What’s your most hated domestic chore?
I have a few, but changing duvet covers is probably one of the top candidates. Which is why I so often strip my bed at 8am, and then forget all about it until bedtime, when I walk into my bedroom to find that – ugh – I need to start trying to put on a clean duvet cover. And how often do you wash your duvets? It’s such a faff going to the launderette or to use the big machines at the supermarket.
The Joy of a Coverless Duvet
With the Night Owl range of coverless duvets from The Fine Bedding Company, there’s no cover to change. Instead, you can throw the whole caboodle into the washing machine, and then into the tumble drier. Hey presto, you have clean, dry bedding by the end of the day. This means no more wrestling with a duvet cover at bedtime.
Read on to find out how you can win a Fine Bedding Co coverless duvet for yourself!
A Bedroom Makeover
This weekend, we spruced up my bedroom, which is the last room in the house that we’ve sorted since moving into the new house. As a new build, my bedroom is (obviously) a white box – a little bland, and a little bleak. My goal was to make the room feel more cosy, and relaxing.
First, we painted the wall behind the bed in Farrow & Ball Elephant’s Breath, and added some Gilmore Girl prints that friends bought as a gift when we moved in. Second, I added my Fine Bedding Co coverless duvet, which is incredibly soft and light – it’s SO comfy to sleep under.
I switched the grey curtains with a cream pair, that help to lighten up the room, and added a shaggy sheepskin from Dunelm to soften the floor. Lastly, I bought a new lamp for the bedside table, from Wayfair.
Not everything is new. We don’t want to spend a fortune when we’ll probably be moving out soon. Besides, I’m a big believer in buying good quality furniture that lasts.
The bedside cabinet has a matching drawer set. It was from Heals and was purchased 23 years ago. It’s almost as old as the patchwork quilt on the bed, which I bought on my first work trip to San Francisco 24 years ago! The blanket next to the bed is from Pottery Barn – we bought it a few years back in San Diego because it’s SO fluffy. We bought the seat-cushion on the bed on the same trip and we had to buy a whole new bag that carried those two items all the way to the Grand Canyon and Hawaii before making it home with us.
Teddy – predictably – approves greatly of the new set-up. And it’s probably no bad thing that the duvet is washable because Teddy might be cute, but she is not always clean!
Win a Coverless Duvet with Fine Bedding Co
This month I’m teaming up with The Fine Bedding Company to give away one of their night owl coverless duvets, for a King Size bed in the waffle grey design, worth £100!
To be in with a chance of winning this awesome prize, all you have to do is comment on this blog post letting me know your least favourite domestic chore. Is it changing the bedding, or do you dread doing the dusting?
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Cleaning the toilets and putting the bins out. But tbh, everything that involves picking up after others with no thanks.
The dishwasher. Loading and unloading because apparently no one else can do it right! Although I’m rediculously glad I don’t have to was the dishes by hand. It’s followed closely by folding laundry, I have no issue washing and drying the stuff by why do I have fold it all! And those coverless duvets look awesome! I’m off to brouse the website!
Definitely the oven I think I’d rather buy a new one ND not eat for a week
Dishes are my least favorite chore!
It’s got to be ironing.
Ooh I hate cleaning the bathroom,hate having to replace toilet rolls why me does no-one else think to get rid of those cardboard thingummys,I know it needs to be done but it’s gagging cleaning the toilet and bath ugghhh
Cleaning the fridge
Such a genius idea!
Cleaning Windows, arghhh
The dishwasher, it’s never ending!
Cleaning the oven. Hate that job
Washing Up and it hates me equally
Ironing
Ironing. I try to do hardly any but it’s still way too much!
Just hate putting the bins out. I literally block my gate as it’s the only place to put them and the milkman comes the same morning. Every week without fail he wakes me when he moves the bin to deliver my milk
Cleaning the toilet and bins!
Cooking. Well it’s more the planning, shopping, putting the shopping away and then cooking meals that my children won’t eat!
I hate washing the dishes! It’s a never ending job. x
Washing windows! I always put it off then as soon as i do it the kids paw them again anyway
cleaning the oven, grease i a nightmare!
Cleaning toilets
Making the bed is the one that I find physically the most difficult but currently everything is hard work 🙁
I really hate changing bed covers, nothing fun about wrestling with duvets and fitted sheets!
Cleaning the bathroom
My least favourite chore is cleaning both bathrooms…. Boys who sprinkle when they tinkle, and girls with long hair in the showers !
cleaning the toilet
i hate ironing
Changing all the beds including bunk beds
My least favourite is hoovering
Ironing because there is always a massive pile and sometimes the creases are difficult to get out.
Doing the dishes, they never end!
I hate doing the dishes, it’s relentless
cleaning out the kitchen bin! all the food and rubbish that has fallen outside of the bin bag. Smelly and horrific. I hate doing it and do it outside in the garden with the aid of a hose pipe.
I hate sorting out the clean laundry. It just seems to pile up on a chair and everyone rummages through it looking for clean socks but never put any of it away!
CLEANING THE OVEN
same – Cleaning the cooker/oven…
My least favourite household chore has to be anything lavatory related.
I hate washing the pots, the thought of it all makes me feel ill ;/ Ew
Stripping and making the bed
Cleaning the bathroom as gets dirtiest the most
I just hate cleaning the toilet , i seem to be the only one that has to clean it in our house
I hate cleaning the oven
I dislike washing dishes. I love having a dishwasher 🙂
Its a solid tie between changing bed covers and putting folded laundry away. Urgh!
Cleaning out the shower drain. Urgh! I have to promise myself a treat afterwards, like cake, to make me do it.
Found the laundry!
The bathroom especially the toilet, the lads don’t care where they pee
do not like cleaning blinds,it’s boring
I hate cleaning the bathroom although my kids seem to think I love it.
Cleaning the microwave and the fridge
Cleaning the windows
I hate having to change the sheets on the bed it is always such a faff trying to get the duvet cover on!
I hate cleaning the oven because it is such a tough job to do!
Putting clothes away
Hoovering/cleaning the stairs. We have an odd shaped staircase and it’s tricky to get the hoover where I need it to go.
Cleaning the loo 🙁
Washing the dishes as you know there will always be more soon enough
Cleaning the bathroom weekly
Ironing I only do it if I have to lol but I force myself
Ironing. It’s not engrossing enough to be int3eeresting, and yet it needs enough concentration not to be able to allow my mind to wander
I hate cleaning the oven
Dusting, thankless and never ending. These duvets are amazing, I have one of these but would love to win for my dd who lives away from home
Ironing! I hate ironing, so much in fact that I threw my iron away!
Cleaning the windows! It’s so boring, despite the win of not being able to see a million handprints and cat nose dabs once it’s done. Coming in at a close second is putting the duvet cover back on – like you, I forget until I’m ready to go to bed then
I hate cleaning my bathroom
I do as little housework as possible, as I can usually find something better to do outdoors, but I do hate having to clean up cat sick.
Ironing, I can`t stand it , luckily I hate creased clothes more.
Cleaning the kitchen, it’s a never ending story!
Ironing, I will do almost anything to get out of it, the tumble dryer has been my friend though and most items I fold up after tumble drying and get away without ironing at all.
Ironing
I love this idea! I for one am guilty of walking into my bedroom at bedtime to realise I have to start putting the fresh bedding back on!
I hate cleaning the toilet.
I hate hoovering the stairs. Hate it!
My least favourite is dusting. .but give me a bucket of hot soapy water and I’m away! lol
All household tidying and cleaning is terrible. I usually listen to a podcast to make it more bearable
Washing up. It’s never ending!
My least favourite cleaning job is the bathroom
Cleaning the oven and , funnily enough, changing my duvet cover.
Cleaning the oven
My least favourite household chore is cleaning the oven.
I hate cleaning the oven – it’s awkward to do and once you close the door again you can’t appreciate your handiwork.
Cleaning the oven
Changing the bedding! My arms are too small. That and the washing up, but my boyfriend does that for me.
Ironing. I never understood why it needs to be done.
Ironing I hate it
Hate ironing! Always try to find non iron fabrics and hang things straight from the dryer to avoid it
Washing up its endless lol
Cleaning the oven
Ironing
Doing the ironing is my least favourite household chore.
I love cleaning and housework, but ironing is my absolute pet hate.
Cleaning the bathroom!
I really hate dusting, it’s so boring and unrewarding
Dusting is a pain. The media unit my tv and stuff sits in is a dust magnet and awkward to get into. I’m tempted to get a leaf blower and just blast it clean.
All round cleaning – no one else in the family seem to know how to do it
i hate cleaning the bathroom !
Cleaning the oven
Cleaning the bathrooms is my least favourite. Training my kids to clean after themselves – but it’s a very slow progress.
Cleaning the oven
I hate changing duvets and cleaning the loo – not sure which is worse!
I hate washing windows
Cleaning the windows! I love them to be spotless – but they never are so it annoys me!
I hate ironing
I really dislike putting the vacuum cleaner around, especially upstairs!
i hate cleaning the oven
I love making my home beautiful but hate dusting the Venetian blinds! It’s so fiddly, a never ending chore as they seem to be as bad again in few days!
defiantly cleaning the oven out
Dusting. It never stops.
Cleaning the oven
Hoovering the stairs.
All of it! But dusting and vacuuming…
I really don’t like cleaning the windows I find it very difficult not to have streaks
Dusting, it such a waste of time as the dust is back in no time.
I hate ironing so treated myself to a clothes steamer – which has now, unfortunately, packed up so I’m back to using the ‘back up’ – the iron…
I hate ironing although I do love things to be ironed, I find the whole thing so tedious.
washing up 🙁
Ironing
Dusting because it seems like a never ending task
I hate cleaning the bathroom
Cleaning the oven! Why can’t it be easy haha
the oven as so tricky to get everything
like many, scrubbing the toilets clean has got to be the worst
The laundry! I hate it
Cleaning the oven, takes far too long and just gets really messy again straight away
Cleaning the oven mainly because it gets left so long in the first place
My least favourite household chore is by FAR changing duvet covers. It’s like my brain just can’t process it. I always screw it up. I swear, it’s like a condition!
I absolutely hate putting the washing away, pairing up the socks is a nightmare job!
I hate cleaning the oven!
I hate cleaning the bathrooms
cleaning the oven hate doing that
IRONING !
Washing the windows, probably because I always put it off for too long
Washing up! As soon as I can afford a dishwasher, I’m getting one!
Most hated chore is cleaning the toilet but I have to rely on others to change the duvet cover, so this would be perfect
My least favourite chore is the hoovering. I’ve got bad joints and it’s hell on my shoulders.
Cleaning the oven, especially after spillages that get baked on.
I really hate pulling the hair out of the shower drain. It makes me retch. Can’t do it!
My least favourite chore is mopping the kitchen floor.
With two boys and a man in the house it’s definitely the bathrooms.
Mine is cleaning the oven because I find it such a messy dirty job.
Ironing, which is why I don’t iron anything!
Cleaning the bathroom. And hoovering. Too be hones I hate all housework!
Hate cleaning the oven, so I leave it and leave it and then of course it’s so much harder to clean !
My least favourite chore is cleaning the oven
It’s a toss up between Ironing and cleaning the toilet
Cleaning the windows and frames, it takes forever and it’s a pretty thankless task
Cleaning the oven
Cooking. I just hate cooking. One meal never suits everyone and it takes sooooo long!
the bathrooms
Emptying the bin, cleaning the toilet and cleaning the bath….
My least favourite chore is definitely the washing up!
Cleaning the toilet and bins!
Cleaning the toilet
I detest cleaning the oven, I am so glad you can now get someone into do it
I hate ironing!
Anything that requires reaching to high spots as I’m not very tall.
Cleaning the oven is a chore I detest.
Putting the bins out! three flights of stairs and the bin room is almost a five minute walkaway
washing up
Mowing the grass
Washing up is my least favourite chore. But lucking hubby and I have an agreement that I cook and he washes up.
I hate washing up, i’m allergic to the soap and the gloves make me feel strange haha!
My least favourite household chore is cleaning the toilets.
I hate washing the dishes
It has to be the windows, I love my bay windows but cleaning them no.
I absolutely detest cleaning the bathroom
My least favourite chore would have to be cleaning the bathroom
Definitely the ironing! I used to work as a dresser backstage in a theatre and had to iron tons of shirts daily. Now I air dry everything and spray it with decreaser :p
Changing the duvet cover
I hate trying to put the duvet inside the cover. I always end up hot and sweaty and in a bad mood.
I hate changing the duvet cover. It takes ages to strip, wash, dry, iron and remake the bed
Seriously hate doing the bins and cleaning out the sink of all the food bits, yucky!
cleaning the extractor hood grease filters
cleaning the loo
Vacuuming – I just get no satisfaction from it and it’s such a hassle moving eveything (footstools, lamps etc) around.
i hate ironing with a passion . i try to hang washing on line so that its just right i can get away without ironing haha
Cleaning the oven!
The dishes and the toilet!
Has to be cleaning the oven
Is there anything worse than cleaning the loo? Nope, not for me!!
Cleaning the oven
Absolutely hate ironing, takes forever every time for a household of 5!
i hate cleaning the bathroom
Cleaning the bathrooms only stay clean until the next use
I hate having to do the sheet every time I wanna wash it. Would be so much easier just to be able to Chuck it in the washing machine
Definitely the ironing 🙁
Definitely cleaning the toilet! Having two sons in the house means it needs extra scrubbing!
Can’t stand ironing but I do like just about everything ironed. Such a dilemma!
Cleaning the sink! I just hate trying to get all the gunk out of the plughole
Ironing.
Ironing
Cleaning the oven
I hate ironing
Cleaning the oven
I hate doing the dishes it makes me physically sick, it’s a really weird phobia haah.
Ironing, especially since I have a bad back
Cleaning the wetroom bathroom that has turned into a mold hotel
Washing the dishes. Love my dishwasher!
hate changibg the bed aha
I hate ironing. I’m just no good at it.
I enjoy most household chores but emptying the bin. Don’t know why I get so angry about it
Hoovering the stairs
cleaning the windows – takes so long and then when the sun next shines it shows up all the bits missed
Hoovering.
ironing, by a country mile, can think of better ways to spend a day lol
Making the beds (especially my kids bunk!) and doing the garden.
For me it’s honestly changing the bedding I find it so hard we have a king size bed and it’s such a chore
Changing the bed! It’s pleasurable afterwards but it’s such a hassle
Hoovering the stairs
cleaning the oven!
Hoovering
I hate cleaning the bathroom
Cleaning the oven
Cleaning the shower – and then someone goes in it!
I do hate changing my duvet cover and end up getting in a real flap so this could be a game changer for me.
Cleaning the Oven. I need to get one of those ovens where the door slides under because it just gets in the way!
For me it’s cleaning the toilet and the bathroom in general.
The toilet
Got to be laundry
Cleaning the bathroom is absolutely thankless!
i hate cleaning the fridge
I hate tidying – as soon as the room looks ok, someone comes in and makes a mess again!
All of them to be honest; but I particularly hate cleaning the oven.
Cleaning out the oven , ❤️
Hoovering the stairs. Always such a faff and kills my back!
CLeaning the bathroom . Especially bath and shower.
I hate cleaning the oven! Though I did it a couple days ago so on top of it for now!
Definitely the hoovering, I always seem to see something else to hoover and it’s back breaking!
I do not like cleaning the oven.
Cleaning the oven! Doesn’t matter how often you do it, it’s never easy!!
Clicking the oven – which is why is doesnt get done very often 🙂
Changing the bed 100%
cleaning windows as I am too short and leave smears
I hate cleaning the oven
I hate cleaning the oven. If I did it every few days it would be fine but I keep putting it off until it’s a major job.
Cleaning the toilet.
i hate cleaning the bathroom
Changing the duvet cover IS the worst job by far. It’s just so hard and never feels right. I also hate ironing, it takes so long!
It is definitely cleaning the oven. I hate that job.
I enjoy doing housework, my worst thing is changing the bed
Cleaning the oven! I loathe doing it yet it only takes me about 15 mins a month doing it as I like it to be like new. I think my hatred of it is more historical going back in the days before I had an easy to use cleaning product
I hate cleaning the oven
Cleaning the toilets… Yuck
Washing the dishes. There’s always so much and I dread it every time!
I hate tidying kitchen – it’s all too much fro me
The worst job has to be cleaning the over!!
Mine is definitely cleaning the toilet! No-one else does it, it’s stomach churning at times
I find changing duvet covers very irritating because I don’t always put it on correctly the first time round only to realise this after the effort of trying to make the duvet fit into the cover by vigorous shaking. The physical effort of redoing the whole thing makes me break out in a sweat and it’s not uncommon to be in that situation several times before I finally get it right. It makes me feel both physically and mentally exhausted and it wouldn’t be unfair or surprising to say that changing duvet covers is my top ‘hate to do’ chore!
Unclogging the drains COMMENT
I despise ironing, especially shirts it takes me 30 minutes to do one.
I hate cleaning the oven!!! Such hard work
Cleaning the Toilet
Changing the bedcovers- takes ages!
Washing dishes
Washing up!
it is genuinely putting the covers on a duvet—always end up in a mess
Cleaning the loo – a ‘bog standard’ job at best, it has to be said! 😉
cleaning the oven!! BLURGH!!!
I hate cleaning the bathrooms
I hate ironing
Washing the pots. I make the kids do it. 😉
Cleaning the oven. It always produces black water with dubious floating bits of burnt flakes. It looks so grim.
I hate dusting as we have photo fames, vases, small things around, so it takes so much time…
Cleaning the bathroom
I detest taking the bins out, angrily battling with them in all weather conditions (usually wet and wild) whilst dragging them through the narrow weed infested alleyway and soaking myself in bin juice is not my kind of fun……..ewww!
Cleaning the kitty litter trays!
I would have to go with changing the bedding!
By far the oven
Ironing!! Especially mens shirts!
washing up cutlery, I don’t mind the rest of the washing up but this just annoys me!
Cleaning the toilet
My most hated household chore is cleaning the bathroom. It’s yucky and smelly and just hard work.
Looks so lovely and warm. Thanks for the info
I hate cleaning the oven which is always messy.
I hate cleaning the windows
Cleaning the bathroom – so tedious and grotty and really hurts my back at the same time!!
Cleaning the oven, hate the job
hate doing ironing
My least favourite chore actually is changing the beds. I hate it!
Cleaning the toilet
Hoovering! Thankless task, I flipping hate it!
Cleaning the toilets
washing the bath / bathroom sink! Always put it off as long as possible.
Changing the duvet cover – always a battle to get it into the corners
Changing the duvet cover – although don’t like hoovering , ironing , cleaning the loo or many other chores really
I hate ironing so I try to hang up my washing as neatly as possible to avoid creases and try and choose clothes that don’t easily crease.
I really don’t like hoovering at the moment as our current hoover is very heavy 🙁
Cleaning the oven
I really hate ironing, I never get on top of it!
Changing the bins. Would swap for doing the toilet twice any day
Unblocking the toilet. We have really dodgy plumbing in our old house! X
Ironing
I cant seem to get to the bottom of the ironing pile
Oh, duvet covers! An all in one would be a godsend 🙂
Washing the skirting boards. Just how do they get so grubby?!
I hate ironing with a passion. I always end up with backache after a session of ironing. I have even tried ironing sitting down, but can’t get the hang of doing it that way.
I wholeheartedly agree with that. It’s a wonderful idea and I certainly need one because that must be on the top of my long list of chores!!
I DETEST dusting! No sooner have you finished and it settles again
Changing duvet covers and hanging sheets out on the line.
I loathe cleaning toilets and I also hate cleaning the shower drain which always seems to be full of hair.
Cleaning the bathroom, hate it
Cleaning the bathroom is my pet hate
Ironing and making the bed!
I absolutely hate cleaning the bath. It’s back breaking!
making the bed as you just get back in it 12 hours later!
I hate cleaning the oven!
cleaning the bathroom
Cleaning the bathroom with 3 girls and long hair
ironing as the board keeps collapsing
It has to be cleaning the oven – those fumes!!
Ironing-hate it!
Mamagill67
Cleaning the oven
Cleaning the oven. I always think it would be easier to simply buy a new one haha
Cleaning the fridge
Dusting! I loathe dusting so much as it is so tedious.
Cleaning the bathroom! It drives me quite mad and I dread it every single week
I just HATE ironing!
I hate cleaning the bathroom!
Cleaning the hob
cleaning the oven is the worst job
I really don’t like cleaning the kitchen – especially the over.
Cleaning the toilet!
Cleaning the toilet
My favourite chore is washing dishes. And cleaning toilet is what I hate the most.
Honestly, i hate washing clothes. kills me every time