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Just don't do it.

A "self-making bed"..!?

I only hate laundry now that it's not in my building. Before that I actually enjoyed it. But lugging all that stuff out...ugh.

Laundry, but only because we don't have a washer/dryer in the apt. We have to go to the laundromat.

haha the name of the bed is "Selfy".. funny.

I used to hate laundry before I started using a fluff and fold. Costs about the same as doing it myself, and my clothes are much less likely to fall apart now since they read labels very carefully. Strangely, I enjoy vacuuming.

There are daily tasks? Maybe getting out of bed in the first place...

I would LOVE doing the laundry if I had a washer/dryer in my apartment. Having to carry it up and down winding stairs makes it less enjoyable. :/

I hate taking out the trash.

I think my favorite thing is just the regular tidying that leaves me feeling relaxed when I look around and feel like I accomplished something.

I HATE hanging up and putting clothes away. I would much rather throw them on a chair in my bedroom. I also despise mopping...although The Cure has made me see the light, and now I do it often.

I really enjoy doing dishes... It's like meditation for me. Anyway, I don't really hate making the bed, but I never get to do it because someone's always sleeping:

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I don't particularly enjoy lugging all my laundry to the basement and playing quarter roulette (there's about a 25 percent chance the machines will eat your quarters), but there's something very calming about laundry. My inner domestic goddess (usually DEEPLY repressed) gets a kick out of all the sorting and folding and hanging, and the weekly ritual of re-organizing the closet is very satisfying.

The chore I hate the most is taking out the garbage and recycling. It's silly, because it takes about five minutes and makes a huge difference, but I detest it. I hate the smell in the garage -- primarily exhaust, with a whiff of rotting food -- and I hate the way I always manage to dribble on myself when sorting the recycling.

I should confess that I do not perform any of the tasks on Gregory's list daily. In fact, some of them should consider themselves lucky to be done weekly.

I go to great lengths to avoid doing laundry -- I even buy more underwear so I don't have to lug it through the courtyard into the building's laundry room (which is inevitably completely occupied, so I have to lug everything back and wait)...

No, no, no. Until we go back to being nudists, dirty clothes are a fact of life, but having a washer & dryer right there in my apartment would just drag the process out & cast a pall of guilt over the whole day or the whole week. I suppose I should do a load of laundry...

Who needs that?

No, having a big, well-lit laundry room in the basement transforms clothes-washing from a form of solitary penance to a festive social event, allowing me to catch up on my building's news--Did you hear Mick just got cast in a show at the Goodman? Have you seen Chad & Traci's new puppy? And who's the new orange-headed chick on 3? Is that her practicing the cello all night?--and still get the whole dirty business over in just over an hour.

Besides, nothing beats a gigantic armful of white towels still hot from a commercial-size dryer. Try getting that feeling of absolution from a dinky apartment-size unit. Just try.

seems like my cleaning instinct only kicks in around 2am. thats the time I feel most inspired to vacuum (sorry downstairs neighbors), do dishes, and put all the clothes away. other than that, putting my coffee mug in the sink feels laborious!

That sales guy looks so earnest.

Why isn't "making the bed" a category for voting? I make the bed every morning. It makes me feel better about my bedroom.

I have a lovely new pair of front-loading w/d a few steps from the bedroom and still manage to go weeks without doing the laundry....

I hope the people who voted for "cleaning the litterbox" don't go too many days without completing that chore...ewww. I clean mine everyday no matter what. I owe it to my kitties.

I am so strongly against making the bed...conviently my significant other works nights/ sleeps days so I have an even better excuse. But even if that werent the case, I only make the bed to take photographs.

I think this is a rediculous...now if you want to make a self cleaning bathroom, I'd be all about that...

Since my apartment building went to a card-payment system for the laundry machines (we have a washer and dryer on every other floor - including mine) doing laundry has become a much more enjoyable experience! No more scouring for quarters or panicking over not having enough quarters for a cycle when something comes out of the dryer still wet!

The bane of my existance is cleaning the bathroom - especially the grout in the shower and the floors. Always has been, always will be...

(A self-making bed is just a stupid idea: How many hours would you have to work to pay for that thing?)

Of all the things!

I hate every single housekeeping chore--but we don't hire out.

Every single one.

I said vaccuming, but really since we don't have a carpet I mean "sweeping and mopping the hardwood floors".

My ex and I had a good agreement: we chose the household chore we hated most and the other person did it. This also worked for dishes, which we both did. I hated cleaning strainers (don't ask) and he hated cleaning silverware.

I've never minded cleaning the bathroom.

I would say vacuuming, but it's really not something I would call a daily chore....dishes on the other hand...they never end! If the sink is empty, I'm dirtying more! And I really like to cook, so I tend to generate a lot of dishes...so far, my solution has been music & books on tape on my ipod, but I long for the day when I have a dishwasher available.

mopping. it's the worst.

cleaning up after my husband - that's what I dread the most! putting away his shoes or picking up his clothes off of the couch or the floor. Our compromise - he does the dishes every night.

visualingual - super funny. I was about to answer the same way when I saw your comment. Making the bed is super hard. I get one cat off the bed and start to make it, then the next one jumps up. I get that one off and realize that cat three is already asleep under the covers

And when I looked at your photos, I realized I also have the same duvet cover.

The only thing I don't like is doing the bathroom. I would willingly trade laundry, dishes or most anything else to not have to do the bathroom. I do it because I like things tidy but it's definitely my least favorite job

I hate doing laundry enough that I just big fat will not do it. I send it out -- wash-and-fold AND shirts to be boxed. Boxed? If you don't have enough hanging space in your closet, you can have them fold them up to look like shirts look when you buy them, and they put them in a box.

I have a Murphy bed, which forces me to make it every morning, but which is so easy that it's kind of fun. What's NOT really fun is changing the sheets. I probably do that less frequently than I should since I hate that.

Once I start vaccuuming it's never really all that unpleasant and it never takes very long, but it's kind of a project to make myself take it out of the closet and just proceed to do it, so that doesn't happen more than once a month -- if that.

I love doing laundry! It's so easy, and it makes me feel virtuous (like I'm actually doing some housework...)

I don't like vacuuming, but I reallllllllly hate washing up.

I hate laundry (even though it's on site, the basement is a miserable place with molding walls that just seen to shout "potential carcinogen!"), but what I probably dislike even more is putting the clean dishes away. I enjoy washing them, I dread taking them out of the dishwasher (which we use as a drying rack) and trying to figure out how to stack them and where they go. I think it's because I'm too short to be good at it.