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lokifin

Things I Hate to Do: Flist Quiz

Feb 01, 2008 21:08

You know what chores I hate to do more than anything? What I'll put off for as long as possible?

Dishes. I will let the sink fill and wait to do battle with horrid alien life forms that develop into entire civilizations before doing dishes. I try to get into the habit of washing up as soon as I dirty things, and if I'm cooking, I do rather well that ( Read more... )

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mirabellawotr February 2 2008, 02:30:35 UTC

Oh my god, dishes here too. And I have a dishwasher so I don't even really have an excuse. Gah, so much hate.

lokifin February 2 2008, 02:37:15 UTC

I know! And it NEVER takes as long as I think it will! And omg, the clean DISHES are so NICE! I have no idea what's wrong with me.

lokifin February 2 2008, 02:40:54 UTC

P.S. you HAVE TO download that song I linked in my last entry. I feel it will speak to you as it did to me. IT IS OUR ANTHEM, MIRA. HEAR IT. BE IT.

myamity February 2 2008, 02:49:06 UTC

haha, I used to do the laundry thing too. I had a chair in my old room that was constantly piled with clean clothes. Since moving out of home, I seem to have gotten over that and actually put stuff away (usually...). Maybe it's the lack of chair?

My pet hate is emptying the fucking dishwasher. Don't get me wrong, I am very very glad to have a dishwasher again, but I hate to empty it. And I seem to be doing it at least 3 times a week. I have 3 other flatmates. How does it always end up being me having to empty it?

lokifin February 2 2008, 02:56:36 UTC

It's totally the lack of chair. If I didn't have a chair or a laundry basket, I might even give up piling up clean clothes on the couch.

Also, your roommates should be smacked.

counsel February 2 2008, 04:30:08 UTC

Our big downfall here is the kitchen floor - it is an older vinyl floor so it always looks dirty. And with Scooter and us coming in and out via the door in the kitchen means the floor gets nasty. We just don't wash it that often. Mr. C handles a lot of the laundry, he has a bad habit of leaving loads in the washer and/or dryer. Right now, we have probably five or six loads to wash. I have no clue where all the laundry comes from - Scooter's clothes are not that big! We are scared about how much laundry we are going to have starting in March.

We are also amazingly slack on picking up Scooter's toys - we have this odd room that you pass through to get to living/family room. It where we have most of Scooter's toys and it looks like a preschool blew up.

lokifin February 2 2008, 04:38:11 UTC

Ohhh, I know about older linoleum/vinyl floors. They do look dirty really easily, and it takes a good scrubbing to get them clean. I feel for you with a toddler--it's an uphill battle.

And you should have three washer/dryer pairs, just to keep up omg.

clumsy_chord February 2 2008, 05:15:00 UTC

I'm the exact same as as you with this one - dishes and folding/hanging/putting away laundry. I can't get away with the dishes thing now because I live with my sister who'd put my dirty dishes into my bed if I didn't wash them (she's done it to former roommates before) but whenever I live alone... I wind up eating off off paper towel because the plates are dirty and suddenly my daily cereal doesn't seem so necessary (no bowls!) and who needs cutlery anyway when evolution so kindly provided us with fingers and teeth?

As for the laundry, I'm perpetually rumpled because if I don't leave the laundry in the dryer for a week (and I go downstairs for underwear and clean shirts every morning), then I've just dumped it all back into the laundry basic and fish through it every day for what I need. It may be messy, and wrinkly, but it works for me.

clumsy_chord February 2 2008, 05:15:49 UTC

(err, basket, not basic)

lokifin February 4 2008, 01:03:34 UTC

I'm fairly good about folding stuff. It gets a bit rumpled in the basket, but since I use the building washer/dryer, it has to come out as soon as it's done. That said, I buy clothes based on if I have to iron them or not. I don't even OWN an iron, much less an ironing board.

darkestperu February 2 2008, 12:28:28 UTC

I don't like cooking. I usually do it when I have the time, because I like eating halfway healthy food, but it takes soooo long, and then the results are gone within ten minutes. Annoying. I also don't like doing the laundry that much. It's not hard, but you either have to trek down to the basement (when I lived at home), the cellar (here), or the laundromat (soon at the next place) and then you have to wait around until it's done, and then you have to hang it to dry, and THEN you have to fold it and put it away. OH! And cleaning the bathroom. That sucks because it's all about elbow grease. I dislike that one the most, actually.

Unlike the majority, I don't mind doing the dishes. This may be because it drives me up the freaking wall to have a pile of festering dishes in the sink. I find it really gross. I also enjoy vacuuming, dusting, and yardwork. I guess I feel like you can see the results as you go along, which is gratifying.

lokifin February 4 2008, 01:11:58 UTC

I like to cook, but since it's only me, I only cook once a week at most, unless I'm on some sort of food spree. And mostly I'll make enough to freeze half and eat the rest of it for dinner that week. Then again, I don't get sick of eating the same thing for days at a time like some people do. Mmmmm, beef curry.