Laziness: Spill it!

CeeCeeSugaPie · September 2015

What is the laziest thing you do or do not do?

I was thinking about this last night, as I ate ice cream and ignored the fact that the dog was ringing his bell to go out. Not to worry though. DH let him out, which is what I was hoping for. I was just drained last night and didn't feel like doing squat.

SusieBW · September 2015

Sometimes my kids go almost a whole week without a bath because I don't have it in me to clean the tub. I also often talk Tatum into taking a shower so I don't have to clean the tub. Eli can still fit in the kitchen sink.

I don't wash floors or windows. I wait for my mom to come over to watch the kids and let her do it.

Baskets and baskets of clean laundry. All. over. the. house.

SnShne322 · September 2015

I'm so lazy about emptying the trash can. It drives J crazy. I'm also the queen of asking Wes to ask Daddy for something. He says he's hungry? Go ask Dad for a snack. I pawn some things off on him.

SusieBW · September 2015

SnShne322 said:

I'm so lazy about emptying the trash can. It drives J crazy. I'm also the queen of asking Wes to ask Daddy for something. He says he's hungry? Go ask Dad for a snack. I pawn some things off on him.

Worse yet, I'm really bad about emptying the diaper genie. DH never does it, yet he's always the first to complain that its stinky, though.

CeeCeeSugaPie · September 2015

SnShne322 said:

I'm so lazy about emptying the trash can. It drives J crazy. I'm also the queen of asking Wes to ask Daddy for something. He says he's hungry? Go ask Dad for a snack. I pawn some things off on him.

I definitely am guilty of this as well. My IRL friends & I have talked about this. DS will walk right past his Dad, who is doing nothing, and come ask me to get him something when I am in the shower, washing dishes, etc.. Um, are your Dad's legs broken?

sfgiantsjo · September 2015

I'm lazy about everything, but it's worse when I'm on vacation. I will pay triple to stay in the most convenient location, or get the most convenient transportation. Whatever makes me work less/play more.

julie37619 · September 2015

Lean over the tub and wash my hair instead of doing a full-on shower if I haven't gotten gross the day before.

sassypants527 · September 2015

Sometimes I'll wait until I have to pee before I get up and start cooking dinner or get a book from the other room. I like to combine my trips. It's more efficient. My excuse is my still healing foot.

SnShne322 · September 2015

sassypants527 said:

Sometimes I'll wait until I have to pee before I get up and start cooking dinner or get a book from the other room. I like to combine my trips. It's more efficient. My excuse is my still healing foot.

That's just good logistics.

dutchgirl76 · September 2015

julie37619 said:

Lean over the tub and wash my hair instead of doing a full-on shower if I haven't gotten gross the day before.

I should try that, although my hair tangles really bad. Somedays I hate showering so much just because I have to wash and brush out my hair.

I have 2 baskets of clean laundry in the basement by the machine. I've made trips down every morning this week to grab clean clothes instead of bringing up the whole basket. I have to do laundry again so I'll be forced to finally empty the clean to get the basket back.

jenndawnp · September 2015

I wash my hair once a week, I should do it more but I can get away with it and I have an enormous amount of hair. I'd rather have the extra hour of sleep.

CeeCeeSugaPie · September 2015

Oh, I hate washing my hair. I can go 3 days max and then it starts to look like a muppet. I would love to be able to go a whole week.

sassypants527 · September 2015

SnShne322 said:

sassypants527 said:

Sometimes I'll wait until I have to pee before I get up and start cooking dinner or get a book from the other room. I like to combine my trips. It's more efficient. My excuse is my still healing foot.

That's just good logistics.

That's my other excuse. I'm all about logistics.

dutchgirl76 · September 2015

Yeah I'm lucky if I get 2 days without washing out in public. I try to cheat and rinse with just water, then pull it back all day. It *helps* hide the fact that I didn't use shampoo and conditioner.

booneybear · September 2015

When I spend multiple hours reading, drinking and whatever else in the gazebo I have been known to pee in the wooded area of my back yard because I am too lazy to walk all the way back up to the house. (The gazebo is pretty far from the house in my defense).

SusieBW · September 2015

booneybear said:

When I spend multiple hours reading, drinking and whatever else in the gazebo I have been known to pee in the wooded area of my back yard because I am too lazy to walk all the way back up to the house. (The gazebo is pretty far from the house in my defense).

Again, logistics. This just makes sense.

SnShne322 · September 2015

I wonder (read: know) how much of our laziness stems from us doing this.

CeeCeeSugaPie · September 2015

The sad thing is that I will piss and moan about being tired all day, but as soon as DS is in bed, I will read until after midnight.

sfgiantsjo · September 2015

CeeCeeSugaPie said:

The sad thing is that I will piss and moan about being tired all day, but as soon as DS is in bed, I will read until after midnight.

Can I get a hell yes? ^:)^

RevJen · September 2015

I will occasionally text mh to bring me things if I am in another room.

duxcaelo · September 2015

I go through somewhat passive aggressive phases where I feel like I'm the only one doing a certain routine chore and will just wait for my H to notice. We still hand wash many dishes (my H's preference for anything other than cups/bowls/plates/silverware), so sometimes I'll wash most but leave some for him to wash for days, like a wine glass, or I'll leave clean dishes in the dishwasher for him to put away.

jackiback · September 2015

duxcaelo said:

I go through somewhat passive aggressive phases where I feel like I'm the only one doing a certain routine chore and will just wait for my H to notice. We still hand wash many dishes (my H's preference for anything other than cups/bowls/plates/silverware), so sometimes I'll wash most but leave some for him to wash for days, like a wine glass, or I'll leave clean dishes in the dishwasher for him to put away.

When we were newly married, I did this a few times. After a week or so, I flipped out and was like, "THOSE SAME CLOTHES HAVE BEEN PILED BY THE HAMPER FOR 9 DAYS! WHEN WOULD YOU JUST PICK THEM UP?!"

And the look he gave me was pure, genuine confusion. "Was I supposed to pick them up? Did you ask me to? If you had asked me to pick them up, I would have picked them up!"

As I tried to calmly explain (read: I was yelling incoherently) that I wanted him to NOTICE the messes and then clean him up by his own free will, he was like, "Jacki, I honest to God didn't even see them. If you want me to clean something up, you can just ask me."

And he does notice now, but I can give myself the giggles thinking of how baffled he was when I told him that the pile of clothes were a trick I was playing and stewing over. The face was very similar to the face he made when I told him I really wanted to get Bob Ross videos and painting stuff and paint together after the boys went to bed.

He got me the Bob Ross videos for Christmas the next year. He's learning

GilliC · September 2015

I hate vacuuming. I had a robot vacuum, but it's been dead for a while. Eventually I bought house slippers (including guest slippers), because I figured it was more realistic than thinking I might ever keep the floor clean enough to walk on.

Local culture dictates that you take your shoes off inside, since it's raining or snowing most of the year. Which is even dirtier than my usual blend of cat hair and dust.

angelashly · September 2015

GilliC said:

I hate vacuuming. I had a robot vacuum, but it's been dead for a while. Eventually I bought house slippers (including guest slippers), because I figured it was more realistic than thinking I might ever keep the floor clean enough to walk on.

Local culture dictates that you take your shoes off inside, since it's raining or snowing most of the year. Which is even dirtier than my usual blend of cat hair and dust.

Me too. It is why I bought a house with hard wood floors. Swiffer for the win and dd loves to swiffer so I bribe her with treats

lab7979 · September 2015

I have a terrible habit of changing my clothes after work and throwing them on my big bath tub that I never use. I clean it up at the end of the week. I'm the only one that uses that bathroom so nobody usually sees it. My sister witnessed my secret shame when she used my bathroom last week. She said "its like you take off your clothes and just throw them on the floor." I said "yes that's exactly what I do." I also have a makeup and hair product addiction so it makes for a very unfortuate situtation in there.

jackiback · September 2015

angelashly said:

GilliC said:

I hate vacuuming. I had a robot vacuum, but it's been dead for a while. Eventually I bought house slippers (including guest slippers), because I figured it was more realistic than thinking I might ever keep the floor clean enough to walk on.

Local culture dictates that you take your shoes off inside, since it's raining or snowing most of the year. Which is even dirtier than my usual blend of cat hair and dust.

Me too. It is why I bought a house with hard wood floors. Swiffer for the win and dd loves to swiffer so I bribe her with treats

I'd rather vacuum than swiffer any day of the week.

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