https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:09:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1272625 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 05:19:46 +0000 Jeanie 1272625@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favorite: &nbsp;laundry - because I get to mess around with&nbsp;clothes!<br />Least Favorite - cleaning toilets... I live with boys. &nbsp;They do have cooties!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1272236 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:51:51 +0000 Alassë 1272236@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favourite: sweeping.<br />Least favourite: vacuuming/mopping/cleaning yucky toilets. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1272087 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:11:40 +0000 Carla 1272087@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hate vacuuming, for the same reason mentioned by rachylou. Can't stand the noise. I can usually count on DH to do it, but from time to time when it falls to me, I get very cranky! On the other hand, I like to wash floors and don't mind getting down on hands and knees with a bucket of soapy water and collection of rags. </p> <p>I like provisioning. Everything around grocery shopping and food prep, though sometimes I go through phases of waning interest. LOVE to bake. Love to garden. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1272045 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:33:55 +0000 April 1272045@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I guess housework is notoriously considered loathsome for the fact that it has to be repeated so often. &nbsp;</p> <p>I have to admit, though, that&nbsp;the instant gratification of cleaning makes it far more appealing to me than work whose outcomes are difficult to gauge or far in the future.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1272011 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 07:10:25 +0000 Gigi 1272011@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't mind vacuuming, but I absolutely detest everything else. The absolute most awful, dreaded chore that I have is to wash the dishes. I do have a very small countertop dishwasher that takes the smaller stuff, but anything that's not a plate, bowl, or utensil pretty much has to get washed by hand. It is my nemesis. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1271898 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:39:28 +0000 lyn* 1271898@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favorite: Spot cleaning!<br />Least favourite: Dishes </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1271853 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:51:35 +0000 Anonymous 1271853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have had a cleaner weekly for 5 yrs, and worth every penny. I detest, detest all cleaning, especially as I was the only one doing it for years. We are moving to a more expensive house soon and I told DH I would take a parttime job to cover the cleaner lol.</p> <p>Lugging out the vacuum and washing floors drive me nuts.</p> <p>Even with the cleaning lady I spot clean bathrooms and do laundry </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores/page/2#post-1271731 Sat, 07 Jun 2014 00:00:49 +0000 catgirl 1271731@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm with Kerry. Hate it all. Except maybe wiping down the kitchen counters and sometimes scrubbing the sink gives me an outlet.</p> <p>The one I hate the most is cleaning the bathrooms. It's just me and boys. Enough said. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271720 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 23:52:28 +0000 kerry 1271720@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ummm ...</p> <p>Favourite = none</p> <p>Least favourite = all</p> <p>This is why I pay for a cleaner biweekly. I took me years to figure this out. We've now had the cleaner for a year. It's been a game changer for me.</p> <p>I don't mind doing laundry especially when there is big pay off. There is nothing like getting into a fresh bed! One of life's delicious little luxuries.</p> <p>The cleaner frees me up to do other things like purge and organize. Give me a big one-time project and I am good to go. Give me and endless list of meaningless tasks that must be done over and over again - ugh!</p> <p>Now, give me bills to pay, budgets to create, investments to make or taxes to do and I'm all over it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271708 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 23:42:22 +0000 Janet 1271708@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rabbit, I'm probably keener on cleaning than cooking too, truth be told. </p> <p>But we do have someone who comes and cleans once a week. It's totally worth it to us! Three dogs = unrelenting dog hair! It's nice to know that even when we get busy, someone will still get the place nice and clean. I do spot clean all week long though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271658 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:38:48 +0000 Gaylene 1271658@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favorite: cooking and grocery shopping. I haven't followed a recipe for ages but use them for new techniques and combinations. </p> <p>Least Favorite: Hands down vacuuming and cleaning floors. No competition! My husband took over that chore after I had taken the corners off every wall in our house trying to drag that contraption behind me. Haven't touched a vacuum cleaner in forty years. </p> <p>Meh: Bathrooms. Not fun, but I like them clean and shiny. And, in a houseful of men, the only way to keep them pristine and up to my standards is to get down and dirty to do them myself. I have, however, trained the men in my life to wipe down shower stalls after using them, wipe out sinks after shaving, and use a toilet brush and cleaner when things get gross. My DILs thank me profusely. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271649 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:20:29 +0000 April 1271649@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is all so interesting to me. &nbsp;I've always had an unusual fascination with&nbsp;people's housekeeping practices, which is why you would probably never want to&nbsp;sit near me at a party. &nbsp;(Woo hoo -- preferred methods for keeping the tile clean! &nbsp;Good times.) &nbsp;:)</p> <p>For those of you who hate doing the shower, this is my method. &nbsp;Every morning while I'm showering, I grab the Magic Eraser and hit one portion of the tile and tub. &nbsp;I have it sort of mentally divided into four segments, and one gets done each day. &nbsp;I find being in the shower very enjoyable, so the extra one minute I spend doing this does not feel like work. &nbsp;After I'm out, I dry down the tiles and tub. &nbsp;I use my son's old diapers (yes, he's 17), which are flannel on one side and terry on the other. &nbsp;</p> <p>I can't get my son to do this in his shower, so he just uses copious amounts of the sort of shower spray you spray on daily when it's wet and that also seems to work fine. &nbsp;If he ever took baths I would worry about that stuff getting into the bath water, but I don't think he's had a bath since he was ten.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271643 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:15:57 +0000 Windchime 1271643@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favorite: sweeping hardwood floors. I love the look and feel of the wood, and it's gratifying to watch it quickly look better with every sweep of the broom.</p> <p>Neutral: washing dishes by hand, laundry, dusting, vacuuming.</p> <p>Least favorite: cleaning bathtubs and toilets. Although I appreciate how it looks afterward.</p> <p>I enjoy cooking and love gardening but don't think of either as housekeeping tasks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271593 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:23:56 +0000 Desmo April 1271593@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>All of them!</p> <p>Seriously, I hate all kinds of cleaning. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271524 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:12:22 +0000 rabbit 1271524@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I might be the only one who would rather clean than cook?</p> <p>In fact I've done the 'l'll clean the toilet if you cook dinner' swap more than once ;)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271449 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:59:31 +0000 Glory 1271449@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Most favourite - cooking<br />Lease favourite - all cleaning </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271445 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:54:57 +0000 Angie 1271445@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favourite: Cooking &amp; Grocery Shopping</p> <p>And the rest makes the other list. But, we have a brilliant&nbsp;cleaning service, so I'm not complaining.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271390 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:13:40 +0000 DonnaF 1271390@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favorite:&nbsp; Emptying our 18" D/W because it probably takes all of two minutes in our small kitchen.&nbsp; Laundry, except times like today when I discovered when folding that DH didn't separate grease spotted Ts for me to pretreat so they went through the dryer.</p> <p>Least favorite:&nbsp; Cleaning/mopping floors; dusting; vacuuming; cleaning bathroom; washing windows.&nbsp; Not sure about order. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271389 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:13:08 +0000 rachylou 1271389@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I probably hate vacuuming the most. It's the noise.</p> <p>My fave is probably watering the plants. I like my plants and am so happy I've found some that will grow in my light-less first floor apartment. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271350 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:04:37 +0000 Ledonna N. 1271350@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Favorite making the beds, least favorite washing and folding clothing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271322 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:42:05 +0000 rabbit 1271322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Most favorite (kind of in order):<br />-growing vegetables and harvesting<br />-brushing the cats<br />-grocery shopping<br />-laundry<br />-ironing<br />-putting stuff away, dusting, cleaning surfaces<br />-dishes<br />-emptying trash<br />-sweeping/mopping</p> <p>Least favorite:<br />-cleaning the bathroom (I use daily shower spray so that's not so bad)<br />-vacuuming (it's heavy and clunky)<br />-litterbox&nbsp;<br />-cooking</p> <p>I actually pretty much like and do&nbsp;all the cleaning chores in our house except one, I'm the cleaner, he's the cooker and vacuum-er.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271319 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:36:08 +0000 kkards 1271319@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>least fav: cleaning ---any kind. that's why i hired a cleaning company.<br />fav -- grocery shopping (is that a household chore?), followed by cooking. i love to go to the grocery store, i'll even do my mom's for her when i'm at her house. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271313 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:26:55 +0000 Laurinda 1271313@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Least favorite: Cat clean-up duties<br />Favorites: Hanging laundry outside (and taking it in) and&nbsp;polishing the stove to shininess with a microfiber cloth</p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271300 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:10:24 +0000 Isabel 1271300@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>DUSTING !!! &nbsp;UGH, just seeing it in writing is giving me a panic attack. &nbsp; : &nbsp;(&nbsp; </p> <p></p> <p>I LOVE ironing but don't do it much.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;I actually like cleaning the bathroom. A couple of years ago I switched to using a peppermint castle soap and baking soda and vinegar &nbsp;( for the toilet I use stronger stuff ) and I scrub with a hand brush. &nbsp;And the smell of the peppermint is just fantastic. I have also started adding a couple more drops of peppermint oil into the mixture. &nbsp;Even my husband will walk in and take a deep breath and say, " I LOVE the bathroom." &nbsp;LOL !&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271261 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:33:16 +0000 JAileen 1271261@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Least favorite: Cleaning the bathroom, especially the shower - my back hurts just thinking about it! I hate the soap scum accumulating on the glass doors. April I'm seriously thinking about your technique. Second least favorite is grocery shopping. Third least favorite is cleaning the refrigerator. Fourth least favorite is vacuuming - again, the back - oww.</p> <p>Most favorite: After some thought, I don't have one. Okay, emptying the dishwasher. Really, no big deal. I like having an empty dishwasher more than the emptying of it. Cooking is okay. I enjoy it when my family shows appreciation. I like when the weather is nice and I can put the sheets on the clothesline because I like sleeping on crisp sheets SO MUCH. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271230 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:55:17 +0000 kellygirl 1271230@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Worst: Cleaning DDs bathroom--the tub/shower. It's a back breaker. I'm going to have to have them try April's technique.<br />Fave: Vacuuming.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271224 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:51:33 +0000 Diana 1271224@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mo, I agree. I would like laundry if I didn't have to schlep it up four flights of stairs and fight with my neighbors for machines. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271220 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:40:44 +0000 Mo 1271220@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We have hardwoods and no dishwashers in either place, FL or Tahoe, so no vacuuming here. &nbsp;I used to enjoy it when I had a carpeted place. &nbsp;I do like to sweep, though. &nbsp;I start my morning sweeping the cat hair while the coffee brews. &nbsp;I don't like cleaning the toilets or shower. &nbsp;The hard water deposits on the dark navy appliances make it extra tough. &nbsp;BF usually does it, and has some industrial strength CLR type stuff.&nbsp;<br />I don't mind dishes by hand,&nbsp;<i>except</i><i>&nbsp;</i>for the plastic storage containers my BF uses as bowls for greasy food. &nbsp;It never seems to come squeaky clean. &nbsp;Pet peeve. &nbsp;He will dump a frozen meal out of it's perfectly good container into one of these to eat it. &nbsp;Drives me cuckoo. &nbsp;Why create a mess when you don't have to??<br />Laundry is neither here nor there. &nbsp;I do enjoy organizing the clothes and tending to them, but not schlepping it around. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271179 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:09:42 +0000 April 1271179@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't think any of these are weird! &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/your-favorite-and-least-favorite-housekeeping-chores#post-1271166 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:02:24 +0000 Janet 1271166@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Least fave: cleaning the bathroom. Specifically, the bathroom my stepson uses. He's actively apartment-shopping now, so YAY! </p> <p>Favorite: weird, but I don't mind doing laundry. Mostly because I know it will be done properly. (I.e., my sweater will not get thrown in the dryer on "high" and shrink enough that it will fit one of the pugs) </p>