Chores you hated doing when you were a kid

cheerfulgreek · #1 10-30-2012, 11:59 AM

What chores did your parents have you do that you couldn't stand doing? My parents had a cleaning lady clean our house ever other Saturday, so I never had to do much in the house. But, that didn't include the yard work. During the summer we had landscapers doing the lawn, but in the fall, we did all the work on the lawn. I hated raking the leaves with my dad. It's just that he had to have everything so perfect. Oh, and he didn't care if the the leaves were wet or dry. It was really awful after it rained.

carnation · #2 10-30-2012, 12:05 PM

Getting frogs or snakes out of the pool. I hate them. Sometimes I could talk the yard guy into getting the frogs out but he was afraid of snakes too.

ForeverRoses · #3 10-30-2012, 12:22 PM

Washing dishes. It was never ending. Drying dishes was a close second. I still hate doing both.

knight_shadow · #4 10-30-2012, 12:40 PM

Yard work in Texas = Hell

AnchorAlumna · #5 10-30-2012, 12:44 PM

Raking grass. Mom insisted that it be raked after every cutting.
And drying dishes. I'd rather wash than dry. Now I let them air dry in the dish drainer. It's supposed to be healthier!
Nowadays, I hate hate hate ironing. When I was 6 or 7, I'd beg to iron. Mom would let me iron handerkerchiefs and washcloths.
And finally, putting pictures in an album. We have boxes and boxes of pictures - and now flashdrives and flashdrives of pictures - unmounted in albums. I do not see the fascination with scrapbooking!

aggieAXO · #6 10-30-2012, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Yard work in Texas = Hell

I grew up in San Antonio and LOVED doing yard work. In fact I had my own mowing business in high school. I HATED doing anything house related -like dusting, vacuuming, ironing, dishes-my mother always made me do this dometic crap while my brother got to mow the yard. I would always complain that it was so sexist. I finally told her no more at about the age of 14. From then on I got to do the yard work

. Now I hate yard work

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knight_shadow · #7 10-30-2012, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by aggieAXO

I grew up in San Antonio and LOVED doing yard work. In fact I had my own mowing business in high school. I HATED doing anything house related -like dusting, vacuuming, ironing, dishes-my mother always made me do this dometic crap while my brother got to mow the yard. I would always complain that it was so sexist. I finally told her no more at about the age of 14. From then on I got to do the yard work

. Now I hate yard work

.

I hated it so much that I decided I'll be buying a condo instead of a house so I won't have to mow or trim anything lol

aggieAXO · #8 10-30-2012, 06:09 PM

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I hated it so much that I decided I'll be buying a condo instead of a house so I won't have to mow or trim anything lol

I am with you on that-when I had my house here in Austin I hired people to do the yard. I just didn't have the time nor the energy. Now I live in an apt and will likely be buying a condo soon with no yard. I did make great money in HS though!

I Phi 1963 · #9 10-30-2012, 01:03 PM

Cleaning up the dog shit in the basement.

GeorgiaGreek · #10 10-30-2012, 01:06 PM

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Cleaning up the dog shit in the basement.

LOL. I should add "cleaning up cat barf/poop left as a "present" on my bathmat.

I Phi 1963 · #11 10-30-2012, 01:24 PM

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LOL. I should add "cleaning up cat barf/poop left as a "present" on my bathmat.

I feel you. We had this dog when I was a kid that my mom was too lazy to take outside, so we kept him in the basement which was unfinished. Dude would piss and shit all over the damn place, down there. We would have to go down and clean the shit up. The washer and dryer was also down there, so when we would go wash our clothes, it was like tip toeing through a field of landmines (trying to avoid stepping in piss and shit) just to get to the washing machine.

cheerfulgreek · #12 10-30-2012, 07:24 PM

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it was like tip toeing through a field of landmines .

GeorgiaGreek · #13 10-30-2012, 01:05 PM

Drying dishes. Washing them: fine. But drying?? Just let them sit on the drying rack and let nature/ God/ the Flying Spaghetti Monster work its magic!
Also making my bed. I still don't do it unless I'm having company who might see my room or if I've just washed my sheets (or tossed around so much in my sleep they aren't on the bed anymore).

LaneSig · #14 10-30-2012, 01:15 PM

Picking green beans in the garden. For some reason it always had to been done around 4 in the afternoon. I hated it.

SydneyK · #15 10-30-2012, 07:15 PM

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Picking green beans in the garden. For some reason it always had to been done around 4 in the afternoon. I hated it.

I was just about to say picking/snapping green beans! Here all this time I thought I was the only one who despised that job. It didn't seem to bother anyone else in my family.