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Is there a chore you LOATHE doing?

Its Me LuLuBelle2 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:48:44 GMT

For me - grocery shopping. I don't mind housework (including scrubbing toilets), laundry, yard work or gardening. Grocery shopping is a necessary evil for me. I am the worst shopper in the world when my mitts are firmly wrapped around a grocery cart handle. I have my list, I know what's on sale, I put a line through what I've picked up and know what I still need. Somehow I manage to be in the last aisle and still have 22 things on my list. So backtrack I go! Sadly, more than once.

Many years ago my husband, knowing how much I hated this simple task, volunteered to take over the much dreaded groceries. I was overjoyed, handed him the list and sent him on his way. He came home, pleased as punch, and had everything but what I asked for. He brought home stew beef (the only meat he managed to put in the cart and not something I requested), and not a potato, a carrot or and onion to go with it! We did however have an abundance of ice cream, cherry pies, Ring Dings, peanuts and other assorted snacks. He exclaimed that he couldn't imagine why I hated grocery stores when there was so much "good stuff" there to be had! I couldn't even get upset with him as I'm an old magpie and if you put something bright and shiny in my face I lose all comprehension of anything else. I knew better than to let him do groceries, so it's back on me!

What's that one thing that makes you cringe just thinking about having to do?

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:52:00 GMT

You mean I have to pick just one? Ha! I don't like doing any of them.....

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LoveMyBaby — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:52:58 GMT

Dusting.

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Zhills — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:53:42 GMT

@Its Me LuLuBelle2 Try grocery delivery service.

Best money I ever spent!

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Spurt — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:55:06 GMT

A very necessary chore but definitely NOT a favorite ---

Cleaning the bathroom.............

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kitty60 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:56:16 GMT

Weeding! I need to put myself in the mental mood to do it. Try to meditate while I am in the yard doing it. In this heat I can psyche myself up for about an hour and then I'm done. Figure if I weed different areas every couple of days when I'm done...I can start over!

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:56:30 GMT

@Its Me LuLuBelle2 Cute post! I remember on the very, very rare occasions when my late husband would go to the grocery store with me (he never went much less by himself), he acted like he was in Disney World.

He'd come back to the cart with something totally useless saying, "We need this". He drove the guy behind the fish counter crazy asking questions and on and on!

If I bought cookies he say, "We don't need those, they're only useless junk food". Then at night when he wanted his beloved 'milk and cookies', I'd say, "You didn't want them....remember"? He'd say (laughing), "Since when do you listen to me"?

I see older couples shopping together. I've never been able to do that with anyone. I like to shop alone, totally alone.

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2blonde — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:57:03 GMT

@Its Me LuLuBelle2 An old magpie? LOL! (I can relate about the attraction to bright and shiny objects, though!). I have an idea. I HATE housework, so I'll do your grocery shopping and you can clean my condo. My favorite grocery store is rather small by today's standards, but I've been shopping there for a long time and I know exactly where everything is. I actually am so organized that I arrange my list so it coincides with the order that the items will be found as I go from one side of the store to the other. I hate those huge stores because I can never find anything!

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Allegheny — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:57:20 GMT

I hate to dust cause it just keeps coming back. I've always wished someone would invent something where you could press a button and the dust would be sucked out of and off every surface in the house.

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scatcat — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:58:49 GMT

@Its Me LuLuBelle2 Your DH sounds like mine. Never met a coffee cake he didn’t like.

He he only goes to the store once in a blue moon, for like a bag of ice. But decades ago he did the shopping and came home with everything jumbo sized. His logic was less trips to the store. That logic invented Costco

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Alison Wonderland — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:59:00 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
You mean I have to pick just one? Ha! I don't like doing any of them.....

YES! I'm with @Annabellethecat66. I hate them all.

If I had to pick one - going to the post office.

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RainCityWoman — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:00:19 GMT

I hate most house cleaning, but the ones I loathe most are cleaning the toilet and the shower. We get lots of mildew in Seattle.

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deepwaterdotter — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:00:52 GMT

Deep cleaning the oven/stovetop.

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151949 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:02:22 GMT

gardening. For instance weeding , trimming and deadheading flowers. We live in a plan that is pretty much yard care free - but they only spray the weeds so we are required to pull out the dead body after the spray does it's thing.They only put a very small amount of mulch so we have to buy more and put it out ourself as well. Then any flowers we plant we have to care for.

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:02:44 GMT

@Alison Wonderland Reminded me of how much I hate going to the bank. I have to do it maybe once or twice a week to get cash. Then when I send my daughter money (different banks) I have to go there.

The problem? Well, that means I'm taking it out....and that's not a good thing...

Plus the lines are way, way too long and .......never mind......

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Drythe — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:03:52 GMT

@LoveMyBaby

I’m SO with you on the dusting!

I Love my babies so much too, but boy can they make dust bunnies 🐰

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Nightowlz — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:03:58 GMT

After doing the same old same old chores for over 42 yrs I can say I LOATHE them all. I'm so sick of doing any of it.

I'm a clean freak so not like I'm going to stop cleaning. LOL!!!

I do hate grocery shopping. Probably because I go every couple of months & spend $400-$500 just so I don't have to go back for a while. Takes forever ringing it all up, sacking it up, loading to cart & loading to trunk & in the house where I have to put it all up.

DH picks up fresh fruit, veggies, milk almost weekly.

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qualitygal — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:07:39 GMT

Once a year. Going to get our taxes done. There's never a problem, but I just hate it.

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Catlady Nicole — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:08:21 GMT

For the past couple of years it's been vacuuming. Mostly because we now live in a home with all hardwood or tile floors and I've yet to find a good vacuum for those surfaces. Suggestions are welcome! I have two very hairy cats girls that contribute to our mess

As for grocery shopping @Its Me LuLuBelle2, well, I've been using Walmart grocery pickup for almost 9 months now and it's revolutionized my life!!! Seriously! I add things to my online cart throughout the week and when I'm ready, I check out and choose a time to pick it up. Once I'm there it takes 10 minutes to get my order loaded and get back on the road. I always thought grocery shopping was the most redundant task. Too much handling the same items over and over for my taste. Our other local grocery stores are beginning to offer this service now too, but I haven't tried them yet.

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LoveMyBaby — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:09:24 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:
I hate to dust cause it just keeps coming back. I've always wished someone would invent something where you could press a button and the dust would be sucked out of and off every surface in the house.

@Allegheny

This made me chuckle out loud. Thx!