This only shows 6 of the 20 blinds
Options filtered through my mind as I did my pre-Christmas cleaning. Which in itself is a bit odd, because we won’t even be home. So maybe it was late fall, early spring, or more like catch up from being away so much cleaning.
Anyway, I actually enjoy cleaning but there are chores I dread and thought it would be fun to hear what chores others dread.
Name a chore or two you dread but grudgingly do often. Here’s a few of mine.
- Window washing (Okay, often is stretching it here, I do the outsides 2 maybe 3 times a year, insides is less, but that’s because I dread it.)
- Washing floors. (Not sure why I don’t enjoy this, and it’s really too bad it needs to be done so often.)
- Dusting or washing horizontal blinds. (I have a good reason for this one. We have 20 windows, most are big, and all of them have horizontal blinds.)
- Scrubbing the shower and tub. (The older I get the more I hate this chore. It has become easier since I started using a half and half mixture of vinegar and water with a little blue Dawn dish soap as a cleaner though.) This chore also makes me smile too, because of a comment one of my nephews made years ago. It was shortly after he moved out on his own. He was shocked when my sister told him he had to clean the tub and shower. His reasoning was, it gets washed whenever I shower.
Oh and if this was summertime instead of winter, cleaning tree fluff of the window screens is way up there on my dreaded list, and weeding flowerbeds.
Is there a chore you do regularly that you wonder why or how does this get dirty so fast.
– Cleaning ceiling fans and light fixtures.
– Cleaning the mysterious crumbs and such out of Silverware and utensil drawers. (Actually pretty much every drawer. How does stuff get in closed drawers.)
– Scrubbing kitchen sinks, including drain area and stoppers.
– Washing door and drawer fronts and handles.
If you have a choice, do you prefer to cook, or do the cleanup?
My hands down answer is do the cleanup.
kathy knull 
My dreaded chore is dusting. I’d rather do anything but dust! I think it is related to my allergies but dusting makes me feel poorly.
The chore that makes me scratch my head as to how it gets so dirty would be the refrigerator – inside and out. Although I know the answer – my husband. He never wipes his hands before opening the door and so when he makes salads or his breakfast he leaves smudges and smears of everything from spinach juice to peanut butter. As for the interior, well I suspect he munches while standing with the doors open! How else can bread crumbs end up in the vegetable and fruit bins??!!
I’d much rather cook than clean up but I do both because I’m fussy and when Sparky cleans up I have to clean up after his cleaning up!
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I find dusting kind of relaxing, but I can see how allergies would complicate it.
Yes, how do those crumbs get in the fridge? Our handle always needs washing. I do cook, but I sure don’t enjoy it. 😊
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I dislike vacuuming…but I love to do laundry. 🙂
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Vacuuming seems unpopular, and I don’t think I know anyone else who loves doing laundry. 😊
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Lol! I like to grocery shop too…do you know anyone who likes that? 🙂 I guess I’m an anomaly! ha ha
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Well, I like going up and down the isles finding what I need, but paying, packing and putting away, I certainly don’t enjoy. 😊
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LOL! I understand! 🙂
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If you have hot water baseboard heat, every now and then you have to clean the dust (and whatever the cats put in) from in between the copper fins. I actually made a tool that fits in between the fins and over the pipe, but it’s still a miserable task.
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That really doesn’t sound fun, hope you reward yourself with a treat after that chore. Possibly a liquid refreshment. 😊
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It’s been known to happen 😉
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Blinds! I washed them all this summer and was amazed at how filthy they were. They didn’t look it but if you felt them, they weren’t smooth. It was so back that I replaced 6 of them for solar shades which I love. For the bedrooms though, the blinds give more privacy so they’ll stay. I assigned some chores to my husband and that has made life easier. He does the vacuuming including the stair carpet (which I always hated) and the showers. It doesn’t sound like much but it has an impact on me.
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We had our blinds professionally cleaned once since living here. That was great and fairly inexpensive. May get it done again one of these days.
We haven’t had rug flooring for some twenty years now. We tried area rugs for awhile but even those are so much extra work. It’s nice your husband helps you out with them, especially the stairs. Our house isn’t very big and since I enjoy cleaning Mister doesn’t help with much inside. His chores are most of the outside ones, except weeding flowerbeds.
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We only have 2 rooms with carpet plus the stairs but he vacuums the hardwood too. Yay! I haven’t seen any professional blind cleaners. We used to have our windows cleaned once a year. We have the type that flips in to clean and every year one of them would have a broken spring which is expensive and time consuming to repair. We’ve been cleaning ourselves (with much whining).
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That’s not too much carpet, remember when the style was to have carpet everywhere but bathrooms and kitchen. I don’t miss that fad.
There’s a company that come, they take down, take to their shop and clean blinds then bring them back and hang them. Back when we had it done it was like $9-19 per blind depending on size.
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Not a bad price! My brother even carpeted his kitchen and bath. Yikes!
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We thought price was reasonable. I know people who did that too. Yikes doesn’t even cover it. 😊 It use to drive me nuts that there was carpet under the dining table in our 5th wheel.
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Toilets. We have high iron in our water so in addition to the usual yuck is the iron staining. It’s impossible to ever get it clean looking.
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Yes, iron stains can be impossible.
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The blinds, those infuriating blinds,
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Agreed, if they weren’t such a great and versatile window covering I would replace them.
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