What stupid thing that takes 5 minutes do you hate to do?

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Anonymous wrote:Regularly applying hand lotion. I need to and have old lady dry hands and skin. It’s just that once I put the lotion on it just feels so greasy and then it’s impossible to hold a pen, not leave greasy marks on paper, my keyboard etc.

Or I’ll put it on then a few minutes later will need to wash my hands. Repeat.

Keep some really good quality hand lotion in the car. Then put it on when you are at a stop light. You won’t need to wash it off at least until your destination and it should have soaked in more or less by the time the light turns green (just don’t over apply).

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Anonymous wrote:Putting clothes away. I don’t mind folding. But the actual part of taking the folded clothes and putting them in drawers takes me forever! And by that I mean 5 minutes when I actually get myself to do it instead of leaving the basket on top of my dresser

YES this is me. I'm fine folding. Why is the final step of putting folded clothing into drawers so onerous?!

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Anonymous wrote:Putting clothes away. I don’t mind folding. But the actual part of taking the folded clothes and putting them in drawers takes me forever! And by that I mean 5 minutes when I actually get myself to do it instead of leaving the basket on top of my dresser

=Same here, that's immediately came to mind when I read the question.

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Putting anything away: Laundry. Items from a bag or suitcase. Groceries. Last season’s clothes. All the ingredients from my recipe. The clean dishes. It’s the same annoyance in different forms.

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Walking to the mailbox to pick up mail. No we don’t have a long driveway. I just don’t care, it’s 95% junk, 5% bills.

If my husband asks me if I checked the mail, I literally respond “that’s not my job”. He asks at least once a week. He knows the answer, and he finds it amusing because it’s the one task I refuse to do. I’d rather scrub the toilet or clean the kitty litter box.

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Anonymous wrote:Walking to the mailbox to pick up mail. No we don’t have a long driveway. I just don’t care, it’s 95% junk, 5% bills.

If my husband asks me if I checked the mail, I literally respond “that’s not my job”. He asks at least once a week. He knows the answer, and he finds it amusing because it’s the one task I refuse to do. I’d rather scrub the toilet or clean the kitty litter box.

Scrubbing the toilet is so easy and satisfying! I don’t know how long ago I discovered this, but it’s great leverage. DH and the kids will trade me crazy things to not scrub a toilet. My kids would rather dust 3 entire bedrooms than scrub 3 toilets. Sold!

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Anonymous wrote:Regularly applying hand lotion. I need to and have old lady dry hands and skin. It’s just that once I put the lotion on it just feels so greasy and then it’s impossible to hold a pen, not leave greasy marks on paper, my keyboard etc.

Or I’ll put it on then a few minutes later will need to wash my hands. Repeat.

I could have written this. I have serious old lady hands and hate putting on hand lotion.

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Cleaning the microwave. I HATE seeing food splatter in a microwave (so gross), but I also hate cleaning it. It's just an awkward thing to do, no matter where it is (over the range or in a lower cabinet or even a countertop one).

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Mopping the kitchen floor - don’t know why I hate it but I do!
I don’t check the mailbox daily - once a week is fine since almost all bills come to me by email.

Don’t mind doing laundry, changing sheets or watering my plants.

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Pump gas

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Cleaning the bathroom sink

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regularly applying hand lotion. I need to and have old lady dry hands and skin. It’s just that once I put the lotion on it just feels so greasy and then it’s impossible to hold a pen, not leave greasy marks on paper, my keyboard etc.

Or I’ll put it on then a few minutes later will need to wash my hands. Repeat.

Keep some really good quality hand lotion in the car. Then put it on when you are at a stop light. You won’t need to wash it off at least until your destination and it should have soaked in more or less by the time the light turns green (just don’t over apply).

Your palms only need lotion at night when you go to bed. Any other time, you should be applying a smaller amount of lotion to the back of a hand and then rubbing the backs of your hands together. There’s no reason to have greasy palms.

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Wash my hair

Dust

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I would have immediately answered this emptying the dishwasher, but things have changed. Bought a brand new dishwasher in December, broken out of the box but didn't know it. Delay in getting it fixed. Finally fixed. Worked for 42 days. Yes, I counted. Broke again, different issue, some error code never seen anywhere before and had to actually turn the breaker off to stop it. Delay in getting tech out. Tech finally comes out, can't fix it, has to order a part. Part never comes, they declare it unfixable but will only partially refund our money (Samsung sucks in this regard). Went back to where we bought it (Lowes) and after a battle they agreed to replace it, but now there aren't any. So we wait. Finally after over 2 and a half months, we finally got a dishwasher again. I will NEVER complain about emptying that sucker ever again.....

But I digress. Badly. Sorry. I literally hate putting sheets on the bed.

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Anonymous wrote:Mopping the kitchen floor - don’t know why I hate it but I do!
I don’t check the mailbox daily - once a week is fine since almost all bills come to me by email.

Don’t mind doing laundry, changing sheets or watering my plants.

Get yourself a robot mop vacuum. Saves you so much time and energy.