Small tasks that feel like such a chore

[WickedElpheba]

I don't mind having a shower, washing my hair, drying it, getting changed, but I find brushing my teeth such a chore.

I feel a bit like that about folding and putting away laundry but not the same level.

What small things do you find such a chore?

For those who will ask what the AIBU is, AIBU to find brushing my teeth a chore?

I even listen to a podcast or something watch something on my iPad and it's a 3 minute job (I have braces so it takes longer but I felt this way before then)

Putting ironing away. I don’t mind the actual ironing itself.

Feeding the cats. Pouches rip badly so I get cat food on my fingers, it smells, then one cat will just turn his nose up and walk off which frustrates the hell out of me. Then our other fat cat will come and try to eat seconds so I have to put a lid over it, now with weight on as he'd push that one off.

Policing the food bowls is often needed, then sweeping up dry biscuits they scatter everywhere, and washing bowls with dried up food in is also a pain. It should be offset by satisfaction of them enjoying the food, but fat cat needs to lose weight so it's annoying he gets extra, and thin cat wastes it which annoys me!

I read something on here once, just give up the cutlery drawer organiser. I did it. Now I just tip the dishwasher cutlery holder straight into the drawer. With wild abandon. It’s liberating. And not that hard to find a spoon. Try it.

I don't mind cleaning my teeth but I find blow drying my hair a drag. I want one of those machines that you just stick you head in that were in Blade Runner (and to come out looking fantastic like the actress!).

Agree with @LoudPlumDog Thinking what to have for dinner every single day. Would love it for someone to say we'll have this and here's the ingredients. Don't mind the actual cooking - quite enjoy that.

Yes, hate putting on bedding (especially double duvet covers) @Willweeverfindout

In the morning sorting the dog's food and adding various healthy bits and bobs, doing her treats and then filling her enrichment toys. Probably only takes 10 minutes, if that, but it's monotonous and dull.

Fridge Tetris when food delivery comes.

Sorting out smalls and balling socks out of the dryer. I don’t do it; everyone clamors around the basket each morning looking for a pair.

Dealing with cold/congealed fat: can’t go down the sink, don’t want to put it in old takeaway containers as don’t like throwing away plastic, don’t always have cardboard packaging to hand.

Logging into infrequently used banking apps.

Paying bills. We have the money, and they’re not huge. I just hate the mechanics of it.

Cleaning my hair out of the shower drain.

Telling DS the same fucking shit every single day: brush your teeth, wash you face, raise your blinds, switch the light off, put your dirty clothes in the basket not in front of it, put your head over the plate, dishes in the dishwasher not pushed in the vague direction of the sink, hang yo your coat, have you packed your homework. Every. Single. Day.

Talking to DD as 9/10 she’ll argue or answer back (it’s a phase, a very tiresome phase).

It seems to me that idea was dreamed up by someone who had very little to do. Time to daintily paint tears on the elf’s face with clear nail polish and leave tiny notes saying how much he misses his friends or “You wouldn’t do this to a reindeer.” Guilt your children into setting the elf free.

Weeing. It’s so boring.

@canklesmctacotits I only recently found a solution to the grease problem. I buy a newspaper and use one page at a time to wrap the grease in before putting it in the bin. The paper folded and slid in beside my cleaning products tales up almost no space.

Taking clean clothes from the airing cupboard and putting them away.

Taking out rubbish. I can't believe how much there is. I have to remind myself that everything I throw out is something I brought in at one point.

I really don't get why people bother with this elf. It's a classic example of something where the upside doesn't begin to compensate for the pain in the arse factor. Just say no!

Cooking every single day. Empty dishwasher every single day. Gah.

I saw the title of your thread and immediately thought about the unrelenting tedium of brushing my teeth.

I think it’s because they don’t realise that before they start doing it. They then have to say no and take a fun Christmas thing away from their kids, who presumably want the elf to stay. The trick is to never get one in the first place

Until they don't. My phone logged me out of every app last week.

RINGO is the worst. There's no network in our town and I can never reset my Ringo password at the carpark!

God. Like having rabbits or guinea pigs. I think the elf thing came in just as my DD was leaving primary school. Really glad I missed this trend.

Could you just buy a new bra?

I ditched bras aged 47 and buy strong double layer elastic crop tops. My life is immeasurably better. Tbf, I have small breasts!

But the hideous never fitting properly, hurt once you put on weight wires drove me crazy.

Putting my contact lenses in as soon as I wake up. It takes seconds but on the occasions I’ve fallen asleep (I know how bad it is) with them in, I’ve woken up and felt like I was winning at life.
This is especially because I can scroll on my phone for a few minutes after waking, make the bed and do other things without going straight to the bathroom to inevitably do my whole “grooming routine”.

Putting clean laundry away.
I had a laundry basket of the most worn clothes in my hall, I put them all away last month so the basket was completely empty but now it’s full with exactly the same things.
DP has stopped asking where his clothes are since I reverted back (despite being hung up in the same places every time) so despite it looking scruffy it’s likely this system isn’t going to change!

Fluffing the rug and plumping the cushions in my living room.
The rug is a thick pile and I hate seeing it all flattened in different directions and the cushions take seconds to plump but I know it’ll need doing repeatedly.

My absolute worst is taking recycling and bins out. The bin is a 20 second job but that bin bag gets so full it looks like a dead body has been jammed in before I get round to changing it.

Oh and one I forgot! Putting the food shopping away every week.
The cleaning of the fridge and reorganising food because of use by dates, throwing away leftovers I knew would never get eaten and washing the Tupperware, the bags of lettuce that don’t fit in the vegetable drawer, shuffling things around in the freezer and falling for being promised that the chicken crown from 2022 and multiple half opened packs of fish fingers would be eaten and giving in to leaving them when begged not to bin them.
I can guarantee they will be there next week!

Then of course the fucking bin needs taking out as it’s full of the uneaten leftovers 😡😡.

Showering - mine's over the bath and on the mixer tap so I have to faff to get the right temperature, plus all the other steps involved in doing it.

Yes to teeth brushing.

Putting clean clothes away.

Most hated - cleaning the condenser from the tumble dryer.

Going in to an office to work.

When I wfh I can be ‘at work’ within 5 minutes of waking up. I can stay in my pyjamas and I don’t have to faff around with a packed lunch.

Dusting.

I did the elf once - entirely against my wishes, my son’s childminder got all of ‘her’ children one, their first visit was to her house. Quite sweet really. But what followed was such utter bullshit - getting into bed bone tired every night on the busiest month of the year, then remembering the FUCKING ELF and having to get out of bed again - that simply never again.

It’s perfectly possible. “Why didn’t Joe Jingle come back this year mummy?” “Because mummy told Santa she doesn’t like being spied on and you’re always the best boy you can be so there’s no need anyway” Whole premise is nonsense and Christmas is already magical enough. They don’t need to invent more magic for Mothers to manufacture at 1am.

Showering, I like the feeling of being showered but my god its a chore.

Sorting the clean and dry washing. Especially socks. 🧦 If it’s not got its partner immediately it goes into the pile of doom where all socks look the same. DH and DD can delve in there at their own peril. I cannot face the deathly boredom of it!

Ordering things off the internet. Why the F do I need to create an account? Or remember my password from the last time I ordered which was 14 years ago? Are they so desperate for a bit of free data that they're prepared to lose a sale? Just take my money and send me the damn stuff, FFS.