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??

Opening heat sealed plastic bags, have they got stronger recently or am I losing what little strength I ever had?

Getting changed out of a swimsuit on a beach. I literally avoid this because I cant cope with the embarrassment of it all and the knickers roll below my bum cheeks that I'm frantically trying to unroll with 1 arm while trying to stay respectable with the other hand. I also have big boobs that need to be manipulated into the bra, I usually have to stand inverted for gravity to help but you cant do that under a towel without looking like a moron. Someone should invent underwear that goes on easily to damp skin for those beach days

Duvets - when dh is out or away (he usually helps) I use those giant plastic clothes pegs* usually used for stopping beach towels blowing away Stick one corner of duvet into one cover corner, secure with peg, repeat with opposite corner, repeat at other end if very big and a quick shake won’t sort it.

*mine cost £3 or £4 online.

You need a bow knife

I was crap at slicing anything bread related before we got ours.

Just one clip? Where do you put it? Are you wrapping the cover round the duvet? I can't visualise this method.

Coverless duvets much easier!

Getting my dc to attend school

For doing bra up at the back
One thumb on middle hook, one on middle eye and do that up first
Do it up lower down and without arms in. Once you've fastened the back then move it up and put arms in
Easier than putting arms in first

Look, it's not for everyone, but I do it!

I basically just put a top sheet under the duvet (no cover)
Another matching (colourful sometimes....) top sheet on top of uncovered duvet.

Clip the "top" top sheet to the duvet somewhere, anywhere discreet, usually at the top where both dangle over the side of the bed!

It means that the bed looks finished, and all I have to do is swish top sheet off, throw duvet to one side, swish the other top sheet off, and the same in reverse. No fannying around with putting a duvet cover on. Although to be fair I do use covers when I have visitors or someone is going to see my room now and again.

JTRAOI* — will try this next time! Thank you, you genius pantyliner-wrangler 😀

*Just The Right Amount Of Information

I suppose there's no reason you can't use a hacksaw on bread… what are the benefits of it, compared to a decent quality ordinary breadknife?

Dieting. 😠

Ohhhh… have dug a bit further into the website, and it seemsthe blade is mounted the other way, so you hold the saw sideways… I'm intrigued, yet hesitant, yet curious, yet sceptical… at the very least, it gives you a giggle every time you've got guests who want to cut themselves a slice of bread and have to work out how the breadknife functions, I suppose

Oxo one is brilliant.

@Theunamedcat I feel for you as I'm also plagued with poor sleep. I'm not going to offer you sleep advice but I distract myself so I don't end up more stressed out. I highly recommend the alphabet game and ASMR videos, I started with SouthernASMR on YouTube as she was recommended on here. If nothing else it's a pleasant distraction.

I swear by Brabantia tin openers. My mum and dad are still using the one they had when I was little, and the one I have now feels just as solid.

This.

@off
Me typing into my phone freezer list: chipolatas
Phone: chi Pilates

DD assures me that the uni student solution is 'Put self in duvet cover. Much easier. Saves sheets.'

You need a dry robe

Simply getting from A to flippin B. I live in Essex and my home town is now so crowded, and the traffic so bad, that I have to pre-plan almost every journey. I mean, you should be able to pop to ASDA at ten o'clock in the morning, right? Forget it. It's only two miles away, but it takes me an eternity. And because there are too many houses, too many cars and too many people squeezed into this market town, everyone gets on each other's nerves. I'm constantly bibbed or yelled at when I drive anywhere because there's just no space.

Someone else might’ve already said (Ihrtft) but if you turn your loaf upside down to slice it, it generally slices easier as it doesn’t squish as much.

Dont fold it just stuff it in the bag. same with sleeping bags. i was told that if you fold it you will use same creases again and again and it will get weak on those spots and be more likely to split or leak

Janeygee
One small upside of lockdown was the very quite roads ! I live in Essex too and the roads are worse , new homes everywhere and our town is always busy.
It is hard getting anywhere these days
I also struggle cutting bread. Those knives suggested look lethal , never seen knives like that before
Best to stick to sliced.

Putting on clean duvet covers with short arms.

Bought one of these cutters many years ago and it was a game changer where cling film is concerned. (Don't think I paid this much for it though)
https://www.lakeland.co.uk/7518/wrapmaster-foil-and-cling-dispenser