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A Easy Job But I Hate It

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:15:45 GMT

DD went to Wegmans today and came with home with a load of groceries. I hate puttting them away. No idea why it's not like I'm digging a ditch. Is there a simple kitchen task you hate doing for no reason?

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Annabellethecat66 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:24:39 GMT

All of them. But if I had to pick one it would be unloading the dishwasher.

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QVCkitty1 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:24:43 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
DD went to Wegmans today and came with home with a load of groceries. I hate puttting them away. No idea why it's not like I'm digging a ditch. Is there a simple kitchen task you hate doing for no reason?

@CrazyKittyLvr2 , I share your aversion, I don’t mind the shopping part, but the putting away is a big pain. I have an old house with a small kitchen and no pantry, so it is a challenge.

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nana59 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:25:25 GMT

been cooking since 1971....i'm done....told my husband i'm gonna turn the kitchen into an extension of the family room......

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:30:07 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 Unloading the dishwasher is my #2 simple but hateful job. I don't mind loading but unloading, nope. I feel terrible wenching about it when all I had to do was push a button to get them clean.

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Annabellethecat66 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:32:16 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 I (like many people) wash the dishes before I put them in the dishwasher.

Partly because I live alone and only have to wash the dishes maybe once a week.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:35:55 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 Have you ever wondered how many meals you've prepared and dishes you have washed over the years.? I probably don't want to know.

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HoliBerry — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:39:10 GMT

Just going down to the supermarket lately is totally exhausting.

The store is always so crowded, trying to get in & out of the aisles looking for products.

And then getting to the register & having to pack the groceries, not all of them but, some.

I find it very tiring going to the supermarket. When you get home you sort of just want to sit on the couch & cry - it's that tiring - Oh well, got to eat !!!

Does anyone else feel the same way ?

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CAcableGirl2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:41:39 GMT

@nana59 Your post made me think of my Mom and Dad. My Mom has prepared/cooked at least 2 meals / 7 days a week (3 a day since she retired) for over 60 years since my parents were married.

They rarely go out to eat, and she makes a full meal (meat/potato/vegetable), just about every night....plus some sort of home made cookie or dessert.

It makes me exhausted just thinking about it.

LOL - she bought Lustercraft cookware when they got married with a lifetime warranty, and she had had to have some pieces replace since she wore them out. Same for her Cutco knives.

You rarely see that anymore!

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Annabellethecat66 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:42:57 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 Well after my husband died (in 2004) I stopped cooking. I mean I really stopped cooking.

I eat lunch out with a friend (another widow) probably at least 4 times a week.

Then often on Friday's I get something to take home for the weekend from a restaurant. Things like today I had Olive Garden salad and Pasta ******oli. Sometimes I get Panera and take that home. Things like that.

I used to cook when my husband was alive but even then he liked to eat out and so did I. He really enjoyed good, expensive food. As for me, I could throw anything down my throat. Ha! Well, I'm very, very particular but what I mean, just give a freaking hamburger (Whooper) and I'm OK.

When we were first married he'd tease me and say I was a cheap date. We have very, very little money (he was in the Army and I was a secretary) so we'd go to the movies on base (.25 cents)...that's 25 cents! Ha!

Every now and then I'll make some home made spaghetti sauce. I'll make lasagna and spaghetti with it.

But I don't enjoy cooking when it's just me. How about you?

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godi — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:48:00 GMT

Unloading the dishwasher and cleaning the coffee maker up in the morning.

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HoliBerry — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:48:35 GMT

Oh my goodness - that is so funny that her dishes wore out !! Your Mom & Dad must have ate really really well.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:49:49 GMT

@HoliBerry I never liked the whole process but if we were going to eat I did it. Now at 68 I'm over it. I have 1 bad knee and suspect the other knee is headed in the same direction. I use a walker so hobbling through a grocery store is a pain in the............neck. My daughter, God love her, doesn't mind and she is a hawk at comparing prices. DH and I still go sometimes but I question my sanity when I do. Once in a while I will order online and DH goes to pick them up. It's convenient but not the same as picking out stuff yourself.

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NEvans2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:53:53 GMT

Yes, @CrazyKittyLvr2 , I also hate putting groceries away. I don't know why, but I do. Now my husband wants to grocery shop with me when he's home. He says " I'll help you". He helps me spend more money than I want to spend, but he does help carry everything into the house. Then he leaves me to put everything away! LOL. We've lived in the same house for 30 years, so I know he knows where everything goes. And@Annabellethecat, I also hate unloading the dishwasher. I shouldn't complain, at least I don't have to wash and dry them!

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:58:55 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 I still cook even though I could do like you. DH likes a bigger meal at dinner. He doesn't mind fudging now and then having pizza or a sub, but enjoys a "real" meal. Our daughter is here and she is like me, a burger or take out salad would make us happy.

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RedTop — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:07:12 GMT

I hate carrying the groceries from the car into the house, and then putting them away. I tend to take everything out of the bag, put the cold stuff away first, then take my time putting the rest away.

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Annabellethecat66 — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:14:06 GMT

I always knew I was lucky because my late husband would eat anything I put before him. I was an OK cook but (like most mom's) I only cooked what my family liked.

My youngest daughter now eats everything. She has amazing taste as far as what she likes.

When we traveled (quite a lot when they were young), every restaurant we went in to I'd either eat spaghetti or Filet Mignon and they'd (all three) eat chicken fingers. Here we'd be in these fancy expensive restaurants and he'd order these weird meals and all places have some kind of filet mignon. But it was the chicken fingers they'd have trouble coming up with. Not many kids would be eating at these places.

But you know, that's what made the restaurants so great. They'd come up with some kind of chicken fingers and french fries. Kids don't eat most of the time anyway. If you're like me, my husband and I used to laugh and wonder how they'd stay alive because all kids are such weird eaters. Ha!

So, my grandson is soon going to be 13 (I think) and he's already almost 6 foot tall. But his eating habits have always been terrible. I was over my daughter's house the other day. It was around 2:30. He'd just come in from school. She (very quickly) made him crepe. He shoved some strawberries in his mouth (from his lunch) , took the crepe and the sugar bowl. He made a very, very thin line of sugar across the crepe, folded it and ate it.

I was like, ugh! She looked at me and shook her head. She said, "Mom, I'm making Barbecue for dinner. Do you want to stay?"

I said, "Thanks! But I just want to get home." I don't eat a lot of meat, no reason, just don't.

On the way home I talked to my younger daughter in Denver. For at least 15-20 minutes I had to hear how I should eat better.......

What does that say when the kid becomes the mom? Ha!

It's usually the oldest daughter I have to remind that "I'm the mom....remember?"

Girls!! Whatcha gonna do? I do love my girls and I know you do too....but...they can drive us crazy...Ha!

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NYCLatinaMe — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:17:34 GMT

agree with @digo, cleaning the coffeemaker

i must admit that delivery and takeout services help address the other complaints...

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DearPrudence — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:17:39 GMT

I will come over and put your groceries away if you'll take my garbage out.

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Foxxee — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:21:26 GMT

Can't decide whether it's unloading the dishwasher or grocery shopping I hate the most.

Started using a fresh and frozen food home delivery service about 8 months ago. I'm fully capable of grocery shopping, did it myself for so many years, hate it now. I was hooked after one home delivery. Fruits and vegetables always fresh. Order online, groceries are brought into the kitchen and put on the counter.

For non-perishables, I've been using Walmart about 10 years...they deliver in 2 days via UPS.

Walmart also has a "Pickup" service. Order online, pickup at the store. Someone puts your groceries in the car. No charge.

The four I know of that deliver fresh and frozen foods are Wegmans, PeaPod, Instacart, Walmart...Walmart only in certain areas of the country right now.