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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] 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Does mowing count? I hate doing yardwork and I do it just often enough to not get a notice from the HOA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The history of humanity hasn't experienced tyranny, injustice, and oppression like HOA edicts.

/jk I love my HOA. looks around

[–] bitchkat 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I sold my house and got a condo because I was over yard work and snow blowing.

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

I was actually really looking into a condo/townhouse for that very reason, but when I was home searching, the high monthly HOA dues and the fact that condo prices were practically the same as a house, plus the higher interest rate vs a SFH steered me away. We’ll see, maybe in time I’ll get tired of it and do the same as you.

[–] bitchkat 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I wasn't happy that the condo is at 3.25%. The HOA fee covers insurance, water, internet, garbsge, heat, cooling, etc. My individual insurance is like $200/year. By the time I added all the things I was paying in addition to PITI, it was a, wash at worst.

I purposely wasn't looking at buildings with elaborate amenities because they tend to have higher HOA.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hire a gardener!

[–] mojofrododojo 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

two years ago we dug up the front lawn and replaced it with mulch, moss, and succulents. drainage is MUCH better, bees and hummingbirds live in the bushes next to the house, and it's so much nicer.

worth considering if your HOA won't bitch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, I am considering that and starting to budget for it. If the HOA is a bitch about it, I’ll do it in the backyard and cut my total mow time by at least 40%. It will also reduce my water bill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I hate mowing but I do it because if I get someone else to do it they'll do it wrong.