There are always jobs we dread or even hate, the thought of having to do the task makes us feel sick or at best, just a little grumpy. The proacrastination or the avoidance strategies which I employ are often very creative. However this does not help, as there is an inevitability of having to do the task in hand.
There are many smart people out there saying, you should do it first and get it over with, stop complaining, just get it out of the way. Yeah, yeah, makes sense but somehow it is impossible. Why, I don't know, but I know there are many of you who share this sense of dread on stupid, silly little chores.
Are you getting my drift? Have you already identified your little task of dread?
Mine is a silly one, completely irrational. However it is a job I will do anything to avoid. Are you ready for my ridiculous disclosure?
Ok here goes........It is putting the clean Tupperware back into the Tupperware cupboard.
So there it is, now it's out. I deplore this task, I simply hate it.
There are too many different shaped lids being stored and stacked in different shaped containers which actually match non of the different sets of boxes in the god damn cupboard. Wow I can feel the rage surging in me right now just thinking about it.
So as I go to put the dried dishes away, I happily put the plates, the glasses and the cutlery away. But as only the Tupperware remains on the drying mat, I find a million other things to do and leave that there for someone else to manage.
Once I even found myself putting the CD's in alphabetical order to ensure I was busy with something else. What is that all about??????
I am not sure anyone has ever noticed this pathetic domestic avoidance, if you have, please accept this as my formal apology and please please don't make me do it, ever ever again.
So what's yours? Please share so I don't feel like the only one with such ridiculous tendencies :-)
Thank you! I feel better now..not just me then? Mine is exactly the same but a little more complex. I too hate the piling and ordering and fitting into the cupboard problem but there's a step in between which is equally as annoying. Tupperware comes out of the dishwasher wet. So I have to pile it on the drainer first (a task in itself which is annoying!). It sits, looking messy and irritating me. The simple answer would be to dry it off...but that would make the stacking problem come sooner, so avoidance it is! So if you have a ridiculous tendency, then know you are not on your own!
ReplyDeleteYou inspired me - I cleaned out and ordered all our Tupperware into their two respective boxes! It's amazing how many spare lids we have. If my sister, who's visiting next week, see it, she'll think I've got OCD :)
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed you don't fall back onto what you used to do as a child - simply give the Tupperware away! ;-))
ReplyDeleteEmptying the bins , I am programmed not to do it do much do I don't even notice they are over flowing . I just keep ramming stuff in knowing my fantastic husband will ( mutter under his breath ) empty and clean them out before I have to!
ReplyDeleteKeep smiling
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Ha Ha, I should take a picture of my plastic items in the cupboard overflowing with more lids then boxes (whats that all about!) it would horrify all. I am ridiculed by people close to me for hoarding them and am gleeful when we have a chinese takeaway as I know my prize will be more boxes! Your solution.... make it someone elses job in your family to sort it out... maybe for a bit of pocket money- it will be worth it!
ReplyDeleteHi hiiii. I like putting things back to the cupboard...
ReplyDeleteTwo things which I am absolutely, and will never ever, fond of:
First is to wash the chop sticks, knives and forks, and lids of anything, particularly those plastic ones which become oily so easily and must need detergent to be cleaned. Since I dread the potential harm of detergent (probably not rational), I use hot water to clean almost everything. But when it comes to the stuff listed above, it becomes more challenging. I don’t know why. I immediately become mentally exhausted when it comes to this point of washing. So my strategy is I happily wash my Chinese bowls and plates, Japanese or Western-style plates etc, and then I just take off my gloves and walk away. Sometimes, until the point I have to eat with my hands, if I don’t wash them. Solution is compromise: to put them in my dishwasher; that means to use detergent to wash them. So here comes another mental block: the psychological dread of drinking or eating from a glass or a bowl freshly out of the dishwasher... I recently learned from BBC that this kind of symptom is called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
And I so much do not like vacuum cleaning!!! As a weekend draws near, I start to feel the dread. And when I finally sum up the courage to do it, with each movement the hoover goes, I can feel the impatience surging in me like poison; in the end, I end up being a woman, exhausted and full of disgust: knowing this activity will be repeated in two weeks. Outsourcing is a constant thought, but I keep delaying it... after brooding over this yearly outsourcing cost vs a two-way flight ticket to China.