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??

I swizzle the bras. I cannot do them any other way.
Have to make sure I'm properly dry out the shower , but it's sometimes a faff.

Putn baby talc on the bra it will swivel no problem

I do like talc! It does help.
I hate bras , but need the uplift once I've got it on. Lol

Phoning ANY department in the Civil Service! Anyone would think they are doing the British public a favour by "working."

Any notion of "Service" in this country has gone out the window....its like a dirty word to many.

Putting a duvet cover on a duvet!

Tying bows or shoelaces

wrapping gifts

drawing in perspective

Stopping kitchen foil from getting torn up

using cling film

shaving legs without nicking ankles and then it bleeding for two hours afterwards!

Front opening bras are your friend!

Don’t get me started!

High waisted undercrackers m'dear, not those bits of string between the cracks. Therefore said bra is actually on the waist not the hips, then slides around and glides gracefully up to the "boob shelf" quite easily. 😂

I'm not hypermobile either, and am extremely unsupple, but have never had an issue doing up a bra at the back. The poster who originally mentioned doing up a bra after a shower also puzzled me - I dry myself after a shower, my skin is not wet.

To all you people stuggling with duvet covers, why don't you use a top sheet and then you don't have to change the covers very often? I don't live in the UK, and it was only a couple of months ago that I discovered you don't seem to use top sheets there. Sheets here are generally sold in pairs, a fitted and a non-fitted.

I think it gives more even pressure because the handle is mounted to the top and bottom of the blade. For me, and I am very uncoordinated with physical things, the slot between the blade and the handle means it’s easier to cut a straight slice than a wedge as there are more guidelines to work within. Also it doesn’t skate off the top of crusty sourdough. You can also cut super thin slices with it which I just can’t manage with a normal knife.

I originally bought one for DH because of the skating-off-the-sourdough thing (and too many cut fingers) and since have bought many for friends/relatives as they get very excited about ours when they use it. I may have boring friends though.

Well, if your friends are boring, count me tedious. I'm terrible at bread-slicing, but starting to wish I needed to slice enough bread to make it worth buying one (another coeliac here; what gluten-free bread I do buy tends to be pre-sliced).

@DesparatePragmatist It had taken me six decades but now, finally, I appear to have finally found a way of eating that works for me.

Anything I think about eating, I work out how I will feel after I have eaten it. If I'll feel satisfied, then I have at it. If I will feel in any way sorry, or disappointed or, most often, that I just want more (& more and more) of whatever it is, I don't bother because I know that the first bite is the easiest to resist.

It's not exactly easy, as I have to have the whole debate with myself each time but it does get easier the more I practise. Examples that I've done many times, I can run through the argument almost automatically.

@CC4712

Surely if its wide enough to go around your hips, then it will be very loose when pulled up around your chest

We are all different. My hips are about 10 cms narrower than my chest.

10am narrower than your rib area?

Doing hair! Blow dry, curling tongs etc. Did you all go on a course that I didn’t get the invite to?

I can't do hair either. Or eye liner

You're very much making my point for me!

I'm going to try this though - thanks!

parking

Getting through to a human to discuss an issue that NO can't be resolved by your website. I've jumped through assorted hoops to get as far as the On Hold music, so repeatedly stopping the music to tell me a) how important my call is to you (ie not at all) and b) to suggest I check the website, will only cause rage! Don't they realise that every time the music stops we're alerted for conversation, only for anther recorded message? Just playing the music would be less annoying? Guess who spent over an hour today listening to HMRC's jazz guitar....

Getting served decent coffee. I don't need espresso or anything particularly fancy but I'd rather have a glass of water than instant. Sorry but it's just bitter brown liquid - not coffee. Tea drinkers don't have these problems, in the UK at least.

[I didn't realise till I came on here that grown women did their bras up at the front & then swiveled them round! Am theorising we copy our Mums in this & she can still do it up behind at 76.]

I solved the bra problem by mostly wearing either the pull over your head elasticated ones or bikini tops which a good amount have a clip at the back on an elasticated strap and the front also undoes and adjustable straps.
No more pulling my shoulders out of sockets required as well as ditching underwires 😁

Duvet covers, I put on by turning inside out, grabbing the top corners of the duvet and shaking it on. Then I throw it on the bed and marry the bottom corners up. Give it a shake and done.
I live in a bungalow, so I don't have a bannister to shake it over.

Threading a needle without a threader? Lay an old dry toothbrush, brush side up, lay the thread over the bristles then push needle eye down over thread and bristle. Needle threaded.

My should be easy but it's not ....is knitting. Both my grandmother and mother were and are prolific knitters of beautiful knitwear. It looks so easy.
Well, it's not, at least not for me. They've both tried to teach me and I still can't get it, at all. Even casting on has me snapping needles in rage.
Yet give me a sewing machine and I'll make your article no problem.

I had to change the king size quilt cover last night, tried the burrito, it works. Usually I have to ask DH for help or spend much longer wrestling with it and shaking it out.

Duvets were sold to us on the basis that less effort would be required to make the bed - no shaking out of top sheet, just shake out the duvet and you're done. So there is resistance to the idea of a top sheet.

Cover with tinfoil then just throw out the foil not the sheet