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Name one thing that's the bane of your life

599 replies

eatsleepread · 25/04/2021 17:54

Can be lighthearted or heavy.

Mine is doing the packed lunches. Fucking hate it, especially those stupid Sistema lunchboxes with the compartments that nothing fits in Grin not my best ever purchase

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Weepingwillows12 · 25/04/2021 17:56

Dusting. I just dont know how to make it a quick job. Within a day its dusty again. And yes I have an old cluttered house which doesnt help.

HollyGoLoudly1 · 25/04/2021 17:57

Putting duvet covers back on. Even just thinking about it makes me despair.

burritofan · 25/04/2021 17:57

Loading and unloading the fucking dishwasher. If money were no object, it wouldn’t make me fat, and the environment were no concern, I’d just takeaway and paper plate everything, sick to death of the relentless clean-dirty-clean-put-away whole bollocking thing.

Lilmzsnowflake · 25/04/2021 17:58

I was bitching about packed lunches with dh last night. One of the few true joys of lockdown was not having to cram food into stupid boxes at 7am.
I have persuaded the dc to have school lunch for three meals a week, so there is that. Worth every extortionate penny 😂

CrazyTitsLiz · 25/04/2021 17:58

Hyperemesis gravidarum

TimeZonedOut · 25/04/2021 17:59

The latest social media app, currently tiktok, thesere companies just want to make loads of money, not protect ones teens.

Sparklingbrook · 25/04/2021 17:59

Putting the food shopping away. I do online grocery shopping but would quite like someone to put it all away.

Oh and getting the washing off the line. Don't mind hanging it out though.

R1ce0fcal1fl0wer · 25/04/2021 18:00

Technology that doesn't function correctly
Process of elimination to get it working correctly
Endless pointless escalations
Aarrgghhhhhh

Aprilshowersandhail · 25/04/2021 18:00

The lady who stops and chats(with another woman) for 45 mins on the path outside my house every Saturday and Sunday. Her white fucking yappy ddog never shuts up the entire time. Not sure how anyone can chat with that din.

I have shouted for it to shut up more than once.

TwoZeroTwoZero · 25/04/2021 18:01

Laundry.
Lack of money.
Constant tiredness.
My weight.

SignOnTheWindow · 25/04/2021 18:02

Lighthearted reply: shoelaces. A couple of years ago, I decided never again and have since only bought shoes I don't need to tie up. I've replaced my trainer laces with elastic.

Serious reply: a plethora of mental health and neurological disorders.

namechange202086 · 25/04/2021 18:02

My husband

corlan · 25/04/2021 18:03

migraines

PuppyMonkey · 25/04/2021 18:03

Making dinner.Sad

Maggie900 · 25/04/2021 18:04

Hanging the washing out. The drying element of our washer/dryer has broken.

I HATE it so much that sometimes I leave the clean, wet washing in the washing machine and end up having to wash it again because it smells of wet washing.

Nitgel · 25/04/2021 18:04

Lack of government investment making my job increasingly impossible.

PriestessofPing · 25/04/2021 18:04

compulsive, pervasive selfishness and ‘every man for himself’ type attitude. Hate it, think it is responsible for almost all of the worlds ills from little to large.

Changingchange · 25/04/2021 18:05

Work Grin

LilacSloth · 25/04/2021 18:05

Cleaning the bastard shower.

planplan · 25/04/2021 18:05

Husband's inability to wipe a work surface, clean a loo and one billion other little things.

Agree with the lunchboxes. I was gutted when mine moved into KS2 and no longer got free lunch for this reason.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 25/04/2021 18:05

Wasps.

It isn't even the fact that they sting: been stung by a bee which was far more intense, but I still don't mind bees who mind their own business and leave people alone. Wasps, though, are hassly little suckers that just won't stop flying at me.

Even their buzzing noise makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Do. Not. Like.

Aliceandthemarchhare · 25/04/2021 18:06

Reflux

SparklyLeprechaun · 25/04/2021 18:07

Oh and getting the washing off the line. Don't mind hanging it out though.

I'll come and get your washing off the line if you come and put mine away. I bloody hate it.

marmitecake · 25/04/2021 18:07

Tinnitus Angry and I'm going to give it a Biscuit.

Alldressedup · 25/04/2021 18:08

Yes to bringing in the washing from the line. But more, putting the sodding washing away. It’s a never ending cycle and it does my head in. I would definitely pay for someone to come and take my washing, do it, then put it away in the wardrobe/drawers.

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