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Laminating
Especially A3.
Lining it all up and then it's not straight and wrestling with it to make it straight.
Can get right in the bin for me.
I suppose the only upside to laminating, is by the very fact that I'm doing it, it would indicate that I actually got the wireless printer to work in the first place
Guess what I'm doing now...
Time sheets
Monthly reporting the same data over multiple reports in ever so slightly different formats
I honestly don't think I have ever laminated anything. I'm 47.
Ironing. pretty much only school uniforms get ironed in our house, unless I need a going out shirt.
Bin night.
What - you mean you're not the neighbourhood Binfulencer? First out with the right bin, first time every time? What wrong with you?
I've solved the problem of ironing by not having either an iron or an ironing board in the house.
Washing the car. I don't want to do it. And I don't want to pay someone to do something I can do. Can't win.
Washing the pots.
Being the only adult in the house that changes the empty loo roll, in a house of 4 adults.
Cleaning the inside of a car windscreen. No matter how you do it and what you use, it is always smeary
Never laminated anything either!
Washing the car just seems pointless to me. It's left outside, and it rains often enough for any big bits of dirt to come off. The inside is crumbs, sand and bike dirt which is all mostly harmless.
Hate mowing the lawn, my OH does it. I'm ok with destructive gardening but not growing stuff.
Bins are OK, nice to get all the rubbish gone. I also love going to the tip, same reason.
Hoovering is annoying. We got a robot one that we sometimes set off.
Ironing can get in the sea. Not even sure if we have one anymore.
I'll second washing the car, though I hate cleaning the interior even more. I like the interior clean, so it's kind of worthwhile, but washing the outside just unveils all the damage and scratches that the mud's been hiding... I refuse to pay those cash only hand car washes as I'm sure most of them aren't paying any tax at best and are fronts for some illegal/illicit activity at worst.
Cleaning the inside of a car windscreen. No matter how you do it and what you use, it is always smeary
Yeah, what's going on with this? I never used to have a problem clearing any inner windscreen. These days I find it completely impossible. (You just reminded me that I need a trip to Halfords to try and find a decent degreaser. )
Another one for gardening.
Hate it. The most I could cope with was cutting the grass, the Mrs did 80% of it.
The place we have now, doesn't have a lawn, lots of stuff in pots, shrubs and stuff.
Cleaning the inside of a car windscreen. No matter how you do it and what you use, it is always smeary
Mine isn't. Micro fibre cloth, dipped in a bit of cleaning vinegar and water. No smears.
I don't hate any menial tasks, my life is full of them as they are unavoidable unless I pay for a carer so I just accept it and do them without thinking too much about it.
1. Changing bedding. Especially quilt covers.
2. Sorting out washing after it's dried. Pairing socks up particularly, as every single one of them will be inside out.
Don't know it if it counts as menial, but the one I hate above all others is decorating. Especially the hall, stairs landing with all the pissing fiddly woodwork.
I like gardening 😀 it's nice to see stuff you've planted growing and doing well, and feeding the pollinators at the same time. Went a bit crazy this year half the fridge is taken up with 4 different tomato varieties...
For me it's driving during any busy period, it's just boring, annoying, frustrating and you're sharing the road with a bunch of post frontal lobotomy morons. I just wanna get to A-B as soon as possible.
Any indoor cleaning, house needed cleaned one weekend and I went out and cleaned the Jeep roof (it's not moved off it's spot in the driveway in 5 years), the van roof (no one even sees up there) and washed and waxed the rest of the van. Think I started cleaning out the garage after that. All that outdoor cleaning just to avoid indoor cleaning, makes no sense. The weather wasn't even that good.
These days, gardening and hoovering, knackering and allergy inducing.
gardening
Decorating
Food shopping yet I adore cooking.
Getting home on a Monday and tidying up the entire house and taking the bins out after the in-laws have done the childcare thing.
Don't get me wrong I'm so grateful for what they do, and the relationship they have with my children (and the money we save!) as a result. But would it kill them to maybe put something back in a basket or something when they're done with it? It seems like when one room is full of mess they just move onto the next one!
Ironing is alright, don't mind hoovering but hanging out the washing can do one.
I try to remember ..... "The obstacle is the way" .... and it helps.
Putting the washing away. Made 10x worse by the fact I have 4 girls, everything looks the same, some of the sizes overlap and the youngest is wearing clothes the eldest had. I recognise each piece, but can't remember who's it is currently as they've all worn it at some point or other. I have to check the label, which are all faded now. I try and sort through it while they are there and ask the eldest, as she knows.
Dusting.
When I was single, i had minimal clutter, whizzed round with a duster once a week or so, looked great.
25 years with MrsMC and now two kids, there isn’t a surface that isn’t covered in obstacles, and I've just given up.
+ 1 to gardening & lawn mowing. Although our new dogs are turning the lawn into something that resembles Bakhmut (with disembowelled toys for extra accuracy) so that cuts down the task!
Also hate ironing. Luckily daughters school uniform includes a jumper so that’s just collars & a bit of the shirt front to do.
All of them, as in every.single.one (especially cooking) but I'm a self-confessed lazy bastard.
I'll employ a small army of housekeepers when I win the lottery
Anything that I don’t enjoy can **** right off. I work through the whole week doing fundamentally unenjoyable stuff. Why would I waste my free time doing the same. Madness!
Strimming noisy vibrating bastard of infinite tedium and THEN you’ve got to rake the mess up
All the above.
With the gardening, the worst stuff is anything that needs to be done when it’s dry… ie. a waste of cycling or beer garden weather. And then there’s the pain… I have a snapped ulna, and even though I can mountain bike and bare the pain… when gardening hurts it the pain has no joy to balance it out.
I have never washed a car in my life. I always assumed people who did, enjoyed it. Why else would you?
Ditto ironing. We do own one, but it only ever gets used by my wife as part of the clothes-making process (which she enjoys). When I briefly wore smart shirts and trousers for work, they got hung up neatly, that was plenty good enough.
I never enjoyed bike maintenance/cleaning but there's a lot less of it now I'm neither commuting in all weathers nor MTBing through the winter in muddy areas.
Making the brew at work.
I'm the boss.
It should be delivered 😉
I iron that infrequently that taking the ironing board out of the cupboard caused my then four year old daughter to have a proper meltdown. She’d not seen an ironing board before and was freaked out. Reasonable reaction in my opinion.
Cleaning a car is an utterly alien concept to me. It lives outside and is used for driving about outside and outside tends to have weather and stuff.
Cleaning the oven, it's why I pay someone to do it for me every 6 months or so. £60 well spent in my mind as it's done in an hour rather than the whole day it would take me.
Yeah, what’s going on with this? I never used to have a problem clearing any inner windscreen. These days I find it completely impossible.
It's particles gassing out of the interior, it forms a sticky layer on the glass. I use Auto Glym Glass Polish (a posh version of Windowlene) applied with a kitchen towel. Wipe off with a clean one then go over with a microfibre cloth. Takes two or three applications initially but then you only need to do it every month or two for it to stay clean.
Admin, accounts, dealing with the council.
I like about 3/4s of all the gardening jobs- picking out plants, digging holes, planting stuff, harvesting stuff, all good. Even weeding and mowing can be satisfying I just absolutely cannot stand watering stuff. This summer's epic combination of Always Raining and Inexplicably But Not Obviously Dry has been a killer.
Slicing pizza.
Work
Any task than means I have to ride my bike less.
I'll start this by saying that whilst we share the housework, I do the lions share as my job allows me a bit more time to get these things done.
Emptying the dishwasher... My wife's obsession with tupperware causes a simple task to be soul destroying.
Putting my washing away. I think this is some sort of childhood trauma. We'd spend weekends with my dad and when getting home on Sunday evening, there was always a big pile of clothes to put away. Hate it.
Oh, another one. People clean ovens on a regular basis? Ours was a crime scene when we moved in but that was 10y ago. I must admit I have cleaned it in the last year - my wife was threatening to chuck the unused oven cleaner that we'd inherited, and I'd had a few too many overflowing pizzas on the rack - but that makes it basically a decadal job.
Hedges, grass, hanging washing out are enjoyable menial stuff. Washing up (not got dishwasher and kids abandoned home!) and hoovering I hate.
1. Changing bedding. Especially quilt covers
I hate changing sheets but duvet covers are easy, just turn them inside out, put your hands down to the corners and then you get the satisfying shake out process as it all fits perfectly.
Chipping mortar off bricks.
Painting. It's messy, time consuming and dull AF.
I want to do a bit at a time because its so mind numbing but because then the prep and clear down is such a disproportionally large chunk of the time spent on it I feel like I always need to do more actual painting to make it worthwhile. Catch 22.
Wow I really feel this here is one thread that can unite us 🤣
Had a laminator in the last place i worked. It was seen as ay treat to get out of real work* and would try to invent reasons to use it. *not that there was much of that going there either.
Removing hair from the bath plug hole. What hair I have is short (number 3 on the top, 2 on the sides) but I have a wife and two daughters so lots of long hair gets stuck in the plug hole. If I leave it too long it's manky when I pull out the foot long mass.
That and cleaning the bath - is it too much to ask people who shave in the bath to rinse it down afterwards?
+1 duvet covers
It just makes me unfathomably angry. Normally because I'm doing it at 11pm having not realised the bedding was still in the tumble dryer when I want to go to bed.
I refuse to believe there's an easy method.
Weeding the block pave driveway. I don't like putting nasty stuff down so I guess that's the price I have to pay. Hanging up the washing as I have a "system" which means it takes longer than it perhaps needs to. I also seem to be chief pot washer/dryer/putter away-er. Cleaning the inside of the family car. Nooks and crannies galore and "carpet" that resuses to give up whatever has been dropped on it.
Oh yeah, doing jobs for my elderly neighbour instead of doing stuff around my own house because his kids are not pulling their weight. Not that I help myself there, popped round the other day to deal with a small bit of ivy amd ended up spending the afternoon there and filled a one ton bag with clippings from his garden.