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AIBU?

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Just get the f*ck on with it!!! AIBU?!

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applesisapple5 · 17/12/2018 08:17

Some people DH need the perfect conditions to get something started. Solitude, silence, a slight southwesterly breeze...
My method is to get as much done even if you only have two minutes. Then it's done! Chop onions and sling in the freezer while tea is brewing, change the bedsheet even if the duvet waits til later, put things in the Asda online shop as they run out rather than having to remember, that sort of thing.

I drive him mad, he drives me mad, AIBU and what do I dooooooo?

OP posts:
pickingdaisies · 17/12/2018 13:33

If I Just Did the little things as they occurred to me instead of putting them on the list, the Big Things that I would otherwise be putting on the list as I wrote it would drop out of the back of my brain as I Just Did the little things. Everything has to go on the list. Or it will get forgotten. Same with online shopping. Make the list. All of it. Then shop. My brain doesn't work like OP's. I wish it did, it's a bloody nuisance.

DelilahfromDenmark · 20/03/2019 17:00

You’d hate me, I am a professional procrastinator. If I need to do something but have something scheduled 4 hours time, I’ll put it off til there next day.
Would far sooner be like you though!

ZippyBungleandGeorge · 20/03/2019 17:19

When you do bits of things do you finish them though? I multi task eg wipe down the kitchen regime waiting for the kettle it out some laundry on while I'm waiting for something to come to the boil on the stove, but DH starts things and didn't finish them, so I'd rather he waited until he was going to do something properly. So in your bed changing scenario when does t the duvet cover and pillows get changed? There's no point having s clean sheet by everything else is slept in

ZippyBungleandGeorge · 20/03/2019 17:21

ZOMBIE THREAD FFS

Zaphodsotherhead · 03/07/2019 13:27

I've been through a couple of exes who would do the 'five minutes until we need to leave? Gosh, I'd better mow the lawn!' or 'people coming round in an hour and the house is a tip? Right, time to tidy the shed and start sorting all those old magazines in the attic!'

I always thought it was a form of control. They couldn't be accused of doing 'nothing', as they were clearly very busy. They were just 'uselessly busy'.

They are exes for a reason.

Zaphodsotherhead · 03/07/2019 13:28

It may be a zombie thread, but it's still relevant!

monstiebags · 04/08/2019 21:21

If you spend your whole day doing stuff - do you ever relax and take stock or reflect?
I am like your OH - I put boring stuff off and do the things I really want to do. My house is not the cleanest or tidiest but on my death bed, I just know that I won't be wishing I had spent more time on chores and less playing the violin or reading or sitting staring into space.

Oakenbeach · 22/08/2019 06:56

Generally tidy, make mental note of and do as much as I can with every minute of my day.

I know things need to get done, but you seem to be living life without actually living it....

indisposed38 · 22/08/2019 07:21

Procrastination -

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
— Benjamin Franklin

Aprillygirl · 22/08/2019 07:26

I see myself as quite an efficient person but if your examples are anything to go by you seem to do things just for the sake of it OP. For instance I wouldn't see the point in getting my hands covered in onion juice and then having to wash them just for the sake of killing two minutes. Also could not be arse to sign into Asda every single time I ran out of something (what's wrong with adding item to a list?) and would definitely not change the bed sheet and not the duvet cover! Wtf is that all about?? I think you actually waste more time than you save so may as well just chill a bit.

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