Bumble, I consider cooking a household chore, in that people need to be fed, someone's gotta make it happen. Rinse, repeat. I don't mind cooking as a thing, but over and over, plus thinking of "what do we eat?" is chore-like to me.

3katz, I kinda like bills/finances too. Again, it's the math. If there was a job called "Measuring" I'd be all over it.

I don’t love any of it, but I really don’t mind doing laundry, in fact I prefer doing it to having someone do it for me. I don’t enjoy folding it, but don’t mind putting it away. Funny, now that I think about it, socks don’t really bother me. It’s an organization thing I guess.

I like ironing. I find it satisfying. Matching socks isn't bad either, except deciding what to do with the orphan socks.

Making the bed is my favorite task because it looks so attractive when I finish. Every time I walk through the room, I enjoy seeing the decorative pillows and coordinating bedding.

Put me on the team of making the bed. I love how the bed looks with the shams and accent pillows. It's one of those things that is just for me. (I think DH appreciates the bed made but I don't think he cares about the accessories.)

I do enjoy straightening up. I like a neat house.

I enjoy folding socks. I wash them separately. To sort and fold, I sit cross-legged on our bed, flip on HGTV and fold. I also enjoy cooking and bed making.

I love to polish silver. Love it!

Lynn, I hope you don't mean you wash.each.sock.separately. My enjoyable household chore is making coffee.

I don't enjoy ironing my own clothes, so I don't.

But, I am on the altar guild at church and every other month it's my turn to wash and iron altar and communion linens. I enjoy that immensely, but must watch something good on tv when I do it, ideally a sporting event.

I like doing dishes. It's relaxing and relieves stress. My dishwasher rarely gets used.

Linelle, I agree with you on the cooking/meal planning thing. It's a chore that requires too much thinking. Dishes is a mindless task. Ahhhhhh.

Yesterday I had a dozen of dh's socks that needed to be sorted, and I hated every minute of it.

I love to sweep with a broom though. Even the living room with wood floors. I vacuum but there are times only a broom can do the job. I love gathering the dust in piles around the room, putting it in the dustpan, then dumping it all in the flowerbeds. :)

jellytoast, it's the menu planning aspect. Or it was, because, living alone I can choose to cook a complete adult meal, or I can snack on cookie dough.

The home meal delivery thing hasn't been *that* tempting to me because, aside from the $10 per meal per serving price, which I know I can undercut, you still have to cook the meal. A personal chef is my dream.

I love the mental aspects of figuring out how to make things work with the resources available to me. That goes for meal planning (what can I put on the table with this?), organizing stuff (this is the space I have, how do I make it work) and budgeting (more like a chemistry experiment there). I enjoy researching and exploring the different ways of approaching the problem. Now, the implementation part is what often does me in. I do not often enjoy that half as much. I like the result when finished but not always what it takes to get to the finish line. It is not uncommon for me to be sitting down with that idea for dinner thinking that I really do not feel like going in there to cook it. I do enjoy cooking, very much, just not several times each and every day.

I do enjoy purging as well, whether it be mail or whatever. This year I had a goal of getting a box of stuff to the Salvation Army every week until the house is thoroughly purged. I too abhor sorting socks and any laundry. I don't mind unloading the dishwasher but loading it, blech!

Enjoy? Like jump up and do it before someone else? Zero.

I do get satisfaction from a clean house, folded laundry and made beds.

But when I wake up before my husband and go back into the bedroom and see that he made the bed I am thrilled. (I know, I got lucky in the husband picking category - and yes, I sometimes have to adjust his bed making.)

I like cleaning mirrors.

What is it about pairing socks? Lol. I like it, too. I like doing laundry in general, probably because the machines to the hard part.

I like washing dishes, too, and loading the dishwasher. I used to not like unloading it, but then I realized that it takes about one measly minute!

I like straightening a linen closet.

I don't mind sweeping and damp mopping a floor, but I really don't like washing it! I kind of like shampooing the carpets, though, probably because I dedicate the time to it, planning it for when everyone is out of the house--a rarity now that DH works at home and DS is home taking online classes.

Maddie, the only people who would do chores besides me would be the women I pay. I'm delighted that they dust, vacuum, clean the bathrooms and SS appliances.

But they're not live-in help and there are other things that fall to me because there's no one in this house besides me and the cats and I don't trust the cats with my socks.

I don't wake up and jump for joy at the prospect of sorting socks. But when it's time to do it, I get a teeny little endorphin rush because it's like a very simple puzzle that when you finish feels satisfying. Also, does not require hands and knees or lifting anything heavier than, well, a sock.

I don't like any of it.. but I like having it all done. The closest I get to liking anything is sweeping-- and making the bed.

If things were different for me, I'd gladly pay to have someone do everything. I think the only task I'd keep for myself would be the bed.

I like dusting. It gets very dusty here and there is immediate gratification. Oh, and the socks thing! I also find I don't have orphans anymore since I got a front loader.

I have found that I like doing everything yes I mean it everything but I don't like doing it alone. So in other words when I'm vacuuming upstairs I'm much happier when I know DH is vacuuming downstairs or even up the stairs. :-) I love it when we do the dishes together and even do the cooking together. It just makes things more interesting and less like a chore for me.

Purging drawers, cabinets and closets. I don't particularly enjoy any other chore.

"I like paying bills and managing our finances. Is that considered a household chore? If not I don’t enjoy any household chores."

3katz, that is also the only household chore I actually enjoy. Otherwise, one of the great pleasures of my life is that I can and do pay someone to do the cleaning-when I walk in the house every other Wednesday to the sight, and smell, of an immaculate place THAT is my joy!

I do my own laundry and as others have said I marginally don't mind ironing my sheets (top only) because it's so nice to get into a freshly laundered bed. Other than that...nah nothing comes to mind.

Oh and as for socks my system analyst husband has for decades bought only one brand, style and color of socks. They are tossed into a drawer because it literally makes absolutely no difference which 2 he picks out; they are identical :). I have a few pairs of socks but in South Florida we don't have much use for that particular accessory LOL.

OMG runninginpace - you sound just like me except I don’t iron my top sheet (though I’d like if it was ironed). I like to pay someone to clean, I do my own laundry and DH buys all the same socks.

I’m just sorting my own socks. They are mostly black but can vary in weight, height, and texture. If I put one on in a pair and find a bare patch, I toss it, thereby orphaning its mate. Sad. It waits alone until something similar happens in another pair. Then, happiness as the two orphans now form a complete pair.

You all wear more socks then I do. Are we suppose to be wearing socks? (I am in Florida, if that matters.)

As soon as I tossed all my own orphan socks, DS cleaned out his sock drawer and brought 4 orphans to me...they were mine...and I'd tossed their mates. Sigh.

I can’t say I enjoy any of it, especially the older I get, but i keep telling myself that it’s good that I still can do it. Woe is the day I’m no longer able to take care of basic household chores.

If I have to pick a “favorite” I’d say laundry because you toss it in then go about your business and come back later, unlike vacuuming, dusting, etc. Am currently in the process of cleaning out 33 years worth in the basement and it is gratifying to purge and take carloads to charity or the recycling center.

I hate wearing socks and have done so only about 3 times this winter. I do like wearing tights. Sorting socks while sitting on the bed is probably nicer than doing so standing at the dryer.

Does surfing the web count as a household chore? ;-)

Oddly, I kind of like cleaning the bathroom. I like how shiny it all is when I am done. I hate sorting socks. So much so that I have been known to try to get each member of the family to have all the same so I don't really have to sort. That worked better when the kids were little.

Chispa, definitely. Household research. Such a chore.

Another sock sorter here:) Laundry overall is one of my favorite chores, followed by finacial chores. Cooking used to be my favorite, but many dinners later not as much. Although some days, I do really enjoy it. My least favorite chore is cleaning floors. Seems to be a constant fight to keep them clean.

Not sure if these count as chores, but I love getting fresh vegetables from the fruit stand and cooking. Don’t like to do ANY chores.

Enjoy? Really none of it. But I do get a great sense of satisfaction from cleaning, sorting (and purging) a drawer or closet.

I have cleaning people come every other week and I do the absolute bare minimum in between. I’m good at decluttering and tidying, but I’m no good at real cleaning jobs.

I kinda don’t mind vacuuming, if I have to pick something.

If I could get paid enough and didn t get treated like a menial, I could be a housekeeper.

I don't like to let things get dirty enough that they actually need a lot of cleaning. I try to clean things as I use them, like the bathroom.

I don't like vacuuming stairs, or having to clean things on my hands and knees.

I like ironing if I do it in front of the TV, or I do things when listening to old radio serials online.

I dislike having to sort and organize papers because right now I have too many different sorts and no file cabinets.

I like taking DH's clean shirts out of the dryer and hanging them very neatly on the clothes rod in the laundry room. I carefully button the top button and straighten the sleeves so they hang straight. I sort them on the rod according to style, color, etc. Weird, I know.

I wonder if all of us who have orphaned socks could get together and bring our socks? Maybe we could un-orphan some of these.

I like sweeping up the cat fur and seeing it all collect on the broom and then dumping it into the toe-kick central vac.

I enjoy hanging laundry on the outdoor clothesline. It is great to be outside, and the dry laundry smells fabulous and fresh!

I also love doing the laundry. I have several baskets set up in the laundry room where I sort the laundry into them and do loads accordingly. I love doing the stain treatments, adding the various cleaning things to the machines and I really love folding the warm laundry onto the counter height table in there as it comes out of the dryer. I even installed a hanging rod to immediately hang things. The floor has anti-fatigue pads and I have the laundry room decorated in a pleasing manner. But that is where my love affair with doing laundry ends. I absolutely detest putting the clean things away.

I love cooking because I love eating. And I love home made food...

I'm fine with doing laundry. I can't wait for winter to be over so I can install a clothes line! I love air dried garments!

I don't understand where missing socks go to... I also don't understand where all the mutant silverware comes from... the stuff that doesn't match anything else in the drawer.

I have always enjoyed doing laundry. i don't love to put away necessarily but I do like to do laundry and never understood people who would talk about how much time they spend doing it or that it factored into a time slot. I just "do it" and might not totally complete the process immediately , but it all gets done. And I enjoy my project of pairing up the orphan socks. After a while I do use them for dusting and cleaning and tossing.

I used to HATE emptying the dishwasher but I remember several- maybe more than several years ago- there was a similar thread on here about dreaded tasks, and timed how long it took to empty and put away and I was shocked that it was SOOOO little time. So now I find it amusing and just look at the clock or even better I set the timer for 3 minutes and almost always I beat the clock!

II definitely do NOT love cooking.... that is a chore to me.

My sister with a front loading machine said she finds socks in the front gasket area. My other sister, who was using a laundrymat for a few weeks, said she would find other people’s socks in the same area. Everyone with missing socks, check around the gasket.

I wash my socks in a lingerie bag so if they go missing it will be all of them, not just one. I dislike matching my husband’s socks because they are all the same brand and style and yet they all seem to be slightly different lengths. It’s his job to match his socks.

I like ironing my own stuff. My husband’s tall shirts have too much fabric and take too long so those go to the dry cleaner. I don’t mind doing laundry but I wouldn’t say I enjoy it.

I like grocery shopping but I get grumpy hauling the bags in the house and putting the stuff away. I would outsource that part of the task if I could.

I enjoy cooking but not the clean up. As soon as I put my hands in warm, soapy water my nose runs. It is so annoying! There are always a few things that can’t go in the dishwasher so there is always warm, soapy water. My husband does most of the clean up but sometimes it has to be me, with an itchy nose and wet hands.

I don't mind unloading the dishwasher, which I run maybe twice a week.

When people come to GW for kitchen layout advice, there seems to be a mandate to be able to empty your DW straight into the cabinet/drawer without taking a step.

My dish cabinet (yes, it's in an upper, not lower drawer) is about three steps from the DW. So I first unload onto the adjacent counter (no steps). Then I carry them in batches to the cabinet. Oh noes, walking!!! It makes me chuckle to myself how little this matters to me.

I am also in the camp of enjoying laundry, especially if I have to work on a stain & I am successful! But I despise putting it away, therefore, I often have a pile on my dresser (hangs head in shame). I also enjoy meal planning & shopping but don't like carrying it from my car to the house.

Before we redid our kitchen I had to walk to empty the dishwasher and put things away and really did hate it. With the redesigned kitchen I empty cutlery, glasses, mugs, and all the dishes, including the cat bowls, without moving. I can probably beat sheilaaus' time. :-)

Lisa, if you plan my meals and do the shopping, I promise to cheerfully carry the bags from the car into the house.

As shirts come out of the dryer I drape them over the sides of the laundry basket to keep them smooth. I enjoy doing that. But what I don't enjoy is hanging everything up (must be by color), so the laundry basket with the draped shirts sits in the laundry room for sometimes days.

I hate washing lettuce.

HH, yesterday I did a big $400 haul to the store, driving 15 min. to and from. DS was here when I got home and I took a $10 bill from my purse and said he could have it if he unloaded the car and put everything up. He did. :)

I was okay until I took the groceries to my car and stood in frigid temp's with strong winds unloading everything. By the time I got home I was exhausted.

I have been trying to think of one household chore I enjoy since this thread started. I'm coming up empty.

I used to love doing yard chores and still do to a point. My body is arguing with me over this.

It's possible I just have an attitude at the moment as I'm also the handyman. My husbands family is coming and I have a lot of little repairs on top of the rest.