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I am with you. I could load a dishwasher all day but I HATE unloading it. Ugh.

putting away left over food after I cooked it and everybody ate it

Scrubbing bathroom tiles. I generally hate cleaning my bathroom but that task I find especially painful.

I actually love putting dishes away and won't start doing the dishes until my dishrack is completely empty. Actually a pet peeve of mine when people stack new clean dishes on old clean dishes.

DUSTING! I hate it, probably mostly because I have yet to find any method that actually works without me having to remove every single thing (books!) from the shelves, wipe them, and put them back. Won't someone PLEASE invent a duster that really picks it up, instead of just spreading it around more!?

My two most dreaded chores are mopping (I'm somehow fine with vacuuming) and cleaning the cat litter box.

Favorite: Washing dishes "by hand." That sounds weird.

Least favorite: cleaning any other room but the Kitchen.

Cleaning the bathroom! (toilet, tiles, etc.) I like it to be very clean so I find myself doing this dreaded chore 1-2 times per week. When I can afford it, I would love to hire someone to help me clean, even if it was just my bathroom.

we have a dishwasher but sometimes you need to wash dishes by hand. i HATE washing dishes by hand.

cleaning the bathtub. there's nothing more tedious.

the litter box and scrubbing tub and tiles:(

Vacuuming and drying the dishes by hand.

It is a toss up between putting away clean dishes and folding laundry and putting it away. I suppose in a way they are very similar acts explaining why I enjoy neither of them.

Most hated chore is laundry. It forces me to stay at home and do other equally hated chores between loads---laundry's sneaky like that.

I love clearing out the dishwasher, and I hate filling it up. Paging Dr. Freud?

well, back when i had a w/d in my place, my most hated chore was vacuuming. but now that i have to go to a laundromat, it is definitely the 2 hours of hauling the dirty clothes to the car in their heavy tub, trying to snag washers and dryers somewhat close to each other, hauling all the heavy detergent in a backpack, not being able to hang clothes up straight from the dryer, sitting with a bag of damp clothes that i will line dry when i get home, etc etc etc.

but if restricted to chores inside the house, definitely still vacuuming. between the cat hair and the spiders, the floors and corners never really feel clean.

DISHES BY HAND!! I hate it!

Like Signe, I dislike putting away dishes, putting away laundry. I also really hate washing silverware. I'll wash a tub full of dishes, just don't ask me to wash the knives, forks, and spoons! :-) I use plastic sometimes (when its just me) for that reason. I know, BAD!! BAD!!

Most hated - scrubbing the tub, cleaning the oven and the burner trays, vaccuming the sofa dusting (I have allergies).

Most liked - washing dishes, putting away the groceries, swiffering the floor, taking out the recycling, changing bedsheets, laundry.

bah! me too! I don't mind the dishes, save for the sore back, but man, I HATE putting them away.

For some reason I can sit and fold laundry for hours... but am loathe to take that extra minute to put it away in its home.

Most hated: anything related to dirty dishes.

Most liked: laundry

I don't understand the hatred of putting dishes AWAY?! that's the most satisfying part.

I'll to anything to put off doing dishes. I'll scrub the bathtub and the toilet before washing dishes.

I grew up in a dishwasher free household (actually, dad said we already had three of them - me mom and sis!) I've only had two apartments in my life with a dishwasher. So I've never understood people who keep the dishwasher full of clean dishes and then pile dirty dishes in the sink! Eww.. major pet peeve.

I'm in the "hate putting away" camp. Laundry and dishes and groceries. Just really annoying to me. It should be satisfying but somehow, it's not. I have to admit my laundry usually sits in the basket for days. Until I need the basket for new dirty stuff. So bad.

And I hate vacuuming. Mostly because I despise my vacuum. I have cats who shed so I have to vacuum all the time. I have lots of area rugs (7 in 700 sq ft) and I have to constantly switch from the "rug" setting to the "floor" setting. And I'm always worrying that the edges of my rugs will get caught up in the rotors and so I have to do this crazy split thing where I'm holding the far edge of the rug down with one foot as I very carefully guide the vacuum towards the edge. Drives me nuts. I clearly need a better vacuum.

Hate everything except laundry which I genuinely love to do. I love straightening the clothes and linens and putting them away all fresh and clean.

And I love to cook but I think we're talking about housecleaning chores?

The first thing I would do upon gathering my vast lottery winnings would be to hire a full-time live in housekeeper (well, maybe first buy a house big enough for a ...) I would love to have a perfect house with no dust and clean floors and my shoes polished and the windows washed.

Favorite: watering my plants.

Least favoritelaundry. especially a full load of whites. so many socks to match up and countless drawers. and that is after wrangling everything back into the pile that has fallen onto the floor from my trip to the dryer to the bedroom to fold.

I guess I am really weird because since I drastically downsized and purged so much of my stuff, there are not really any chores I hate. One advantage to a very tiny place and I love it all clean and tidy. I have a dishwasher but for just me I usually do them by hand. I have a clothes w/d so laundry is not a chore. Stove is self-cleaning and fridge is frost free. I can clean the whole tiny place thoroughly in about 1 hour. I guess vacuuming is my least favourite as mine is loud.

No contest - scrubbing a toilet - that has to be the worst.

I'll put away your dishes! I don't like washing them.

What I really really hate is anything related to the bathrooms!

Hate: dust mopping and cleaning the walls of dog slobber from two drool-happy American Bulldogs. I don't notice it building up slowly and then... ack! must... get rid... of it... NOW

Love: finishing whatever cleaning project and then rewarding myself with some fun craft or decorating project I've been meaning to do.

I LOVE cleaning almost anything. It's the putting away (of almost anything) that I can't stand.

Changing the sheets. I love the feel of fresh sheets when I get in bed and the sheets have just been put on (especially if they were line dried), but for goodness sake, I HATE dismantling the whole bed and then having to reconstruct it again.

I hate cleaning the toilet, especially when there are men in the house.

I also dislike folding laundry and putting it away. Mainly the folding. I also dislike the dishes. Washing, but only somewhat dislike the putting away.

I don't mind doing the laundry.

washing windows & screens, very laborious... we have glass security louvers all over the apatment with security bars, so it's not an easy job to do... We live in the Caribbean so we also use screens, and putting away, washing and putting them back is not easy since we have to unscrew them from the window frames... and usually this kind of work takes most of the day to complete..

I hate cleaning the bathroom, it is by far the worst chore ever! If I wasn't so broke I would hire someone to do it for me.

Second most hated is handwashing dishes.

Third is laundry.

I hate washing the floors. Luckily we don't have toddlers anymore.

Hmm. Good point.
I don't mind cleaning the toilet because there is not a man in my house.

Lucky for me, boyfriend has a method/system for that chore, so if we should get married, he'll be in charge of the toilet.

Ooh yes, changing the sheets. Good one, hmr.

I dislike putting laundry away too. I don't mind folding it. Having one dresser is probably the reason. If I had a super wonderful storage solution I might not mind it. (I have plenty of hanging spaces, just not good space for stuff like socks and shorts.)

I don't mind vacuuming, dishes or dusting or anything else, really. It's too bad we all don't live in the same building so we could do one another's most hated chores.

Hmm . . . I'm must be in the minority. I absolutely HATE all housework and don't do much of it. My husband doesn't mind loading the dishwasher, he just refuses to put anything away. I told him it doesn't help much if all he does is put the clean dishes on the counter. Clean dishes don't look any better than dirty dishes: both clutter up the counters!

Hate: putting clean stuff away, drying dishes, shredding (Does anyone else hate shredding? Why is it so tedious??)

Don't mind: washing dishes, straightening up, making the bed.

I don't mind laundry, but it's a pain to do in this apartment complex. I have to trek up and down a hill. Oh well, I skip the gym those days! I used to hate folding my clothes until I started folding them right out of the dryer. Less wrinkles, too.

I like doing weird, random chores, like actually removing my windows and washing them or scrubbing the burners and inserts on my stove.

Dishes and laundry - period.

If I didn't have either of those "problem areas" my house would be a sanctuary of calm and order. But as it stands, the washing up spreads chaos through the land. It spreads and propagates disorder.

*sigh*

Love decorating, hate cleaning. But of course nothing looks better than a clean house! Soooo unfair. Handwashing silverware can bring out the existentialist in me, but least favorite of all least favorite chores has to be cleaning the ceiling fans. They catch everything from the air--dust, cat hair, the grunge of ages. Being more than 3 meters up (11 feet maybe?) I have to haul out the big ladder to wipe them down. Yech.

I hate putting away clean, folded laundry as well as clean dishes.

I love vacuuming (because I love seeing the lines in the carpet) , loading the dishwaser, scrubbing out my toilet ( I am convinced that the water in my town is full of some kind of mutating black fungus, so I clean my toilet OFTEN).

I hate anything related to floors; sweeping, vacuuming, mopping.

I also abhor folding and putting away clean laundry - an especially tedious task with all the minuscule clothes of my infant and toddler.

Dusting, cleaning grout, washing windows is strongly disliked as well.

I don't mind doing the dishes though as long as I didn't make roast chicken that night.

I also kind of hate putting dishes away. I never thought of it as "hate" before, but I always have a hard time stopping myself before starting on new dishes to put the clean ones away.

The thing I truly hate the most is taking out the trash. I don't know what my problem with it is, but I can't stand it. I think I'm just lazy and it involves going down a flight of stairs and walking up an down a bit of a hill. I have to put all my trash in grocery bags in order to make myself do it as often as I need to. If it's in a big trash bag, I'll just let it pile up.

I don't mind laundry, but I hate ironing clothes - it's tedious and time consuming even if I always do while watching tv.

crazy daisy pyrex! that's my pattern!! ook, distracted. yeah, i hate washing dishes by hand or putting laundry away after i wash it.. the worst!!

I HATE cleaning the stove top!!!
We have a cheap stove and the pilot lights make the whole thing very hot and incredibly hard to clean. Also I can never find the right product for the job that doesn't involve a high dose of fumes and is effective...
Most of the time my stove top look far from perfect.
I can't believe that nobody out here hates it as much as I do... What is the secret to immaculate stovetops?


And last but not least I HATE giving the fridge the (annual...) scrub down.

washing dishes is not one of my favorite chores either, but i'm with lindsey kathlene RE: laundry. i don't have a w/d and i have to walk (i don't drive) with a huge laundry cart full of as much dirty laundry as i can cram in there 4 1/2 blocks to the nearest laundromat. such a pain!!

i really hate cleaning tiles too....i have wall to wall tiles thru-out my apt. but now i have a black n decker power mop. not so bad now.
if i crank up some music while doing hated chores i find it's not so bad as long as i don't do it so early it could disturb neighbors. i actually like singing really badly while washing pain in the ass dirty dishes. sometimes i bring a sketchpad with me to the laundromat so that's not so bad.

ultimately when all my stuff is mostly clean and organized enough (i don't shoot for perfection)....then i can sit back, relax and feel good.

I really don't like cleaning the car, folding laundry and putting it away, and I loathe cleaning the toilets.
I don't mind washing windows or cleaning the kitchen/ living rooms as they are good places to be when clean.

Hehehe! My parents had the EXACT same mugs (the white correll with the green flower edge) when I was growing up. Unfortunately they (along with most of the rest of the set) was destroyed long ago. Do they still make that pattern?

My least favorite chores are; laundry and vacuuming. I'm kinda a neat freak, and I love to clean and organize things. But I absolutely abhor putting away clean laundry. Vacuuming is nearly as bad!

I load the dishwasher; husband unloads. Sometimes I have to hunt for things, but I never complain. He cleans the bathrooms, and does the floors. I do all the cooking, the rest of the cleaning, the washing & ironing. He will fold and put up, though. He does all the trash for weekly pickup.

I actually find ironing clothes somewhat soothing, and take great care in starching and ironing his shirts. I have a huge ironing board, cast and rolled aluminum c.1940---it weighs a ton. I have to make my own covers out of cotton drill, but I'll never part with it.

I'm sure I'll be alone on this one, but I hate shopping for food and necessary sundries. It's likely this is because I live in a big city full of people who are rude and oblivious, but it's also because I have to do it by bicycle and haul everything around in a back-pack or bicycle basket. Japanese shops are also narrow which means every housewife and grandma who feels it's necessary to carefully inspect every vegetable in the bin before she buys it blocks the narrow aisle and it's hard to get around and get it over with. Unfortunately, it seems there are plenty of people who feel they can't spend 100 yen on a bag of 3 onions without looking at the 50 other bags available just to be sure they get the VERY best one.

I'd happily clean anything in my apartment compared to putting up with what happens outside of it. At least then the only thing in my way is my own motivation or lack thereof.

Orchid64---I'll never again complain about those folks who don't put their shopping carts into the corral---and leave them scattered all over the parking lot.

Hey those dishes in that sink are too clean looking....i don't buy it, hehe.

I dislike sorting through old papers.

I enjoy efficiently loading a dishwasher to maximum capacity :)

I'll haul four loads of laundry up the street and back, but I hate doing dishes. To me that means filling the sink and hand washing them. Then putting them away after.

We just moved and one of my top priorities was a dishwasher. Now I have no problem with them! Life is GOOD!

doing dishes and folding laundry! I HATE folding and putting away my laundry for some reason.

The chore I loathe the most is taking the garbage out to the curb. I've made a trade off with my partner - if he takes the garbage & recycling out once a week I'll clean the litter boxes every day.

I also hate putting away the groceries after a long shopping trip.

Other than those two, I generally love cleaning and find it relaxing.

cleaning the bathtub is my least favorite. It's worn and needs to be scrubbed hard every few days.

love washing dishes because it takes such a short time and once they are done the kitchen looks so much cleaner without them on the counters.

I hate grocery shopping. I'm an indecisive person by nature, and there are too many choices and ethical consequences to consider. I also hate when food goes bad, and I make up meals as I cook them, so it's hard to plan it easily.

Also dislike laundry and putting away clean dishes. The first is because I miss having a line to dry things on it ties one to the house for a whole two hours the back stairs in my apartment are rickety and unpleasant. The second is because I'm short so it's hard to reach we seem to have more dishes than room for dishes. Also, on the rare occasion that we use the dishwasher as was intended, the dishes feel way too "squeaky" clean.

Vacuuming. I hate it so. so. much. I tell myself that's at least partly because our vacuum is in an inconvenient place, but mostly it's just an unreasonable dislike.

I also hate putting away clean clothes - don't mind doing laundry but dealing with it once clean and dry...bleah..

I don't mind dishes or straightening up or dusting. Bathroom is also okay with me.

yep, i with the hate putting away camp, too. ESPECIALLY laundry. i will regularly refuse to start a load of clothes just because i dread the downstream putting awaying so so very much. but, that said, on-your-knees scrubbing of the floor probably eclipses laundry in terms of yuckiness.

I hate doing windows! Especially here in the city...I don't know (or want to know) what's in the air, but it doesn't come off of my windows. Mopping is pretty terrible too!

I hate doing laundry to start with, though hand washing I don't mind. I think its the being stuck waiting for so long in the same place that irks me. Right now with the nearest laundrimat a ways away, its especially terrible.

putting the groceries and laundry away.

And regarding the green floral print dishes...there are exactly 17 large flowers in the pattern. Not that I counted them every night at the dinner table while my father was saying "Grace" or anything....