Mine is washing dishes.

If left to my own devices, I will let dishes collect for a week in my kitchen sink.

Fortunately, I have a dishwasher. And a wife, but she doesn’t enjoy doing dishes either, but at least it’s a shared misery.

  • @[email protected]
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    Dishes would be the worst, though having a dishwasher it becomes emptying it. Still almost dishes.

    But leaving anything in the sink is just making your life more difficult and the dishes doubly so. Your sink will be useless because there’s things in it and washing anything means you have to dig out all the slimy dishes from the sink.

    Sinks and corridors and doorways need to be kept clear at all times, otherwise they become unusable.

    • @Num10ck
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      71 month ago

      yep, a sink is a tool, not a place.

  • Call me Lenny/LeniM
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    121 month ago

    Raking leaves ranks up there. Rakes have to be one of the world’s most unreliable yet unquestioned inventions of all time.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      191 month ago

      Then don’t. Your local small mammals and insects will thank you.

    • @[email protected]
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      Please don’t rake leaves unless necessary, it’s harmful to wildlife and biodiversity. Or if you do use them as mulch for gardening.

      • Call me Lenny/LeniM
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        101 month ago

        I wish it were this simple. Depending on where one lives here, different forms of yard work are legally encouraged.

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          Hence the “unless necessary”.

          And I’m guessing this is the US. It’s quite a hilarious double standard that the land of the free forces you to keep your yard in a certain way lol.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      21 month ago

      sympathies; we have to rake relatively quickly due to the large number of trees and the constant rain (PNW). If you leave it on the ground it’ll kill anything underneath, and if you leave it on the sidewalks or road it quickly becomes treacherously slippery slime piles. I look at it like: fuck, again, I just fucking raked, goddamnit, but if I don’t it’ll be even worse, fuck.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    Also hate dishes, have wife. It works out because I do the chores she can’t or hates, and vice versa.

    Before that, my solution was to turn dishes into dish. Use one plate, one fork, one cup for everything. Quick wipe for dry meals, wash when actually dirty.

    • @RBWells
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      225 days ago

      We are a mirror of you. I like to cook, husband doesn’t mind dishes so he does the after-dinner cleanup. But yeah same thing, he is good at things I am not good at. I do garden, household AV and tech, finances, all the cooking, he does kitchen, remembers to change the filters in the air conditioner, maintains the cars, we outsource a lot of the other cleaning.

  • edric
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    81 month ago

    Does mowing count? I hate doing yardwork and I do it just often enough to not get a notice from the HOA.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      61 month ago

      The history of humanity hasn’t experienced tyranny, injustice, and oppression like HOA edicts.

      /jk I love my HOA. looks around

    • @bitchkat
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      31 month ago

      I sold my house and got a condo because I was over yard work and snow blowing.

      • edric
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        31 month ago

        I was actually really looking into a condo/townhouse for that very reason, but when I was home searching, the high monthly HOA dues and the fact that condo prices were practically the same as a house, plus the higher interest rate vs a SFH steered me away. We’ll see, maybe in time I’ll get tired of it and do the same as you.

        • @bitchkat
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          21 month ago

          Yeah, I wasn’t happy that the condo is at 3.25%. The HOA fee covers insurance, water, internet, garbsge, heat, cooling, etc. My individual insurance is like $200/year. By the time I added all the things I was paying in addition to PITI, it was a, wash at worst.

          I purposely wasn’t looking at buildings with elaborate amenities because they tend to have higher HOA.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      two years ago we dug up the front lawn and replaced it with mulch, moss, and succulents. drainage is MUCH better, bees and hummingbirds live in the bushes next to the house, and it’s so much nicer.

      worth considering if your HOA won’t bitch.

      • edric
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        11 month ago

        Yup, I am considering that and starting to budget for it. If the HOA is a bitch about it, I’ll do it in the backyard and cut my total mow time by at least 40%. It will also reduce my water bill.

    • veroxii
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      11 month ago

      I hate mowing but I do it because if I get someone else to do it they’ll do it wrong.

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    81 month ago

    Most of the things I hate, I can automate.

    A dishwasher means I only have to wash knives now.

    A Roomba means I only have to vacuum the corners, stairs and under the table.

    Nobody really appreciates how much hand washing sucks, so I’ll mention washing machines too.

    Gardening sucks, but you can pick plants so that you really only have to do it once a year.

    My husband does dusting and windows, because he’s 40cm taller than me and I’d need a stool to do it. In return I do the mopping (with a steam mop, because the mop-bots all kinda suck)

    That just leaves hanging and folding laundry, which really isn’t so bad, and I don’t see a machine doing that (affordably) any time soon.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    81 month ago

    Cleaning the bathroom. Everything else is disliked equally, but the bathroom has a special place in hell.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    I’m bad at cleaning in general. A year ago I hired a cleaning lady to come every other week and it has been such a game changer. It’s worth every cent.

    • @RBWells
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      225 days ago

      Same here. I am an indifferent housekeeper at best, can manage to cook without absolutely wrecking the kitchen but no chance of remembering everything that ought to be done. Husband does know how to do all that but we both work and want some free time, she can do in 2.5 hours everything that would take both of us a whole day to accomplish. One of the best decisions we ever made.

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    61 month ago

    Plowing snownduring the winter.

    Here where I live we get tons of snow. Waking up extra early during winter only to go out and lift 100shovels of snow is the least tempting thing in the mornings. Does make foe a good workout session though 😅

  • @ickplant
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    61 month ago

    Laundry, specifically folding it. I have ADHD so my brain makes it out to be a much bigger task than it actually is. I hate it so so much.

    • @count_dongulus
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      91 month ago

      I dated a girl who tossed underwear, socks, athletic pants, “house shirts”, etc haphazardly into drawers. Reasoning was, doesnt matter if they wrinkle. She only hung up her shirts and whatnot. No folding.

      Total game changer. Laundry is now the easiest chore I do.

      • @ickplant
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        21 month ago

        I sort of do this, but it’s not super haphazard because otherwise the drawer doesn’t fit everything. So there is still folding involved. I should simplify my wardrobe…

      • @NotMyOldRedditName
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        11 month ago

        I have a steam iron. If my tshirt needs to be wrinkle free, I can give it a quick steam day of.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      21 month ago

      I don’t enjoy it, but it is satisfying to have done, and at least stays cleanish for a few days if not weeks; vacuuming the entryways and stairs, on the other hand, looks like ass twenty minutes later and takes approx 15 hours off my life. ugh.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    Yea doing dishes is the worst. Sometimes after being stuffed I just want to chill but I’m just making matters worse since it’s harder to clean if it dried already. I also have a dish washer but not everything can go inside, like pans and such. This means they are constantly dirty and in the sink until I need them again (basically) lol.

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      Dishes and pans with dried on crud are the pits.

      I always try to soak everything before throwing them in the dishwasher, and even then it takes a pre-scrub to make sure they come out clean.

      Huh, whaddya mean? Pans go in the dishwasher just fine. Even nonstick stuff, these days.

      edit: Unless you mean cast iron or carbon steel can’t go in the dishwasher, yeah I get that!

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        I had the experience that the non stick coating is wearing fast if I do that. But tbh i didnt try in the last 10 years.

  • @TastyWheat
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    51 month ago

    Getting the mail from the mailbox.

    Last time I did, a huntsman the size of a small dog crawled out.

      • @TastyWheat
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        21 month ago

        Yeah that’s pretty much it. After that I took gloves and a big fuck off sized can of spray.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    51 month ago

    Scrubbing the stove, and I don’t avoid it at all. I do it promptly when asked and so thoroughly that it doesn’t need to be done again for a long time.

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    41 month ago

    Laundry.

    I don’t know why I hate it, but it piles up until I can’t avoid it