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??

Okay.

Having taken some time away, done some deep breathing, and, finally, largely recovered from the shock of the twenty-pound butter dish, I've mustered the strength to come back and share my Thing Which Should Be A Piece Of Cake But Is Inexplicably Rock-Bloody-Hard:

Pantyliner positioning.

(Or sanitary towel, but I'm very light so all I need to use is a pantyliner, and only for a couple of days.)

I'm in my late thirties, I've been doing this, on and off, since I was 11, so I have over a quarter of a century of experience at what amounts to correctly placing a big sticker on a strip of fabric.

Yet somehow, a not-insignificant percentage of the time, after carefully placing and smoothing down the pantyliner, I pull up my kecks and the damn thing is 2cm too far forward, or an equal distance too far back.

How have I not got this thing 100% down by now?! I guarantee that by the time I've cracked it I'll have hit the menopause.

@off- or you attach the pad/pantyliner- and then when you next take knickers down- its somehow attached itself to a hair and OMG- the pain 😖

I don't put my bra on like that, problem solved 😂

i thriw the duvet cover on the bed, opening at the foot end, grab top two corners of the duvet and just slide it in.

I've tried it inside out, but I'm short & have impaired mobility, so it's all a bit heavy & awkward for me.

@rainingoutsideagain

what I do is cut off a chunk & put it in a rammekin with a lid & that stays on the worktop. I find it too hot in my kitchen to leave the whole block out. You could get an insulated butter dish (I considered it, but I already had the rammekun & that works for me) or cut a piece off & quick blip in the microwave.

Boiled egg tip - cool them down before removing the shell. Run them under cold water or submerge them in a bowl of cold water. Then you don't take half the egg off with the shell.

Paying for a car parking space

@rainingoutsideagain

try one of these, you probably already have one, they come in every cheap sewing kit

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Threader-Needles-Clothing-%EF%BC%8CAssorted-Designed/dp/B09SKVX9HR/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=3HH101ODT9BTF&keywords=needle+threaders+hand+sewing&qid=1688983781&sprefix=needle+threader%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-3

ive just realised this thread was started yesterday evening, so I'm going to shut up now until I've read the whole thread!!

Getting off a child-proof cap.

Only eating when I'm hungry

Opening a bottle of night nurse !!!!

The panty liner / pad one has made me giggle. I'm in my 50s ffs and still get this wrong or the hair stuck to it!

This is what I do. Works a treat!

@PurplePolkaDot
@DrCoconut

I am gluten intolerant and don't suffer as dreadfully as coeliacs when inadvertently glutened.
However, it still affects me and I am 10 days into a glutening after going to a festival and ordering chips because I had few gluten free beers!

I can work from home luckily because my stomach is still objecting.

So I totally agree with your choice of issue re eating out. I feel really sorry for my wife too as obviously it affects where we can eat. Luckily she goes out with a group of friends quite often. She's extremely patient and supportive, which makes me feel worse somehow.

OP sorry to derail, I agree with so many of the previous examples of things that should be easy but end up being difficult.

My personal bugbear is Alexa ( known as Alexa you twat if I am really frustrated)
I ask her to do something easy like play Audible and the kitchen Alexa pretends she can't hear and then the Alexa on my phone decides to chip in and starts playing Audible. Only that Alexa hasn't spoken to my iPad or the kitchen Alexa and starts the book in completely the wrong place.
And I wanted the kitchen Alexa to play Audible because I needed to charge my phone in the living room where my wireless headphones and headband and other devices are charging.

Heaven forbid, I should just ask for a simple action!
I have stressed myself out just thinking about so I going to have a cup of coffee. Wish me luck in listening to the next chapter of my book. 😳😂

@motherofawhirlwind

ive had my shoulder replaced. I (also large if nork) just didn't wear one for aaaaagss. I can now do them up '*normally if I stand in a doorway and press my 'bad' shoulder against the frame. Would this work for you?

pressing against the frame pushes my 'bad' arm towards the middle if my back, just enough to let my 'good' arm reach the clips.

*normal being putting it on arms through bra on the right way.

PS I'm definitely too fat these days for any sliding it around nonsense!!

PPS a sports bra/top thing was most definitely not the answer🤣. I thought I was going to have to spend hours trust up like a net caught octopus until the carer arrived!

I'm peri-menopausal so it's less often that I need to use pads any more but I still struggle with this. I sometimes on lighter days hold the pad in the right position between my legs and then pull my knickers up and it's almost always right. I don't like "wings" on my pads so no fussing once it's in place. It may help! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why auto correct wanted to change pad to lad I don't know. That would have changed the whole meaning of my post 🤣🤣

I switched to 'long' Tena pantyliners cos I was so sick of them being in the wrong place, too far up or too far down!

I loath cling film. It sounds ideal with the sharp edge of the box , but the minute I start to try and tear it it just goes wrong.

But the actual duvet (and the cover) is pliable - doesn't matter how long your arms are.

Interesting idea — I think it could work with a full-on sanitary towel, but I'm not convinced my thighs have the necessary firmness nor the dexterity to carry out so sophisticated a manoeuvre

Autocorrect is determined to turn me into either a pervert or a racist. The number of times I've been WhatsApping my (British Asian) best mate and it's tried to insert some random Hindu or Muslim religious terminology, or subcontinental place-name, beggars belief. Never with anyone else — they get other potentially cringeworthy substitutions — no, the random India-related words only seem to jam themselves incongruously into unrelated messages when I'm talking to her specifically. Luckily I'm good at spotting them before I send, or she'd be

(My old phone also refused to ever type the word "probably", instead deciding every time that I most definitely wanted to type "Peugeot" instead. I've never owned a Peugeot. I don't even like Peugeots. Until this post, right now, I can't think when I've ever had the need to type the word Peugeot.)

They're very handy, but it wasn't until a good year and a bit into my secondary-school sewing textiles technology lessons that someone saw me fumbling with one, took pity on me, and explained, no, you don't stick the thread through the threader, push the threader through the needle, faff about trying to grab hold of the thread, pull it through, then attempt to disentangle the threader from everything. No, you stick the threader wire through the needle hole, the thread through the threader, pull both back through the needle hole, and your needle is threaded.

Apparently this is so obvious to everybody except me that nobody ever thought to mention it to me until then. So I mention it here, now, on the off-chance that there is another poor clueless soul like me reading, who will never have to reveal their threader ineptitude to another living soul.

@happyinherts Have you go a Good Grips tin opener? I've had the same one for about 10 years and it's not failed me YET

Good grips tin oper

@off

😂😂😂
that's definitely not something I thought to explain, though I have 'in person' (to a child).

your 'good deed' for the day has truly been done 👏🏻

@HawdMeBack Hold your hands out with their backs towards you and put your thumbs out. One side will make an L shape - that's the left.

Alternatively imagine an old school book with it's margin down the left hand side I still do this!

Don't bother with a duvet cover. I use a top sheet then the naked duvet then another top sheet on top, all matching with p/cases. That's for Summer. Same thing except use a throw on top instead of extra sheet in place of duvet cover. I clip the top sheet to the duvet with a (discreet) small bulldog clip. Job done.

Changing the bed takes a minute. But if you are very fussy about matchy matchy and cushions and millions of pillows and matching your curtains and all that, well..... it could still work!

TMI pantyliner solution. Seam of knicker gusset to preferred forward edge position of pantyliner is going to be a varying measurement (by knicker design) of my index finger from top to e.g. knuckle. Lower knickers, replicate finger length by gentle fold of liner, apply liner to knickers from gusset seam forward, match required length. Press to secure.

After finding it so annoying for so long, this is right first time every time.