to ask you what life is too short for?

[Rhinosaurus]

Absolutely fed up with the usual Saturday routine of housework, weekly shop, sorting out crap in the house....

After recently reading Shirley Conran, and in the spirit of her phrase "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom" I would like to say......

Life is too short to bloody well dust skirting boards!

Life is too short for matching socks.

The DCs and I all wear odd socks, and although my mother despairs at it, it will never change I despair at the state of her house so we're even.

Life is too short not to put anything boring and house work related on hold when my son wants me to play with him, or the opportunity to sneak a cuddle with him on the couch presents itself. It's also too short not to enjoy any family time we have when my DH is about, everything else can wait.... It doesn't seem to go away anyway!

to cancel a day out because it's raining, to put off what can be done today until tomorrow - just think of all the days out in the rain.

Iron. Maybe three times in my life.
colour co ordinate socks

-Ironing
-matching socks
-wasting time on housework when dd needs playing with
-bad, unenjoyable sex!

Ironing - hate it! My ex next door neighbour was the last person to use my iron and they moved 2 months ago :)

• clean the floor at breakfast or lunchtime. It'll be mucky again after tea so I'll do it then. DH goes wild about cleaning the floor, I don't give one of my Flying F*s (thanks NicNoc) (actually that makes me sound a bit urrgghhh)

• get rid of the baby stuff. We'll just chuck it in the garage till my 3yo and 1yo have kids of their own.

Weirdly, i don't mind ironing but then I do 4 DH work shirts and 2 DH work trousers every week and that's it.

Actually, life is too short for everything. Try to be happy. My mum was dead by 42. She always wanted to go and see the snooker at the Crucible.

Do what makes you happy, without hurting other people, as much as you can.

Life's too short to;
fret about stuff you can change
fret about stuff you can't change

husbands

Life is too short:

• to iron stuff until you need it. Just stuff it in the drawer. Who gives a shit.
• to waste your life with a cocklodger
• I have a son with a serious illness. I couldn't care less if he doesn't brush his teeth or sleeps in his daytime clothes. Life is too short. I will pick my battles when he is older - if he makes it that far.

Life is too short .... End of... As posters above and at being a pain in the arse, hug Dcs ... Life too short not too. We had police knock on the Door in feb, dd badly injured, in France, getting better but issues, count blessings,

But still hate ironing!!!!!

ironing , iron as your wear if you have to but to stand and iron for ages is pointless .

.....just having a little mnet, having emptied the ironing basket. Sorry to hear some of you are having a hard, sad time.

Oh, just realised my last post was waaaaaaaaaay too serious.

Apologies.

• Life is to short to eat cheap choc-ices.
• Also agree with not staying in a job you hate. I career-changed at 25 and loved every minute of my new working life
• I don't dust skirting boards. I have a ridiculously heavy vaccum (sic?) that I haul round once a week. Don't even ask me about mopping....

Changethatbulb, hope DD is fully recovered soon

Reindeer totally agree about the socks - why should they match?

to earn loads of money beyond what we need (unless good at money making and good at philanthropy!)

.... to not seize the moment

To spend time with and be to nice people you can't stand, family especially.

Unpaid overtime - get a life, you are not irreplaceable to your employer but you are to your family.
Ironing jeans or kids clothes (or anything really - have you not heard of lycra?)

re ironing

DD1 has discovered that hair straighteners do a great job on eg shirt fronts & fabric belts in an emergency

hardly anything is worth queueing for

unless they're handing out free money

House extensions, renovations, DIY etc. These have sapped years of our energy and marred the early years of our DCs lives. Although until it becomes cheaper and easier to Get Someone In, we'll have to see this one through!!

Life is more than a house.

And, at the moment because I need to go and hang them out, washable nappies :)