Not a taat but the thread about hanging washing out reminded me that I had been thinking off and on about this idea that any kind of housework job “only takes 5 minutes”. Things like cleaning up after dinner, emptying rubbish, mopping a floor etc etc.
Thing is, even if these jobs took 5 minutes they soon add up. But for me they do take longer. Take emptying rubbish. When I take the bag out I add bits from a couple of small bins elsewhere in the house, that takes time. Then taking it out is down a long flight of stairs. Then getting a clean bag, wiping the bin over. It’s at least 10 minutes. Unloading and loading the dishwasher, another 10. You get the picture.
Doing the very minimum of cleaning takes me at least an hour a day. I don’t clean up after dinner (it’s just me and adult DS here now, but he does his own cooking etc). Because I don’t want to go and spend half an hour in the kitchen cleaning after I’ve eaten. I want to just sit and relax. Luckily I wfh so I do it in the mornings. Because I don’t find any of these jobs to be a”just 5 minutes”.
I think if you can do it that quickly, you must be spending multiple times in the day keeping on top of it. Or am I just really crap at these things? I don’t know.