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Let’s go through the paragraph step by step to find and fix the mistakes.

First, read the whole text carefully:

> Of all the different household chores, I dilike laundry the most! I don’t mind puting the laundry in the washing machine or pulling wet laundry out of the washer and heaving it into the drier. Its folding and hanging and putting away all the Laundry that I can’t stand, so I tend to not do it. Then I end up with heaps of clean dry wrinkled laundry on various pieces of furniture. I wish I had a made to do this for me?

Now let’s look at each sentence and spot errors:

1. “I dilike laundry” → should be “dislike” (spelling error)

2. “puting” → should be “putting” (missing ‘t’)

3. “drier” → when talking about the appliance, it’s usually spelled “dryer”

4. “Its folding and hanging...” → “Its” is possessive; we need “It’s” (contraction of “it is”)

5. “Laundry” → no need to capitalize unless it’s start of sentence → change to “laundry”

6. “clean dry wrinkled laundry” → missing commas between adjectives → should be “clean, dry, wrinkled laundry”

7. “I wish I had a made to do this for me?” → “a made” doesn’t make sense → probably meant “a maid” (person who does chores). Also, this is a statement, not a question → remove question mark → use period.

So total mistakes found: 7

Now rewrite the corrected version:

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Of all the different household chores, I dislike laundry the most! I don’t mind putting the laundry in the washing machine or pulling wet laundry out of the washer and heaving it into the dryer. It’s folding and hanging and putting away all the laundry that I can’t stand, so I tend to not do it. Then I end up with heaps of clean, dry, wrinkled laundry on various pieces of furniture. I wish I had a maid to do this for me.

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Final Answer:
There are 7 mistakes. The corrected paragraph is:
“Of all the different household chores, I dislike laundry the most! I don’t mind putting the laundry in the washing machine or pulling wet laundry out of the washer and heaving it into the dryer. It’s folding and hanging and putting away all the laundry that I can’t stand, so I tend to not do it. Then I end up with heaps of clean, dry, wrinkled laundry on various pieces of furniture. I wish I had a maid to do this for me.”