Chores

[Manc]

Cleaning the car and hoovering are my domain, ironing and washing pots I simply cannot endure.

Discuss.

[Shindig]

I've got a pan to clean before I can even start my tea.

[Giggles]

I like inside work and hate outside work.

[Baz]

They stop being chores once you move out of your parents house, surely?

[-james-]

Dishes are easily the worst chore, regardless of your set-up.

[Spikey M]

I don't have chores. I'm an adult.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ironing is the biggest faff going. By now somebody should have developed technology to achieve the same results without me having to unfold a 5 foot board on legs and heat a metal pan to a billion degrees.

Anything that involves house infrastructure is a joy. Every single item of furniture in my flat was built from flatpack in the course of 10 days last October, and to be honest I doubt I'll ever experience such a happy time again.

[Disco]

I have the perfect solution to ironing. Don't fucking bother.

[mugbull]

Worst chore is easily putting a duvet back into its sheet

[-james-]

Worst chore is easily putting a duvet back into its sheet

Nah. Anything you come out of with a sense of accomplishment but only takes about three minutes to do is fine by me.

[Disco]

Starting with the cover inside out makes it much easier.

[mugbull]

Nah. Anything you come out of with a sense of accomplishment but only takes about three minutes to do is fine by me.

I come out of it with a strong negative emotion that I can't really describe

[Jimmy Floyd]

Corners in the corners and shake it down, nice and easy technique.

Putting a sheet on a mattress I find more infuriating.

[Spikey M]

Putting the sheet on is easy. You're not using a 'flat sheet' are you? You're going in the weirdo thread if you are.

[Jimmy Floyd]

No, a fitted one, but I always put too much material in one corner and there's not enough left when I do the third or fourth. However, the smooth look upon final completion is worth it I guess.

[Ian]

I have the perfect solution to ironing. Don't fucking bother.

Correct.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Shirts have to be ironed if you're wearing a suit. There's no way around that.

[Waffdon]

I’m not great at it but you have to iron shirts and polo shirts, surely.

[Spikey M]

You iron everything that isn't underwear if you're not a slob.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I only iron tops and only if it's the outermost layer and I'm going somewhere where it matters. Pullover over shirt is my normal work attire which gets me off the hook most of the time.

I have a friend who irons his socks. The friend status was hanging by a thread after I heard that.

[Mike]

You iron everything that isn't underwear if you're not a slob.

This. People are to polite to point it out, but if you aren't ironing your clothes, people have noticed. I iron everything apart from underwear and socks.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I have the perfect solution to ironing. Don't fucking bother.

This.

After I wash my clothes I'll hold the base of shirts and shake/wave (as if using it to try and fan a fire) to reduce creases when they dry.

[mugbull]

Iron formal clothing yes, but iron anything casual and you're a huge tryhard

[Spikey M]

I prefer my t-shirts not to look like my ball bag.

[Lewis]

Let somebody else wear them then.

[Pepe]

The only reason I don't wear my shirts to work is that I hate ironing.

I hate all chores. Each and every one of them.

[Raoul Duke]

I had to iron a shirt at my Father In Law's place and realised that ironing is much easier if you have some decent kit. They have this badass steam iron thing that makes it easy. I'm totally buying one once I move.

[Pepe]

I thought the same, so I bought the best iron I could buy. It still sucks.

[Disco]

This.

After I wash my clothes I'll hold the base of shirts and shake/wave (as if using it to try and fan a fire) to reduce creases when they dry.

Hanging or folding does 90% of the job, the only thing I do are shirt collars and a couple of work ones.

[Baz]

This. People are to polite to point it out, but if you aren't ironing your clothes, people have noticed. I iron everything apart from underwear and socks.

Do you though? Or does mum still do it?

[Manc]

Burn.

[Mike]

Do you though? Or does mum still do it?
I was ironing just this afternoon

[Boydy]

Dunno if it really counts as a chore but I cba starting a new thread. Peeling potatoes is so fucking satisfying. I could do it for hours.

[Giggles]

I rarely peel them any more since I started growing them.

[Baz]

Away lassy, don't be peeling me spuds now. I've grown dem from scratch ya see. These fine things aren't for peeling, nevermind cooking now.

[Spikey M]

You realise he's Irish, not a pirate?

[Raoul Duke]

You realise he's Irish, not a pirate?

I was getting Jamaican from it

[Lewis]

https://i.imgur.com/7tded3G.png

[Shindig]

Teach a man to fish and all that.

[Boydy]

https://i.imgur.com/7tded3G.png

:D

Ffs

[Yevrah]

I started getting a cleaner in over lockdown and it's one of the best decisions I ever made.

[Pepe]

Absolutely. Can't thing of a better way to spend your money.

Cleaner crew. :cool:

[Lofty]

Apart from having to do a clean before they arrive, out of shame.

[Manc]

I started getting a cleaner in over lockdown and it's one of the best decisions I ever made.

Don't you live alone?

[Yevrah]

Don't you live alone?

I do, but in a 3 bedroom house with two bathrooms and it's a ball ache to clean.

[Yevrah]

Apart from having to do a clean before they arrive, out of shame.

:D

Indeed.

[Manc]

Outrageous behaviour.

[Pepe]

My cleaner is having a shoulder surgery, so she will be out for a few weeks. I looked for and hired a (more expensive) substitute for those weeks. Better than having to do the cleaning myself.

[Queenslander]

Im definitely a pervet I enjoy cleaning my kitchen.

[phonics]

Dunno if it really counts as a chore but I cba starting a new thread. Peeling potatoes is so fucking satisfying. I could do it for hours.

Every Christmas I do the ‘do you need help prepping the veg’ because it’s so satisfying and it means I get out of doing the shit jobs.

[Andy]

I started getting a cleaner in over lockdown and it's one of the best decisions I ever made.

Same, makes a big difference to quality of life. We also have a bloke that comes and cleans the car when needed.

[Giggles]

I was getting Jamaican from it

I got strong Welsh.

[Lofty]

If you keep your house tidy and just want someone to come in every so often to just do the deep cleaning stuff I think it is worth it, just means you aren't having to faff around with it in your free time. I clean the kitchen down everytime I wash up. It's more the mopping, shower scrubbing etc I am happy to palm off for a price.

[Shindig]

I've not found it a problem whilst working from home. When I'm back at the office, it's going to slide so much.

[Ian]

Cleaning the bath / shower is the absolute pits as far as household chores go.

[Manc]

We also have a bloke that comes and cleans the car when needed.

I bet he does.

[Spikey M]

That's the worst double entendre in world history. Including this one.

That's what she said.

[Ian]

#oioi

[Jimmy Floyd]

Does anyone have any good techniques for saving their knees on a hard floor? Taking cushions off the sofa is wearing thin.

[Pepe]

Buy kneepads?

[Spikey M]

https://i.ibb.co/b3BhYdq/S01-E04-HGpi1tp2-subtitled-1.jpg

[Don]

Does anyone have any good techniques for saving their knees on a hard floor? Taking cushions off the sofa is wearing thin.

That escalated.

Pro tip: Save yourself a few dollars, a few bodyfat %s, the shame and the brain degradation of a couple more episodes of some Netflix shite and clean yourself.

[Lewis]

So that's how he bags all the fancy foreign junkets.

[Pepe]

Should just use the bed, mate.

[Spikey M]

We don't clean bathrooms with bedding in Socialist Europe.

[Baz]

Cleaning the bath / shower is the absolute pits as far as household chores go.

Whazz HG Mould Remover all over it, taking care not to get any on you because you will dissolve, wait 15 minutes and then blast everywhere with the shower head on full power.

[Ian]

I thought "Whazz" was the product / brand name for a minute. :D

[Baz]

Whazz is a verb.

To apply with pizzazz.

[Ian]

Yeah I figured that out right after I'd finished wonder what hellish product was called "Whazz."

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is it related to 'swazz', i.e. the spin on a football that makes a sweetly hit medium to long-range pass swerve and zip off the turf?

[igor_balis]

Is it related to 'swazz', i.e. the spin on a football that makes a sweetly hit medium to long-range pass swerve and zip off the turf?

That's a form of swaz-tekkers then, I suppose?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I couldn't have come up with that joke if I'd thought about it for a thousand years.

[Ian]

You mean you did Nazi that joke coming?

[Kikó]

I think you're Reich.