Come and share your minor grievances…

[OutDamnedSpot]

It’s day 1 of half term here. I roped the kids into a big spring clean of the house (cue: lots of moaning), changed all the beds, dug out the dirty clothes from under beds… then discovered the washing machine isn’t working. Grrrrrrrr!

What minor grievances have ruined your day?

WTAF

Tell him to put it back as it was!!

if he doesn't I'll start digging!! Foundations are being poured in a week!

I am much cheered to learn I am not alone!

@PlaitBilledDuckyPuss
@thisuser

Did you ask them why?

OP hope you aren't feeling too taunted by the insensitivity on this thread. I haven't seen anything like it.
Next they will be saying they did a white wash followed by 3 darks and then a hand wash cycle and dried, ironed and put away the lot. Such a den of vicious vipers.

I haven't done any washing today. And if I had I would just keep my mouth shut.
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@OutDamnedSpot @kennycat for future reference if you can't get a jar open, hold it on its side over the sink and pour boiling water around where the lid meets the jar.

Dry it off and (holding it with the towel because it will be hot) the lid will unscrew easily.

Works every time!

You are officially my favourite mumsnetter @Adrelaxzz

Vipers, the lot of them!

(full disclosure: I’ve shipped one lot of my own washing to DPs, one to DMs and all of the kids stuff - including an unrealistic number of towels <innocent whistle> - to ExH so it’s probably actually saved me time 😂)

No, it wasn't worth the further irritation of having to listen to a long and detailed explanation!😁

Cooked a pizza from the freezer rather than ordering Chinese.
And the pizza was shit.

DH bought me a box of very fancy chocolates for Valentine's Day. I was so excited, but then opened them to find that my favourite one wasn't there :( I'll have to get my favourite next time I'm in central London as the only postage option is a courier costing ££.

I’ll try this! I won’t be buying tinned mince again that’s for sure (it was a lockdown panic buy) as it’s caused untold trouble. The piccalilli was just the tip of the iceberg

I was asleep until the cat sat on my head...

I blasted through Bridgerton when I had covid about this time last year. Series 1 for the second time, no less.
I'm currently glued to Stacey Solomon making people throw away 50% of their hoarded sentinel crap. It's very cathartic.

I am, however, now annoyed that despite listening to a meditation for 94 minutes, having been EXHAUSTED all day, I am still fucking awake while my healthy DP deep breathes peacefully next to me. I might go down and roll myself in a blanket and watch Gilmore Girls with the cats. They'll be pleased for the snuggles, anyway.

Insomnia is crap at the best of times.

Hope all the cut fingers have stopped bleeding now.

Dh just came into the bedroom and woke me up.
I'm knackered, he knows this, it's the only day I've got a chance of a lie in.
WTF he decided that 7.45 is an appropriate time to come and ask me if I want a cup of coffee I do not know. I'm seething, but need to get a grip before I get up otherwise I will lose my actual shit with him.

Home bargains only has small boxes of soda crystals. I won’t buy them as they are more expensive than the plastic packet.

I have run out and have visions of the limescale building up in my washing machine ….. and my internal mental chatter is chastising me for not buying the small box as it would be cheaper than the consequences of a scaled up washing machine.

I have been without soda crystals for a whole week and will probably get the correct package type from tesco later .

This minor grievance is taking up far too much head space.

My dog has just decided that it’s 7.30 and therefore we must open the door for him. It is also my only lie-in. Bastard.

Plus my other irritation is over the complete debacle that was the transport network last night in London. Who the fuck decided to close the jubilee line when Peter Kay is playing at the o2 and there is no other train option….! At chucking out time, the queue for the ridiculous cable cars was literally a mile long. PLUS..as a result, we missed the first 20mins trying to get there . As if that wasn’t bad enough, as I was trying to get into our seats discreetly, I didn’t see a step and went down like a sack of spuds and now have a hurty knee and grazed knuckles. 😂

@butterfliedtwo are you, or could you be peri/menopausal? Itchy skin is one of the lesser-known but common symptoms.

DH is spending the entire day on his hobby and will come home and rant in detail about how crap all the other drivers on the road are again. It's boring me, not least because yes we all encounter some bad driving each day but he stores up all the details to go over and over again. He's fucking obsessed.

I was making lasagne last night. OH was washing up. He asked me if I needed anything washed so I said "just the frying pan". He then faffed around trying to take the knife to cut the onions I was chopping, opened the can of tomatoes, ripped the mince open, got garlic (I had already minced that, more was not needed) and having fiddled in everything he could and having pushed my last shred of patience almost over the cliff, asked "is there anything you need?"

"Just the fucking frying panlike I said10 minutes ago"

😤

@WiltingLobelia I hear ya. I’ve renamed the Peloton ‘fight club’ because what’s the first rule of fight club? Honestly, I rather go back to when the kids were six and explained Minecraft to me in excruciating detail than listen to how his fucking peloton class (that I could fecking hear anyway through the entire house)went 😂

Booked half term off from work. Last day of work I started to get a sore throat. Been in bed with flu for most of it. Kids haven't done anything. Back to work tomorrow and I'm feeling so much better. Gutted I'm never ill whilst at work. I have 100% attendance rate.

Been off this week and therfore been ill with a sinus infection that made me exhausted however could I sleep last night... could I heck!!

Also, our new house has a washing line.. that's shit so I'm still having to dry inside and now worrying about humidity.

My minor grievance is that DH dropped the eggs yesterday, smashing the tops of four of them which meant I had to make a cake. Then, having eaten two slices of it, I discovered it’s 550 cals per slice and I’m trying to lose 5lb in 3weeks before holidays.

I did manage to get on top of the laundry yesterday and had my washing all nice and neat in the corner on the clothes horse. Come down this morning and one of the dogs has cocked a leg to the clothes horse and somehow managed to shoot his pee up the leg of it peeing on my towels. Asshole.

Back from holiday and flat iPhone charger plug has gone missing. Having to use one of those old style chunky ones instead so now my bedside table is a couple of inches further out and there's a big gap behind it.

It's really irritating me.

Freeze cake.