What’s your worst part of adulting?

[Outnumbered1983]

Mine is having to come up with meal ideas, I hate it! Having to think of what to eat/cook every single day until you die 😂

No i keep up with everything and get on with it.

Yes - food decisions. Every. Single. Day. That and cleaning the bathroom 😭🛁

Toss up between meal planning/grocery list writing and folding clean laundry for me.

Hate them both.

I'm single, live alone, kids all grown up - which is hugely liberating re the admin/housework/meal planning front (far less admin for only one person, I do housework when I want to and eat what I fancy on the day), so for me the WORST part of adulting is having to do my tax return. I'm horrible with numbers and counting and maths generally so I find it almost physically painful having to sit down and sort out papers and income and expenses.

That and anything to do with the car.

Looking after my elderly blind father.
Im an only child.

House maintenance. Not actually doing it but all the stuff that goes around it.

I have to rehang the door to the under the sink kitchen cupboard as one of he hinges broke and it doesn't close properly (not at all caused by someone (not me) trying to stuff too much rubbish in the swing bin attached to it - oh no!).

I ordered new hinges, took the door off, added the new hinged to the door, only to find it was hard to attach the door back on. Faffed around for ages (including dropping the door a couple of times, chipping the laminate) and eventually worked they were not same the same as the old hinges

Ordered the right ones, only to find they won't arrive until Friday morning, when I shall be on a plane to Portugal.

So I am now trying to rearrange the delivery while we spend the week with no cupboard door and the bin on the work top.

Putting clean washing away.

there’s no one thing that annoys me as such, it changes depending what is going on.
But this week it’s my health, which on the scale of things it’s not horrendous but I’ve been ill all week, every time I go to the doctor they tell me something else that’s wrong with me. I’m only 40 ffs 🤣 and I feel like I’m falling apart! Today I have just decided I’m not cooking and we’re getting a Chinese 🙌

Indeed. I don't mind doing the actual laundry, but the having to fold it / put it away feels like the final 'fuck you' part.

I lived in SE Asia for a while, where using a laundry service is the norm, because very few people have apartments big enough for their own washing machine.

Dirty laundry was collected from outside your door on a Friday, returned 24 hours later beautifully laundered and folded or hanging, so the only thing you had to do was put it away.

I miss that (but not the humidity).

Food for me too, specifically being 'responsible' for what/when other people eat, I dream of only having myself to think about! I'm not even the main cook but it seems to have become my job to meal plan and make sure everything we need is on the shopping list regardless of who is cooking and I hate it

Tax, insurance and pensions. All so mind numbingly dull but sadly important.

I don’t mind doing the laundry. But for some reason I HATE putting away clean laundry. There’s ALWAYS more stuff waiting to be put away. So thankless.

I can find SOME satisfaction in cooking a meal or mopping a floor. It’s only the laundry I hate.

I absolutely hate having to call people for services, bills, appointments etc.

I dont like putting away laundry. I used to do my own as a kid, but now I do DH and DC as well as mine.

I do like cooking and preparing food, so thats one thing I dont mind haha.

Definitely cleaning

It’s a tie between meal planning and IT setup.

I’m happily divorced but if anything pushes me towards marriage number two it will be my desire to not have to deal with tech issues by myself any more

Cleaning! I love living somewhere clean and tidy, but really hate spending time getting to that point (and I'm not very good at it either) So, I'm always a little bit sad when I look at a dusty skirting board, or a toothpaste ring on a basin...

Lots of stuff. I also hate deciding on meals. I hate washing up and cleaning in general actually but also equally hate having a messy house so I can’t win on that front. Hate being the one who arranges all of the weekend activities but when I threw a hissy fit and said I wasn’t doing it anymore, we genuinely just never went anywhere…

I don't like feeling responsible for everyone's emotional wellbeing.

It really affects me when the kids are upset e.g. someone's being low-key mean at school and I can't really help much except being present & telling them they are safe & loved.

I hate it.

Also meal planning.

The deciding what is for dinner every day has been solved here by Hello Fresh. I used to be aimlessly wondering the supermarket with a basket with DC on the phone all adament they didn't want anything I suggested, but couldn't think of anything themselves. Now they just have to pick a menu card from this weeks pile.

Cleaning is a massive pain in the arse. The to do list never ends and it's a constant cycle. I may have solved this by getting the whole house done on a Sunday afternoon. We're decluttering and organising gradually, so each week or gets quicker. DC are older though, and don't often destroy the place. Mentally it's much easier to think 'I'll do that on Sunday'.

Laundry is a pig. I tend to heap it up on the dog food chest freezer after getting it out of the tumble dryer. Then it's a mammoth task to put a ton of it away. So I put it off. Until I'm unable to open the freezer under the weight of the laundry.

Changing bedding 😡

The constant chores. I realised yesterday that I’m now spending most of my ‘free’ time doing chores or household tasks, when I used to be frivolous and just have fun. It’s relentless

Dinner time at home - 100% my DC have ruined all enjoyment of it
Spider catching - now I’m the grown up I have to remove them (I don’t kill them)
Window and car cleaning
Making sure me and DC are on time
But mostly making dinner

Using the term adulting. It’s as bad as snogging or holibobs

Stuff to do with cars. MOTs, services, repairs. Hate sorting those things.

Parenting specifically - having zero sick days. Awful times when I’ve had fever, covid, norovirus or whatever and had to continue looking after SEN child. I miss the days where I could just watch Netflix under a blanket !