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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Phoenix87x on September 02, 2022, 06:23:46 AM
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For me it would probably be dusting.
No matter how often i do it, like 3 days later it feels like it comes right back :lol
How about you guys?
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Picking up all the crap my wife and kids leaving sitting around
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All of them, but a number of circumstances make taking the trash out my least favorite.
I live on the second floor of a two family house so carrying the bags down the stairs is annoying, the same reason why I hate bringing groceries into the house but in reverse. I have flat feet and bad knees so stairs are not my friend, and having to go up and down the stairs multiple times to bring out bags of garbage, recycling, and cardboard is exhausting.
Taking out the trash has been my assigned chore since my parents separated and my dad moved out, and there have been times when I’ve worked late and come home exhausted to see piles of garbage bags, recycling, and cardboard boxes waiting for me because certain people who used to be a part of my life were lazy and spiteful so instead of doing the right thing and taking the trash out for me whenever I had to work late, they left it for me. Years of these occurrences have made me grow sick and tired of doing it.
Finally, and this is the most recent circumstance to come into play, I’m a sanitation worker. I literally work with garbage for a living. I don’t want to even look at a bag of trash when I’m off the clock (but unfortunately I have to look the mirror to brush my hair) so having to deal with my work when I’m home is a little frustrating.
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Fall cleanup and the spring maintenance that comes as a result. It's like an 8 Saturday ordeal.
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If it only had to be one, it would be the dishes. I'm looking forward to when my son will be old enough to handle them, because I HATE doing the dishes.
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Winterizing the screened in porch.
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I don't actually mind any of them (I live alone so I have to do the chores myself anyway), but I guess I could do without having to do the laundry. Sure, it pretty much handles itself, but it's a time consuming thing - and when you live in an apartment you have to get to another building to get to the laundry room.
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Laundry. Don't even have to think twice about it. Fuck doing laundry.
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The dishes.
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I am with Phoenix - deep clean dusting!
It took me years to convince the wife to get vacuum cleaning robots but we still have a dusty house. She's just now coming around to having a service come in once a month to deep clean.
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Cleaning the bathroom
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Cleaning the bathroom
This. It’s a shitty job.
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Cleaning the bathroom
This. It’s a shitty job.
No doubt, it pisses me off.
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Scooping poop/cleaning the litter box
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Scooping poop/cleaning the litter box
One of these systems has made having a cat infinitely better.
https://www.amazon.com/Purina-Tidy-Cats-BREEZE-Starter/dp/B001411SK0/ref=sr_1_14?crid=1M1CVA1SLDHZ0&keywords=purina+tidy+cats&qid=1662133175&sprefix=purina+tidy+cats%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-14
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Scooping poop/cleaning the litter box
One of these systems has made having a cat infinitely better.
https://www.amazon.com/Purina-Tidy-Cats-BREEZE-Starter/dp/B001411SK0/ref=sr_1_14?crid=1M1CVA1SLDHZ0&keywords=purina+tidy+cats&qid=1662133175&sprefix=purina+tidy+cats%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-14
We had those for a while, but the cats didn't really like those hard pellets.
Litter boxes is the unquestioned answer for me. "Let's get more cats!" "Let's get a dog!" "We promise we'll clean up after them and you won't have to!" BULLSHIT!
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Damn. That's a bummer. My cat came from a shelter that used wood pellets, so the change wasn't that drastic or anything. You still have to clean out the shit, but only having to swap out a piss pad once a week is awesome. There's zero odor as well.
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Of the stuff listed here, I agree with dusting and cleaning bathrooms. Laundry and dishes and litter boxes don’t bother me much.
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Scooping poop/cleaning the litter box
Yeet the cat, problem solved.
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Washing windows and screens.
Mrs. P will do them, but I dislike her "good enough" attitude toward streaks, so the job always falls to me. BTW, if you have hard water stains on windows and want to get rid of them, toilet bowl cleaner works like a charm. Spread it around, let it dwell for a few minutes, rinse it off. You'll have to then actually clean the window with your normal method to get the residue off, but it beats any method I've ever tried. Just be sure you don't have any plants below the window that your overly fond of, it will fuck them up. :lol
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Scooping poop/cleaning the litter box
Let me expand on this. Cleaning up the poop that my little monster had decided doesn’t belong in the litter box. Oh, and also trying to remove cat vomit stains from the carpet.
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Scooping the litterbox.
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I am with Phoenix - deep clean dusting!
It took me years to convince the wife to get vacuum cleaning robots but we still have a dusty house. She's just now coming around to having a service come in once a month to deep clean.
I'm working this pretty hard too. I hate dust, and I hated dusting.
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We just moved into a new house last year and it has quite a bit more baseboards/trim. Didn't realize how damn messy they get and how much work it is to clean them!
And laundry.
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Picking up all the crap my wife and kids leaving sitting around
I LOLed.
What's up with people hating laundry? That's the last chore I'd give up doing in my house.
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The Queen said, cleaning The King's Underwear.
It's good to be the King.
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Laundry, and specifically folding laundry for me. Don't know why but I just hate it.
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You know what I hate doing, is putting my lunch together for the following day.
I tell my wife that the best part of having a day off, is that I don't have to do anything the night before.
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TAC, that is something I can honestly say I have never in my life heard anyone say they hate doing.
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You know what I hate doing, is putting my lunch together for the following day.
Glad I don't have that problem for work.
Laundry, and specifically folding laundry for me. Don't know why but I just hate it.
This guy gets it.
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When you guys "fold" laundry, do you actually fold it? I just jam everything in to my dresser. Takes 30 seconds.* Also helps I am a laborer and during the week I wear the same grubby work clothes.
*May or may not be the reason I am not allowed to handle anyone else's laundry in the house.
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When you guys "fold" laundry, do you actually fold it? I just jam everything in to my dresser. Takes 30 seconds.* Also helps I am a laborer and during the week I wear the same grubby work clothes.
*May or may not be the reason I am not allowed to handle anyone else's laundry in the house.
I just throw stuff in the drawer :lol
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Picking up all the crap my wife and kids leaving sitting around
I LOLed.
What's up with people hating laundry? That's the last chore I'd give up doing in my house.
I feel like I pick up at least 50 things a day that I didn't use or leave out, the vast majority of which I'd rather just toss in the garbage instead of putting it away. It gets very old.
I don't mind laundry much. The machines do 95% of the work and I can fold while I watch TV. Admittedly my wife does the majority of the laundry.
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When you guys "fold" laundry, do you actually fold it? I just jam everything in to my dresser. Takes 30 seconds.* Also helps I am a laborer and during the week I wear the same grubby work clothes.
*May or may not be the reason I am not allowed to handle anyone else's laundry in the house.
I have two dressers in my room and my clean laundry just sits in the laundry basket that I sift through in the morning.
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When you guys "fold" laundry, do you actually fold it? I just jam everything in to my dresser. Takes 30 seconds.* Also helps I am a laborer and during the week I wear the same grubby work clothes.
*May or may not be the reason I am not allowed to handle anyone else's laundry in the house.
I just throw stuff in the drawer :lol
I fold my concert shirts, chef pants and hang my chef coats. I have a drawer that my undergarments get tossed in.
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Mowing and edging. Unfortunately I hate it so much and it sap so much energy that I barely ever get into any other fun Landscaping that I'd like to do. And I've got too much pride to pay for it at least at this point
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Also, and I'm sure everyone will agree on this one, fuck moving.
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Mowing and edging. Unfortunately I hate it so much and it sap so much energy that I barely ever get into any other fun Landscaping that I'd like to do. And I've got too much pride to pay for it at least at this point
I finally gave in. This was the first summer that I did not cut my lawn...once!
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Came to post mowing the lawn, fucking despise it.
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Mowing and edging. Unfortunately I hate it so much and it sap so much energy that I barely ever get into any other fun Landscaping that I'd like to do. And I've got too much pride to pay for it at least at this point
I finally gave in. This was the first summer that I did not cut my lawn...once!
Woah! You're my hero Tim, outstanding.
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Also, and I'm sure everyone will agree on this one, fuck moving.
Yeah, that's a good one.
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Cleaning the bathroom
This. It’s a shitty job.
This is the worst. I live alone and absolutely can't stand house work of any kind. If I don't get to the bathroom soon, I'll have to call in a haz-mat team! :facepalm:
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I LOLed.
What's up with people hating laundry? That's the last chore I'd give up doing in my house.
I don't mind laundry, but folding it is a pain in the ass if I leave it (which occasionally happens).
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We vacuum once in a blue moon, but we don't have a robot vac. I guess we're stupid.
Also, all the corners/edges that are so nice when you move in and then eventually dust settles in places you can't really reach and everything looks grimy all the time. Can I just nuke those?
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Fixing holes in walls. I suck at it. It never looks good.
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Fall cleanup and the spring maintenance that comes as a result. It's like an 8 Saturday ordeal.
I had all of Saturday morning free and did about 4 hours in the yard, clearing brush, weeding, and whatnot. I'm covered head to toe in poison sumac :tdwn It's everywhere, even on my eyelids. I'm miserabllleee!!!
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Fall cleanup and the spring maintenance that comes as a result. It's like an 8 Saturday ordeal.
I had all of Saturday morning free and did about 4 hours in the yard, clearing brush, weeding, and whatnot. I'm covered head to toe in poison sumac :tdwn It's everywhere, even on my eyelids. I'm miserabllleee!!!
Dude, everyone in my family laughs at me, but I cut the lawn in a long sleeve shirt, gloves, my old baseball pants (white with blue stripes) and socks and shoes. I also have an app on my phone that identifies plants in real time. I'm taking NO CHANCES.
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Dusting and putting laundry away. I hate washing dishes by hand too.
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Fall cleanup and the spring maintenance that comes as a result. It's like an 8 Saturday ordeal.
I had all of Saturday morning free and did about 4 hours in the yard, clearing brush, weeding, and whatnot. I'm covered head to toe in poison sumac :tdwn It's everywhere, even on my eyelids. I'm miserabllleee!!!
Shit - that fucking blows. Hopefully you've contacted your primary doctor for some prednisone? Especially with it being so close to your eyes and all.
Hope you feel better soon. :heart
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I was going to come in and say mowing the lawn but honestly that's like twice a week for 6 months a year. I think I have to agree with Skeever on the dusting. I actually enjoy doing the dishes, it's only my wife and I so it's rarely a lot unless she is doing a lot of baking. As for laundry I don't mind either, with the exception of underwear and workout clothes I iron all my clothes.
Also, and I'm sure everyone will agree on this one, fuck moving.
I didn't really think of this but I loathe moving. When we moved out of our 2 bedroom apartment to our house we (we as in my now wife) had an unbelievable amount of shit.
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I don't mind doing the dishes (never had a dish washer). I find it quite therapeutic, put on some music in my headphones and just scrub away. And I like having a clean kitchen sink at all times.
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I don't mind doing the dishes (never had a dish washer). I find it quite therapeutic, put on some music in my headphones and just scrub away. And I like having a clean kitchen sink at all times.
I agree with you on the clean sink, just makes the whole kitchen feel better.
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Did anybody mention raking leaves? My house in Dallas yielded 20 bags in the spring and 20 bags in the fall. I finally got a lawn service and was never happier.
Our current house has a few of maple trees and the first fall came and I wasn't even going to try. My landscaper neighbor vacuums the leaves which he charges me 180.00 for 5 hoppers. It's well worth the money!
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Did anybody mention raking leaves? My house in Dallas yielded 20 bags in the spring and 20 bags in the fall. I finally got a lawn service and was never happier.
Our current house has a few of maple trees and the first fall came and I wasn't even going to try. My landscaper neighbor vacuums the leaves which he charges me 180.00 for 5 hoppers. It's well worth the money!
Yup! I also have a lot of oaks. Even when the leaves are mulched, I still fill 45-50 lawn and leaf bags every fall.
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Did anybody mention raking leaves? My house in Dallas yielded 20 bags in the spring and 20 bags in the fall. I finally got a lawn service and was never happier.
Our current house has a few of maple trees and the first fall came and I wasn't even going to try. My landscaper neighbor vacuums the leaves which he charges me 180.00 for 5 hoppers. It's well worth the money!
Yup! I also have a lot of oaks. Even when the leaves are mulched, I still fill 45-50 lawn and leaf bags every fall.
We used to just leave them on the ground. We also have a cleanup service though. No f'n way I'm filling 50 bags of leaves, which is easily what it'd take.
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I wish I was busy enough to justify a yard service for mowing and leaves. We can afford it (though there always seem to be higher priorities), but I've got plenty of time and two older sons that can help out.
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Did anybody mention raking leaves? My house in Dallas yielded 20 bags in the spring and 20 bags in the fall. I finally got a lawn service and was never happier.
Our current house has a few of maple trees and the first fall came and I wasn't even going to try. My landscaper neighbor vacuums the leaves which he charges me 180.00 for 5 hoppers. It's well worth the money!
Yup! I also have a lot of oaks. Even when the leaves are mulched, I still fill 45-50 lawn and leaf bags every fall.
45-50 bags!!! That's insane. Are house was built in 2016 in a new development so our trees were about 6' tall and had very little leaves. It's not getting to the point where they are beginning to drop a lot of leaves and I've just been going over them with the mower.
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Did anybody mention raking leaves? My house in Dallas yielded 20 bags in the spring and 20 bags in the fall. I finally got a lawn service and was never happier.
Our current house has a few of maple trees and the first fall came and I wasn't even going to try. My landscaper neighbor vacuums the leaves which he charges me 180.00 for 5 hoppers. It's well worth the money!
Yup! I also have a lot of oaks. Even when the leaves are mulched, I still fill 45-50 lawn and leaf bags every fall.
45-50 bags!!! That's insane. Are house was built in 2016 in a new development so our trees were about 6' tall and had very little leaves. It's not getting to the point where they are beginning to drop a lot of leaves and I've just been going over them with the mower.
The craziest part is my lot is only .2 acres.
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You can't just blow the leaves back into the woods?
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I don't have any. I'm on a corner lot. Two side are on the road, and two sides share a border with neighbors. There are no woods between us. Just massive trees. It's really stupid, and I curse whatever fuckers in the past decided to let them grow :lol
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Fixing holes in walls. I suck at it. It never looks good.
Well then, why do you keep putting holes in walls? Cut it out, Joe!
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Fixing holes in walls. I suck at it. It never looks good.
Well then, why do you keep putting holes in walls? Cut it out, Joe!
:lol
You know damn well, when the wife wants to "change it up" and not in a good way. :lol
New paint, new pictures and a bunch on indents of poorly fixed holes by C'est moi.
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Fixing holes in walls. I suck at it. It never looks good.
Well then, why do you keep putting holes in walls? Cut it out, Joe!
:lol
You know damn well, when the wife wants to "change it up" and not in a good way. :lol
New paint, new pictures and a bunch on indents of poorly fixed holes by C'est moi.
I know this is going to sound weird, Joe, but Bondo is your friend here. Mix some up. Smooth it around a bit. When it dries sand it flat and feather the edges into the existing paint. Use a rattle-can to spray some primer on it, and then top coat to match the surrounding paint.
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the never-ending pile of shirts I have. I need to get rid of some of them though. Or store them somewhere and use them in someway as they are concert shirts and I don't want to get rid of them.
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In the shitty jobs category, scooping cat boxes.
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I have no problem putting my clothes away, or my sons, but I HATE hanging up my wife's clothes!
Why do women's clothes not hang easily on coat hangers? My t-shirts, shirts and jumpers hang really easily, but you better believe all my wife's clothes fall off the hangers, unless those tiny little hanging straps can hook onto something! Or it's some loose fitting silk thing which will not stay on a hanger.
I'll do the washing up for hours over 10 minutes of that.
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In the shitty jobs category, scooping cat boxes.
I agree, my cat is not too well at the moment (Thyroid condition) and having a slight reaction to some medication, by that I mean frequent number 2's.
Violet is almost 16, this is one thing I will not miss when the time eventually comes, not that I am wishing it at all.
She has also had the kitty litter crystals for her whole life, which lives in a tray in the bath, but she scatters them all over the bathroom, my punishment for some error in her eyes I am sure, and they are the equivalent of lego on the floor when you step on them barefoot.
As they say dogs have owners and cats have staff.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I spend 50 bucks a month having my car hand washed. I'm just getting too old for that shit. For me, it's worth it.
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Mowing the lawn is very cathartic for me. My mind shuts off and I'm singularly focused on the task. Also love the smell of freshly cut grass.
Scrubbing the tub/shower is the second worst task because it kills my back.
The WORST task is cleaning out the sink traps when they get clogged. OMG, the smelly, slimy shit, hair ball entanglements that I pull from those pipes could gag a maggot.
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Litter boxes. I would rather have my peen sounded with a stick, than do litter. Ever. And I've never had my peen sounded at all; but that would be more fun for me than litter.
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Are you all doing a different kind of litter box clean up than I am? I use a little shovel and move things into a bag. I tie up the bag and throw it away. It's barely an inconvenience.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
I don’t feel bad for anyone having to clean a litter box, guys. Cats suck. They’d fucking kill you if they thought they could.
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Are you all doing a different kind of litter box clean up than I am? I use a little shovel and move things into a bag. I tie up the bag and throw it away. It's barely an inconvenience.
I was hesitant to type something like this, but I was never bothered by cleaning my cat's box.
Also, I enjoy cleaning my car. But car maintenance was instilled in me by my dad at an early age.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
I don’t feel bad for anyone having to clean a litter box, guys. Cats suck. They’d fucking kill you if they thought they could.
Oh, it's not whether they "thought" they could; you ever look deep in a cat's eyes? They think it, mofo, for sure. It's the not having opposable thumbs that keeps cat deaths from being higher than they are.
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I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
Really?
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
I don’t feel bad for anyone having to clean a litter box, guys. Cats suck. They’d fucking kill you if they thought they could.
:lol You kill me Tim. You really do. :rollin
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
I don’t feel bad for anyone having to clean a litter box, guys. Cats suck. They’d fucking kill you if they thought they could.
My cats have a message for you: “Cats rule, TAC drools. Hissssss” ;)
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I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
Really?
I'm the opposite, I actually really enjoy cleaning my car but I've always been a car guy and I just bought a really nice car so it feels good opening my garage and seeing my car all shiny.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
I don’t feel bad for anyone having to clean a litter box, guys. Cats suck. They’d fucking kill you if they thought they could.
My cats have a message for you: “Cats rule, TAC drools. Hissssss” ;)
Yeah, as they strap on a bib and sharpen the steak knives. ;D
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I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
Really?
Oh, absolutely. I have literally never applied wax to a car. I'm not a car guy.
In the winter when I'm at a gas station, I'll use the windshield washer thingy to wipe off the salt on my doors and fenders, but that's about it.
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Washing the car. So pointless, I'll gladly pay to have it done once in a while.
I do mine at the drive thru gas station washes. Good enough.
I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
I don’t feel bad for anyone having to clean a litter box, guys. Cats suck. They’d fucking kill you if they thought they could.
My cats have a message for you: “Cats rule, TAC drools. Hissssss” ;)
Yeah, as they strap on a bib and sharpen the steak knives. ;D
:o
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I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
Really?
Oh, absolutely. I have literally never applied wax to a car. I'm not a car guy.
In the winter when I'm at a gas station, I'll use the windshield washer thingy to wipe off the salt on my doors and fenders, but that's about it.
This is mostly me, although I will occasionally give the car a good wash. I am not a car guy by any stretch of the imagination, so as long as it looks pretty good, has a good stereo and doesn't break down, I am good with it.
On a related note, about three years ago at work, one lady parked in her usual spot under a tree, and when she went out at lunch, it looked like about 200 birds had all taken a shit on it all at once. It was epic. :lol :lol
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I have literally never washed my car, unless a seagull shits on it. That’s what rain is for.
Really?
Oh, absolutely. I have literally never applied wax to a car. I'm not a car guy.
In the winter when I'm at a gas station, I'll use the windshield washer thingy to wipe off the salt on my doors and fenders, but that's about it.
Same. I wash it, but like once a year but that's the same after there's heaps of bird shit. If I want to splurge and am feeling lazy, I'll spend $10 at the car wash. Cleans it good enough for me.
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It's the everyday tasks that kills me. Doing laundry is the worst. Sorting, stuffing, washing, drying, folding, tidying, over and over and over and ...
If I was a trilliobillionaire I'd just throw my clothes away and get new ones every day! Bad for the environment, true, but would feel soooo gooood never having to do laundry again!!!