Things you didn't realise you should do, in order to be grown up

[NoEffingWaytoSurvive]

Clean the skirting boards still don't
Iron bedsheets nope
Get a sofa from dfs not yet
Stop swearing no fucking way

I clean my skirting boards regularly- did them in 2020 - First time in 15 years - thats me done till 2035!

Always tidying and keeping track of what needs to be done when.

Thanks to this thread I've just cleaned the washing machine filter. I'll tend to the skirting boards later. Please keep them coming.

I think cleaning things like the washing machine, dishwasher and sterilisers should clean themselves.

I never realised how much random dirt appears everywhere, I don’t remember seeing dirty fingerprints on doors or random marks on the wall as kid and an adult in other peoples homes

In a way I don't actually mind cooking dinner
It's the deciding what to have
Have we got the ingredients?
What about stuff for TOMORROWS lunch, WTAF??

Also wanting (even needing) something (nice jumper, new trainers, new pants). Not buying them coz the kids need endless ££££

I have never cleaned skirting boards, or emptied washer filter tho...

Expecting a baby has really shown me that I am not a grown up 🤣🤣🤣 you've to organise so much and learn so much and make all these decisions that affect another person! 9 months just isn't long enough!

Did you know you had to wash the filters on the Hoover?

Me neither

Eh washing machines have filters? I knew this about tumbledryers but not washing machines

I see your washing machine / hoover filters and raise you cooker hoods.

Christ. What a horrible job. I'll pull the hair out of drains (I am the person with long hair in my house, it's my job) before I clean the filters off the cooker hood.

Being the one who has to clear up a smashed glass.

Being the one that removes spiders

Dispose of a dead pigeon at 7am, with a mild hangover

It's the realisation that if you don't do it, no one else will. And no one will remind you to do said thing - I think that's what is so crushingly grown up about it.

Eww doasyouyouwouldbemumby, that's just reminded me... our yard drain was blocked yesterday and after a little poking about I fished a dead and bloated mouse out of it

Drink tea or coffee

@NoEffingWaytoSurvive

Clean the skirting boards still don't Iron bedsheets nope Get a sofa from dfs not yet Stop swearing no fucking way

That's not a exhaustive list, op. Those things wouldn't even make it onto my list.

I think cleaning things like the washing machine, dishwasher and sterilisers should clean themselves.

I lived with a boyfriend in my 20s who was generally pretty domesticated but was incredulous when I pointed out that his deep clean of the kitchen hadn't included cleaning the sink or the bin - he felt that one was self-cleaning (he obviously hadn't actually looked at it) and that the other 'is a place for dirt' and so I was being ridiculous!