so. actually i don't mind, laundry. but everything else? well its call chores for a reason

april, did you grow up in a Jewish neighborhood? because spring cleaning is a thing (connect to Passover). its part of why i hate cleaning. yes, wash down the kitchen walls, take everything out of the cabinets and clean them...and on and on, and my mom wasn't even that religious.

KK - I hear you on the cleaners. Such a luxury - one I didn't grow up with and never had as an adult until I was 52. Same with central air. I never take either thing for granted

I enjoy doing laundry, always line dry and don't even mind ironing. I enjoy cooking. Washing dishes is bearable. I hate vacuuming and cleaning bathrooms. Fortunately DH does the vacuuming. Spring cleaning is also a thing here that I never experienced in South Africa. I think it may be linked to a definite 4 season climate.

Cooking and gardening are more hobbies than chores for me too. But so is supporting local restaurants
April, my mother also had a tendency to be critical of cleaning efforts. I made a point of encouraging my kids to do it their way, to improve their own environment rather than meet some arbitrary standard. Of course I’m not perfect at this

My favorite is sorting and organizing my makeup and skin treatments, trashing any expired and replacing.
I will never, ever, clean a dirty oven. No way. As some of you may remember I moved from North Carolina to Ky. about 3 years ago. And rented a nice apartment. I stayed with my son and DIL while it was painted, new carpet put
down, new flooring, etc, etc. A delight to move into, until I opened the oven door.
Can’t you feel that I am still ANGRY. I tried lightly cleaning it a couple times and it didn’t work. I have now moved again. I never used the stove and oven there and don’t have one here!!!
Please don’t judge me too harshly. I will be 89 in June. I had 3 children in the sixties and a clean oven and I even had to defrost the refrigerator!!

Kk - nope, I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, where the most exotic folks we ever saw were - gasp - Protestants.

Then when I was 12 we moved to a suburb of Pittsburgh which was less Catholic but not any more Jewish. I did, however, marry two Jewish men (not at the same time, of course) and therefore have learned a lot about the rules/laws/traditions.

If I had to clean the house with a feather to make sure no chametz was hiding anywhere before Passover - well, let's just say I might have hopped a freight train long ago.

Jules - high five! I did the same, more or less. My son was allowed to have his room as neat or messy as he wanted and I tried to butt out and ignore anything I didn't like. I taught him to "swish and swipe" his bathroom every day (see Flylady) and spray down his shower walls with a daily shower spray and then I just left him to it.

It helped that, as a teen, he had the whole second floor of our cape cod house to himself, so I never really had to confront whatever was happening up there.

I enjoy vacuuming, dusting and making the bed. It is all about immediate gratification for me, and I can SEE those things. I don't mind laundry.

I have two sons and a husband, and I dislike cleaning the bathroom (no big mystery there). And apparently putting toilet paper on the roll after the last one runs out is beyond any one else's capabilities. It would sit on the counter forever if I didn't put it back on the roller!

Dh mostly cooks, and I am happy to do the dishes in that case. He is the better cook and I bake.

And I absolutely refuse to take out the garbage.

Such a fun topic thanks to all who contributed.!!
I am going off a bit but as a woman in a house with 4 males ..I got a kick out of this:
I visited a bathroom once that had a framed print above the toilet.
" My aim is to keep this bathroom clean...your aim is appreciated"

Bridgie, I hear you on cleaning an oven. Mine has a self-cleaning option but you have to use it on a cold day because the oven locks itself and gets to something like 550 degrees F for three hours.

Still, that's the easy part. The hard part is the racks, which get scrubbed by hand. Yuck. Maybe I'll try just running them through the dishwasher on "heavy soil".

When we did our final walk-through before signing the papers for this house, the ovens had been left as dirty as dirty can be. My real estate agent pitched a fit. The hilarious part is that the sellers had had a personal chef come in to make their meals and had live-in husband-and-wife housekeepers. So apparently no one thinks cleaning the oven is their job!

I actually quite like most cleaning ... it's so satisfying to put in the work and see a tangible result. Even gross things like unclogging drains don't bother me too much. I have learned to do some minor repairs too (changing faucets, replacing window cranks, changing indicator bulbs on the car, etc.) and love doing those once I figure them out; I feel so clever lol!

And my absolute favourite is doing a full clear-out of anything ... a closet, a drawer, the garage ... I could do that all day every day.

I actually detest grocery shopping though - I couldn't tell you why, but it's the worst and I minimize it as much as possible. I try to make it fun by figuring out how to be the most efficient (organizing my list by aisle, packing the groceries at self-checkout by where they go in the kitchen, etc.).

*clinks glass w Helena about loving clear outs and repairs and detesting grocery shopping with every fiber of my being*

I like doing yard work, clearing my trails, washing the cars and paddleboard, and feeding the pets.
I don't mind cooking (sometimes) and general cleaning and tidying.

I hate giving dog meds (so does he), cleaning pet messes, doing any kind of paperwork, and hauling our recycling to the bins. Not a fan of putting laundry away in cold weather either, cause So Many Socks :/

ST - I am recommending to you a life-changing device for dealing with socks.

Companies that offer devices for the blind sell sock maters or sock sorters. See below. You just push both socks into the ring, wash them that way, dry them that way, then toss them in a drawer. No sorting, folding, rolling, just grab and go.

DH swears by them and even this thickest Bombas fit in one ring.

April those look pretty cool. Do they also help with the mystery of the missing sock?

They do indeed, IP. It's rare for a sock to work its way loose from the little contraption, and two socks make too bulky a package for the washer or dryer to lose.

You have to rely on the sock-wearer to slip dirty socks into the device each time they undress, but otherwise - foolproof.

I'll look for them next time I do a Big Warehouse order- thanks! There's so many socks cause I wear thinner trouser socks during the day, and warmer thicker ones to sleep in- so potentially 14 pairs in a week :/

Luckily sock season is coming to an end