To make my life more difficult by 'saving time'

[TotHappy]

Yesterday I was cleaning, including scrubbing the bath and then the kitchen floor. At some point I realised my hairband had fallen out and vanished as my hair was falling into my eyes. For some reason pausing my task to go and get a new hairband was unacceptably inconvenient so I carried on, periodically having to stop to shove my hair back and cursing.

It was much more annoying than getting a new hairband but the sunk cost fallacy meant that after I'd shoved the hair back a few times, I was even less willing to go and get the hairband, as that would mean I'd had the double inconvenience. As my Dettol-hands have now been all over my hair I need to wash it again too.

I am obviously being unreasonable, but am I unreasonably unreasonable or do others do this kind of stupid shit too?

The other one I always do is when carrying shopping in from the car.... Somehow I would rather break a hand, it seems, than go back for a second trip. So I am always struggling and cursing up the steps, overloaded with 6 bags, and sometimes they fall open and the shopping rolls with gay abandon all over the garden.

Anyone else got any examples of time-wasting time-saving?

I do this constantly.

Me too! I struggled from the car yesterday with a giant bag of groceries, huge pack of toilet rolls and I insisted on juggling the lot so I could shut the boot if the car and lock it, rather than taking shopping inside and then going back to lock. This is on my driveway and about 5m!

If the remote is just out of reach I like to contort ridiculously or try using my feet to get instead of getting off the sofa to pick it up.

I'd rather spend ages creating a dangerous wobbly tower with cups and plates to carry to the kitchen than spend another 30 seconds making two trips or getting a tray. There's absolutely no logic to it.

I do this all the time, because I'm always rushing. Then I met DP who takes his time over everything but gets it done properly and never flaps, drops stuff or breaks out in a sweat. Honestly, it's a revelation to me! I'm not a reformed character but I sometimes stop when I'm in the middle of something getting all befuddled and think "how would DP do this?".

Get a fit bit, it changes your mindset.

What @DustyMaiden said is so true! Anything to get those steps up! My house have never been so clean and I walk whenever I can. That includes making multiple trips upstairs taking up a few toys at a time rather than grabbing them all at once and of course dropping several as I go!

My house has never been so clean with all my vigorous cleaning and doing things one by one rather than piles of 'do that in a sec when there's more to go upstairs' stuff

Totally this also. In fact I just finished carrying a giant load of washing upstairs that was overflowing the basket. Instead of making two trips, I crammed it all in and stopped every couple of steps to pick up offending items that had fallen off, all while trying not to put down said basket as that would take even longer. The worst part was I had to go back anyway to recover items from the stairs that I just couldn’t get to while walking up. Utterly stupid. Yet I do this every time.

I do the washing basket thing too! Used to do it with baby in sling on front too, and now often have toddler stumping up behind me so the jeopardy is real!