Things that should be easy but are actually so bloody difficult!!

[CanIbeRio]

I'll kick it off with:-

Putting your bra on after a shower - I always put it on back to front and twist it round the right way. I need to apply WD40 to my back and chest as it just won't twist!!

Getting the damned duvet into the damned duvet cover!! Makes me 🤬 every time!!

How about you??

Eating out as a Coeliac.

Cars 2 storyline. I cant follow it!

Do you turn the douvet cover inside out and then reach inside and find the corners, then match the corners with the douvet and give it a big shake, it practically falls into place?

Re the duvet cover, have you tried turning the cover inside out, grabbing the corners from the inside, and shaking it out over the bannister?

Going to sleep its should be like eating im hungry eat food = no longer hungry but NO! I'm tired = hours of tossing and turning followed by random remedy searches followed by sleepless nights infinite warm milk magnesium sprays butters lotions supplements a trip to the Dr's who talks about sleep hygiene (so being bored and awake) then should I EVENTUALLY manage to achieve sleep!

I wake up tired

@LittleMrsPretty ....thanks for the tip!!
I lay the empty duvet cover flat on the bed, fold the duvet in half.....kind of shove it up as far inside as I can then fish around inside and unfold the duvet to get the top left corner of the duvet matched with the top left corner of the cover, same with the right then move down and repeat with bottom left and right then kind of shake it a few times. It's a lot of fiddling and fishing inside the faffing thing.....I have about 60% success rate! The other 40% of the time it ends up with mis matched corners and a jumbled up mess!!! God that was long winded!!!

Getting butter to spread straight from the fridge regardless of how many times I rapidly scrape it and put it back in the container, repeat and just when I think I've softened it enough it still tears up the bread!

Putting thread through a needle.

Use hairspray on the thread and leave the butter out of the fridge.

Using hairspray on thread.....that's genuis!!

Anything to do with the public sector.

https://www.finebedding.co.uk/pages/night-owl

Life changing. Coverless duvets. Stick the whole thing in the washing machine.

Yout welcome OP.

Putting thread through a needle.

Hold the end of the thread between the thumb and forefinger of your non-dominant hand. Put the needle on the thread instead of the other way round.

Unless you have some hairspray handy.

Raining outside again: Butterdish. I have a insulated type one from lakeland which you can use in the summer as well.

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/1496/insulated-butter-dish

Getting anybody to pick up the damn phone! Banks, utilities, colleagues, anyone. Just pick up the damn phone! What's wrong with you? And don't get me started on 'your call is really important to us'.

Getting any of my collection of tin openers to do their job. Ring pull tins of beans are my go-to now, but with the CoL as it is I would like to open a regular tin without the kitchen resembling a murder scene. Anyone else find tin openers just aren't cutting it!!!

• Getting my dog to come inside when I want to go to bed.
• Keeping flies out of the kitchen (or house in general)
• Finding a comfortable mattress

Oh.my.days I actually love you! This is the answer to my summer woes!

Keeping baking trays clean. I just throw them away now!

Dealing with my kids accounts on Microsoft family safety, getting the various restrictions to work the way we want them too, twenty different frigging log ins etc. Dealing with DS's requests to sort out anything tech related, updating versions of whatever. Loathe it all.

I did that and nearly went over the bannister with it!

Peeling the plastic top off many food items where it laughably says "Peel here", yet they've stuck the whole thing down with some kind of super glue

Oh I love this Lakeland dish it's so going to be my buy of the week!

And genius with the hairspray. I honestly know this week is going to be a winning one already!

Thanks all

@CC4712 Getting flies out - yes! How can something with so many eyes fail to find l the large open window.

I came on to say cleaning windows. No matter which method, newspapers vinegar, spray, water and squeegee I always have more smears and streaks afterwards than before.
Also sex. In my head great. On my own fine. With someone else bloody hard work. Just so much time and effort.

This! I learned it a couple of years back and it's changed my life! (That and the fitted sheet folding hack.)

Paying to park. No, I don't want a bloody app on my phone. I want to shove some coins in the machine and get on with my day.

Talking to a human being at my bank's head office.

Keeping other people's cats out of my garden without spending a fortune. I have spent more on deterrents than the bloody cats are worth.