household chores

this is an important poll btw its ok if u need time to consider but fuck an other option

cooking is the most satisfying when i'm doing it, but the cleaning up sucks. yardwork is fun, but i'm glad i don't have to do it all the time.

voted cooking.

oh this is which one u LIKE THE BEST if the img @ the top was too cryptic

laundry

i dont think cooking really counts

no it counts its a total chore

the worst is by far yard work

cooking should not be a chore but I voted for it anyway

of the other three, yard/outside work wins

I mean, if the choice is cooking and that choice ensures that someone else doing the cleaning?? Fuck, everyone's invited over for dinner.

Laundry is the worst.

Cooking is great fun 95% of the time but a chore when I'm tired or lazy. Yardwork is about half fun, half chore. Laundry is the worst.

cooking is the best, and not at all a chore

yardwork is fun when the whether's nice

cleaning is the hardest to get started, but def the most satisfying to have completed, and generally improves my mental health the most

laundry is boring and stupid

i cant believe so many ppl like cooking i h8 it so much

my parents have this space age european microwave that only understands binary and german so i cant even manage leftover takeout right now.

i just stood there with a cold plate filled w/ pasta yelling "warm this up" and making fax machine noises @ it for like five mins but nothing happened

u guyz im so hungry

lollin @ u

laundry

I voted cooking, because I don't feel it's a chore, but I feel guilty about feeling that way. It SHOULD be a chore. It was a chore to my mother and hers before her. It was long the bane of bachelor existence, before food became so cheap that TV dinners, fast food, and takeout were actually economical alternatives. I love cooking, but what makes me feel guilty is that I only do it when it's FUN... I don't do it day after day as an inevitable duty. God... how much much money would I be saving if I did?

the worst is by far yard work

If you have a yard, you signed up for yard work. No pity there at all.

feelin guilty about cookin is next level neurosis, dude

Read the post again

i find cooking a total and utter chore

you hate cooking you hate life
cooking a meal makes it so much more enjoyable. i cooked my ass a steak tonight, with some buttery steamed spinach & a shitload of beer.
fucking flavor country man.

kenan you said that you feel guilty because cooking is fun and not a chore

I feel guilty because I only cook when I think it'll be a fun thing, to do, and cooking every day would make me feel almost righteous. Most households have always have someone who cooked every day. And of course it was a chore.

you hate cooking you hate life
cooking a meal makes it so much more enjoyable. i cooked my ass a steak tonight, with some buttery steamed spinach & a shitload of beer.
fucking flavor country man.

no way like sometimes ill eat somethin delicious @ a dinner party or w/e and ask for the recipe and ill make it myself and its never the same. havin some1 cook a wonderful meal 4 u is the truest bliss imo i would do all the dishes 4 this

laundry is pretty obv the worst

Laundry is at the bottom, yeah.

I think cooking is fun, too, but yet...isn't that one of those things a lot of married women complain about doing all the time? I can sorta understand kenan's guilt.

I did everything on that list except cook today.

Cooking is a pain. I mean, you can let weeds grow, your clothes can stink, and the whole room can go to sty, but you can't let yourself starve to death. It's one chore you can't ignore.

i don't really enjoy any of those tbh

I think cooking is fun, too, but yet...isn't that one of those things a lot of married women complain about doing all the time? I can sorta understand kenan's guilt.

To maybe clarify, there's a little bit of guilt, but not the kind that keeps me up at night. It's not like the kind of guilt that comes with not working hard enough, or being more interested in my own happiness than that of the world in general. That's big-ass guilt. Cooking only for pleasure is very light in it.

I feel sorry for anyone who thinks cooking is a chore/boring/messy. And I dont buy the "women complaining about cooking for men" thing cos I know quite a few women who hate/cant cook and men who love it.

So yeah cooking. Wd stay home and live barefoot in kitchen if someone'd keep me, to be honest with you.

Cleaning can go fuck itself upside a broom.

I want to secretly be a 50s housewife living on sherry and baked goods.

The suckitude of the cleaning is proportional to how long its been since I've done it last. If I haven't scoured the tub in three months -- which is easy to do, since I only take showers anyway -- yeah, that is some bone-cracking elbow work. I never like mopping. That's the same amount of bad no matter what, since it's the same floor area. Beating the rugs is no damn fun, either. But all of that is offset by how shiny and pristine you feel after you're done (and have had a long shower).

Ugh I dont, I feel exhausted and broken and the house never seems clean no matter how much I try. Something's wrong with me though, even vacuuming and doing some sweeping hurts my back something bad.

And its all those little things, like the toilet bowl and the cat's damn litter, and the cds scattered everywhere to put away and the 1004957349857 plates and cups and saucepans and the bf who never does anything to help and .

...ahem excuse me.

haha

I live alone. Less stuff, no blame to spread around at all. Like it this way.

i always feel better after cleaning i like the way a room feels after a good cleaning the way it smells open and lighter its nice v. worthwhile even if it is a pain 2 start

Yeah starting is the problem. Once I do, though, I can't stop until the shit shines like the top of the Chrysler Building.

Yeah in all honesty for me cleaning's become a painful chore because I'm a clutterbug hoarder. And now I'm in a house with very little built in storage, and havent really unpacked/sorted out the things that came when we moved 8 months back. I had to throw SO MUCH SHIT out when we moved. 8 years of random crap crammed into a large, wall-sized built in in the big bedroom. I was so embarrased, it was like the Magic Pudding, all this shit just kept falling out.

The suckitude of the cleaning is proportional to how long its been since I've done it last

totally. and you are correct about not being able to stop. household stuff is like the only thing that evaporates my (currently self-diagnosed) ADD. like once i get into the cooking/cleaning ~ZoNe~ i am unstoppable and ruthless in my execution.

also when i am done its like suddenly i am able to concentrate on life's other minutiae, like sorting my mail and shit, or studying. if my kitchen's messy my brain is messy

this is why i hate roommates: i'll go OCD on the kitchen and feel dope about it and then come home a few hours later and there's shit lying around. even if it's just a bowl in the sink or something my heart fills with rage and i want to kill everyone who ever put a bowl in a sink

even if it's just a bowl in the sink or something my heart fills with rage and i want to kill everyone who ever put a bowl in a sink

Feeling this. And yet, when I have had roommates, I've been so much less motivated to clean it up. Not my mess!

exactly. i am a billion times more organized and tidy when i'm only keeping track of my shit. opening up the fridge and being confused about what belongs to whom and how old it is basically guarantees that shit will get nasty. ditto the bathroom and every other household chore. plus i'm living with a 23 y.o. (subletter) who (like myself at 23) has very different ideas about what is important to keep tidy.

itt i bitch about roommates

if my kitchen's messy my brain is messy

I said for years, even before I was properly diagnosed with ADD, that the cleanliness of my apartment was directly indicative of the cleanliness of my brain.

Cooking is a chore? Damn.

Clearly someone has never had to stretch out three boxes of mac and cheese and a pound of beef for a week.

think that holds true for many ppl, ADD or no (but yeah, everyone i know that's ADD is places a mental premium on tidiness)

also: just walked in to a kitchen with a sink full of george foreman grill parts, a pot of water that i think was used to defrost meat yesterday (not me), and a foul smell

can't get rid of this guy soon enough

this is like 70% of the reason i don't cook at home nearly enough

sigh

i feel bad for quincie

i have to iron a shirt tonight for a dinner. i should just wear a turtleneck. made of wrinkles

feel bad for quincie

quincie doesn't do my laundry or shirts

i fucking hate ironing. all other household tasks are ok because they actually have a point but i can't understand the point of ironing

vs

i refuse to have someone do this for me

ok good ; ) xpost

dry cleaning is paying someone to iron 4 U

oh shit, you thought i meant that she did my laundry, no i just meant i'd been using a dry cleaner for 7 years

mr que wears a hair shirt for the last seven years. under a linen suit its supposed to looked "lived in"

i mean it's just a lame thing to pay for if i can do it myself, but i'm still gonna complain about it bc i don't believe in it but still have to do it. that's all.

oh i can't dry clean myself yeah

harbl do you press your own suits? i do my own dress shirts bcuz im poor but i draw the line at suits

Mmm I love an ironed and spray-starched shirt in the summer.

i gotta admit i feel pretty superior to people who drop off their laundry while i'm in the laundromat
no i get them dry cleaned but just try not to do it that much (i don't have to wear real suits most of the time). i will iron them a little if they get wrinkled but not the entire thing.

i mean i go to court but it's not a big deal usually so i can just throw on a jacket and wear pants i can wash myself

i like doing laundry

harbl do you wash yr own court wig

heh

i just wear those sick looken black robes u never even to wash em

i don't mind doing laundry and the result is very satisfying

i love to iron. i find it relaxing for some reason.

shit is always falling off the ironing board, i iron wrinkles into my clothes, it doesn't work, etc.

That just means you're bad at it. Luckily there's an enormous sector of society devoted to doing things the rest of us don't want to. I just used some of them there immygrants to carry all my furniture out and drive it somewhere else.

uh

Sorry, was that more offensive than normal for ILX? I can't tell.

no its fine

i like to do everything myself

ur punk

xp I mostly do too and it has been the topic of enormous flame-wars on ILX with certain people who don't understand why useful skills are valuable when you can always hire someone to do them for you. However after shuffling around the NY/NJ area for the last 12 years, I am totally over schlepping my own boxes from one apartment to another.

Anyway the entire service industry is in this category as well: restaurants, waitstaff in particular.

diy ironing

Honestly if you know how to iron it's not bad at all if you only have to do one or two things. I feel for people with a pile of like 15 shirts, but I don't know anyone who does that anymore (besides my mom and I think even she has switched to dropping them off).

Ironing is a skill I am more accomplished at than my dry cleaner but often prefer to give to her. It does tend to cut into valuable drinking time.

I don't mind ironing things that can be laid flat, but for, like, vintagey dresses with bust darts or tailoring that would make me get out a pressing cloth and a tailor's ham, I prefer to hand-wash and take to the dry cleaner for pressing/steaming only.

I made a cotton skirt once that has like 20 box pleats all the way around. I have that shit pressed off the premises.

The steamer is GREAT for that kind of stuff. I have a lot of dresses that fall into that category (actually, all of my dresses that require ironing fall into that category) and the steamer is just the ticket.

Jeff takes his shirts to the dry cleaners for laundering. That was a precondition of our cohabitation, actually.

I love outsourcing chores. We gave a cleaning lady. Use wash and fold service at the laundromat. If we could afford a cook I'd pay for that too.

Um, we use the wash and fold once every couple of months. I just want credit where credit is due!

i have been sorely tempted to use the wash n fold. except we are cheapskates. plus i'm a prude about strangers handling my underwear.

i would seriously hire a cleaner once a month or so if we had a little extra cash - just to do the 'big' stuff like mopping floors and scrubbing out the shower and cleaning the oven.

Laundry is my chore and that is generally okay, but sometimes we have stuff to do on weekends and then we have to chose between shelling out $$ for wash and fold or having a free afternoon, and pretty much "free afternoon" wins every time.

One day I will live the dream of having a w/d in my actual apartment and this will no longer be an issue.

doing laundry is the actual worst

why u hate laundry?

unless the machine's in your apartment, fuck that shit

laundry is awesome! it's like getting new cool clothes.

i feel v lucky to have free on-site laundry at my apt, if i had to go to a coin-op laundromat i would cry

we have a coin-op machines in our basement which is usually freezing and smells like sewage, so I have come to associate doing laundry with having to go into a cold stinky place.

we haven't done any in like three weeks and I had l do sheets and towels as well and then I found a huge dead fly in the washing machine and the mat is so far from my house and the dryers take forever and then the indignity of transferring everything and half my bfs clothes have to be hang dry cry cry cry

go somewhere with faster dryers!

I'm with Lamp, laundry blows

there was a point in my life where I had enough clean underwear, socks, jeans and tshirts to get through at least a month without doing laundry. my poor tiny brain didn't understand that doing that meant giant piles of laundry, all I knew was yay I don't have to do laundry forever.

Mr veg does all our laundry. if it were up to me we'd wear those tissue-paper onesies they wear in cheese factories that you throw away.

hate folding laundry, other than that i don't mind. give me washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen any day.

the only part of laundry I do is the folding.