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If you could give up one necessary household chore forever but had to replace it with another chore, which would they be?
Me: clean the bathroom
I want the bathroom to be sparkly clean as well as highly organized. I don’t want to think about where stuff is, I just want to reach for it and do my business.
This is tricky in a home where multiple people use the same bathroom. Why is it so hard to put the toothpaste in the same location every time, hang up the towels, rinse down the suds after the shower, clean out the hair from the drain, give the toilet a swirl with bleach and a brush, keep the toilet paper stocked and a full roll on the holder? I also hate scrubbing the tub and tile more than scrubbing the toilet, wiping mirrors (why are they always so spotty?) and being the only one who knows how to refill the liquid soap dispenser. Oh, and the floor needs to be clean enough to eat off of (not that I’d do that, ew, but that’s the standard I desire and never seem to be able to achieve).
Maybe I’ll hire someone to do just the bathroom every week. That’s how much I hate it.
Instead, I’d rather sweep and mop/swiffer the floor or vacuum the area rugs, neither activity I’m a particular fan of, but will do happily if I can just never do the bathroom again.
Your turn. 🙂
I’d replace doing the dishes with reorganizing the garage. I admit that I gripe about the garage all the time because everyone uses it as a dumping ground for stuff they’re too lazy to find a proper place for but once I’ve reorganized it I actually feel like I accomplished something.
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I like jobs like that too…to feel and see the result of hard work.
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I’d like to replace dusting with emptying the dishwasher.
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I outsource dishwasher duty to spawn. 😂
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Same! But sometimes it’s a mess with the loading 😒
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Killing spiders for killing flies
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Bathroom hands down! C
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idk switch places with my wife, I find it easier to the bathroom over the kitchen. Honestly, we both hate to clean & only dust when my allergies get the best of me. Our apartment is also organized clutter.
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Bathrooms for sure. As much as I hate dusting, I’d do that in exchange.
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I would give up vacuuming and replace it with mowing the lawn more often.
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There is something about lawn mowing that does not bother me… 🙂
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cleaning out the gutters (once per year); replaced with cooking (once per year)
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ha ha ha!
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Washing the dishes. Not even that, but just rinsing and loading them into the dishwasher drives me nuts. Give me vacuuming instead!
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I’ll clean your bathroom if you’ll wash my windows. I positively absolutely hate doing that!
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Wait…windows need washing? 😉 (lol)
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Mine certainly do!
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Totally agree. Bathroom
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I mostly do outside chores; cutting & trimming the lawn, holiday lights, garbage, etc…but help with all the rest. Of those I’d say putting the laundry away is the worst. I’d rather do dishes any day; it’s just mindless enough to let my mind wander.
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Oh, of mine, I’d have to say shoveling snow sucks the worst. I’d much rather cut the lawn and listen to music or a podcast.
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Laundry. Ugh. I don’t mind washing so much as putting away. But I still prefer to do that, fold and pile while watching some show, over cleaning the bathroom.
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Ugh! Can’t I just give them all up? Don’t get me wrong I do like a clean and tidy house but I detest the never ending task of keeping it that way. Having said that if I could get someone to plan and cook all my meals I’d happily do all the cleaning instead.
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I like cooking about 95% of the time. The dishes after is less joyful but part of it and can be relaxing in its own way. But I’d be happily cooking for someone in exchange for them to do my bathroom every week. Hah.
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If we lived anywhere near each other I’d happily trade those jobs with you 😂
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Well if any future moves are in the works, I’ll keep you updated. 🙂
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Cleaning horizontal blinds. They gather dust and dirt at blinding speed, and are just a total, time killing chore to clean.
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YES! Which is why I put my foot down and refused to even entertain such vileness. We have something called serenity blinds.
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I’m with you on bathroom.
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Yup, me too!
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