If you could make one household chore disappear from your life forever, which one would it be?

If you could make one household chore disappear from your life forever, which one would it be?

Cleaning the toilet.

what would your be?

Laundry.

Boo laundry!

Dishes. I would absolutely cook even more. We do not have a full dishwasher, just a tiny one. I would use cast iron even more often as well. We have a ton of dishes as it is.
When I did have a full sized dishwasher, it wasn't as bad, although you still cannot put a lot in there.

Or, or, or... truly least favorite is anything crawlspace related. Guess it's a toss-up between the crawlspace and the dishes.

This is not including garden chores, of course. Such as weeding

That's a hard question.  Milking cows, weeding, dishes, gathering firewood and laundry are all great ones.  It's too hard to pick.

Maybe dishes, I to would cook more and be more creative with cooking if dishes weren't a thing.  We have no dish washer -- I'm the primary dishwasher.  But in return I don't have to milk as much.

Washing the floors.  

DISHES! I could handle any other chore better if I didn't have dishes hanging over my head.

Laundry, Id love if the cleaning gnomes would just make fresh folded clothes appear in my drawers. We have been doing our laundry by hand for the last 2 years and it isn't for the faint of heart. I think we have two baskets a day with our house hold. And the gosh darn rain has forced all the drying to be done indoors.

Dishes…

I used to enjoy cooking, but after raising kids with major food sensitivities as a single mum(AU spelling 😉) that became less fun as well…

And as I had two ‘dishwashers’, but both of which were permanently broken (ie. my sons), dishes were always the end of day tedious chore!

+1 for dishes. Even though we have a dishwasher for the crockery, I don't like to put most of my cookware in there. I do like cooking, but apparently the job isn't done until the dishes are clean....
I can ignore most chores for quite a long time, but eventually I run out of pans.

Finding these comments interesting!

I have little problem with dishes (do by hand), laundry, toilet cleaning, or cooking..... but can't STAND floor/furniture/wall&window cleaning!  With increasing age, just even worse what with chasing dust bunnies under beds and bookcases.... grrrr.

No contest. . .dusting.  I was advised early on that as a new handspinner (of yarns) that the first rule was "thou shalt not touch dust"  reason being that once it's been touched and there are fingerprints, something has to be done about it, eating into spinning time.  Boo, hiss. . .

Asking or telling my husband or children to do *anything* is the worst chore

Cleaning mold off the ceiling above the shower.

Jill Dyer wrote:.....reason being that once it's been touched and there are fingerprints, something has to be done about it, eating into spinning time.  Boo, hiss. . .

Our solution to that was to have the poorest indoor lighting in the county!   :-)

My grandmother's furniture all had crochet doily so she did not have to dust.

Trapping mice and rats - maybe if I had another barn cat or two...

Dishes. It's not that I really even mind washing dishes (we don't have a dishwasher), it's that my back hurts when I stand. I can't stand for more than a couple of minutes before it's too painful and I  have to either walk or sit down. Also, I'm getting sick and tired of the kitchen sink drain being clogged up. My brother, who lives next door, spent two days trying to fix it a few months ago - successfully, eventually, but he had to crawl under the house and strap the long run of drain pipe up so it didn't have any sags in it. Now it's clogged again, and I'm considering just giving up and dumping all the liquids out the back door like our ancestors used to have to do. I hate having to ask my brother to help with it again. I'm thankful for my paid-for old house, but old-house plumbing (and wiring) is the pits.

Doing the dishes.  I loathe them.  I skip doing many things in the kitchen just so I don't have to do them.  But I still have to do them.  Ugh

Kathleen Sanderson wrote:Dishes. It's not that I really even mind washing dishes (we don't have a dishwasher), it's that my back hurts when I stand.

Dishes for me, too - and the back pain as well. The bottom of the sink, where hands are doing the work, is too low. It means bending slightly, and I don't have space to get my feet forward to take the strain off my back.

But even if the sink was higher, having to deal with dishes all the time is frustrating and depressing.

Getting out the mojack to clean the deck of the lawn mower...which is "supposed" to be done after every use.  That's not going to happen!  When I do clean it, sometimes I will then mow and then clean it after that so it's ready to use for the next time.  

It is the stupidest design ever.   It's got an inch round lip on the front of where the tires sit, and when I drive the mower to get into those open rectangle wheel holders, the mower would just push the mojack.  I thought maybe it needed more traction to hold the unit in place, so I brought it outside.  That just resulted in tearing up the yard.  I'm a 66 year old woman who stands at 4'11" but even so, I've tried putting the mower in neutral and pulling it on.  No dice.  

Finally, I came up with a solution.  I got some 3' long rubber wheelchair ramps that are made to go in front of doors.  Its profile is a wedge and its high side is an inch. (You can get them in different heights.)  I cut it with a hack saw into four lengths.  (If I did get the mower on, it would not come off without dragging the Mojack!) Two of the rubber ramps are used to get up and over the lip, and two are used to back off the lip.  It's still frustrating that I have to do this, but it doesn't take long to set up and it works.  I hope this helps someone out there who wrestles with this, too.

I once spent about an hour and a half and never did get the mower to drive over the wheel holders of the mow jack.  Ughh.  I think my tires may not have as much air as they once did, because for the first year, it was never an issue.  I really should also check the pressure on them.  If anyone wants a link, here you go: https://www.vevor.com/curb-ramp-c_10411/1-p_010135861076?ad_group=201973601978&ad_id=827613296867&adp=gmc&utm_id=24338219486&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_term=

If you count weeding as a household chore, that would be mine. I have a dishwasher, so I can't say washing dishes. Otherwise, sweeping/ washing floors. It feels like you are just done, and the next person coming in brings dirt in. AARRGH!

Everytime I see a meal served in a Kdrama, I am appalled at
the number of side dishes involved and the washing required.

I store used tissue paper(snot/makeup/etc) to dry and then
give them another go by wiping grease/gravy off plates and
pans before washing.

Then the tissues get a third life as firestarters for a biochar burn
after they have dried.

For obstinate stuff, I leave the pans under the roof line
and let the rain have a whack.

This how I eat out as well as in.

The cutlery is spotless so it is a quick lather and rinse.

Less oil, less detergent, less environmental impact.

Bones are collected back for bonechar.

Excess is for leftovers - I carry a spare sauce shaker.
This is for milk since they usually substitute evaporated/condenser
for the cheaper creamer varieties.