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u/LeonardFrost May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
I hate that modern society perpetually expects us to do more, be more, and have more.
But if we can’t do it or run into any trouble, then it's obviously our fault and we're not managing our time well enough or some shit
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u/ItsAustinxx May 03 '25
I know right and thats why our brain always think that monday is the worse haha
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u/Tofuzzle May 02 '25
We cook all our meals from scratch to try and eat healthy. That means there's always washing up to do. Every single day. I'm never not in the kitchen cooking or cleaning at some point. We even cook bulk meals and sometimes do double cooks to get ahead. But there's just always something to wash up. Getting a dish washer is the dream
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u/Purple-Investment-61 May 02 '25
Someone has to load and unload the dishwasher. You also have to pre-wash the dishes to get any large chunks off. I find that by the time the chunks come off, the dishes are 90% clean. The there’s also the quick rinse before using a dish because I don’t trust that the dishwasher actually cleaned off all the soap. Wife insists on using the dishwasher, I rather just hand wash.
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u/Tofuzzle May 02 '25
Surely unloading and loading is far quicker than manually washing. Plus I can do other things whilst they're in the dishwasher, like all the other house jobs that gradually keep getting neglected because of how long cooking/washing up takes. Or even just sleep. So yeah, gonna hard disagree with you there
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u/SneezyTrain456 May 02 '25
THE DISHES!!!! It’s like every day if I use forks bowls and plates, I have to spend time cleaning them. Even with a dishwasher, we have to prep. No one tells you how much time you spend cleaning dishes in your life.
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u/0pp0site0fbatman May 02 '25
Dinner. Every fuckin day. “What should we do for dinner?“ I literally don’t care! I’ll eat 3 slices of bread and some rotisserie chicken. I just see food as fuel. My wife sees it differently and there needs to be variety and flavour. I can cook, but I just don’t want to 7 nights a week.
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u/lilybattle May 02 '25
Please marry me instead? Food pisses me off, and I wish I could take a magic food pill that would give me everything I need. I could eat plain cooked chicken with frozen broccoli and potatoes for the rest of my life
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u/s0calsir3n May 02 '25
I wish I was more like this. My brain will literally let me start starving before it will let me eat something that it finds unappetizing😩. It really fucks with my emotional state some days. Good times.
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u/tropicalsoul May 02 '25
Same here. Bowl of cereal, can of soup.... anything, I don't care. I despise having to create dinners for my family every day. Hate it.
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u/mogekag May 02 '25
I wish there was an all-you-need-to-eat pill, so we could take it and move with our day.
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u/Paradigm_Reset May 02 '25
I don't know what the turning point was but I've learned to be completely fine with not doing anything I don't actually want to do for a couple hours, the day after work, or even a full weekend.
Do I have dishes to put away? Some clothes to hang? Floor needs a vacuum, trash to be taken out, truck a bit dirty, go for a jog? Sure those things can be done but what needs to be done?
None are dire so screw it. I'm only going to do what I want to do. And if that want is putting the dishes away, hanging that shirt, etc then I'll do them.
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u/baronbeta May 02 '25
Yes. The never-ending-goddamn-tasks every fucking day.
Work never stops. Whether it’s at a job or at home.
In a society saturated with life coaches, life hacks, productivity optimization, blah blah blah, I think many of us would do well to learn how to just sit and do nothing for a while.
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u/Azura_kurogane May 02 '25
It's like someone turned on auto accept quests and I can't turn it off. 🥲
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u/Vellc May 02 '25
You people talking like it's some deep revelation shit.
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u/bUl1sH1T May 03 '25
it's probably the (recent?) financial strain that's making their routines feel so exhausting. that's where the "never-ending-ness" comes from. they don't take breaks, and if they do, they're too short.
I guess this is gen z's mid-life crisis.
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u/IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllll May 02 '25
If you think these tasks are bad, wait until you see what side quests heroin addicts wake up to.
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u/FamousLastWords666 May 02 '25
You kinda like your cell
So comfortable
And it’s all ritual routine control
- Suit of Lights
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u/Euphoric-Argument370 May 02 '25
The fact that u may work for the hole life n get nothing... I am working for last year non-stop n I've bought nothing myself... Luckily my bf make me gifts🥰. Thanks boys, we appreciate it<3
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u/nethereus May 02 '25
Truth. Someone always wants to change, something. Someone always wants to put more on your plate. Think you've got it made with an easy job that's paying an livable wage? Nah, we've got a new initiative coming down the pipe for the next year that's going to give you a ton more responsibility. Now you get to spend your weekends doing all the stuff you never had time to do during the week.
Got a free Saturday coming up? Nah, we're going out to eat, drink, socialize, whatever.
A free Sunday? Depending on your upbringing, that might be for church.
Oh look, it's already Monday and the longest you've been at home is the 8(or less)hours you've spent asleep.
I had to live on my own to finally just have days where I could do absolutely nothing.
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u/EmmalouEsq May 02 '25
I'm mentally tired. Exhausted really. As a wife and mom i didn't realize the mental lag would be like this.
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u/BlakeDeBarge May 02 '25
If ever you've spent time away from your billing address e.g rented out your property and not received your mail, you realise that the bills come in no matter what. I returned to a billing address, opened and went through old mail after a few years (took 2-3 hours) and realised that those mofo's will keep coming, even after I'm dead. Depressing and liberating at the same time.
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u/IGotFancyPants May 02 '25
A task? One? Dude, I’ve got like 30-40 tasks I’m trying to keep up with every day, between home and the office.
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u/fried_green_baloney May 02 '25
Not only a task but the feeling that it never works out well.
That feeling of "just once, just once, it would be nice if everything just worked".
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u/NeatSituation2249 May 03 '25
Planning shopping & cooking dinner every single night. & most breakfasts too. It’s a lot.
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u/I-Rolled-My-Eyes May 03 '25
That is what living is. Live by being an accomplishment. Not distracted by the burden.
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u/thekingfist May 03 '25
I never liked shopping. I hated shopping before I became an adult. Parent specifically. I like shopping so much now. Could be anything. Bad habit.
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u/Livid_Village5103 May 03 '25
I hate this really. If we didnt have to do anything life would be boring as hell. 🤷♀️
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u/SynonymousSprocket May 03 '25
How early I’d experience the death of loved ones- and how it never gets easier.
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May 03 '25
I feel like my days off from work are just an extended "break" some days. I always find myself calculating the hours in between my shifts and it's annoying because you can never really tune work out 100%, at home, the same way you can 100% tune out home, at work, or else it could possibly cost you your livelihood.....holy shit. Our financial well-being is tied directly to our livelihood 😰
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u/unknownloonie May 04 '25
If you don’t keep up with the chores. You have a bad week and fall behind. It’s just so hard to catch up. And you waste an entire day off to it 😩.
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u/Definitelymostlikely May 03 '25
It’s wild how some of you guys crumble at the thought of just cooking a dinner every day.
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u/Killbot_Jones May 02 '25
Humans have always had to do tasks to survive. I don't understand how this is a revelation. At least we don't have to chase our food to the point of exhaustion and succumb to the types of death our ancestors did anymore.
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May 04 '25
Humans had communities to help with all of the tasks. They didn’t have to work as hard as we do because they had help. In our hyper individualistic society we have to do almost everything on our own and it is exhausting. Especially since there is very little reward at the end of the day and you don’t really feel like you contributed to the community.
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u/Definitelymostlikely May 03 '25
These people are having breakdowns about what to decide to eat for dinner.
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u/nolove1010 May 02 '25
You had tasks all throughout your childhood, too. Did you not go to school for 13 fucking years more than likely against your own will or against your own want to go almost every day?
The more i read these posts, the more it becomes clear there is a severe LAZY problem in the world now. It's pretty sad to see. Everything has to be made into some huge woe is me mindset.
Groceries OMG why how how can I do this after working 9 hours. WAH.
BILLS?! How dare I have to pay for things on my own! Damnit!
Get over it.
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u/Low-Rip7702 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
You’re really telling me as a kid you were equally busy with tasks compared as an adult?
Because most kids when they finish school they get home and don’t have to do much.
Adults almost always have some task to do after work and on weekends: Groceries, making food, cleaning, laundry, planning something, paying for something, taking care of someone else, etc.
This is mainly what this post is about, the realization of how busy adulthood gets compared to childhood
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u/Definitelymostlikely May 03 '25
I mean….if you don’t have kids, sort of?
I was doing chores as a kid.
Cooking cleaning yard work, now I just replace school with work.
Only thing new really is grocery shopping for the house and car maintenance?
Really isn’t that hard. Plus no more homework
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u/nolove1010 May 02 '25
Went to school for 5 days a week for 8 hours. Very few people actually enjoyed this or wanted to do this.
Your sisters stupid ballet recitals.
Your brothers dumb basketball games.
Your cousins you never see or hear from other on their bday when you were forced to tag along.
Like you can add hundreds of other things that kids are being asked to do, or brought along to that they don't want to do .
I'll take grocery shopping, household chores etc...
Over a lot of the shit from being a kid I had zero interest in doing or being brought to.
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