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Things that are even more annoying than a tissue in the wash...

149 replies

AffIt · 07/09/2022 12:50

I think my thread title says it all: I'm doubly annoyed because we tend to use cotton hankies, rather than tissues, so there's a sinister rogue element to this.

What is your T'sTAEMATATITW?

OP posts:
yasminisa · 07/09/2022 16:24

Trying to pay my in bill online, only to have to find the traffic lights, and then told I'm timed out. Why don't they want me to pay?!

IglesiasPiggl · 07/09/2022 16:26

Puppypads · 07/09/2022 12:58

Catching your dressing gown sleeve on the door handle. Makes me INCANDESCENT with rage 😂

I came on to say this. I am already very cross just thinking about it!

Jamaisy82 · 07/09/2022 16:27

Forgetting about a cup of tea you have made and it's cold.

Blossomandbee · 07/09/2022 16:28

When you put washing in the machine, press start, then turn around and there's an escaped sock on the floor, just as the door locks shut so you can't put it in.

DC dumping armfuls of clothes from their bedroom floor into the laundry basket just after you've put the last load on.

When the DC don't do their school water bottles up properly and they've slow leaked in their bag and soaked the bag and everything inside Angry

AffIt · 07/09/2022 16:30

@BorisJohnsonsHair

Printers

OH GOD YES

OP posts:
LosttheremoteAGAIN · 07/09/2022 16:30

Years ago I was really skint but Asda had some offer on posh washing pods (I normally used cheapy powder which lasted)
so I bought some
Took the lid off and put them under the waste pipe of the kitchen sink (kids where older so didn’t have to worry about them eating them)
Of course Sod’s law was laughing at me-the sink leaked-filling the box with dirty sink water which in turn dissolved the pods and I was left with a smelly box of dirty blue gunk that I had to bin
£10 worth of pods wasted

haven’t bothered with pods since

SproutsAtChristmas · 07/09/2022 16:38

Haven't read all responses but... crumbs in the bed!

ZeroFuchsGiven · 07/09/2022 16:43

AffIt · 07/09/2022 16:05

We love that joke in our house and use it at every opportunity. 😁

We tend to go with 'Ive pead on the floor'. We are a sad bunch!

purplebells · 07/09/2022 16:43

Forgetting bags for life when you go to the supermarket and having to buy more.

I've now built a two storey extension just to house the bags for life I now own.

Unforgettablefire · 07/09/2022 16:43

Standing on a slug in bare feet when putting the bin out.

Freeasabird76 · 07/09/2022 16:45

Disposable nappy in the wash is definitely worse

isthismylifenow · 07/09/2022 16:51

When the printer decides its time to update, or whatever the bloody hell it does when you are in a rush. It never updates, cleans, or whatever the heck it does when no one needs to use it...

Kicking the table with the your little toe... This is also usually when you are running late and have to limp double speed out the house.

Weetabix bowls in the dishwasher.... Why is it the only cereal that doesn't wash away?

And all of the above mentioned.

Ryder68 · 07/09/2022 16:53

purplebells · 07/09/2022 16:43

Forgetting bags for life when you go to the supermarket and having to buy more.

I've now built a two storey extension just to house the bags for life I now own.

😂

Bloodybridget · 07/09/2022 16:53

Bottle of soy sauce (or any similar ingredient) with a plastic ring that you're supposed to be able to pull to pour the sauce. But it breaks off and you spend some time stabbing at the seal with a corkscrew, trying to make a big enough hole.

SingingSands · 07/09/2022 16:54

My brother accidentally put a dictionary through the wash and his clothes came out covered in words Grin

DuneFan · 07/09/2022 16:55

The mystery beep. We have a dying battery. In what? We don't know. But it's been going for weeks.

Getting in the shower and remembering you've been away and your shower gel is still packed.

DS affirming he doesn't need a wee before he gets in the bath then needing to be lifted out all wet ten seconds later.

The lone odd sock at the bottom of the washing basket.

FirstAidKitNowPlease · 07/09/2022 16:58

Hairs in my bra.

FirstAidKitNowPlease · 07/09/2022 16:59

Fat fly buzzing and banging into the window seems to leave me unhinged...

ZeroFuchsGiven · 07/09/2022 16:59

FirstAidKitNowPlease · 07/09/2022 16:58

Hairs in my bra.

This too! Also hair under boobs and in arse crack when having a shower, I have really long hair and it gets everywhere!

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 07/09/2022 17:00

FirstAidKitNowPlease · 07/09/2022 16:58

Hairs in my bra.

Worse: thrips in your bra. Somehow thrips always make a beeline for my chestular region, climb into my bra, and meet their destiny mashed between the material and the underside of my tits. En masse. My parents live in thrips country, and I've learnt not to visit when they're numerous because the itching and grossness is beyond compare.

Takingturnstogether · 07/09/2022 17:04

Visiting someone who has a "no shoes in house" household, and discovering the hard way that their puppy is having difficulty with its toilet training.

Licking that brown smudge to see if it is chocolate and finding out that it isn't.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 07/09/2022 17:08

Trying to open a screw top bottle of wine and the top just spins!

Bamaluz · 07/09/2022 17:18

Running a much looked forward to bath then finding out it's cold because you've run out of hot water .
A pre combi boiler problem that one.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 07/09/2022 17:25

Realising there is no key on your tin of corned beef!

TigerRag · 07/09/2022 17:25

The never ending odd sock pile! Being colourblind really doesn't hasn't helped at all