Name one thing that's the bane of your life

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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 not my best ever purchase

You?

Other people's kids. Why are y'all raising your kids to be entitled, unpleasant little bastards that nobody but you could ever like?

Putting away laundry, so I don’t bother and leave it on the spare bed.

Mopping the floors. I clean from top to bottom and run out of steam by the time I get to the floor.

I’m not much of a housekeeper and try to keep things passable. I have a proper clean when I have guests. It’s going to have to be a hell of a clean when COVID rules end and I have my first guests in over a year.

IBS.

My sacroiliac joint which has been causing problems since 1998.

Limescale - cannot emphasise how much I hate it.

Misogyny

@eatsleepread

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 not my best ever purchase

You?

Oh yeah. Those lunch boxes are useless and I agree I hate doing pack lunches!!

@ipswichwitch

DS2s toenails. He has asd and cannot cope with people touching his feet so all I can do is wait til he’s asleep and cut them then, otherwise he gets into bed with me in the night and it’s like sleeping with Freddy Krueger. Now, I’m sat on his bedroom floor, with my headlamp (or I can’t see the bastards), trying to dodge flailing limbs as he turns in his sleep like a rotisserie chicken. To add to the joy, he’s inherited DHs bloody awful toenails that curl under. I want wine and I’ve still got 7 toenails to go 😭

Oh God, I'm sorry, but that is fucking hilarious!

Drying my hair, it just takes so long. It’s so thick and unruly I end up feeling like I need another shower and I still need to straighten it to make it look ok. If I leave it to dry naturally it’s a disaster no matter what products I use.

Anxiety
Health anxiety
OCD
Chin hairs
Ground elder
Having to think about what to have for dinner every night

Constipation, weak bladder, overeating , And fucking corona

My love of chocolate and cake!

Every day, having to check my chin and upper for rogue black hairs that come from nowhere.
I am so sick of battling hair. I used to be able to just leave the house without spending 15 minutes with a magnifying mirror and a tweezers.
Those days are gone😪😫

Slow, slow, slow computers at work (NHS).

Username and password haters, there are apps like Lastpass, Keeper, Dashlane, Bitwarden, and so on if you want a specific app.
Failing that, even a passworded Excel sheet can help, which means remembering one password only.

Oh, and I hate doing floors. And deciding what's for dinner. Tedious as hell, both of them.

Noisy people who seem to think the world wants to hear what they have to say and use hundreds of words when two will do. And those that play loud music. And those that bang communal doors. So many selfish and attention seeking people around.

Thinking of what is for dinner, cooking it and clearing up after it.

The amount of admin that's increased since covid. No spontaneity anymore - have to decide weeks in advance if it's not going to be raining, so you can book a slot in a bloody farm or eat at a restaurant! There's even less chance of speaking to a human if you need something - endless rounds of phone options with long winded Prerecorded messages that don't get you through to anyone. Companies not responding to emails cos covid, so you eventually chase and get given a name and a promise and finally speak to someone else to go through it all again ad fucking finitum. Popping to local shop...need to queue. Boring stuff just takes sooo long. Everyone charging more 'cos covid' - nursery encourage pickup an hour before so they can get all kids out half an hour before paid finish time so they can clean...and start half an hour later for same reason...except they are not cleaning then!!!

Hayfever

My husband

Having to move, when I want to take a nap during the day. I don't sleep well in night and spend most days very tired. I occasionally give in an nap on sofa but annoying DH wakes me up.

All types of housework.

Hoovering. Bloody Henry is so heavy and awkward and too big to sit on a stair. And however much I add essential oil or Zoflora or anything else to him, he always smells like burned dust. And he's incapable of moving around a corner. He just rolls on his side and grins. Wish I had a grown up vacuum cleaner not this vacuous adolescent, but Henrys are indestructible.

Going to the toilet
Periods (thank god I don’t have them any more)
Cleaning out the cat bowls
Painting my toe nails - love having them done, hate doing them

Printer ink. Mother. Fucking. Bastard. Printer. Ink.

And while we're at it, home printers. They are the archangel of unreasonable technology.

Changing the bed sheets. I'd quite happily do any other household chore but not that