Do you do jobs around the house that other people could have done?

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Do you do jobs that you don’t really need to do, just because you can’t bear the way other people do it or the time they take to get around to it? I know I do this, especially with the laundry. If my partner does it, then when he hangs the clothes up to dry he hangs things like shirts and trousers upside-down - he believes they dry faster that way. Well maybe they do (I don’t think it makes much difference), and I don’t care if he does that with his own clothes, but I don’t like hanging mine that way because it makes things like collars and pockets sit all wrong when they are dry! He also doesn’t bother to shake out the creases at all, if things like socks and pants come out all bundled up and twisted, he just pegs them up that way Consequently I find myself rushing to get to the machine first so I can do it the way I want! Then when it comes to putting the dry things away, whoever does it has to work out what belongs to whom and then share them out accordingly. If he does it he leaves me a pile of my clothes to deal with, puts away his stuff and puts away Little One’s stuff but leaves a pile of Big One’s clothes on a chair outside her door. Now I know she’s plenty old enough to put her own things away, and she says she wants to do it and doesn’t want me doing it – but the thing is she just doesn’t, and the heap of clean clothes will just stay there on the chair, and even get added to, for weeks! It’s right at the top of the stairs too so I see it every time I go upstairs and I literally can’t bear to be looking at it, so after a few days I would just snap and put everything away. Now I don’t even let it get to that stage, I just wait until she’s out and then put all her clean things away when she isn’t there to tell me not to and to insist she IS going to do it, eventually Do you find yourself doing things like this? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.