Jan 13, 2010
What easy things do you put off forever instead of just getting over with?
I find some simple tasks very difficult to actually do—like email (sorry!) and taking stuff to the basement.
What about you?
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Anything and all things laundry.
amen.
Make that TWO amens!
ditto.
GRADING!!!
and…simply putting things (papers, notebooks, books, jackets, shoes, etc.) back where they belong.
Refilling the ice cube trays!
Those things sitting on my counter are for ICE CUBES?!
Woah.
Putting my books away.
Laundry,
Eating breakfast,
Having tough conversations.
throwing away (recycling)junk mail right away. the same ad for a netflix trial can sit on our dining room hutch for two weeks before it gets tossed. why???
Only two weeks??!!
and deleting junk email, too. sheesh. what’s up? sometimes i feel like a hoarder or something.
I read in a blog on energy management that having something easy at the top of your to-do list that you can avoid/put off makes it easier to choose to do some of the other more difficult/necessary things one has to do. The thinking is that having something to reject doing makes it even more of a choice to do the things we otherwise just do… I’m not expressing it quite as clearly as he did, but it made sense to me and actually was one helpful tidbit in my long recovery from severe burnout.
it makes perfect sense!:)
laundry. ugh.
research.
PUTTING THINGS IN THE MAIL. i will write whatever it is, seal the envelope, address it, possibly even stamp it, and it will stay on the kitchen counter for days. thank God for online bill pay or i’d be so delinquent.
laundry, cleaning the bathroom, going to the bank, paying parking tickets, returning phone calls, changing bedsheets, doing taxes.
By the way, could you please answer the two emails I sent yesterday?
Otherwise, I’m going to have to do one of the things I put off–talking on the phone.
Returning phone calls. I HATE talking on the phone. Inevitably one of my eight million (read: 2) children begins screaming as soon as I say “Hello.” I vastly prefer text and almost NEVER return phone calls.
I hate talking on the phone too!!! definitely with you on this one (although sans screaming kids)
I used to be able to talk on the phone for hours, but now, also just prefer to receive and send text messages.
taking stuff to the basement! TOTALLY! well, taking anything anywhere via stairs. We have little piles of objects at the tops and bottoms of all our stairs, waiting to be taken up or down, and despite how many times i may, in fact, go UP or DOWN, those objects never move. i don’t get it.
I have a perpetual stair pile, including 2 baskets especially designed for stairs. They always stay full.
changing display pictures on msn messenger and facebook, when they’ve been on for too long.
Bathing… uh, wait. No I mean, uh,
Deleting email. Charging my phone before it dies.
filing stuff for my husband’s business (it’s my one and only family business responsibility) and putting away the laundry.
I’m with jo! Anything that requires me to go down the stairs into the laundry/storage room. And replying to messages on Facebook.
Ironing. I put it off so much that I just keep only wearing the clothes that don’t need to be ironed. The wrinkly pants get bypassed every day in the closet. Ironing feels to me as one of the biggest exercises in futility :)
I finally hauled out the ironing board today. By the time I actually got it out, I only had time to iron two things before I had to go out. Now I’m home again, but am I ironing?
Same problem! My 2009 New Year’s resolution was to iron at least once a week…or once a month… Do think I hauled it out a handful of times. This January, ironing stayed off the list. I’m a realist.
Texting “HAITI” to “90999.″
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loading the dishwasher and going to the post office.
Dishes, laundry, and anything that involves going up or down my stairs. My knees don’t like that…
I like to do projects around the house, but I don’t like putting away my tools when I’m done. Once the project is over, everything stops.
You and my husband would get along great! :)
Talking on the phone and hanging up my coat.
For me is Housekeeping which I don’t like to do. I live on my own, and I don’t care about my housekeeping like I ought to. Clothes not put away. Dishes not wash except when I need them. I do washed my clothes every week but lazy about putting them away when it is dry.
Please answer your lovely Mom’s email to you! Honor her!
Hungry to eat His Word,
‘Guerite ~ BoldLion
Putting things back after I use them. I will start a project, finish it and then never return the items I needed for the project. My husband is the same way with power tools. We never know where the hammer or tape measure is because it never gets put back.
Also ironing. I tell my husband not to wear button up shirts because I don’t want to iron them. Thankfully he likes wearing sweaters and polo’s that do not require ironing.
Patching my boys’ jeans/pants. The pile keeps getting higher and higher…
Emptying the vacuum. It’s clearly full. Do I change the bag? Nope, just pass the pathetic, non-sucking head over the tiresome bit of fluff again and again. A small madness, but a madness, nonetheless. Sadly, I am not alone. The word “carperpetuation” was invented for us.
As was “clingypookie”.
reconciling bank statement, folding whites, anything to do with filing
Recording debit card receipts into the checkbook.
Please don’t let my wife know you have this problem. I’m close to convincing her that she’s the only person in the world with this affliction. Soon, I hope to wrap that convenient little bit of untruth into a massive case of guilt for her, resulting in much improvement in my circumstances. This is important for me, so don’t mess it up.
putting away the Christmas lights, etc. I mean – it will be time to put them up again in 9.5 months or so.
commenting on blogs…but I’m improving :)
haha… same here. :-)
Cleaning out my car in the winter. I just don’t care about the cheddar crackers on the floor when it’s 9 degrees out.
taking the motley collection of empty mugs and cups down to the kitchen from my bedroom.
calling people (i’m not a big phone talker)
making appointments (dentist, dr., etc.)
cleaning the bathroom
cutting the kids’ fingernails and toenails
Taking down Christmas decorations. One year I took down the Christmas wreath on the front door on the day before Easter…
Wait, what’s a basement?
Throwing away the little pile of those little tag thingies the dry cleaners leave on my work clothes (which always seem to congregate on my bathroom counter, much to my wife’s chagrin).
Unpacking. I travel a ton and it takes me forever to unpack a suitcase when I return home from a trip. Don’t know why. It just does.
I concur. I went out of town for work last week and then went on a ski trip. somehow, the ski trip back is unpacked and put away. the work bag: still stuffed with contents.
Getting a haircut–which is kind of bad, because I have short hair and it can turn mullet-like really quickly if I let it go too long.
Also, answering phone calls and e-mails.
Taking stuff to Good Will.
Filing.
Making phone calls, especially to make appointments
grading papers. (and other tasks that require decisions) mailing packages.
taking stuff to the shed (it’s scary), taking out the recycling bin, putting clothes on hangers.
Calling the parents of my students. Grading papers. Filing papers in students’ portfolios. Anything that’s no fun.