Vacuuming.
My house is reasonably clean but I hate vacuuming with a passion, I always have and I always will. It’s noisy and stressful and I always think I can hear the phone ringing or somebody calling my name, so I stop to investigate but it’s always just my brain messing with me. To do it properly you have to move all the furniture and go around the edges with that horrible bendy hose attachment thing that sucks itself to the carpet and devours any curtains foolish enough to get in the way…and that’s just one room done, you have to do upstairs…oh god the stairs…more horrible bendy attachment thing that makes the pfffut-pfffut-pfuttt noise because it wants to eat the carpet not clean it and is that my mobile ringing? Need to stop and check but I can’t find the damn thing because I’ve turned the living room upside-down vacuuming and nothings where it should be.

And that’s vacuuming.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 15:05, 7 replies)

Aaaargghh...
Now you've got me all stressed out :(
( snee held his breath since, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 15:26, closed)

Sorry
The strange thing is, I don't feel the same way about mowing the lawn (which is a similar experience).
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 15:29, closed)

I suspect that's because, unless your floors are really filthy, you can see how much of the lawn you've done. Most of the time vaccuuming just leaves the floor looking more or less as it did before, only with slightly fewer dust bunnies under the settee.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:32, closed)

Hoovering is soooooo unrewarding for all the effort it takes
perhaps I should get a Dyson so I can see all the dirt that gets sucked up?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:40, closed)

Not to mention the back-ache from all that bending.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 18:04, closed)

'oooh matron'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 21:29, closed)

I might be weird
But I vacuuming is my favourite part of cleaning. Actually, the only house cleaning activity I enjoy. Almost every house/flat I've lived in has had a substantial amount of wooden or tiled flooring, where it's very easy to see (and feel - ick) the instant it's not clean, so I tend to vacuum at least twice a week. I even use the little brush-ey attachment to vacuum shelves and any other flat dust-gathering surface in lieu of dusting.

I know it's a phrase that's tossed around a lot, but at one point during my student days, due to a stand off with my flatmates about doing the dishes (and the cleaning in general), the floor would have been the only place clean enough to eat off.
(teff, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 7:01, closed)