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?

fairyannie
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Tiger Balm or 911 Bee Venom Gel or Polar Frost (all from Amazon) for painful joints.

People who come late to meet you( ALWAYS) then think it’s ok to tell you “ I was on time but I met fuckin so n so “ When told she’s heading to mine for a certain time THAT PERSON doesn’t say DON’T let me keep you and they carry on chatting. My nerves are jangling these days with just PURE BAD FUCKIN MANNERS.

Cleaning the bathroom - can cope with doing the other rooms!

@Tlollj

My hair. Thick. Takes ages to rinse and ages to dry. Having it cut Wednesday. But if I have it too short it grows outwards instead of down.

I feel your pain on this one.

I have naturally curly hair, that I have been straightening since I was 18 (I’m 43 now!). I HATE my hair curly because I can do sod all with it and it just looks shit (and makes my face looker fatter in my view).

So it means anytime I wash it, I have to blow dry it straight, then straighten it with straighteners. Products I have to also stick on it to help protect it and smooth it. I also use a hair mask once a week on it also to help deep condition it because of using heat on it.

I’ve managed to cut the time down over the years with better brushes, hair dryers and straighteners, but it’s still an absolute ballache to do and takes fecking ages. Especially in the summer when it’s warmer.

I’ve had my hair chemically straightened at the hairdressers before which helps straighten it quicker, but I still have to go through the hassle of blow drying it straight and whacking the GHD’s on it after!

Lunch boxes and after-school clubs

Bloody volcanoes, and that Pyroclastic Flow really gets on my tits.

Otherwise it's when Waitrose have 'been overwhelmed by demand' for rose rock salt and we have to give Hermoine and Dirk stuff from the big Saxa Tub that cook usually uses for God know what. Or is that the yoghurt..?

My neighbours putting their rubbish on the shared wall which when the fence blew down they were quick to say it’s not on the deeds to their property so they didn’t pay half . It’s part wall then fence they use the wall part as a bin so they can keep their Astro turf tidy

My husband too

DS spending 0.00048 of a second brushing his teeth. Then acting all indignant when he’s made to do them again....and again....and again WITH TOOTHPASTE

It takes more time arguing about it than it would to do it properly the first time.

Same argument, twice a day.
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Going to sleep 😩

I’m both a night owl and an early bird but one who can’t cope with tiredness!

@HollyGoLoudly1

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

Try this! It does actually work.

For the insomniac on Mumsnet. Google 'the honest guys' and play their wind down thingy (technical term!) on your phone when you get into bed. The first night you might have to listen to it twice before you fall asleep, but it really works for me. The only problem I have now is that it drives my OH mad......

Middle lane drivers on the motorway especially when you frequently sat in traffic for 2 years commuting home while the road was widened from 2 to 3 lanes. Middle lane hoggers make the road widening pointless as they block the flow of traffic, drives me nuts..........

@Sellingstress

My hair aka my double crown - actually it’s a triple crown. It never sits right or if I tie it back bald patches appear because of how it lies against my head. My life would be so much better without!

My DH has a triple crown. In all his life, it was only when a Turkish barber joined a local business that he finally met someone who knew how to cut his hair.

Cleaning the toilet and emptying bins I HATE that job!
Also dust! It comes back in less than a day WHY???!!! Ive tried wet cloth/dry cloth/Mr sheen/cheap polish and even pissing baby wipes

My two kids taking off their shoes and leaving them in a pile, slap bang in front of a fucking shoe rack with no bastard shoes on it!!

Misophonia - I'm going to end up spending the rest of my life in prison for killing the sloppy foot dragging simpleton shuffling their way around Tesco..PICK.YOUR.FUCKING.FEET.UP!

Sleepless nights. I have two under two and I’m up at least 4 times a night. I am exhausted!

My health. If its not something inside my body failing, its my endless panic that something is about to fail.

My weight. I'm 2st overweight and can't seem to lose it.

My ex husband

There's too much to just pick one. I find life exhausting. If I was told that I could just fall asleep and not wake up, I'd seriously consider it. I have a beautiful DS10 who is my only reason to keep going.

Getting the kids to bed every fucking night. I fucking hate it. The food requests. The resistance. The coming back down stairs multiple times. It's sucking the life of me.

Kitchen floor, textured laminate. The only way to get it clean is to use a hand scrubbing brush. It’s 20x10, zero fun. I’m delighted it’s been dry for so long, it hasn’t got very dirty.

Something wrong with my foot, but x rays show no break. So why am I in so much bloody pain all the frigging time?

Breastfeeding aversion.

You spend months at the beginning perfecting it all, then when you’ve had enough you can’t get them off.
Almost two years and I’ve hated most of it.
It has saved on the washing up and money side of things though.

@Bobbiebigbum

Getting the kids to bed every fucking night. I fucking hate it. The food requests. The resistance. The coming back down stairs multiple times. It's sucking the life of me.

Yes. Dear god yes. Me too

ONE thing? My list is a mile long become I’m such a grumpy cow 🤣

Hayfever and the seemingly relentless cold weather of the north of England. And mud - mud on the children, mud on the dog, mud on the floor.

Packed lunches
The dishwasher
Putting clean clothes away
Putting the shopping away