https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:50:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-406278 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:29:02 +0000 pl0508 406278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i think dishes are the worst for me. Esp if they aren't rinsed well and still have wet food particles on them. gag me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-406187 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:54:06 +0000 keiki_mama 406187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm really bad at cleaning/tidying up the house :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-406130 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:22:18 +0000 Weagle 406130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um... pretty much everything except meal planning and cooking. I'm pretty darn good in the kitchen. I'll brag about it, because of my lack of skill in other areas of homemaking :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-406120 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:10:10 +0000 sarac 406120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Putting away laundry and keeping the kitchen floor nice. To be fair, I hate these tasks and don't really try. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405820 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:23:36 +0000 wheres_c 405820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm pretty much bad at everything.<br /> I don't fold the clothes "well enough" or get the dishes "clean enough" and SO would rather handle it himself. - OK!<br /> I'm like a hurricane that hits our house!</p> <p>I am good at cooking though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405809 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:19:44 +0000 .twist. 405809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@runsyellowlites: ditto. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405803 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:17:13 +0000 runsyellowlites 405803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All of them. Seriously. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405796 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:14:43 +0000 littlek 405796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm bad at everything, that's why I have always had a maid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405782 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:06:34 +0000 Mrs.M57 405782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hate putting away laundry! I can do it and fold it, but then it sits! It drives hubby crazy! I really need to get better at it :-/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405751 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:37:02 +0000 Ash 405751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@softcream: yep, me too! happened yesterday, actually! I try so hard but it never fails... I always forget!! </p> <p>@FutureMrsMcK: we also have baskets of clean laundry. "need clean underwear? it's in the basket (or the dryer)!" but dang, I'm a good folder... just hate doing it!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405729 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:16:25 +0000 mrs. wagon 405729@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All plants pretty much receive a death sentence the minute they cross my threshold. My mom loves plants and has tried to give me every kind of plant, and the next time she comes it's always completely dead. She even gave me a corn plant which is supposedly death-proof, and it was dead in a week. I am just HORRIBLE at remembering to water them, then when I do water them I totally over-water them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405719 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:12:31 +0000 ladyfingers 405719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gardening. I just know I'll be an epic failure at it so I haven't even attempted yet even though our house has a sad front yard with nothing in it and one dead plant on the porch. I get as far as what looks pretty, and then get totally confused when it comes to choosing the right plant for the right place, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405718 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:10:53 +0000 Bookish 405718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The floors! I am terrible at remembering to clean them. My DH is much better at mopping the tile, so I let him do that, but our fake wood floors always look so clean! And then I walk over them in socks and .... oh. dirty. :p I put a Hoover FloorMate on my baby registry, because it looks like a much easier way to keep the floors clean for baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405716 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:09:01 +0000 rachiecakes 405716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH hates how I do the dishes. He says that since he always has to redo them that I just shouldn't do them at all. NO PROBLEM :) </p> <p>Oh, and we have a dishwasher but he doesn't believe that it really cleans the dishes... :::sigh::: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405715 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:06:47 +0000 lawbee11 405715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@prettylizy: You sound like me! This is exactly why I don't load the dishwasher anymore! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405710 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:02:40 +0000 PrincessBaby 405710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Basically I'm bad at everything. I read all of these posts and was like "I do that...Yep, that's me too. Oh shit, I always do that!"</p> <p>Not looking good for the home team over here... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405707 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:01:09 +0000 prettylizy 405707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm defective when it comes to loading the dishwahser. DH is anal about how to do it and I just can't do it right, things don't fit, they are crooked, it's a bad scene. He is always fixing what I've done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405701 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:57:38 +0000 Turd Ferguson 405701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bug killing and plant watering have been mentioned... </p> <p>Another one for me is doing the floors; it isn't that I'm bad at it, I just feel like I can never get them clean (we're renting right now and the floors are that fake-y tile-looking linoleum...all of those little cracks and grooves...ick). I do remember seeing someone mention the Magic Eraser mop...I need to look into that!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405646 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:41:20 +0000 MediaNaranja 405646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Watering plants. I am looking at my sad, sad plant stand with my "herb garden"--poor dried shriveled herbs that haven't been watered in probably a year. Why don't I just throw them out? WHY???? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405632 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:22:52 +0000 Mrs. Tricycle 405632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty much all of them. :) Actually, I just dislike all of them. I'm bad at emptying the dish washer because I'm always in a hurry and that means I break tons of glasses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405622 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:11:47 +0000 Beyond2 405622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dusting... I only do it if I have to move something and see the clean spot surrounded by dust.... Shame... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405616 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:53:49 +0000 StrawberryBee 405616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dusting! Hated it as a kid and I hate it now.</p> <p>I won't even attempt real plants on the house ;).</p> <p>Just got a robotic vacuum.... So excited! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405605 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:49:36 +0000 Andrea 405605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't like taking care of plants.</p> <p>I have been using Google reminders for years and it really works! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405594 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:53:10 +0000 DigAPony 405594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am terrible at taking care of all my clutter--random papers, stuff like that. I cannot for the life of me keep things organized, put away, recycled properly, etc. My home office looks like a hoarder lives in there. It's dreadful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405591 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:31:21 +0000 Cherrybee 405591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never remember to water my plants - indoor and outdoor plants. </p> <p>I also struggle putting the duvet cover onto our king sized duvet. I'm just not big enough and strong enough to do it using the shaking method and end up climbing into it to straighten it out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405577 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:25:53 +0000 mrbee 405577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: Ah well I can't speak to that, but Google Calendar has definitely improved my personal ability to stick to a chore regimen... which has done wonders for my marriage! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405572 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:15:07 +0000 PrincessBaby 405572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Ugh that he's going to straighten me out and put me to work on the pool all the time-lol:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405565 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:50:28 +0000 mrbee 405565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: why ugh? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405559 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:18:10 +0000 lovehoneybee 405559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@softcream: Ha same here! My Grams is an incredible gardener (even wrote a book about medicinal plants!) and the only reason my poor hanging fern Henry is still alive is because MIL waters him when she comes over. </p> <p>Also, putting clean laundry away. I never seem to find time, so we have random baskets and piles of clean clothes.</p> <p>#housewifefail </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-there-a-household-chore-that-you-are-an-epic-failure-at-no-matter-how-hard-you-try#post-405555 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:07:05 +0000 softcream 405555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>keeping our house plants watered. i usually wait until all the leaves are drooping and the plant looks really sad, then i'll water it. probably not the best way to go. </p>