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What is your least favorite household chore, and to what lengths will you go to avoid doing it? (ani.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine is washing dishes.

If left to my own devices, I will let dishes collect for a week in my kitchen sink.

Fortunately, I have a dishwasher. And a wife, but she doesn't enjoy doing dishes either, but at least it's a shared misery.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Raking leaves ranks up there. Rakes have to be one of the world's most unreliable yet unquestioned inventions of all time.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Then don't. Your local small mammals and insects will thank you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I wish the same could be said about the locals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Please don’t rake leaves unless necessary, it’s harmful to wildlife and biodiversity. Or if you do use them as mulch for gardening.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish it were this simple. Depending on where one lives here, different forms of yard work are legally encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hence the “unless necessary”.

And I’m guessing this is the US. It’s quite a hilarious double standard that the land of the free forces you to keep your yard in a certain way lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like a gadget inventing opportunity!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I shall call it...... the vacuum cleaner!

[–] mojofrododojo 2 points 3 weeks ago

sympathies; we have to rake relatively quickly due to the large number of trees and the constant rain (PNW). If you leave it on the ground it'll kill anything underneath, and if you leave it on the sidewalks or road it quickly becomes treacherously slippery slime piles. I look at it like: fuck, again, I just fucking raked, goddamnit, but if I don't it'll be even worse, fuck.