Do I win the Queen of Procrastination award?

[WeeAgnes]

I have, finally, put up some pictures after buying them over 18 months ago.
I had the prints, I had the frames, I just couldn’t be arsed didn’t have the motivation.

What do you need to do, but have put off, and can you beat 18 months? 🙈

@OchonAgusOchonOh
you have beaten me! I started a jumper for my newborn baby. I only have to finish one sleeve , it’s in the loft. The baby is 24 this year!

Do you win the award? I’ll tell you tomorrow 😉

I hadn't rtft before posting my own example.

I'm nowhere near to being a winner! I'm seriously impressed with some of these examples.

Could you get me some curtain hooks? Thanks.

This thread and the one about finding completely normal things awkward, have really cheered me up this weekend, and made me feel lots better about a couple of my many shortcomings!

I once left a jacket on the washing line for a whole year. I can't recall why or how that happened but I remember looking at it regularly and thinking "I must remember to bring that in"

Touché @WaneyEdge 😉

@AuraBora I fear you’re looking at it all wrong. What you’ve got there is a Feature Wall. Embrace it.

@LemonPorkLasagna Be honest now. You changed your mind on your daughter’s name after consulting MN didn’t you?

I haven't filled out my baby's baby book yet. That baby is 17!

😂
I think this is my favourite! Not your favourite jacket then?

When we moved, DH put new doors on and insisted he couldn't put the handles on until I painted them first, so I did. They spent the next seven years with no handles. The big gold mirror that we propped against the wall when we moved in is still there twenty years later. I can't imagine it hung on a wall now. I also had a thirty year old crochet blanket that just needed the squares joining. I binned it recently in a rare moment of clarity that it was never going to be finished.
I do have a completed jigsaw on the coffee table, which means that several important things didn't get done while I did that. I wonder what they were?

Nope. Garibaldi are lovely. Or we could have gingernuts, or even fancy chocolate coated ginger cookies.

In fairness, it is important to make the right biscuit decision. Then we have to decide on the tea.

In fairness, it is my mother's jumper not mine.

Although we did replace some doors about 10 years ago and while we bought the paint and painted the hall and the dining room, the utility room is still a pale pink-hued white with grey plaster patches. It's actually growing on me.

My degree certificate lay in a filing cabinet for decades before I had it framed. Still haven't hung it. I could have procrastinated for England if I'd only got round to it.

None of ours are filled in either. Dc1's is about half filled, dc2's about a third filled and dc3, well, let's just say we do really love him. We just show it in other ways.

My babies range in age from 22 to 27.

You reminded me. I bought a big frame to put a poster in for my son’s room when he was 4-ish. He’s now 12. No poster has ever been specifically bought for the frame but a few posters have come and gone and been blu tacked to the wall. I really should get rid of that giant frame that’s sitting under my stair cupboard.

i have a hose reel and curtains that I’ve been waiting for my DH to put up for over 3 years.

I’ve got an 8 year old poster frame you could use 🤣

I have so many things I need to do

I regularly make lists (it's an excuse to get on my phone longer) of things I MUST do. I never do them. Making a list is the closest I get

I had a list for today. Did none of it 🙄

Don't even feel guilty now

I have lived in this cottage for 27 years and still have a couple of framed prints leaning against the wall where they are intended to be hung.

Sorry OP but you are still in the amateur ranks! 🤣

A relative bought some lovely crockery planning to use them for a nice event bug never got round to it. Several decades later they were finally brought out at their funeral.

A relative bought some lovely crockery planning to use them for a nice event bug never got round to it. Several decades later they were finally brought out at their funeral

Oh no! Oh dear - that's really very sad. That's like the "not using our nice things" threads that we have every so often - there is always a story about clearing out a house and finding all the unworn clothing, etc, that was saved for "best", but best never came. I wonder if there is a link between saving things for "best" and procrastination?

I'm melancholy now. I was having a nice time musing about biscuit choice.

Don't be @Time40, every time it comes out we have a good reminisce and it's exactly the kind of thing she would have laughed at too!

@Randomusername37258 Awww, that's nice! Thank you.

When my DD was a tardy kid I bought a book called something like 'The procrastinating child'.

I never did read it, she learned timekeeping and self discipline without it but I'm still a procrastinator.

I started knitting a woolly for my boyfriend when I was a postgrad student. I did get round to marrying him but the unfinished garment is in a bag in the bottom of my wardrobe. I really should bin it, it's 40 years old and I've probably forgotten how to knit in the interim.

Gestures vaguely at everything in the flat...

My mum was a shocker for procrastinating too. The blanket she was crocheting for when I went to uni was still half finished in a bag when she died and I was in my 30s. Because she wasn't around when my sister had kids I thought you know what, I can take over on the blanket crocheting front. Obviously the wool is still sitting in a box and the eldest is nearly 8.

I've loved this post and will quote to confirm that your mum is an absolute star ⭐ plus it's hilarious 😅

The only way I could