Survey Reveals Most-Hated Household Chores

A survey by House Digest recently revealed cleaning bathrooms as the most-hated household chore.

According to the survey of 627 respondents, 189 of them—a little more than 30%—despise cleaning the bathroom.

The findings aren’t exactly shocking, considering what is involved in cleaning a bathroom. The toilet alone can harbor large numbers of infectious bacteria and viruses, that, according to a report published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, can spread onto other surfaces in bathrooms as well.

There’s also a lot to clean. According to the National Association of Home Builders, in 2021, more than half of the new homes built in the United States had two bathrooms to clean and a more than a quarter of all new homes had at least three bathrooms.

What might be more surprising, however, is the cleaning chore that came in a close second to bathrooms. Nearly 19% surveyed said that they hated cleaning the floors most of all.

Tasks you might think would be higher on the hated list—doing laundry and dishes—came in much lower, with a little over 13% disliking laundry most and about 9% not so keen about washing dishes.