Worst OS chore?

flutterbyuk25

Norman_Bean wrote: »

No. Got it. Plughole cleaning _pale_

Yuk - that does actually make me feel sick

Me too. (and I have a tummy bug so really shouldn't be reading this thread! :rotfl:)

Although I learnt a useful tip from the OS boards recently about how to get rid of the hair that blocks the plughole....just put a bit of hair removal cream down the plughole, leave for few hours and rinse - job done!

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EC12345

Cleaning stairs and the blinds

babyshoes

bexbex wrote: »

I've just picked the chicken just before I read this, with 3 cats and a dalmatian under my feet! hehe

My worst job ever and it gets left for ages is pairing socks!! I hate it! I have a big basket in my room and all the socks get thrown in there until we more or less run out and I HAVE to do it! lol

I hate pairing socks too, and always try to hang them up to dry in pairs, then as I take them down I quickly fold the top of one sock over it's partner - only takes a few extra seconds and makes such a difference.I have also started buying patterned socks after spending ages wearing black socks, which somehow don't just match up - different lengths, shades of black, fading etc! Odd socks go in a bag with other odd socks and ocasionally get tipped out on the bed and paired up.

I am struggling to think of a 'worst' job - I hate housework in general, so don't do much of it! Cleaning the cooker is possibly the worst, though getting gunk out the plughole is pretty bad too. I am glad the Landlord finally agreed to replace the carpet in the kitchen with lino, as trying to get spilled cooking oil out of a carpet is IMPOSSIBLE...

lisawood78

Cleaning dog drool off the walls, every week, every wall, from floor to ceiling.
Sigh

aliadds

Vaccuming the stairs and changing the bed!:(

tooties

every household job in general gets my vote
but peeling spuds is a real bugbear with me

jackieglasgow

clutterydrawer wrote: »

If you fill a porridge pan with water and leave it for a couple of hours, the porridgey layer just lifts right off.



I don't like "faffy cooking" - i like cooking in general but a couple of things I make, like lentil pasties, are just really fiddly and time consuming. super cheap though!

I was going to suggest that, too!

Can I have the recipe please for lentil pasties, they sound like just my thing!

Sorry to go OT

champys

I'm with LameWolf on cleaning shoes. I don't know why I hate it so much, I just try not to do it for as long as I can get away with. And when I can't put it off any longer, I always end up with shoe polish on my hands (even if I wear gloves :-), on my clothes, or later on my socks as I never seem to do it correctly. When I grew up, my Dad sometime took pity on me and did them for me. And I lived in Turkey for several years, where a man came round on Saturdays: you just left all your shoes out on the doorstep and he did them perfectly for a small fee! What a service, it was really worth every penny.
My other pet hate is cleaning cobwebs off the ceiling - too many of those in an old French farmhouse! Yuk.

Dazi

Mine is the recycle caddy, I get the idea of putting the scraps into it but it turns my stomach when I have to empty it, the idea is that we empty it straight into the recycle bin, tried that and in the summer two weeks of leftovers = nasty creepy things multiplying in the bin - are allowed to wrap it in newspaper though.

Newspaper spread over work top, empty caddy into it, cue my stomach contracting, all those teabags, potato peelings, left overs etc I know its OS to recycle but sometimes I just want to chuck it all into a carrier bag and put it in the rubbish bin

Lily-Lu

Caterina wrote: »

I must be the only person in the Western world who does not own a microwave and refuses to get one! Somehow, it feels like it is not real cooking!

No, you're not the only one. I wouldn't give one house room

I think my worse chore is decorating. Can't say that I enjoy a lot of other things, but there's nothing that I really hate having to do. The decorating is such a big job though, and then there's all the cleaning of brushes, rollers afterwards. I put a coat of paint on the kitchen ceiling last week, and have another coat to do. Then there's the walls and woodwork. It's daunting just thinking about it