[Closed] Chores

Polishing silver.

Immediate, and visible, results from ypur efforts.

Making the weekly loaf of bread apart from during a heatwave

Washing up, I love the end result of clear sides.

Getting them done so I can go riding

🙂

Washing and hoovering the car, knowing that I will get at least a week of it at least looking vaguely smart before it does one or more of (1) costing me money to have it fixed again (2) the kids fill it with crumbs and wrappers (3) i fill it with mud and muck from bikes.

Closing the door of the dishwasher. Nothing else.

What Dez says.

I like cutting the grass too, pretty much everything else gets rushed/ignored so I can go and do something more enjoyable.

Ironing - I do it all in our household.

Stick the board in front of the telly and watch Netflix.

Ironing here too, especially my own work shirts, as MrsMC was rubbish with them.

What I have discovered since we swapped roles so I'm the part time house husband is that it takes me a lot less time and effort to keep the house in its usual state of filth and untidyness than MrsMC. She loves to come home and demand to know if I've done X or Y, hates me saying "No, I went for a ride, but does it look any worse than usual?"

Weeding

Garden maintenance isn't too bad.

Actual gardening though, really pees me off.  It's pretending to be a peasant farmer from the middle ages digging up the ground constantly, only except food at the end of it you get a few diseased roses.

Vegetable gardening is even worse.  You put in hours and days  of effort, and if anything grows at all then you get the satisfaction of knowing you invested at least two working days of your free time to produce about the same number of carrots as a 19p bag from tesco. Except the tesco ones are bigger and straighter so a lot less faff to prep.

Giving the car a proper clean when time isn't a factor. The sort of clean that includes doing the wheels properly, cleaning the glass inside and out, emptying all the receptacles of sweet wrappers and hairbands etc etc etc.

And keeping the kitchen (my favourite place in the house) nice and clean.

Cleaning windows, in the house and the car. People don't realise that with time you get a film of pollution and plasticiser building up, which encourages misting and obscures the window especially when the film is illuminated by sunlight. I use aerosol polish, which leaves the glass lovely and sparkly and means that the next time you clean it the cloth glides smoothly and doesn't catch.

My obsession probably stems from my childhood when my Dad killed a cyclist who came straight out of a side road in the dark, no lights, no brakes, drunk, half blind and half deaf. He came through the windscreen and died in my parents' laps. The Police checked every inch of his car including the windows and found it in perfect order. The man's family had told him not to ride to the pub and back but he ignored them.  I also had a student job valeting cars so I've ended up with a clean glass obsession.

Relaxing with a nice glass of red wine watching the robo-vac slowly cleaning the carpets.

Man in pub to landlord "Have you done your chores?"
Landlord (indignant) "What chores?"
MIP "Ah, that's very kind of you, I have a pint"

Cutting the grass with my old push mower and getting stripes. Polishing shoes. Cleaning out the guinea pigs.

Man in pub to landlord “Have you done your chores?”

I have tried this with many people many times, and no-one ever says "what chores" as a response.....

I will persevere. One sweet day i will get the right answer...

oh, and I like hoovering.

#1 is washing up.

#2 probably vacuuming

oh, and I like hoovering.

You should get a carpet cleaning machine.

The perverse satisfaction when you empty the tank of manky water is  pretty good.

None, isn’t that why they are chores? You’re all perverts 😀