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

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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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Sheri99 · 07/08/2024 23:19

Ignorant people who don't want to know truth.

Sheri99 · 07/08/2024 23:18

BeanCountingContinues · 07/08/2024 23:08

Intrinsic motivation. The love of learning. The satisfaction of a job well done and the impulse to serve others.

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Intrinsic motivation only goes so far. The love of learning is inate for many, not so much for others. A job well done is satisfying - obviously much more to some than others as evidenced by poor quality of so much these days. Utopian dreams are just that: dreams about things that never will exist.

Sheri99 · 07/08/2024 23:14

hazelnutlatte · 05/08/2024 10:18

Cooking. Between trying to make sure we eat healthily and 2 fussy kids who like different foods to each other I dread the nightly faff of trying to make something everyone will eat!

They will eat whatever you put on the table if they are truly hungry. Teach them about choices "THIS food or nothing...what will it be tonight?". You are the cook you get to decide, not them.

BeanCountingContinues · 07/08/2024 23:08

haplessharpy · 07/08/2024 22:04

Sounds grim to be honest. What motivation would there be for anyone to strive? Who would bother training to be a doctor or even go to university? I think they call it a meritocracy.

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Intrinsic motivation. The love of learning. The satisfaction of a job well done and the impulse to serve others.

Femme2804 · 07/08/2024 22:30

My MIL who live with us in our home. I’ll be much happier if she isn’t there

haplessharpy · 07/08/2024 22:04

BeanCountingContinues · 05/08/2024 10:51

Money.
Imagine a world where you could go to a supplier and get the food and clothes you needed with no payment, where everyone had a free house, but no-one could have "investments", no one was poor, no one was rich, no one had to worry about bills or plan for retirement.
A life where money just didn't exist.

Sounds grim to be honest. What motivation would there be for anyone to strive? Who would bother training to be a doctor or even go to university? I think they call it a meritocracy.

haplessharpy · 07/08/2024 22:03

It's laundry for me too. I feel like fucking Widow Twanky. Seven of us in this household. Two adults, two teenagers, a primary school child and two babies.
Laundry seems to be all I ever do and I'm sick to death of it. I strip and change a bed and someone pisses in it within an hour. 😠

abracadabra1980 · 07/08/2024 21:57

Easy: exH x 2 and GAD. Anxiety just baffles me - I'm not shy in the slightest bit for most of my adult life, I'm plagued with too much cortisol and adrenaline. But

MorningHood · 07/08/2024 21:53

Work..
Dust..
Weight gain..
Inlaws…

Despair1 · 07/08/2024 21:51

Addictions, it has been the sledgehammer to my life and others

maddening · 07/08/2024 21:46

Body fat

NavyTurtle · 07/08/2024 21:44

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?

The cat , my dh found her as a kitten with cat flu , sick of the shit smell , the puke and I want my laundry room back. She's blind, can't go out. 10 years on. Utterly fed up with it. Never liked cats but I am lumbered.

Yalta · 07/08/2024 12:59

Just thought of something else.
I would love to get rid of my ADHD but actually because I have wasted my life battling something I didn’t know I had and even when medicated it still doesn’t quieten my brain enough to do much and even if I had a quiet brain it won’t make up for all the time wasted

I would like to get rid of aging. If I could just have eternal youth I would keep my ADHD and all the other stuff that comes with it

Raree · 07/08/2024 12:49

Other people, more specifically neighbours as per pp lol. Fucking stinking weed smoking twats, plus screamy shouty football kicking bastards, 😁

Projectme · 07/08/2024 10:22

The man who rides his excessively noisy motorbike into the car park at work and sits revving it for about 30 seconds. When he arrives and when he leaves.

Totally irrational hatred of this individual and the noise his bike makes...it makes NO difference to my life whatsoever. But I need to eradicate him/it.

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JMSA · 07/08/2024 10:12

gmor6787 · 07/08/2024 10:00

My large grassy area. I can literally see it growing. I’m sick of mowing it.

Grass is fucking annoying. If not for my kids and dog, I'd happily live without a garden.

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gmor6787 · 07/08/2024 10:00

My large grassy area. I can literally see it growing. I’m sick of mowing it.

Tisfortired · 06/08/2024 19:58

Summersunshine112 · 06/08/2024 19:55

I agree with this one too. If I could just win the lottery that would be great!

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It’s not even like it’s a huge sum (around 4K) but it hangs over me like a black cloud. If somebody could just magic it away that would be great!

Summersunshine112 · 06/08/2024 19:55

Tisfortired · 06/08/2024 18:54

Debt

I agree with this one too. If I could just win the lottery that would be great!

Tisfortired · 06/08/2024 18:54

Debt

OlympicsFanGirl · 06/08/2024 18:53

Cheese and cake

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 06/08/2024 18:52

sixtyten · 06/08/2024 13:37

Food as a daily necessity. I find the treadmill of constant meal planning, shopping and cooking so depressing, especially as I'm not very interested in food to begin with - yes a nice special meal is enjoyable, but most days food is just fuel to me.

I often find food logistics annoying at social events too and would often personally prefer to skip it and let other people get on and enjoy. (For context, I have dysphagia so eating in front of other people isn't as straightforward as it would be for most, I often have trouble with food/drink going down the wrong way if I try to eat/drink and talk at the same time, so it's not something I love doing and I'll avoid it where possible. Bit tricky these days though, when every social occasion seems to have to revolve around a meal.)

A perfect world for me would be one where people could still choose to eat what and whenever they fancied eating, but without it being necessary for survival, so sometimes I could just choose not to bother and have a break from it all.

I get you. I feel a bit like this too lol

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 06/08/2024 18:51

Cooking.
I enjoy it but sometimes (often) I really can’t be arsed, especially if it’s a mega hot day

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JMSA · 06/08/2024 16:41

I've kind of stopped cooking for my kids. They are 23, 18 and 15.
I've done it for long enough and can't be arsed. They can sort themselves out.

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JosieJasper · 06/08/2024 14:40

My mortgage

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