Today, i had to rake the bottom of our 1 acre lake for big concrete blocks. I spent about 5 hours on it and only found 12 of 17. Not fun. I lost my crocs 5 times in the almost knee-deep mud. And got bit by a snapping turtle.
Share your worst chores. They can get pretty bad.
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/me waits eagerly to see people's faces when they realize that they have to continue these chores after they move out as part of everyday life...
Eh, most of my chores involve trivial things like laundry and dishes. Some of my best chores involve garden work, playground cleanup, eaves troughs, and launching pigeon eggs from a high altitude.
Some of these will not have to be done when I move out, unless I move into similar settings. For example, an apartment building removes the garden work, but not the egg launching.
Eh, chores are pretty trivial. There's always the laundry and dishes o do, along with cooking but they aren't that bad. As for the worst chore I've ever done... I think that would be weeding the yard. This involves ripping out dandelions from their roots throughout a wide expanse of land. Dull, but strangely satisfying at the same time.
Chores? This is stuff I'd do regardless. Take out my trash, clean the dishes I dirty, wash my laundry. A chore to me would be something unexpected happening like the roof sprung a leak and I'd have to go seal it up. Granted I've never had to do this but it's an example. Mowing lawn? I don't consider it a chore since I put on my music and just do the job.
What I might do if I do live in a place with a lawn is to replace it with moss. Not very good to walk on because it dies easily, but I would not have to cut it.
Interesting chore: Weeding a jungle.
Quote from: Role on 31, May, 2011, 02:51:42 PM
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/me waits eagerly to see people's faces when they realize that they have to continue these chores after they move out as part of everyday life...
Sorry, but if i grow up and have to rake bricks out of a lake, then my life just sucks. Other regular chores i don't care about. I don't really see the big deal about dandelions and weeds. From a beekeeper's perspective, I say plant more weeds. I like 'em. I agree with Kain, just listen to music.
I don't hate doing chores as I get around to them on my own schedule (especially if its my own things) but if I'm told to do them... AAAUGH
Ditto! Well, I don't mind cooking so much, but other chores can get annoying if I am reminded that they need to be done.
Good music helps, but I have to be careful that I don't daydream or dance instead of work.
I'm with Charon, chores never bother me, it was constantly being reminded by parents when I already knew that annoyed me. "Yes Mom, the garbage truck comes every Tuesday, thank you for reminding me at breakfast Monday morning..." and the always popular: "Sorry I can't unload the dishwasher right now, or did you want me to reload it with the clean dishes I put away earlier first?"
I have a big problem with day dreaming. There are so many things more interesting to think about. Sometimes i sneak inside to check here to see what i missed before gong back outside.
To me, I would imagine one of the most common chores that would seem annoying would be:
Cleaning up after someone who is too lazy to clean up for themselves almost everyday.
This is not necessarily something I do,(unless you count the dishes on the counter.. every now and then,,, but..), this can get quite old after time. Dishes on counters can lead to an ant problem. Etc. (I am actually describing my (older) brother, who seems to be the messiest in the family.. but anyway.)
Chores actually are really deceptive ways of teaching. What they really do is teach you how to do these things yourselves when you move out. Someone who paid attention doing their chores won't mix colors in the wash, or will know more efficient ways of cleaning dishes, etc.
QuoteCleaning up after someone who is too lazy to clean up for themselves almost everyday.
This is the same with my brother. execpt its my room he messes up and I am made to clean it... makes me so mad!
Quote from: Role on 01, June, 2011, 08:45:01 AM
Chores actually are really deceptive ways of teaching. What they really do is teach you how to do these things yourselves when you move out. Someone who paid attention doing their chores won't mix colors in the wash, or will know more efficient ways of cleaning dishes, etc.
Completely agree. You'd be surprised by how many kids don't know how to run a washer in my area. lol
Yeah, kids, just remember that the difference between girls shirts and guy's shirts is the side the buttons are on! Lol.
Not just that, but for the love of God, don't mix your whites and your reds. Especially you boys, you'll regret it for a very long time.
There is something wrong with pink? I never seem to have problems with dyes mixing. Well, there was this one time down in Florida when my grandmother's underwear mixed with my shorts, but that was because the water had more chlorine than the water I normally have access to. Luckily, they were both brown.
Nothing wrong with it, but do you want it to be the only color you get to wear?
Were Zelos Wilder a real person, I'm sure he wouldn't mind...
And you pull concrete bricks out of a lake on a daily basis? That must suck.
Yeah. I just got in from getting 5 more. Still have 3 left. :sad:
Do you do that as a job or do your parents actually make you go do that? :/
I wish i got paid. And i have to pay $10 for every one i don't find cause "they're expensive!" Pbhththth to that.
...This makes me think it's your fault they're down there in the first place, john.
Actually its not. Last year we had a huge algae problem where it filled the whole lake, literally all the way to the bottom. I was the one who raked it out. This year my parents had the great idea to put barley straw in bags with cinder blocks tied to them around the pond. The straw was supposed to decompose and release a natural chemical that inhibits algae growth. It worked but the bags broke free of the blocks and I have to find them.
what the hell? so... what now? I'm sorry but your parrents suck...
If mine did that to me I'd just leave, even if i didn't have any money...
Tomorrow, i have to dig out a part of our gravel driveway to put down sand, bricks, more sand, and flat rocks to make a place for my mom to back under the overhang next to the garage.
O.o do you live in the country or something? :/
Far out there. My town has a family run gas station, family run bar-b-q, family run grocery, family run hardware store, and a dollar general. Also, it takes almost an hour to get to any other town.
damn... I respect you man. to me that sounds like a chore just living out there...
Nah. Its pretty nice not having a highway full .tof traffic sniffin at your @#$. No clumped houses. 5+ acre lots. I like it.
Eeeh... city girl for life I guess.
Quote from: Role on 03, June, 2011, 05:20:26 PM
Eeeh... city girl for life I guess.
Hmmm. I think where i live is to much city. I'm working towards a one way ticket back home to east TN. Ahhh the mountains.
Hahaha, I actually (although vaguely) preferred living in the city than in suburbia. Then again I've lived in only two places my whole life... so lol.
The most in terms of outdoor chores I ever have to do is shovel the driveway, weedwhack... and... er... take care of the dog =_=
Wow. Its sad to say, but i have to get up every morning and feed our 38 chickens, 2 geese, 3 turkeys, 7 ducks, 3 dogs, and 4 cats. Whew! I also just finished training two of our baby chicks to sit on my shoulder like a parrot. I wonder if i can make them talk? Hmmm.
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I WANT A PET CHICKEN
Feel free to take one of ours. God knows we have too many. Oh and the funny thing is that one of the babies have a deformed foot, its sideways instead of forwards, but its a rooster. Haha. Poor depressed rooster with low self esteem.
Quote from: Charon the Ferryman on 03, June, 2011, 08:28:51 PM
Then again I've lived in only two places my whole life... so lol.
Wow, lucky. We lived in 6 different places since I was born. One of the moves was from Germany to England. [/offtopic]
The worst chore I have to do is doing the washing up.
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It pisses me off when i go to a friends house and his mom tells him to run the dishwasher. Then hes like "but mom!" And then all he does is close it and push start because his mom had already loaded it. :irate: stupid stupid stupid! I do all of ours by hand. we don't have a dishwasher.
Quote from: dwkjohn on 04, June, 2011, 09:22:09 AM
I do all of ours by hand. we don't have a dishwasher.
^That. Some people don't realise how lucky they are.
But then, I usually get stuck with doing the drying up and putting away, so it's not that bad for me.
Quote from: dwkjohn on 04, June, 2011, 09:22:09 AM
It pisses me off when i go to a friends house and his mom tells him to run the dishwasher. Then hes like "but mom!" And then all he does is close it and push start because his mom had already loaded it. :irate: stupid stupid stupid! I do all of ours by hand. we don't have a dishwasher.
Lol, same here. I remember cleaning the dishes by hand when ours broke down (it was over 6 months before we got a new one). Omahgawd it pissed me off when kids in class considered "running the dishwasher" a "chore". ew
I'd take a pet duck. The area I live in is pretty...wet...most of the year so...the duck would be more at home.
how did this go from what chores we hate to what pet we want?
Quote from: zman9000how did this go from what chores we hate to what pet we want?
Quote from: dwkjohni have to get up every morning and feed our 38 chickens, 2 geese, 3 turkeys, 7 ducks, 3 dogs, and 4 cats.
Feeding animals is a chore, so hearing someone have that many animals makes us want one.
Believe me, its not that fun to have alll those animals. I have to go out there 3+ times a day to check on themand change their water and feed them etc. It takes up alot of time. A few maybe, but not that many.
I would imagine so, I have only 2 pets and they're quite a burden themselves.
Speaking of chores though, I had to weedwack. I hate doing that. ugh grass gets all over you...
There's a reason parents take care of pets and not kids. It's because it turns out to be a chore. Kids want the fun of the pet, but not the responsibility.
I only have plants now, since my fish died a little while ago. The most that I have to do for "pets" is to water them every few weeks. I just got a new one though, so I will have to work on it as well. It isn't a chore either, but taking care of my lizard, dog, and occasionally fish used to take some time.
Quote from: Role on 05, June, 2011, 11:42:50 AM
There's a reason parents take care of pets and not kids. It's because it turns out to be a chore. Kids want the fun of the pet, but not the responsibility.
I hate it when I see a parent taking full responsibility for a pet for this very reason. When I was 8 years old I was doing most of the pet chores (except for walking the dog because the dog was very strong and the neighbourhood sucks). People are so stupid...
A little (lot) off topic but a girl at my school, when we went on a math competition, we stopped at walmart and she bought a gold fish. It lived for about 3 months. Poor fish. But she took care of it.
well gold fish don't live that long.
I rember my family use to have a gold fish that was like 12 years old, and at the time was older then me. I was 9 and well i kinda sorta killed it and lied about the reason...
only read if you can take it...
[spoiler]I tried to pick it out of the fish bowl one day and it scared me and I droped it on the floor. it would have been fine but my mom started to come down stairs and I thought I was going to be in trouble. it was making lots of noise floping on the floor and I couldn't pick it up. so i picked up a chair and slamed the leg on it like 20 times. my mom found me in the act, the fish was so hurt and stoped floping but was still alive. I told my mom that I just wanted to play with it... which kinda was true but what I wanted to do was get the fish out of the bowl because i droped a silver dollar in it...
when I think back to what I did to that pore fish I start to get teary eyed...[/spoiler]
after this I started to take care of all my pets and spent time with them even if i didn't like them...
This became my biggest chore when we had 2 dogs, 4 fish, 2 hamsters, 20 ginna pigs, and a psychotic parrot. and they all had names starting with "S"
SPEEDY WAS THE BEST MOST AWSOME FISH EVER!!!! *crys*
I've had four pets:
- Sasha, a husky/German Shepard mix. She was so loving and kind, I loved her. She died when I was 12 years old (we owned her before I was born). I miss her...
- Heidi, a German Shepard. She was... weird. After our vacation to Florida in 2002 she got really screwed up (probably because my brother didn't take care of her) so we had to give her up.
- Alexis, a cat. She's been around forever. She's a year older than me and is somehow still alive. Seriously, she barely eats, she has trouble jumping and she's got a dog pestering her and she's pushing through like an adamant little old lady. Jeez.
- Penny, a black coated retriever. She's downright crazy mental but she's cute and funny. She's weird because she doesn't really like hugs or being pet like other dogs. She also absolutely HATES other dogs to the point of trying to kill them (luckily I managed to save that little Terrier), and she hates people outside too, but once they step in the house they're fine. Also, she freaks out big time with bubble wrap or if we whisper or tell her to "shhh". lol
I don't mind taking care of my pets, I've taken care of them since I was about 7-8 years old (and I mean everything with that, my parents only take them to the vets). They really quite like me in return (except my cat, but she's a @#$%& to everyone) and it's quite rewarding in that respect.
Quote from: Charon the Ferryman on 08, June, 2011, 03:29:35 PM
I've had four pets:
- Alexis, a cat. She's been around forever. She's a year older than me and is somehow still alive. Seriously, she barely eats, she has trouble jumping and she's got a dog pestering her and she's pushing through like an adamant little old lady. Jeez.
I don't mind taking care of my pets, I've taken care of them since I was about 7-8 years old (and I mean everything with that, my parents only take them to the vets). They really quite like me in return (except my cat, but she's a @#$%& to everyone) and it's quite rewarding in that respect.
Understood. The martian is now a Catgirl.
Those seem like cool pets. Hehe, grannycat. It is nice that you take care of them yourself; shows responsibility.
Pets (that I remember and have taken care of myself for longer than a month):
- Samantha, a Bichon Frise. She was the runt of her litter, so she was always a little weaker. So loving and cute, but a bit weaker... I miss her... When I was young, we gave her to my grandparents because we were not home often enough for her. We/they had to give her up, but the new "owners" were trying to train our 8-year old dog to follow rules that she NEVER had when she was with us. Gave them a paragraph explaining how she had been raised too, the morons. We got her back with a busted leg, flees, and dozens of gnats, and she was put down a month after that.
- Yoshi, a Hamster. I was not particularly fond of it, so I gave it up shortly after getting him.
- Yoshi, a Bearded Dragon. I used to feed and play with him, but I gave him up when I was told that "I could keep Samantha that way". Big mistake, as my mother forgot about that promise as I was bringing him back to the store from where I bought him. They closed shortly after that, so I could never get him back.
- Yoshi, a Betta Fish. I would clean out the bowl about once or twice a month, and feed him every day. Died when I went away for vacation; our neighbour was unable to take care of it.
- Yoshi II, you see where this is going. Just died about a month or two ago. No more pets for me until I move out!
And now that my pets are all dead, I reserve the time that was spent on them for plants instead. My mother just bought a Jade Plant for me, so I am going to work on raising it. My Aloe is doing quite well, and has even spawned children. It is such a chore to take care of all of the plants, as I usually have to spend about 20-30 minutes whenever I water them.
Role: Actually, that does sound like a good idea if you are serious about it. That will be for the Main Characters discussion though.
Edit: Perhaps pets are a bit off topic, but it is a chore to take care of them.
You had 4 pets named Yoshi.
WHAT IF YOU GOT A PET YOSHI. WHAT WOULD YOU NAME IT.
Sala, it was a joke. I'd have thought that obvious.
Also, Sala... REALLY? And you wonder why we say you have a strange Yoshi obsession...
come on. there are worse obsessions. like drugs smoking and that sort of stuff. i was once obsessed with sea monkeys. and they were all nqmed fred.
this morning i found a little red eared slider. he was olny just bigger than a silver dollar. this afernoon. i took him down to the lake and set him next to it. he loved it.
[spoiler]then he was swimming and i was watching him to make sure nothing happened to him. then... a catfish ate him. just *glomp* and his short life was over. *sniff* :Sweat: [/spoiler]
Aw... wait, the fish ate him? It was either a really young turtle, or a giant fish. Either way, it is nice that you brought the turtle to the lake, despite it becoming a snack.
Role: Sort of, it was mostly because I didn't want to get sad just from hearing the name. Hearing someone say something similar to "Samantha" usually makes me a little sad, yet Yoshi doesn't make me miss my pets too much. I actually do miss my bearded dragon though, but not having crickets escape is nice. If you think I am obsessed with Yoshi after reading about my pets, you should see what I started doing to my PC in 2010.
both. twas a giant catfish about a foot'n'ahalf long. and the turtle was about:
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Sala, catfish get HUGE. The poor guy didn't stand a chance... I doubt he even finished his ninja training.
Hell I saw a turtle the other day that would probably eat the turtle you were talking about. Tiny turtles are begging to be eaten in the animal world.
I know that, about catfish. Some species don't grow to be too big, but I guess that one was a different species from what I am used to. The most that I have met lately were two owl chicks and an orphaned baby rabbit. Really cute things they were, but I think one of the owl chicks was eaten a few days later.
And... yeah, I think we are starting to get off topic a bit too much.
Yeah, down here, catfish are in no way small. The ones I'm used to make great meals for the family.
i actually caught a cqtfish that only grew 8 inches long. i kept it in my fishtank. i was so tiny. but we are off subject but this is open discussion. let the conversation flow where it may.
yeah I'm not sure but how did this end up a just say whatever topic?
we were still talking about chores, and about the pets that said chore revolves around.
yeah. chores > pet chores > pets > animals. what next?
ummmm.... the new name sounds like its saying worst chores and worst animals. we should probably just take the "worst" out. just sayin'.
We could change the direction of the topic to be a discussion about what the topic is about.
Ok. Today I had to haul 6 wheel-barrel loads of leaf mulch half a mile for our flower bed. And had to bottle about 150 honey bears, 175 pints, and 100 quarts to sell at farmers markets and certain stores.
...Six wheel-barrels... of Leaf...
I hope he enjoyed the ride. What a slave driver leaf is. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor)
that is the funniest thing. partly because I am tired and didn't expect it but heeheheehehehheheheheh.
edit: yesterday, I had to haul 2592 8 oz. jars of honey up two flights of stairs. whew. tiring.
Uhhh... That's over 735 Kilograms... How many trips did you have to do to get that finished? (guess around 15?)
Oh, wait... Is that 2592 point 8oz (73.5 Kg, probably more likely)) or 25928oz?
no. 8 oz. jars of honey. there were 2592 jars. and it took me around 55 trips. I could only carry 5 at a time before I got tired and carried 4 which was pretty early on. so 2592×8= ... ? I'm to lazy to multiply that but you get the idea.
Well... that was really stupid of me...
Sorry, I should really think carefully before posting.
Its not your fault. I see where you were coming from. I should have been more clear.
So guys, the worst chore right now for me probably is taking care of my sick mother.
"Le gasp! You don't even want to care of your mother and her sickness?! You horrible unloving fiend!"
Well, it's not that. I don't mind going to the store, buying her groceries, or taking her to the doctor's office... it's just the fact that she has a horrible case of strep, and "taking care" of her also includes just sitting with her watching boring tv shows. I kept trying to tell her that this isn't a good idea at all but I think it might be too late xP
Sick mother, oh boy; I know what that is like. Still, taking care of her when she is sick is a nice thing for you to do. It might be best for her to go outside, but that also depends on how much traffic there is.
I think my chores are going to be a bit lighter than they were last summer, as I no longer need Community Service hours for school. Of course, I have been entertaining young children who like to say the word "frustrating", cutting the grass of people with broken backs, and collecting buckets of rocks. School is out now, so I have more time to fit in the odd chore if necessary.
you don't have to hve service hours? lucky. I need 300. I have about 150 this summer. I have to dig more tomorrow.
@Charon: I hope she gets better.