The Worst Chore

Laundry. Universally despised.

OP please tell me you use the trick of turning the duvet inside out and then grabbing the corners of the comforter and then shaking it in?

Dishes

Scrubbing the floor!

I don’t mind doing laundry. I find satisfaction in getting out stains. It’s just the folding and putting away part that I don’t like.

R2 WTF? I can't even picture what you're suggesting.

OP what I tried to describe is the first method in this article.

Unclogging an unflushed toilet full of crap. You feel foul and gross while figuring out what to do with the wet plunger.

Cleaning the bathroom in general.

Cleaning the damn tub is the very worst. Back-breaking.

Unloading the muthafuckin' dishwasher.

Who doesn’t have a cleaning lady?

CLEAN the catbox!

GROSS!

R8 WINS!

Having my pussy grabbed by the orange monster.

Ironing.

[quote]Is there any chore worse than inserting a comforter into a duvet?

[quote]OP please tell me you use the trick of turning the duvet inside out and then grabbing the corners of the comforter and then shaking it in?

R2, if OP had the brains to figure this trick out, I pray that he wouldn't be on DL complaining about how difficult something is that takes 10 seconds MAX to do.

Then again, DL, so he probably uses it and is still complaining about it.

If he hasn't figured it out, I have to marvel that in the internet age that anyone would spend time doing something he finds so odious without taking the aforementioned 10 second to google to see if there isn't a simpler way to accomplish the task. Lack of brains strikes again.

vacuuming the carpet and scrubbing the kitchen floor suck. I hire a cleaning woman to do it. I will do most everything else. I need to find someone to wash my windows. I also hate washing my car but I do it regularly so that the finish stays nice.I ruined my last car by not keeping the body clean.

Cleaning the cat box. Everything from scooping out the clumps to scrubbing it. Makes me gag.

Sitting there waiting for Powder Plunger to work while you’re wondering exactly when did you ate corn.

“Darfur Orphan, please weigh in.”

Cleaning up behind the village missionaries, just to get 30 minutes of free WiFi to connect with you Fat Whores.

Laundry. Well, it's especially hated in my household because we don't have a washer/ dryer. So, once a week we gotta drag our clothes and other articles to a place to a place to wash -- where folks let their children run wild, fights break out, and weirdos left and right.

I thought getting a cleaner would improve my life and rid me of chores, but I always find myself cleaning up before she arrives because I don’t want her to think I’m a filthy bastard. Kind of defeats the point.

I loathe dusting. x

Try untangling an unruly mass of freshly washed leg warmers, bitches.

Dealing with a duvet cover is even worse if you have a weighted blanket, and the inside-out method doesn’t work for that. Or at least I’m too weak for it,

Pfft. Amateurs.

Scrubbing your cat's crusty diarrhea from the litter box.

Scrubbing diarrhea splattered onto the wall BEHIND your cat's litter box.

Giving your cat an enema.

Top those, bitches!

Polishing the chrome on my Rolls.

Rotating the mattress by myself is more tedious and back breaking for me than fiddling around with comforters or scrubbing the bath tub.

I have two housekeepers (a man and a woman), so they usually take care of these things; I despise ironing clothes and drying dishes by hand.

Cleaning the oven.

R5, What about dealing with skid marks?

Any organizing that is enforced, at a shared office and involves fraus. As a man I learned decades ago to do everything they wish during the FORCED time together and even then, there will be exasperating control freakiness and twists and turns that make the temper boil and one cannot and should not say anything.

The Hurricane Spin Brush has made scrubbing the bath tub a breeze. I highly, highly recommend it.

I hate sweeping and mopping the floors. I use a swiffer but it's still a pain in the ass.

R11: sigh, I forgot that one:

* shampooing the carpet after your poor kitty with diarrhea steps out of the litter box, then scoots his butt across the carpet to wipe.

I hate emptying the dishwasher and putting away clean clothes.

Cleaning the litter box is a hardship for me. I use Fresh Step Lightweight Unscented. It clumps pretty well and makes scooping a breeze. I have 2 litter boxes (the high-sided ones) so I don't have to do a clean, fill, and replace.

[quote]What about dealing with skid marks?

Especially on those poly-blend caftans!

Comforter clips make duvet covers much easier to deal with.

I'd have thought Darfur Orphan would've said doing the dishes.

Doing the dish.

Darfie, we need to get you adopted by BILL TAYLOR once you're of age. You two are my fav people in here.

Life's tough. Get a helmet.

PS. I'm gonna have to turn in my gay/bi card because I'm not sure what a duvet is or why there's a cover for it. I know it goes on a bed and I've seen packages of them at Home Goods.

I don't know what a duvet cover is either R41. I'm guessing it's a cover for a couch or that wrap-around cover that goes first on a bed.

R41 R42 t's a large pocket you put a quilt into. Like stuffing a felafel. Easier to wash regularly than cleaning the quiltlike duvet.

[R 43} What's a felafel?

ok I know it's food but what food?

I wonder if eating falafel gives people who stuff duvet covers with duvets the strength they need to go on with life?

I will willingly do any of the above mentioned chores other than dusting. Can I hire someone just for that?

Actually the chore I really dislike is cooking. I guess because I buy a lot of fresh food and have to cook it before it goes bad, whether I feel like it or not. Sometimes it goes bad. I open a can of tuna or salmon, pour half a can of chickpeas and leftover ziti on it, and nuke it. As you can tell, I'm single.

Other thing I hate is laundry because I live in a third-floor walk-up and the laundry is in the basement. Literally have to set a timer and go down and change it over, and all that.

I don't like cleaning the bathroom, either. I can't breathe if I use any chemicals so I have to scrub with baking soda, vinegar, and dish soap, until my fingers are worn to bloody stumps. Occasionally use some bleach and run out to fling all the windows open while grabbing my inhaler.

Interesting question. I’ve never really thought about it. I’ll have to ask Consuela.

R33 does that gizmo work on floors? I’m too old to scrub on my hands and knees anymore.

Surprised no one has said the shower. I hate cleaning the shower - goes without cleaning way past the point it should.

I said the tub, but in our case, cleaning the tub means cleaning the whole tub and shower. Yup, it's the very worst job I have to do.

I am exhausted at the mere thought of scheduling the maid. This is my most dreaded task. I need to hire a personal assistant to handle these details, as I simply cannot tolerate it.

Dusting is the worst. Oh, and floors. Awful.

Now that I have in-suite washer and dryer, I'm happy to do laundry all day long. Not a chore at all.

R46

I find that cheap shampoo (Suave or White Rain) is the best cleaning option if you can't use anything toxic. Very little scrubbing required.

R8 This vid helped me out. Now I unclog toilets like a champ!

I don't do chores anymore. I hire people do do literally everything I find unpleasant. Life is too short to scrub toilets and mop floors.

[R 54] Thanks, I never heard of that. Sounds like a great idea. I use Seventh Generation dish soap, though - it's probably similar. if you mix it w/vinegar and a little baking soda it gets off soap scum and rinses pretty easily also.

For me, the worst is signing the consent form to have your child taken off the respirator. Each time, I expect it to be easier, but every time is just as bad

There is some terminal terminology confusion happening here. Quilts and comforters are not at issue. They go on the bed as is and are easy to manage, although never as neat as a bedspread.

The OP, contrary to his own words, is talking about inserting a [italic] duvet[/italic] into a [italic]duvet cover[/italic]. I'm surprised that, at the DL of all places, it has taken 59 responses for someone to point this out.

Anyway, getting the duvet inside the cover is only the beginning. Once you've accomplished that feat, there's the matter of getting the duvet + cover to look even remotely neat on the bed. I gave up on duvets years ago because I couldn't get them to look neat and smooth rather than lumpy and messy.

I envy people with live-in maids who can make a beautiful bed every day, with a perfect, taut bedspread, perhaps overlaid with a bright, attractive coverlet - although it would be a shame to cover up a gorgeous candlewick bedspread with anything.

R59: Mary!

A full time job is by far the worst chore.

[quote] I envy people with live-in maids who can make a beautiful bed every day, with a perfect, taut bedspread, perhaps overlaid with a bright, attractive coverlet - although it would be a shame to cover up a gorgeous candlewick bedspread with anything.

Really? My mom taught me how to make a bed when I was something like 8 years old. Even live-in maids don't have to get a degree in the subject. It's pretty easy to make a bed.

Vacuuming. I can deal with most housework but vacuuming makes me want to light things on fire.

I hate cleaning the tub/shower and vacuuming the stairs the most.

Duvet in the cover is easy: lay it on the bed and fold each side in so they meet in the middle. Slide the cover on like a pillowcase, pulling it toward you. Reach in and unfold each side and push the corners into the corners of the cover. Shake it so it settles evenly.

Related question: with a down comforter, how do you keep it from going flat in the middle and puffy around the edges? It has baffle construction and I rotate and shake it regularly but the down constantly migrates to the edges. My dryer is not big enough to run it on fluff with tennis balls, so in between trips to the dry cleaner some of the baffles seem like they are "empty" and left with just the top and bottom fabric so it's not warm at all.

Polishing earrings

Ironing caftans

Douching.

Ironing Folding Organizing Doing the dishes Cleaning the bathroom The living room The bedroom The kitchen

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Folding fitted sheets - it's fucking witchcraft. I'll never learn.

Fucking Caitlyn Jenner.

Dragging an ungrateful hellion down to the laundry room. Backbreaking.

R67, double return for a line break.

The duvet thing sucks so much that it angers me to do!!!!!!! Its such a pain in the ass. Also laundry, vacuuming, dusting, floors, windows. I do it but ugh. LOVE to cook! But the cleaning thing is so boring. Folding the fitted sheet is something I gave up on years ago. I just roll it.

Cleaning the oven... which is why I haven’t done it in over a year, and we use the oven every day. (No, it’s not “self-cleaning.”

Yes, emptying the dishwasher, ESPECIALLY the sorting of salad forks from regular forks.

Putting gas in my car - I hate it.

r76 Move to Oregon or New Jersey.