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What's your least favorite fall chore?

Oct 2, 2012 5:12 AM

Yard work or some sort? Getting out the winter clothes? Something else?

tsfisch tsfisch

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Raking leaves. I fill roughly 120 leaf bags (39 gallon) every year.

tbgolladay tbgolladay
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All of them. Chores suck.

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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@tbgolladay: I'll 2nd raking leaves, especially when you have no trees in your yard.

mattysc mattysc
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Gutters and cutting back the "leggy" plants for fall. If we didn't know better, we'd swear there's some sort of natural attraction between our leaves and the gutters on our house.

lavikinga lavikinga
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I agree with @lavikinga about cutting back the plants, I really really hate that job but I love having the plants, so it's a total love/hate relationship. I don't mind all the leaves because I just mulch them with the mower. I hate putting away the outdoor furniture too.

lmensor lmensor
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draining the riding mower, leaf blower, edger, trimmer and all other gas powered stuff.

mkentosh mkentosh
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Listening to talk about baseball playoff races and results.

wootferret wootferret
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My husband and I had the gutter thing to do every fall as well. Nasty and scary. Then we put up some gutter guards. The next fall at gutter-cleanout time we went up to have a look, and then got back down and put the ladder away -- no cleanout required.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/september/home-garden/gutter-guard/overview/index.htm

See the brown ones here: http://www.homedepot.com/Building-Materials-Roofing-Gutters-Gutter-Parts-Accessories-Gutter-Guards/h_d1/N-5yc1vZar5e/R-100520851/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051&superSkuId=202938895#.UGrq103A-Jk

Now my least favorite fall chore is turning over and covering up the garden beds.

tmdowling tmdowling
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gutter guards are awesome. haven't even thought about gutter cleaning in years.. at most i'll just do a quick inspection of them to make sure they haven't become misaligned, or torn up by squirrels.

my least favorite thing is the late fall task of cutting back and wrapping up the fig trees. ugh. even though the figs are delicious... the effort isn't worth it lol. (6 of them between my yard and my parents' yard (they're old - i'm not letting them do it)

goatcrapp goatcrapp
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Gutting and butchering 5 - 6 deer for the year's store of freezer meat :)

dmaz dmaz
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@tbgolladay: agreed.

I fill significantly fewer leaf bags, but I don't have any grass, and raking leaves on pea gravel, between trees, and on the sidewalk is really annoying. Especially the sound of the rake on the sidewalk...

phoenixgirrl phoenixgirrl
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Scaring People during halloween

dogbountyhunter1 dogbountyhunter1
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Gutting and butchering 5 - 6 people for the year's store of freezer meat. :P

no1 no1
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Raking leaves.

Dusting out the big blankets.

Dusting out the heaters (but I usually just set the heat on freaky high and burn everything up).

Looking for where my jackets have gone..

joshobra joshobra
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I'll agree with @mattysc on this one. I don't have near as many leaves fall off my trees as I do to clean up.

jsimsace jsimsace
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@mkentosh: I used to do all that, now I just put sta-bil in the gas, and no more chores (of that kind)

tsfisch tsfisch
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it's hard to spell "chore" without "hore"

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