Do you get on and do those horrid jobs

The same as you, the dishes. I can't stand doing the dishes even though I make it harder on myself than I need to. I've got a dishwasher, but rarely use it, chosing instead to do the dishes by hand. I always find that by the time I've rinsed them thoroughly that I could have washed them myself, but do I do that? NO! Instead, I let them pile up until I can't stand it any longer.

I do put off..yes...but when I actually start I tend to go into overdrive...and get a wee bit carried away....all manner of things go through the washer...fleeces that haventseen the light of day for years...lighter jumpers that need a freshen up..even though they havent been worn for three or four years....and I go on..until I have driven myself to the brink of insanity....and then I cast my eye over my dolls house...and think to myself...Why the heck did I bother..it doesnt look any different!!!! But thats my tale.... My plates are done the Nannette Newman way...but my hands resemble a rhino`s rear end.....

Worst job I have is giving the dog a bath, I say after while I'm gonna give you a bath, and it seems to never happen, he don't like it, I don't like it, there is a mess to clean up with the water on the floor and the tub to clean, but then the next day I say mommy gonna give you a bath today, and we go through the same ordeal till finally I just can't stand to look at him any more and grab him up and do it. Would the job of loading the dishwasher look any better if we didn't have to unload it first, something we should of probably done when they finished the night before. I find now that I have turned in age to the 60's I put off everything till I can't take it anymore then got twice as much to do. There is just somethings in life we hate doing I guess, and they will still be there tomorrow but they don't look any better tomorrow.

The way I see it, if I don't do it today, it will be there waiting for me tomorrow, it's not going anywhere, so let it stay there! I'll do it when it hits me to do it. Sorry, but I'm horrible about things like that. I'm not a housekeeper, truly. I'm kind of surprised I'm admitting this here, but it seems I am. My house is always a mess. And I don't mean that a few things are out of place. I mean a mess! But it's my mess, and it's Stu's and the cats', so it's a comfortable mess and I'm ok with it. If I had more energy reserves, I think it would be in better shape, but I don't have them. I had a burst of energy while ago, and got some things done, and I even think I have a bit more in me, so I'm going to do a bit more work shortly. Ya know, I wonder how many people with fibromyalgia have very well kept, orderly homes. And, hey, you know what they say - creative minds are rarely tidy! Good excuse, huh? I'm a sculptor, so I'm creative. And very rarely tidy. So if you're planning on visiting any time soon, give me notice! Gotta clean up!

Grrr Dishwasher, I left a note before I went to work on Monday for my daughter to empty so I could load, but guess who ended up doing it? Yes ME. It is in fact a job I don't mind. The one I always avoid until I really have no clothes left to wear is the ironing. The pile creeps higher and higher and I will go to the wardrobe and get ready ironed out rather than go through the pile for something I really do want to wear but can't be bothered to iron. Crazy thing is once I make a start I plough my way through quite quickly as long as I have some good music on in the background, but then its the putting away. I always intend to sort cupboards out too and never get round to it but on here the other day someone asked what I would do with my time if I wasn't on myLot and I replied all the jobs I intend to do round the house and never get round too, made me feel guilty so I did managed one cupboard in the kitchen, yippee. Its a start. Ellie :D

I tend to prioritise thing based on how soon they need to be done, so I will put of the horrid jobs for more pleasant jobs if the pleasant jobs need to be done sooner than the horrid ones, but I do get the horrid ones done when they need to be done.

Well there is only one job that I will do the to lol and that is ironing I hate ironing there is only me and even if there is only 2 items I will put it of lol I always had clothes that did not need ironing so when I did not have to iron Kids Uniforms any more it was fine but recently bit by bit I have bought clothes as I needed to I did not have many but the Trousers I like wearing and that are comfy NEED IRONING So I had to go and buy an Iron I guess lol

Oh I am so quilty of putting things off especially if it is nice outside, all of my inside stuff is put on the back burner and although I know I will get them all done I tend to wait until I really have to get it done, then it just takes me minutes and it is done, why do I do this I often ask myself..I work at home so it is easy to get lost in whatever I am doing at the time the rest just have to wait ...lol dishes mine are in the dish water now I will get back to them the next time I decide to walk that way or else they will wait until I decide to go into that room...The hardest one that I always put away is the dusting it is a never ending job and when your done in one area I live in the country you look back at the first area and it is already covered so I really tend to put that off alot.

I put stuff I don't want to do untill well, I do it. Like dishes I have no point of 'can't stand it anymore' They've gotten so bad at a few points in time I had no more clean ones. MOst people would do the dishes then. Not me, I just washed a plate and something to eat with and went on my merry way. I suppose I'll eventually do the whole 'might as well' thing but yeah, I have no problems letting them sit there.

Laundry is my downfall. I have no problem washing and drying it. It is the folding and putting away that gets me every time. I just hate doing it! I put it off and put it off... Sitting here on mylot is much more interesting. I can justify it too. I am learning and earning money at the same time so it can't be bad to spend so much time here instead of folding laundry right? Right?

You sound just like my dearly beloved. He'll ignore stuff and ignore stuff and ignore stuff, then all of a sudden something in him will snap and he'll go into a housework frenzy. Of course, then, everyone else has to join in. It drives me absolutely bananas!

My word Piky..theres no way that ive procrastinated whatsoever today!!.Ive run the washing machine ragged,bashed the ironing board...churned out a roast lunch...my my..ive certainly excelled meself today!!...

I can certainly be like that as well. It is all or nothing with me, if I can't give something my full attention and completely get it all done, and done well in the amount of time I have, I don't like to do it. But I do make myself finish everything before my husband gets home every night. He is a great motivator because nothing is worse than his critical nagging. :)

It's a habit which many people have. So did I. I broke myself of the habit of procrastination two year ago. What I did effort is that do the big and important things firstly and then do much little easy things. Finally do those enjoying things.

Oh honey you have no idea! Ok I can't really do any of the physical jobs but even doing little things like phone calls that need to be made and forms that need to be filled out - even filing my bills etc all take me days if not weeks to sort out until all of a sudden one day I just decide to do them all and gwet it all over and done with at once! xxx

I'm the same way... I procrastinate on dishes at times but mostly laundry. I wash when I need to but I procrastinate at folding them and putting the clothes away. Basically they sit in my basement until they get worn because half the time, I don't put them away.

the dishes and the newspapers. finally I get so many in nmy bedroom that I stack them in my foldable grocery cart and haul them to the dumpster. I wish I would not let them accumulate like that as its so messy. now I have dishes in the sink glaringat me and I have to do do something only now I am fighting this painful and ugly shingles. knew there was a reason to keep the kitchen clean lol wish I had a fairy godmother to wave her wand and just get it all done for me lol

I am much like you and your first responder, Ruby. I put off ALL jobs.. easy, hard, horrible, not so horible. I am Queen of Procrastinationville! But, once I get started I am gung-ho full speed ahead and sometimes find myself tackling other projest that I had also put off Right now.. my nemisis is my bedroom. It is very cuttered and seems to be the catch-all for the whole house. I know it will only take me an hour or so.. but that is an hour I could use for FUN things One day I'll get it done

I tend to put the things i dont like doing off. Then i do them all at once during a weekend. Through out the week i'll do little jobs to keep things tidy but..big things like laundry which i hate...i keep til the weekend.

i put off doing the dishes i have doing the dishes when there's alot i dont look at them and laugh and then go back into my room..