Comments on: Friday Fun Thread: Best Chore/Worst Chore

By: Phoenix Talon

Phoenix Talon — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:52:33 +0000

I hate laundry. It takes too long and it’s thankless.

I do like doing dishes. I don’t know why. It’s relaxing. I get a ton of thinking done. I also like cleaning my bathroom and mopping.

I like mucking out stalls, also relaxing, good zen time.

I hate organizing stuff, like my desk and tables and such.

By: Lindsay Beyerstein

Lindsay Beyerstein — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:13:25 +0000

I love shoveling snow. I enjoy grocery shopping and cooking, but I don’t really see them as chores.

I’m indifferent to taking out the garbage, but I hate taking out the recycling because, every two weeks, we have to tiptoe down the stairs with it and sneak it into someone else’s bin because, for complicated Brooklyn reasons, we don’t have curbside recycling at home.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:47:04 +0000

@Mackey: My arms might reach…you’d just need an adaptor so I could plug in my Dyson vacuum cleaner. It makes vacuuming so much more fun. Dysons are expensive, but I bought mine a few years back with the $300 I got when George W. sent us all a tax rebate to buy himself some popularity. I refer to my Dyson as “President Bush”—because he gave me the money, and because it’s the only thing that sucks as long and hard as his presidency did.

By: Mackey

Mackey — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:03:55 +0000

@Becky – if you wanted to vaccuum my place, I’d gladly have you round. Would your arms reach?

By: Mackey

Mackey — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:34:00 +0000

I really hate doing chores full stop.. growing up in a house with lots of kids and being one of the elder ones I started doing chores from a young age, and found that even when my younger brothers and sisters were the age that I started doing chores they did not.. Yes I still have issues.

Since I live with my SO I have learnt to overcome some of my hesitation and feelings of hate, because he helps out and we generally both share the chores. I’m more in tune with the quick whip around at night and packing the clean dishes away. He’s good with the food prep and making the bed.

That said, I don’t mind doing things like the cars (checking water, oil, tyres, brake fluid, cleaning them, etc).

By: Brennan

Brennan — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:19:47 +0000

@ Es,
I second that observation. I still find it strange that I would rather muck 6 stalls than clean up after Aging Dog once.

By: Es

Es — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:54:14 +0000

Having just come back from a day’s teaching riding, I was thinking about this thread and the difference between home and horse chores. I find mucking out stables strangely zen, and sweeping the yard. I wonder if it’s because it’s harder physical work so I get that ‘good tired from exercise’ feeling?

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:23:27 +0000

@Av0gadro: Stay at home moms earn feminist karma points and don’t you forget it!

@BearDown: Oh, I don’t know, a nice light extra virgin olive oil for sauteeing…

I like shoveling snow. I like the quiet of a snowfall and saying hi to all the neighbors. I like cutting the grass too. Not so crazy about the litterboxes, but they *are* my cats, so…And I find laundry satisfying because it feels like I’m actually accomplishing something. Mr MM handles bathrooms and vacuuming. Our house is in constant need of dusting. I feel guilty every time I read a book in which a character fondly remembers his/her childhood home that always smelled like lemon-scented furniture polish.

By: viajera

viajera — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:00:30 +0000

I’m uptight about the kitchen and bathroom being clean at all times. If so much as a drop of something spills on the kitchen counter, I have to wipe it up right.that.second. Even if my boyfriend tells me not to worry about it. Though this doesn’t extend to putting dishes away. I’ll happily wash them – and, as I’ve lived without a dishwasher for years, that’s usually by hand. But then they sit in the rack until I use them again the next day, and the next. I *despise* putting them away only to pull the same dishes back out the next day. Same goes for putting clothes away, though I dislike the look of clean clothes in my hamper or on my floor. Otherwise, I rather enjoy doing laundry – we have machines in our house, and I love the smell of fresh, clean clothes.

Other jobs I hate: anything having to do with cleaning floors, e.g., sweeping or vacuuming. I’ve been known to go months without sweeping my floors.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:16:18 +0000

@beardowncbears: have you tried ca.gawker.com? The new format is so bad I’ve been using the Canadian and UK URLs to get the old format. Not sure how long that will last, tho.

@Avogadro: OMG, you will so be raking in the feminist karma points with that, as well as doing a great service to humanity. My three otherwise extremely intelligent little brothers spent the first 18 years of their lives pissing all over the bowl, the floor, the seat, etc. because they just did not give a fuck—had they actually been made to clean up after themselves, they might have learned to aim better. Instead, my stepmom and I only used one bathroom in a four-bathroom house because the others were like giant pissoirs.