner stitching would be a clue, but nope. Some go up the sides, others the head or foot.
My wife hates laundry, specifically the folding part of it. Folding, I don’t mind at all. I even prefer it over her method, which is putting everything that can be reasonably hung up on a hanger. Now I’m apparently the “designated fitted sheet folder” because I can do it well.
My least favorite task is washing dishes. First, because hand-washing takes forever (I’m thorough; if I have to do something, I don’t half-ass it), and second, because it involves getting your hands in hot murky water for a long time. Bleah. I’d much rather clean toilets than wash dishes.
In fact, that’s another category that ended up with my name on it: poop. Anything involving poop, appears to be my job. Toilet plunging, dog scooting, things of that nature. If it involves a butt, I’m in charge, apparently.
I’ll gladly take scrubbing a toilet over cleaning the fucking tub. Cleaning the tub requires me to contort my back in terrible, painful ways for goddamn ever while I scrub it. The toilet is significantly faster, much easier to wipe clean, and doesn’t require to break my back to get at.
Oddly enough, I actually like to do the dishes. Making order out of chaos. Unloading the dishwasher is also easy. I hate mopping floors and I especially hate cleaning the tub. Fortunately we have a cleaning service for those things. Both my wife and I enjoy cooking (not to mention eating) and she does the laundry, although I would and sometimes help with the folding.
They had me thinking the drop-ins were bad until I realized that I could change out the “toilet guts” for around $20 and an hours worth of time. I’ll probably change the whole toilet before I ever have to worry about the additional chlorine causing problems.
I usually break out a copper pad, turn on the shower, and scrub a bit before taking a shower. I’m sure I’m not completely thorough because I’m blind as a bat when showering, but it eventually all gets cleaned.
True. I’m only wary because last time the bolts were rusted on and it was an arduous several hours journey of trying to derust them, failing, and eventually having to saw one off.
We have terrible rust and our shower gets stained almost immediately. We use freaking toilet bowl cleaner on it to get rid of the rust. So that’s up there as one of the worst.
Finding dog poop in our yard that is usually snow covered is not great fun.
But oddly, I hate changing the sheets and pillow cases on the bed. Not a big deal, can turn music or the TV on, takes 15 minutes or so. But bah. I just hate it. I think I often find my self distracted, and forget to put some pillow cases on, only to discover that when I’m ready for bed.
Hate putting sheets on the bed. Getting the mattress semi-lifted and the corner of the sheet in place – oops, popped off on the other side, gotta heave that mattress corner up – always leaves me panting for breath.
Hate vacuuming. Haaaaaaate it. Hate the noise, hate the weight and how it makes my wrists ache, hate the smell that all vacuums seem to have. Hate the noise doubleplus. (Rumor has it Santa may be bringing me a Roomba soon, which would solve at least some of those.)
I don’t mind the doing of the laundry, or even the folding of the laundry. But for some reason I’ll procrastinate the hell out of the putting away of the laundry. Clean, neatly folded, and I wind up leaving it sitting around for days. ><
Old school mopping sucks balls but it doesn’t really clean well, either. So I got one of those super lightweight Swiffer “mops” which is essentially nothing but a long handle for their disposable floor wipes. (Don’t gimme the environmental bullshit, either; with the amount of crud wiped up I’d waste tons of clean, hot water washing anything meant to be reusable.) I genuinely enjoy using the Swiffer!
But you people who claim not to mind scrubbing toilets are unhinged, completely deranged, and also, welcome to come over anytime. I’ll even fold your laundry for ya!
It’s not the washing…it’s the putting away.
I hate cleaning the refridge. I generally put it off til before the next holiday, whatever it is. So about once a month I go through it. Even though Mr.Wrekker swears there’s a casserole dish with something in it we had last Thanksgiving. Just because it’s green and fuzzy doesn’t make it old.
It’s not cleaning the bowl that I hate about cleaning the toilet; it’s the exterior, especially the bolt covers on either side. It involves getting on my knees, reaching around, and not much elbow room.
I, too, loathe cleaning out the fridge. I wish containers and their contents would self-destruct after a week.
But blinds are the worst, and I rent, so there’s no getting away from them. Washing them in the tub is a chore, and then you have to dry them so they don’t drip all over, and then you’re still only one set down.
Whatever happened to shades? They block sun better and are so much easier to clean.
Tub cleaning hack: Get one of those shower cleaner spray bottles, spray it about, leave it for 15 minutes, turn on the water and scrub the tub with a broom (I have a dedicated shower broom so it doesn’t get other crap all over the tub). Clean in a couple of minutes with minimal effort. You’re welcome. 
I don’t mind cleaning too much since I’ve moved to a studio apartment. Tiny bathroom = clean in 20 minutes. Rest of apartment = dust the major furniture, sweep the floorboards, Dustbuster up the dust, give the kitchen counters a wipe down and run the dishwasher. Whole apartment cleaned in an hour or so, or a little longer if I bother to do once in a while things like clean the inside of the microwave/oven/refrigerator (cover food and don’t spill stuff everywhere in the first place and it’s much easier). I used to hate vacuuming (solution: no carpets!) and doing dishes (solution: dishwasher!). I love fresh sheets but making the bed is always a pain.
Suburbanite guy here. I recently took on more of the household cleaning as a trade to get a lawn* service. Vacuuming, mopping and bathroom scrubbing are a breeze compared to wrangling lawn mowers, trimmers, edgers, etc. in the Texas heat.
But holy crap I hate dusting. Toilets? Tile? Kitchen? No problem. But I dread dusting.
*We had a satisfactory division of labor, but a medical issue a few years ago forced me to avoid heat/allergens and hire a landscaping company. So it seemed fair to either offer her maid service, or take on the tasks myself. She chose the latter to save money.
Dog hair everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Dog poo frozen into ice outside the back door. Dirt and sand the dogs have tracked in. Tired of the dog mess.
I hate doing dishes but my husband doesn’t mind it so he does them 98% of the time.
I love tidying and organizing and tossing stuff but am not so great about keeping things clean. Sigh.
I’m not going to vote because my answer is exactly as obnoxious at Icarus’s above.
But I trainwrecked here. ‘Webstering’? Do people really call it that? Really?
A new one on me, too. Maastricht writes: “cobwebs… I leave them right where they are. Nature, man.”
I concur there. To paraphrase St. Francis, “Don’t persecute Brother Spider; he too is one of God’s creatures”. Plus, Bro. S. helps keep down the numbers of some of His really obnoxious creatures.
I hate cleaning blinds so much, I buy the cheapest ones and replace them every two years.