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I know I am. Stupid little 'jobs'

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WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 20/10/2017 23:11

I've just gone to make a cup of tea and realised that it means opening a new 4 pinter of milk.
I was unreasonably pissed off at this.

The cap hurts my hand and I hate pulling of the stupid, silver seal then having to throw it away. Angry

I have no idea why this upsets me so much but it made me realise that I although I will do it. I am stupidly annoyed every time I have to and if that if I can find a way to get dh to do it, without actually telling him about my unreasonable dislike of the task, I will.

It made me wonder... is anyone else pissed off by anything as ridiculously small and insignificant, or am I alone in my unreasonableness?

OP posts:
Highpeak · 21/10/2017 08:12

Some of these have given me the rage about something DH does, he's incapable of opening packets without it looking like some rabid dog has been at it. He also has an aversion to the clippy things to close said mangled packets. This invariably leads to a freezer full of peas or rice everywhere.

Emptying the dishwasher filter makes me retch.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:13

Burberry

Calm down, dear - it's only a thread. Wink

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:16

Emptying the bag-free hoover is a bugger.

Invariably manage to catch the - er, - catch, and the contents vomit out all over again.

Chasingsquirrels · 21/10/2017 08:17

Ds2 hates binning the seal, so he pushes it into the cap where is remains until the milk is finished and the whole thing binned.
Laziness on his part.
I didn't know this until recently!

YouAndYourFloofyCatNose · 21/10/2017 08:17

I cannot believe no one has said these!

Opening the Tupperware cupboard. We actually have a growing pile of Tupperware on the side, above the cupboard, as we are all too terrified to open it Grin

Putting a USB cable in anything - there is only one of two ways it can go in, yet I always have to stab it in six three different ways.

Re the milk thing, the struggle is real (as my DC would say). I don’t even try, I stab it with a knife and make a hole. This irritates DH inordinately. We compromised by buying little pints of milk for my own use which I can stab to my hearts content, and everyone else uses the six pinters which DH opens correctly. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we still love each other a lot Wink

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:18

sometimes my dishwasher welds a film of gritty stuff to the glasses and it has to be scrubbed off.

You aren't using those crap Asda tablets that another poster complained about are you? They used to do that to my glasses ets as well.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:21

Making tea for people, I don't drink tea and don't understand why they can't just have coffee like normal people. stirring the bloody teabag then having to squeeze it out and put it in the bin.

Make it in a pot, you lazy trollop!

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 21/10/2017 08:23

Get a thing for opening jars for the milk-very satisfying. The silver thing can get to fuck though.
Feeding the cat from pouches, some slide out, some bits stick in.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:30

(When dh piles his cups and dirty plates NEXT to the dishwasher (put them in ffs)

They are frightened to put them in missblue. They are terrified that the dishwasher will be full of clean stuff, and they will have no excuse not to empty it, or that their bowl will be the final item that fills it up, and then they will have to switch it on.

But I'm not bitter . . .

IDismyname · 21/10/2017 08:32

Has no one come on this thread to comment on untangling tangled wire coat hangers?

I only have to look at them, and the red mist descends.

I'm now going to start getting annoyed by other stuff, too.

TheBadgersMadeMeDoIt · 21/10/2017 08:32

I’d forgotten about the milk lid thing. It used to piss me off so much I have been known to drink tea without milk rather than face opening it. Now we get milk in old-fashioned bottles from the milkman. Problem solved.

Regarding the sink plug drainer thing, mine goes in the dishwasher. It’s probably not good for it and the rubber seal thing will disintegrate eventually but fuck it. At least I don’t have to deal with it.

My unreasonable rage these days comes from putting laundry away. There’s always a huge pile in the basket and never enough room in the drawers/wardrobes...so I just stuff it all in the airing cupboard. And then when I need socks and there are none in the drawer I have to face the towering laundry pile of doom and excavate it. I have sometimes stood there wondering if I have time to go out and buy new socks rather than go through the trauma.

ANIDOO · 21/10/2017 08:33

What has being a woman got to do with this??
My husband gets pissed off if I leave the washing up sponge in a certain place, or how I stack the draining board.
Lighten up love.

Giggorata · 21/10/2017 08:34

Clattering punishment - another great phrase from this thread.

I hate all of the above, with the addition of opening the post. Piles of pointless crap to wade through, with the real possibility of missing the good letters about appointments, prizes, legacies, etc. I open my post about once a month.

MillieMoodle · 21/10/2017 08:34

OP I also hate the shiny silver circle of doom; I always used to leave it on the side and it annoyed me every time. Now I put it straight in the bin and I don't get anywhere near as annoyed as I used to.

I hate emptying the dishwasher as half the stuff is still wet so I have to dry it before putting it away.

Hate putting clean clothes away. Probably because I have too much stuff so I have to squeeze it into my wardrobe.

Also hate empty clothes hangers. How do they get so tangled up? Why do they make such an irritating noise when you try to untangle them. Gah.

Mercedes519 · 21/10/2017 08:35

YY to the PP who mentioned getting the bikes out. Every single time they are tangled and never just wheel out.

Bit like those bastarding headphones which you put down for FIVE seconds and they instantly tangle up and means I have to spend minutes trying to untangle them.

Must be some science involved in that...plus quite unreasonable rage Angry

MillieMoodle · 21/10/2017 08:35

Airborne I am with you on the coat hangers. I hate them all. Even the plastic ones. They are smug bastards.

CheshireSplat · 21/10/2017 08:36

Not sure who wrote about the gritty stuff in glasses but for my dishwasher that means I need to put more dishwasher salt in... And Euphemia as a PP said, these may well not need unwrapping...

My own is toilet roll centres (do they have a proper name?). I won't put them in the bathroom bin because I want to recycle them but it take each one about a fortnight to get to the kitchen where the recycling is.

There will be a trail. One on the bathroom radiator. One on the bannister at the top of the top of the stairs. One in the hall.... They're not even hard to carry! Don't know what it is.

JoanBartlett · 21/10/2017 08:36

My youngest 2 just left for university and wow - there are so so so many fewer little jobs. If I vacuum the floor there is no mess oni t even 2 weeks on in some rooms (rather than every day)! It is a huge difference so I am noticing how few things there are to do rather than being irritated by anything at the moment.

Ah the husband thing - i remember when my ex husband had very strong views on how the dishwasher was stacked. I am more than happy for others at home to be better domestically than I am. Learned helplessness domestically has given me so much more advantage in life. Let others be the domestic God/Goddess and leave me to better things.....

Highmaintenancefemalestuff · 21/10/2017 08:39

With you on opening new milk. If I see it's getting low I'll only put the smallest amount in a cup of tea then when dh needs it after work he has to open the new milk.

Gentlysnoring · 21/10/2017 08:39

I quite like opening milk - it's all brand new and fresh. I Do Not like washing up the kids' plastic drink bottles - especially the tops of them. And I have to do it pretty much every day - scream.

Actually things other people in the house do annoy me most of all. Please stop putting wet plastic cups away in the cupboard when they are still wet, DH! Especially when they are stacked and will never dry! I would rather unload the whole dishwasher myself than get the cups out of the cupboard and wash them by hand all over again....... There are many other things.....

Whatsername17 · 21/10/2017 08:40

Batch cooking. I know it makes life easier next week. But right now my kitchen is a fucking mess a s every meal needs the jug.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:41

Learned helplessness domestically has given me so much more advantage in life. Let others be the domestic God/Goddess and leave me to better things.....

Well said Joan.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth cobbling through any old how!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 21/10/2017 08:41

I hate batch cooking - it seems to go into the freezer and never come out . . .

BG2015 · 21/10/2017 08:47

Necklaces on my jewellery tree thing that seem to tangle themselves up overnight. Spend ten minutes every morning it seems, to untangle a necklace that matches my outfit.

Annoys me so much.

buckeejit · 21/10/2017 08:49

I'm amazed that the milk doesn't bother me, I get the rage from the slightest thing usually-hate filling in forms.

I get dc to clean skirting boards with a semi dry wet wipe & friend has a fab idea of having a select number of variations of Tupperware sizes & they are colour coded-small pieces of yellow red & blue tape on tops & bottoms!

Hate emptying the vacuum-dh always ignores the max line & sucks up dirt til it's compacted like decades old ear wax & impossible to get out. Not only that when he does vacuum he leaves the bloody thing plugged in and in the middle of the hall etc. I've left it for up to 2 weeks in that position & he's still walked around it!