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?

School run.

Up at 6.30 every school morning for the next 5 years, persuade ds out of bed, make breakfast and then 7.30 drive us seven miles to school bus, drop him, & home again. Then the whole process in reverse in the afternoon.

I love living rurally and working from home, I wouldn't change it but five years feels pretty daunting.

Emptying the dishwasher
Hanging washing out
Ironing
Putting clothes away after ironing
Food shop
Meal planning
Cooking

Never add this much hatred to looking after a home, but WFH means I’m surrounded by all the above all-day-long

“Never had” ffs, my Yorkshire accent is creeping in

Ground elder in my garden! I feel like it waits till I go to bed, gets on social media and invites weeds from everyone else's gardens to come and move into mine.

Renting.

Emptying the dishwasher!!!! I will happily load but unloading does my nut in.

Changing double bedding. It is my least favourite of all chores. And eventually becomes unavoidable.

Football

DD’s local grassroots football in particular. They play in a girl’s league and the catchment is huge to make up league. 9am Sunday Kick Off 40 miles away is painful!

Mornings

The food shop. It's so boring. Feels like grounding day.

@Horacetheexplorer

Home printers!

Oh god, this!

How I've not launched that sneering, temperamental lump of shite out of the window I do not know.

HATE it!

@Maggie900

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.

Buy a rail, a cheap clothes rail. Stick it somewhere in the house, put your clothes on hangers , out of the washing machine on it . Easier than putting washing on a line, better than trying to dry on a radiator.

@the80sweregreat can I ask what cracked the bedwetting for your DC in the end?

We're using demopressin at the moment (which works - hoorah!), but the doctor says we can only use it for three months and what then? DH has just bought a vibrating alarm that should wake him at 11.30 so he can go for a wee, but he's such a deep sleeper. Even if it wakes him I'm guessing he'll just turn it off and fall straight back into a deep sleep.

@BanginChoons

The food shop. It's so boring. Feels like grounding day.

Amen to that.

God yes home printers......the misery they can generate...built in feckin...uselessness to go wrong, not work and money pits....

My children. 😂

People.

19:19LemonMeringueThreePointOneFour
Ask your doctor for an appointment with a dietician and ask to be put on the FODMAP diet. Following this diet is a pain but it's meant that I can now go for a walk in the country without stressing! (IBS sufferers will know what I mean!)

coat hangers getting tangled together in the wardrobe
emptying the dishwasher
hearing the washing machine bleep and tell me it’s finished, just as I am in the middle of something, and I feel it’s ordering me to go and empty it immediately
washing the caked cat food bowls, even though i have just washed them that morning and there’s only so many times you can wipe them out quick with a bit of kitchen towel and stick fresh food in
Being busy cooking/doing housework, desperate to go to the toilet but just being too busy to pop upstairs quick and waste time doing a wee

One of life’s joys is forgetting you’ve already emptied the dishwasher and then opening the door to brace yourself for emptying it, only to discover you can actually start stacking the dirty dishes!

Removing the full rubbish bag from my tall, elegant and expensive self opening bin. I've tried everything, including tipping it upside down (bag tied) and shaking it. It happens every Wednesday night while DH sits watching whatever dross is on TV and claims not to have heard my calls for help.

Class dojo

Long Covid. I have a morning or even a day when I can breathe properly, think I'm over it and then it ambushes me again like a piano dropped from a third floor window. I can't wear a mask or even a visor as I need all the air I can get, and I want to go to an actual shop and try on actual clothes 🥴

Pairing socks

Zafferama

the alarm with the bell worked for his bed wetting problem. The doctor wouldn't prescribe the tablets for him because of the cost.
He was also a deep sleeper, so I had to get up too to wake him up. I used to get up once a night as well to take him to the loo.
It took a while , but we did get there in the end.
When he was very young I did use the dry nites but obviously that wasn't an option past age five or so. It was a very difficult time plus we moved house so seeing different doctors didn't help either as they all had different advice and made it seem as if it was my fault apart from the school nurse who assured me it really wasn't!
We couldn't really afford the year four trip anyway , but he didn't feel comfortable going along in case of an accident , so he just went for the day with some of the other children who didn't go for the week.
It's just a taboo subject I think and I felt bad for him , but we did get through it. I wished there was more information about it or talked about more.

My DP coming home every single fucking day and asking how DD1 has been and when I reply “really quite miserable to be honest, she’s not stopped crying until about 10 minutes ago”

And he always.. always replies with “really? She seems fine to me, she’s happy.. see!”

YOU WEREN'T FUCKING HERE 10 MINUTES AGO OR FOR THE LAST 2 HOURS OF NON-STOP TANTRUM AND CRYING.

So glad to get that off my chest.