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What one thing, if eradicated from your life, would make it all easier?

341 replies

JMSA · 05/08/2024 10:09

Laundry.
It never fucking ends. It's just the sheer volume of it and the dread at putting it all away once dry.
The thing I'm most looking forward to about one day living on my own, is having only one lot of washing to do.
What about you?

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RedPoster · 05/08/2024 12:14

OriginalUsername2 · 05/08/2024 12:12

Food. Just give me a pill with everything good in it that makes me feel full.

I do love eating a good meal, but I cycle through a few meals, get gag-sick of them then have to find other meals. On top of that DD and DP are the same and we don’t like the same things at the same times!

Oh I agree with this! I hate thinking about food, buying food, cooking food and often eating it, then all the cleaning up afterwards. If I lived alone I’d happily just eat sandwiches all day.

AvrielFinch · 05/08/2024 12:13

Cooking. What are we having for tea tonight? I don't know! Bars of chocolate and cereal.

OriginalUsername2 · 05/08/2024 12:13

I think the main problem with being a human is so much time is spent repeating the same chores over and over and over until we die.

BMW6 · 05/08/2024 12:13

Yogayogayoga · 05/08/2024 12:09

Neighbours. Every frigging one of them.

But........ YOU are someone's neighbour so you'd go "pouffe" as well........

AvrielFinch · 05/08/2024 12:12

DH does the laundry. Best split of household tasks ever.

Turophilic · 05/08/2024 12:12

Fucking pain. Endless, stupid fucking pain. It makes it hard to be a decent human being.

CLEANING!
Why can’t houses be self-cleaning in some way? Or have real, actual cleaning fairies that sorted it out overnight.

MarkWithaC · 05/08/2024 12:12

I was going to say laundry, cooking, cleaning etc, but actually on reflection it's my chronic RSI. I actually like cooking and don't mind laundry, and have a cleaner for the 'main' clean, but it's all painful with RSI so I have to try to do as little of them all as possible.

OriginalUsername2 · 05/08/2024 12:12

Food. Just give me a pill with everything good in it that makes me feel full.

I do love eating a good meal, but I cycle through a few meals, get gag-sick of them then have to find other meals. On top of that DD and DP are the same and we don’t like the same things at the same times!

MakingPlans2025 · 05/08/2024 12:11

Mortgage payments

Yogayogayoga · 05/08/2024 12:09

Neighbours. Every frigging one of them.

MummyPencil · 05/08/2024 12:08

Dusting
I hate dust and dusting 🤣🤣

Caraxes · 05/08/2024 12:07

Tasks associated with cooking - meal planning, shopping lists, remembering to get the chicken out to defrost, imagining meals that everyone will eat and enjoy are varied and have decent nutritional value and sometimes can be served in various stages to facilitate after school activities etc...

Hair growth. We are a luscious family. Organising haircuts for everyone and also keeping myself from looking like I've been lost in the jungle for a decade is a task. Super bonus points if my leg and chin and christ knows what else hairs, in fact ALL hair, is included!

Wasps. I know it doesn't 100% fit with your thread title, but while we are eradicating things... Fucking wasps. Don't come at me about pollination, I'm just not buying that that they are particularly important. And if it turns out I'm wrong I will up the number of bees in my omnipotence to make up for it.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/08/2024 12:07

My flabby belly?

RedPoster · 05/08/2024 12:06

Insomnia.

its ruined my life.

Or maybe ADHD. Thats ruined my life too.

Yalta · 05/08/2024 12:06

ADHD whilst it might be a superpower it has destroyed more than it has given

CrunchyToes · 05/08/2024 12:05

JamSandle · 05/08/2024 10:22

Generalised anxiety.

This 100%

It is ruining my life.

MangoBiscuit · 05/08/2024 12:04

GreenSpacesPleaseMe · 05/08/2024 11:59

My DH's Stage 4 cancer which is incurable. And he will die too young.

Nothing else in life matters apart from health.

I was about to post and say cancer, but mine is treatable.

I wish you both strength, as much time as possible, and peace. 💐

spiderdave · 05/08/2024 12:04

GoldenRetrieverBert · 05/08/2024 10:25

OCD

Same here. I could take on anything, everything else without it.

elliejjtiny · 05/08/2024 12:03

I'm with you on the laundry OP. It's easier in the summer to get it set but there is still so much of it.

MummyPencil · 05/08/2024 12:03

singularsensation · 05/08/2024 10:11

Laundry, also having to cook dinner every night (and lunch during school hols)

Agree 👏

ClareBlue · 05/08/2024 12:02

Howmanycatsistoomany · 05/08/2024 10:58

Ragwort. And don't come at me about cinnabar moths.

Yes. Pulling it now before it goes to seed. Goats will eat some of it but get fed up after a while as it is quite bitter gor them and they want a change.

ssd · 05/08/2024 12:02

Health anxiety

Ratfinkstinkypink · 05/08/2024 12:01

GreenSpacesPleaseMe · 05/08/2024 11:59

My DH's Stage 4 cancer which is incurable. And he will die too young.

Nothing else in life matters apart from health.

I hear you. I am so sorry Flowers

Polarnight · 05/08/2024 12:00

Working.

Wheresthebeach · 05/08/2024 12:00

pain from adhesions

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