Simple household tasks which are extraordinarily difficult

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Simple household tasks which are extraordinarily difficult

Loading the dishwasher, according to our kids.
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Turning off the cold water feed to the cistern by turning the tap put there to turn off the cold water - doing that didn’t involve an emergency call out plumber as the tap started pissing water all over the floor and a £140 bill oh no.

Opening a bag of flour without ripping a hole in it.

Turning lights off when you’ve left a room. Seems impossible for everyone bar me

Opening a bag of flour without ripping a hole in it.

Ditto  cereal, pasta, Bisto and that ridiculous new packaging on Tesco own brand cheeses - work of the Devil all of them.

Taking the sticky label off the one cell thick, perforated bread bag on fresh bread and hoping that it won't instantly rip to shreds.

Spoiler alert.
It will rip to shreds and suddenly appear much smaller than the loaf that you're trying to get back into it.

Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in.  You need to buy an angle grinder to do it and pray it doesn't come in one too!

Removing stickers from fruit, or not noticing them and eating them.

Changing the ****ing duvet case.

Removing stickers from fruit, or not noticing them and eating them.

I recently learnt that those stickers are (supposed to be) edible...

Changing the **** duvet case.

Inside out method!

Finding things where you left them. See also looking for something in the place it has been kept for 10 years only to find it now lives somewhere else for no reason whatsoever…

Changing the **** duvet case.

Inside out method!

Yip. My mum taught me how to do this in one move. As far as I’m concerned this makes me some kind of ninja 😃

Remembering what I came into the kitchen for

Remembering what scissors are for.

The dishes. They sit there waiting to be done, just when you’ve done the day and eaten some food and just want to zone out and relax. Then they glare evilly at you in the morning, starting the day off with a dose of regret. I hate dishes.

Remembering what scissors are for.

Finding any of the 3 pairs of scissors that I know are in the house.

Remembering what scissors are for.

Girl I used to share with cut her pizzas up with scissors.
Crazy world.

Getting a slice of ham out the packet.
I'm convinced they deliberately fold the ham slices in the packet opposite to the peel direction.

Tearing the corner neatly off any packaging and it not tear the length of the packet leaving the kitchen covered in dry pasta/ rice.

Also children and light switches

Trying not to run with scissors in hand.

Girl I used to share with cut her pizzas up with scissors.

Harry Tuffins cafe in Churchstoke they used to cut breakfast sandwiches in half with scissors😮

The badlands between the west midlands and mid wales is a very strange place. 🤣

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The dishes. They sit there waiting to be done, just when you’ve done the day and eaten some food and just want to zone out and relax. Then they glare evilly at you in the morning, starting the day off with a dose of regret. I hate dishes.

I pile dishes in the sink bowl. And then I pile them on the worktop. So by the time I actually think "I'll do the dishes" it's all a complete pain in the arse because there's no space to put everything and there's too much in the bowl to actually wash them. So I decide not to and then make it even worse.

And then when you do finally do them, there's only bloody more the next day!

With 4 young kids - every single ****ing one of them.

What’s wrong with all of you? 10mins on a bin bag? How do you not fall down more?

Wiping down the worktops. I just give up at this stage. I've already scraped and rinsed everything, loaded it into the dishwasher, put away stray bits of food etc. The last step is always the worktops. I absolutely hate it. Dunno why, but I do.

On the other hand is there anything more satisfying than putting the wrapper label in the first bin bag of the roll

Definitely duvet. Especially superking as its nearly but not quite square

Changing the **** duvet case.

This 100%! Definitely my least favourite job. I can do the inside out technique, it’s just fastening the buttons with my big thumbs that is the problem. Takes me an age!!

Cleaning the garlic crusher. I hate them. My wife loves them, because it makes it easy to use garlic. She doesn't wash the ****er up though. Little silver bastard.

Changing the **** duvet case.

I perfected a technique of putting the duvet cover on and making the bed, with me in it, in just a few seconds. Its a pretty hectic, violent action and requires a bit of space and a big wingspan. On occasion a light fitting gets broken. The lie down afterwards is appreciated though.

I recently learnt that those stickers are (supposed to be) edible…

Everything is edible at least once.

I've been wanting to rant about modern mixer taps for ages... They splash water everywhere. No matter what is laying beneath them, the water from a modern tap will instantly find it and use it to eject water upwards and outwards in some random direction either covering me or the ****ing wooden worktop. And not just that but having to plan ahead for when you want hot water or cold water because when you want different temperature water it takes at least 30 seconds to come through.

Cleaning the garlic crusher. I hate them. My wife loves them because it makes it easy to use garlic...

They're not as easy as the garlic that comes in a squirty tube.

Jesus christ.. Garlic crushers?

Garlic should be sliced thinly.

Bloody animals.

I want my STW membership refunded!

Jesus christ.. Garlic crushers?

Garlic should be sliced thinly.

Bloody animals.

I want my STW membership refunded!

You need to stay and educate the heathens

Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it and pray it doesn’t come in one too!

Years ago I was in somewhere pretentious like Lakeland where they were selling a special knife for opening those blister packs. It was in a blister pack.

I’ve already scraped and rinsed everything, loaded it into the dishwasher

Can I just ask, why the heck does anyone rinse stuff that's going into a dishwasher?

Would you pre-rinse normal crockery etc before washing by hand? No? Then bung it in the magic washy cabinet and let it do its stuff. Pro tip, the dishwasher probably has its own pre-rinse cycle.

Also to answer the OP. Picking up *literally* anything in this house.

...blister packs...

Yeah, those as well. Which "profession" decided they'd be a good idea?

Changing the hoover bag (yes, yes bagless hoovers, whatever...)

Did the people who design vacuum cleaners never actually sit down with the people who design the bags to find designs that actually complement each other?!

I’ve been wanting to rant about modern mixer taps for ages… They splash water everywhere

One word. Get a tap diffuser.
Game changer.

Cleaning a 'Self Cleaning Non-stick' oven. I just get a man in now every 6 months or so to do it with wizardry out of the back of his van.

Opening those hard plastic blister packs with heat sealed edges that gadgets sometimes come in. You need to buy an angle grinder to do it and pray it doesn’t come in one too!

Old school can openers, work perfectly and don't come packaged in the infernal stuff to start with.

Getting a five year old Funkette to eat her breakfast. Or is that just this morning.

Can I just ask, why the heck does anyone rinse stuff that’s going into a dishwasher?

Are you my parents? Scoffing and tutting whenever they see me pre-rinsing dishes, despite the fact it's always me who has to come round and unblock their dishwasher drain when they block it...

Getting the month old baby to stop crying and go to sleep.