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?

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 😭

Putting away clean laundry. Have no issue putting the wash on and drying. But the whole putting away ... it’s just the most boring thing ever ...

Read the whole thread and can't believe no-ones mentioned Covid.
Today I am mostly annoyed that despite the "new normal" I still have to listen to adverts on the radio/watch on TV/read signs in shops about face covering/hand washing/social distancing. I KNOW. I wish they'd just shut up. Bad enough wearing the sodding face masks in the first place without constant reminders. Grrr.

The other thing is my carkeys. Sodding things always get lost when I need toleave the house, so I'm perennially late despite trying to be early.

Winding my baby. I spend half my life trying to expel air from this little ball of flesh, why have we not evolved a button yet?

Everything to do with housekeeping and housework, including the mental load. That's a lot of shit, day in day out.
If I was rich I'd have a lot of staff.

I hate putting duvet covers on too, but have recently discovered the burrito method, soooo much easier.
Google it, loads of videos out there to show how to do it.

@ipswichwitch this sounds painful but also hilarious

Pepperstone adverts on Mumsnet

I'm with the OP on Sistema lunch boxes. Biggest disappointment ever! What is the point of them?

Also getting the shopping out of the car, bringing it in and unpacking and putting it away.

Thinking of what to cook for dinner every bloody night. And when i ask for input all I get is anything/whatever/don't mind. Well you'd soon mind if I served up bloody cornflakes!

Putting make up on.i wish I didn't have to do it,but I look awful without mascara and foundation, would gladly stay an extra 10min in bed in the morning rather than having to get up earlier just to put my face on🙄

My tendency to worry far too much

@AmyLou100

Cooking. I actually love cooking but each family has a bloody fussy/health issue that I need to cater for. Hate it.

Exactly this. Pre covid I was mainly catering for myself. Now everyone wfh with their intolerances. There’s no work lunches or eating out at friends or restaurants and I’m sick of it. I swear I’ve cooked more in the past year than I had in the 10 before 😩🍴

My dark wooden floor which looks dirty 30 minutes after I hoover it. Rented flat so I can't change it.

Grief

windows 10 updates

Insomnia.
Thought it had gone for good after I had DS. Turns out it was just the exhaustion of the first few years of parenting

Despite having much better sleep hygiene and routines these days and trying everything 'they' recommend, I still have phases where I have to go to work on 2-3 hours' sleep. It's a good job I'm not a pilot. I suspect it's probably now caused by sodding perimenopause.

Laundry. Bloody hate it, I hate the machine which smells horrible to me (I have ASD), I hate the feeling on my hands of wet washing, I hate the time spent hanging it all up, and then when it's clean and dry it has to get moved upstairs and put away. And it's CONSTANT.

I love meal planning / cooking / lunchbox prep. Occasionally I dream of living in a commune* where I exchanged all the laundry for the food prep.

*in reality I would hate it

Bedtimes.

Yes, to thinking up dinner options, especially during lockdown when we had to do lunches as well. Ended up eating a lot of pasta.

Yes to fucking captcha! The stupid fucking letters in an arc as well as the traffic lights.

I swear my fitted sheets are shrinking!

My stupid thin hair.

My procrastination

Heavy: infertility

Light: DH constantly putting holey socks in the wash instead of the bin

Cat hair. We love her so much, but it is relentless - she is white and just drifts hair wherever she goes, despite being brushed every single day.

Cutting my toenails. No idea why it irks me so much. See also, shaving my legs.

Oh yeah and having to online food shopping because of shielding husband. Thinking ahead what we want to eat for the week is totally joyless and dull. You can't improvise when there are out of stock items.

Yes to packed lunches!

Getting petrol

Printers.