I would consider myself a pretty hard-working person. I’m super Type A and when I want to get things done, they get done. But I have to be honest about something. There are some very simple, everyday things that I am SO lazy about….
1. Unloading the dishwasher – I have no problem loading it and getting the dirty dishes in there, but I dread unloading it…remembering where everything goes, hoping I don’t fill up a cabinet too much and it comes crashing down to the ground (yes, that has happened to me before).
2. Folding laundry – I used to work at Gap in high school and was terrible at folding the clothes exactly back to how they should be (even with that handy folding tool). Maybe it’s my memories of failing at folding the perfect white tee, but there is something so meticulous about folding that doesn’t work with my brain for some reason. If it were up to me, I could put away all my clothes in drawers in small bunches or piles.
3. Taking a shower – Now before you think I am totally gross, I do like the feeling of being freshly showered. I like being clean. But I don’t like the process of having to take a shower – getting undressed, showering, and getting dressed and ready again. I’d like for it to all just happen for me somehow. Can someone invent an app for that?
4. Filling up my gas tank – My husband knows that I am the worst at this. When that light flashes in my car telling me “Hey, just a heads up, you have about 45 miles left before you’re out of gas”. I look at it, smile, and go on with my day. It’s not until that number goes down to 15…10…5 miles left and the line is right about to touch the "E" that I begrudgingly go to the gas station.
5. Updating software & backing up my computer – Whenever my computer tells me it has an update, I push it off until “tomorrow” and then it ends up being weeks and months that apps or software are out of date and then usually my computer decides to retaliate and crash or freeze forcing me to restart and catch-up on the 39 updates it’s been asking for.
Do you guys think I am crazy? It’s kind of nice to be totally honest about these things. Share your #RefreshinglyHonest confessions with me, too!
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Omigosh. Why do I relate to each one so perfectly. I think it’s because it’s such a repetitive process – time consuming , always the same outcome, and straight up boring. Lol
Bahahahaha I love this picture! We are the worst at the same things! 🙂
Thank you for writing this! I love when people write these types of posts because they are truly so relatable! I totally understand what your talking about with getting gas in the car. It dries my husband crazy as well!
-Helen @ http://www.kaleidoscopespinning.com
Phew…you’re not perfect! Seriously, it’s great to write a post like this to bring a dose of reality and humility to the blog world. I’m lazy about the EXACT same things, so reading this made me feel SO good. Cheers.
Love this! I’m on the crazy train with you then.
Folding clothes (mine or my girls). They
Showering I don’t mind – washing my hair, but especially “doing my hair” (and I only do it one or times a week at that).
Dusting – it’s a bad situation 😐
This made me lol – I can so relate. Hilarious.
Love you, Joy! This really brightened my day.
Haha I can totally relate
I worked at the Gap too! And can relate to 2-5. The only reason I don’t relate to 1 is because we don’t have a dishwasher. hahaha!
Ha, don’t even get me started on unloading the clean dishes. It’s an ordeal trying to fill it with a toddler that wants to “unload” the dirty dishes I just put in :/ Ayah…
Haha I can totally relate! I am really lazy at doing laundry and let it pile way high before I begrudgingly do it. Same goes for taking out the trash…
I literally feel the same way about each and every one of those items
This is the exact list I would say I’m lazy about too! Must be something about being a type A personality. Only for me I hate unloading the drain board (no dishwasher) and love showers but am lazy about the days I wash my hair b/c it’s so much more of a production. Too funny.
thats hilarious. I actually hate loading the dishwasher, but I don’t mind putting it all away. And the same with laundry- HATE doing it, but folding is no problem. I really really hate dirty things I guess- I refuse to take out the trash too. My husband does it and he travels a lot so when he comes home its so baddddd… whoops!
YES! haha! Thank you for sharing. I read The Art of Procrastination a long time ago and it’s made me feel a lot better about certain things I procrastinate on.
I can truly relate to every.single.one. I feel like i wrote this. lol except the dishwasher. I took mine out a few years back thinking I’d upgrade and just been too lazy to get one.
Hah I agree with all of these! I would add unpacking after a trip.
You had me at Updates!!!!!! I a a Dish hoarder who won’t put my Treasures in the dishwasher so I wash them all by hand. A Sink Spa if you will. So I guess you could say I am bad at unloading the Dish Rack!! ?
Yes, to putting away the dishes and how about putting away laundry?? I’m fine washing it, folding it, but putting it away for some reason is torture to me!!
I definitely relate to the dishes and laundry! I love to cook but I hate household chores! I also relate to the gas one! Every time I go get gas, I fill it ALL the way up so I can put off going back to the gas station for as long as possible. LOL
Keshia
http://www.queenlifeblog.com
YES. All of these things are awful! I avoid all of them as long as humanly possible. I have restarted the dryer four times today to you know, fluff it.
Haha! Good one! ;P
Joy
Love this. Folding and putting away laundry is mine. It always seems to stay in the laundry basket never truly making its way home.
I usually don’t comment but this post was the best! If I showed this list to my husband-he would’ve thought I wrote it-especially the shower bit ? between having the same anniversary and half-Korean kiddos, I swear you are my spirit doppelgänger, Joy!
Every single one!
I dread showering too! We have so much in common! 🙂
I totally feel you with the showering and computer updates! I always work in my pj’s in the morning and get a shower in early afternoon. Who wants to be freezing cold and wet first thing in the morning? I have also instructed my computer not to harass me about updates…it’ll happen when it happens, lol!
I love this list and can totally relate to all but one item – Gas. When I moved to California almost a decade ago from NYC, my co-worker gave me lots of advice on acclimating to the Bay Area and my new job, etc. but she said, “I always tell this to people who are just moving to California: Never let your gas tank go below the quarter mark because if there’s an earthquake or the electricity goes out, you won’t be able to fill up with gas in the event you have to get across town or leave the area. (A lesson she learned during the 1989 e/q.)
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
OMG – I worked at the Gap in high school too and I still HATE folding clothes. I think I’m permanently scarred… but I will say, I still fold jeans and shirts the same way I learned while at the Gap. I also hate changing sheets because I used to be a housekeeper at a bed and breakfast.
lol, guilty of 3 – 5 too!
+1. True!
Omg so glad that I’m not alone about being so lazy getting shower! I like the smell of my body shower, it’s refreshing. But the process as you described, I can totally relate, haha.
xoxo,
Jane
Yes to the showering! I always feel good after, but dread actually doing it.
All sounds completely normal to me!
Haha, I’m totally on board with you! Especially the showering – I guess it feels like the cleanliness never lasts long enough 😛
My goodness, I agree on ALL of these points!
Gemma
http://www.fadedwindmills.com
Hah! I hate *loading* the dishwasher! I only like putting in the tiny soap pouch and pressing “start” I would rather wash dishes by hand–I hate figuring out how to fit everything neatly and efficiently into the machine–I guess I’m not good at puzzles?
I hate folding clothes too, clothes are not meant to be folded :P! Especially at jobs when I’ve been asked to fold slouchy, pom-pom dotted, amorphous slabs of blanket sweaters–sometimes they don’t even work on most hangers they’re so heavy and slip-and slide-y!
Don’t burst my perfect image of you without warning! LOL Actually, this makes you even more perfect because you’re like all the rest of us. I once asked my (then high school senior) #1 son if he had any complaints…things I could work on to be a better mom …he thought a few minutes and said “You’re not good with the laundry”…I said “That’s it?” Yep – e said”your’e pretty good with everything else”…sounded like “you’re perfect” to me 🙂 I informed him at that close to perfection I wasn’t changing a thing.
I love your gallery wall! Can you please share where you got your frames from?
Hi Doris!
They are all a mix – a lot of custom framing from a local frame shop!
Joy
Ha, love that! ;P
Joy
Well that would be my list too! What is it that this is true for so many of us? Interesting………………
I can literally relate to every single point!
Hannah | Oh January
I hate folding laundry too..
Same here with the showering and data backup.
It took a scare where I lost all my photos, including those of my late bird, to have me regularly backup data. Thankfully, one of my friends taught me how to use a data recovery program to get the ones of my bird back.
Folding is more enjoyable for me now with the whole Konmari method. I’m not into “destashing items which don’t bring me joy” but the folding really helps me with organization and makes it seem like a game.
Guilty as charged: I am totally with you on the shower thing. I mean, it takes away such precious time for doing other things like housework and working on my freelance/website. I think it’s a reflection on how I should perhaps take more care of myself and start to be selfish just a weeeeeee little!
I’m totally with you. Sounds gross to say but I really hate showering. My husbands thinks its pretty gross. Thank goodness for dry shampoos!
Can so relate to all of the above, honestly Joy your not crazy just human! 🙂
It’s great to see the ‘behind-the-scenes’ of outwardly put-together people. I also hate unloading the dishwasher (which my husband usually does without complaint) and cleaning my master bathroom. The other bathrooms are always clean, and I love ours to be too, but taking a billion beauty products (love me some Birchbox!) off my very long counter is so annoying.
haha – is it bad that I could relate to every sigle one of these?? I am especially guilty of not updating software or backing up my work on my computer. It is such a bad trait and I should know better since I have been burned by not backing up in the past, but for some reason the idea of updating and rebooting seems so daunting (first world problems, right?).
I love that you shared these faults. It’s so reassuring that a successful blogger like you can admit that sometimes, a shower is just too much effort.
Rachel
http://rachelinflight.com
My list is the same as yours . . .but I’ll add making a bed from scratch. I mean, I love clean, crisp, freshly washed sheets, but having to put the sheets on the bed.
oh yes! me too! UGH..and that duvet cover! ;/
Joy
I am thinking this has to do with creative people who like to get things done. We probably hate the mundane tasks! I feel exactly the same about all of them. My husband cannot stand it when I try to explain, lol, but I could be using that time to create something new!!
I am exactly the same. I would rather dig through the clean clothes in the basket then fold them. Same goes for the dishwasher. I will pull out the one thing I need before I will unload it. I guess type A creative types are similar in that way.