I figured out that my microwave's turntable rotates once every 12 seconds. So, everything I cook is on a multiple of 12 seconds so that it always ends up at the front of the microwave when it's done cooking, and I don't have to reach all the way to the back of the microwave to get my food out.
Whenever the instructions say something like “microwave on high 4 minutes, rotate a quarter turn and microwave on 50% 4 more minutes,” I just do some mental math and microwave on high for six minutes.
I make myself egg sandwiches for the week and came to the conclusion that 60 seconds was just not quite enough. But instead of doing like `1:10 I just do 69 seconds
when i was a kid on a school day, i had this routine where i'd stick my legs out of the bed and bang around on the floor so it sounded like i got out of bed and then just lie there for a few more minutes
Did you also get your toothbrush wet and squirt a wee bit of toothpaste in your mouth rather than actually brush your teeth? If so I may be your mom and you weren’t fooling me or the dentist and you sure weren’t fooling the plaque that attacked.
Dude I’ve never played golf but I did a similar thing. It was just on and I didn’t change it. It was kind of relaxing to watch. Like listening to a chill audiobook.
Whenever I clean the house I put on my housecoat with really big pockets. I just walk from room to room and put things in my pocket that don’t belong in that room. Once my pockets are full I go to each room and empty my pockets putting what is from each room in that room.
I was taught to make a bed properly as a child, I swear I was. Hospital corners and everything. I even know how to fold a fitted sheet, thanks to my auntie, who's an Air Force nurse and therefore doesn't consider little problems like "non-Euclidean geometry" to be a reason not to do it properly.
After being forced to make my bed for my entire childhood and never understanding the need, the literal second I moved out, I jsut stopped doing it completely. No regrets.
Wait, you still make your bed at all? I basically just half-fold my blankets and sheets at the foot of the bed as I get them off of me (and even that is only so that they aren't in the way when I'm sitting on it).
I wholeheartedly believe instant ramen noodles taste better if you eat them straight from the pot! I learned this in Korea and never going back to eat it from a bowl
My husband says I’m gross for doing this, but he usually doesn’t eat whatever I make. So if I’m the only one eating it why shouldn’t I eat my lasagna straight from the pan? Why dirty more dishes?
Before I get out of bed in the morning, I will grab the top corners of my sheets with my hands and prop up the bottom two with my feet and move it into place. Then I slide out of bed without ruffling anything. Just like that, my bed is made.
You have legitimately just changed my life, I think! I have arthritis in my hands and I loathe folding clothes. My laundry room barely has room to open the dryer door, but it's next to my dining room. Our clothes inevitably end up unfolded for lengths of time in the dining room. If I just made a cube for each member of my family with 3 baskets, I can just sort them. Thank you!
At one point in my life I just dumped all my laundry on my bed and just left it there. I had bought a king sized bed because one of my ex’s would sleep over a lot.
When I had remote school last year I did this a LOT. Signed in to a zoom class and rolled right back over in bed. "Kinda" listening but often just fell asleep again. Thankfully the subjects were so easy I didn't miss much.
•My entire adult life I've been buying only matching socks (ankle-high, cotton, all white) so that I never have to sort or match socks and can just throw them all in a drawer. Within the last year or so, I've been hearing this on social media as a "life hack" and I'm over here like "well this is awkward because I've been doing this for years..."
So you buy let's say 20 pairs. All is fine. But some get used up, no problem 39 socks are easy to pair up, just take any 2. Then it's 20 socks, so 10 pairs, all fine. But one day there's just too few, you decide to 'top up' and you find out they changed the design and you just can't buy anything that matches the socks you already have. I have that problem now.
I used to live in a motel with one of those big a/c units under the window, in the winter my neighbor and I would "blow dry" our hair just sitting in front of our heaters that were already on anyways lol
My entire wardrobe is black - shirts, pants, underwear, socks, everything. I can literally throw everything into the wash and not worry about sorting colors, whites, etc.
Every week at work there is an “operations” shift from 8am-3pm where you order supplies, approve payroll for the week, message candidates on indeed, etc. Nobody else gets there until 11am, and when they do, they’re doing other stuff. This shift is 6 dedicated labor hours because it takes my boss and colleagues 6 hours to get everything done. They’re all incredibly slow workers.
When I worked as a night watchman at one place... they had the old unused offices down the hall from the one used office. No one ever went down there. The hallway kind of twisted and turned some, this way and that. Right before management came in I would go to an empty office and spend a couple of hours in there sleeping or quietly browsing the internet or even watching a film (I have hard drives full of tv shows and movies). And I have my own mobile hotspot. WOuld hang out there until it was time for me to go home. Btw most of the night there was no one at work but me. Only two hours or so in the morning were there people there (management in the office and employees out on the factory floor).
So, I'm unashamed to admit that I was raised as a pampered little shit, and the knowledge that I'm moving out soon-ish made me realize that this will probably be the last time for a looooong time that I'll wear ironed clothes.
If you properly time your dryer cycle, and also have a place to hang clothes properly, i.e. on hangers that don't distort the shape of the garment, then you don't really need to iron them.
I realized that the buttons on my shirts are just decorations! I pull over all my shirts now. I also now load beers or sodas into the 'fridge by opening the case placing on the shelf open side in then open the back and just hold the cans and pull the cardboard out. It's like an ammo magazine of beer!
Clean dishes from the dishwasher get taken out, used, and then rinsed and put in the sink. As soon as the dishwasher is empty it gets filled again. Cupboards shmuboards.
My dishes and utensils live in the drying rack, except for my chefs knife, spatula, and cutting board, which live on the counter spot where I use them.
Not ironing (haven’t owned one for a decade) and only by frozen onions. I also store most on my clothes downstairs where I wash/ dry and fold them otherwise they’d never get put away. I have adhd though so I have to strategise for executive dysfunction.
I dialed it down like 5-10% with work focus and shifted that energy into my normal life. I used to have delusions of grandeur and extreme wealth (I am in sales) and once I realized the philosophy of "good enough" my happiness skyrocketed and I no longer freak out as much as I used to. Career is going great as well. With my old mindset id probably never feel good about myself.
I guess I'm lazier than I thought. I also only push one button on the microwave. I don't fold clothes, I just put them in the drawer. When I send something in the mail to family members, I don't even put the names on the packages, just the addresses. That's one whole line of writing I don't have to do. I sleep on top of my covers with a lap blanket so I don't have to make the bed in the morning. I brush my teeth in the shower, I also wash my delicates while I shower. I have various old spoons and hand shovels stashed around my garden so I never have to walk to find a digging tool.
I have serious depression and even though it’s managed, my biggest struggle is that I find everyday life maintenance overwhelming and nearly impossible to upkeep. What you’re describing right now made me realize that there’s more than one way to complete tasks. Thank you for the hope stranger ❤️
I'll start. I began eating watermelon without removing seeds when I found out the seeds don't harm me (Unlike Apple seeds that apparently have poison).
LPT: if you have a toaster oven, leave the plate on top and then you have a warm plate for your breakfast bread of choice. That’s where my breakfast plate lives
I started skipping breakfast mostly as part of my weight loss plan but it stuck even after I reached my goal weight. Before I'd take an entire hour in the morning slowly making and eating breakfast - now I sleep in later, brew and drink a cup of coffee, and I'm ready to go. Sounds efficient, but I mostly do it for the sleeping in aspect.
I'm not even trying to lose weight and can confidently say that at this point in my life, I've probably eaten breakfast around only half of the available mornings in my life mostly due to wanting to catch some extra sleep.
I'm single and instead of cooking for one every night, I continue to cook for 4 like when I lived with my parents, and just eat leftovers for the next few days.
I'm a big fan of cooking for 8, then freezing half. It's great for those days when I really can't bring myself to cook, but don't want to splurge on eating out.
I found out about overnight oats. I bought five mason jars, figured out the perfect ratio, drew lines on the jar. Prep the oats at the beginning of the week and now all I need to do is fill one with milk every night and put the toppings on it in the morning.
Yeah i do exact same thing. I also wouldnt consider it lazy but kind of optimizing time/money with the food. Also as a single, i consider food as a staple or fuel for my bodily functions, whats the matter anyways making some super nice food if you only enjoy it yourself?
I participated in Ramadan this year and got lots of kudos from my co workers for participating as a non-muslim. Honestly though, not having to get up to get breakfast nor pay attention to time in the lab to make it for lunch was kinda nice, with the bonus of having less calory intake while gorging a nice dinner too!
I put my laundry baskets in the middle of my room till I get a “free weekend” to put the clothes away. My weekends are totally filled to the brim /s. I just play basketball all day…
Having my “getting home outfit” which I wear for a good week straight. Whenever I get home I put on the same clothes I’ve wore for the last 6 or so days just because it means less washing
So I noticed, thanks to apocalypse number 43 AKA the Coof, that I only wash clothes when I need to. Since working from home, I find myself waking up 10m before my work, and showering at my first 15m break.
I own one pair of jeans currently. And like 4 pairs of pyjamas, and that's it for pants. Jeans 40hrs at work, pyjamas for everything else except when I'm home with no pants on, like right now.
My school district is awful and split the work for 90% of your grade was test results and quizzes and the other 10% is homework. The district has yelled at us so much for ignoring the homework. I think they did a statistic and over 67% of the district has nearly 10+ missing assignments in each class.
I'm 35 now, and I still look back on homework as a stupid idea. You spend a workday's worth of time going to class, then you work more at night. The hell is that!? That is the antithesis of work-life balance.
I CANNOT believe I'm posting about Erma Bombeck twice in two days loool, but I used to read her books when I was a kid (I'm old); she had a humorous essay about temporary measures that turn permanent. It didn't mean anything to me as a kid, but I think about it now a lot (as that's basically the central concept of my life).
I honestly don’t understand why people don’t already do this as the standard? I only realised I was not the norm for doing it when people who saw commented on it.
When watching Movies or series im often too lazy to start up and connect my big ass screen at the footend of my bed to my laptop and just watch it on that much smaller screen.
The fact that I have to get up to get the ps4 controller is apparently too much work for a Sunday so I just end up in bed watching YouTube half of the day.
fabric softener works by deteriorating your clothing. you shouldn't use it regularly anyway. instead of dryer sheets (wasteful, expensive, contain fabric softener), get a set of wool dryer balls. they remove static just as well as dryer sheets, and you only have to buy them once. for the lazy, take a look here (can't vouch for this article though, I haven't actually read it)
I haven't used fabric softener in over a decade. My mother-in-law passed away over a decade ago, and when we cleaned out her house, we were amazed at how soft her towels and washcloths were. Her sister told us that my MIL used white vinegar instead of softener. I've been doing it that way ever since.
i like iced so i take a closeable bottle, tablespoon of instant coffee, 50/50 chocolate oat milk and cold water, some ice. shake it like a martini and enjoy.
I don't wash my jeans unless I broke a serious sweat in them or got something on them. It keeps them in good condition longer and it's just unnecessary.
I hated english class in school. Never understood sentence structure and what everything is called. Adverbs and all that jazz. I literally would barely do any work all semester, in class or homework. At the end of the semester the teacher would give me a packet of the assignments I skipped and said if you get all this done by the end of the week, I'll give you a D so you can pass. Deal. Would always pass with a D and gave zero F's.
I take my shirts directly out of the dryer and put them on hangers while they're still warm. That way they don't have any wrinkles and I don't have to iron therm.
I never undo my sheets, I get home sleep over the covers if it’s cold I’ll grab a blanket, I still change the sheets every 2-3 weeks but I won’t undo them so my room is always looking neat.
If the shirt is inside out, I'm gonna hang it, that way. It's a bonus, actually because the hanger dents don't jut out when I decide to wear the shirt (right-side out).
Showering too often is bad for your skin and hair. I work out 3 days a week and shower after that, or after anything else that results in me getting even slightly sweaty, like going for a walk or spending more than 10 minutes outside in 80 degree weather. I'm never out in public without having either showered the night before, or showered two nights ago and haven't done any physical activity since.
I stopped mowing my yard every week. So many people judge you by how high you let your yard get and idgaf anymore. On my off day, instead of mowing it, I’ll sit on the porch and watch it grow some more.
Idk if it’s considered lazy? But I haven’t worn a bra for the past year. No need anymore. I’m a SAHM. Now I’m pregnant again and probably need to wear one again but they’re so fucking uncomfortable.
cleaning the shower while i'm showering myself. it seems like a huge job until i realised i could just put product over before i get in and then spray it down once i get in. it means it gets done more often and i dont have to scrub as much when it does.
after making frozen food in the oven, transferring the baking sheet onto the plate so it doesnt get as dirty(didnt have the option of using or installing a dishwasher)
When I order a whole large pizza for myself, I'm too lazy to walk downstairs to put the leftovers in the fridge, so just leave it out for a few hours in the box before I finish it.
When I use the microwave, I’ll heat food for 1:11 or 2:22 because I can’t be bothered to move my lazy fingers.
My microwave has a +30s button. Mash it until it gets to the correct time
I figured out that my microwave's turntable rotates once every 12 seconds. So, everything I cook is on a multiple of 12 seconds so that it always ends up at the front of the microwave when it's done cooking, and I don't have to reach all the way to the back of the microwave to get my food out.
*I have no microwave advice."
This is peak lazyness. Nothing else comes close.
Don't heat your food for 1:11, just go for 66 seconds
Whenever the instructions say something like “microwave on high 4 minutes, rotate a quarter turn and microwave on 50% 4 more minutes,” I just do some mental math and microwave on high for six minutes.
OMG but that means you have to press at least two buttons, including Start.
You need one that when you hit 1 or 2 it just does a min or 2 mins. I bought my specifically for that case. So one button press and done.
I can't even be bothered to microwave most of my food
I make myself egg sandwiches for the week and came to the conclusion that 60 seconds was just not quite enough. But instead of doing like `1:10 I just do 69 seconds
On weekends I sleep for 12-14 hours.
Me too! I always thought I was weird.
YAY SOMEONE ELSE DOES THIS TOO!!!
when i was a kid on a school day, i had this routine where i'd stick my legs out of the bed and bang around on the floor so it sounded like i got out of bed and then just lie there for a few more minutes
Did you also get your toothbrush wet and squirt a wee bit of toothpaste in your mouth rather than actually brush your teeth? If so I may be your mom and you weren’t fooling me or the dentist and you sure weren’t fooling the plaque that attacked.
I don’t fold the fitted sheet. Just ball it up and place it in the closet.
my wife folds the sheets in the laundry room to carry them to the bedroom and put on the bed.
I tried and tried and eventually realized this was the most logical process.
My only problem with this is it takes up too much damn space and can't be stacked upon. I suppose I could get a shelf and basket for fitted sheets.
I once watched 12 hours of the golf Network because the batteries were dead in my remote control. I don't know if that's lazy or depressed.
Tiger Woods Childhood simulator
Or a fan of golf
Dude I’ve never played golf but I did a similar thing. It was just on and I didn’t change it. It was kind of relaxing to watch. Like listening to a chill audiobook.
Whenever I clean the house I put on my housecoat with really big pockets. I just walk from room to room and put things in my pocket that don’t belong in that room. Once my pockets are full I go to each room and empty my pockets putting what is from each room in that room.
That's not lazy... that's productive AF
This is genius.
That could actually help with my adhd
I think you just legit cured my ADHD
Holy shit I wish I’d known you sooner.
I was taught to make a bed properly as a child, I swear I was. Hospital corners and everything. I even know how to fold a fitted sheet, thanks to my auntie, who's an Air Force nurse and therefore doesn't consider little problems like "non-Euclidean geometry" to be a reason not to do it properly.
After being forced to make my bed for my entire childhood and never understanding the need, the literal second I moved out, I jsut stopped doing it completely. No regrets.
Wait, you still make your bed at all? I basically just half-fold my blankets and sheets at the foot of the bed as I get them off of me (and even that is only so that they aren't in the way when I'm sitting on it).
Damn. That's the first I'm hearing the phrase "hospital corners". I have heard of that method though.
Lying down on the sofa everyday while looking at random shit on my laptop.
I know the feeling, can't agree more.
Just eating food straight out of the pan
I wholeheartedly believe instant ramen noodles taste better if you eat them straight from the pot! I learned this in Korea and never going back to eat it from a bowl
Ah, I vote that this shouldn't even be counted as a lazy thing. It is so irresistible, especially if it's cookie/dessert dough.
I tried this and now have 3rd degree burns on my legs. See you in court
My husband says I’m gross for doing this, but he usually doesn’t eat whatever I make. So if I’m the only one eating it why shouldn’t I eat my lasagna straight from the pan? Why dirty more dishes?
Please don't eat from a teflon pan with metal cutlery
Before I get out of bed in the morning, I will grab the top corners of my sheets with my hands and prop up the bottom two with my feet and move it into place. Then I slide out of bed without ruffling anything. Just like that, my bed is made.
I am going to try this.
I don't fold laundry anymore. I have a system of laundry baskets
Dude, since my kids, I do the same, I have 5 baskets, parents, kids, general, bed sheets, undies & socks
I wish I could do this, the shower trick has never worked for me!
Noice. Where do you get wrinkle free clothes?
I just leave all my clothes in the drier. When it's empty, time to wash everything again.
I have a laundry bag. The bag go to the laundry and it comes back full of folded clothes. It's magic.
You have legitimately just changed my life, I think! I have arthritis in my hands and I loathe folding clothes. My laundry room barely has room to open the dryer door, but it's next to my dining room. Our clothes inevitably end up unfolded for lengths of time in the dining room. If I just made a cube for each member of my family with 3 baskets, I can just sort them. Thank you!
You mean you store all the clothes in here unfolded indefinitely? Not judging literally just looking for ideas lol.
At one point in my life I just dumped all my laundry on my bed and just left it there. I had bought a king sized bed because one of my ex’s would sleep over a lot.
Getting up in the morning, sign on remotely to work, go back to bed for a half hour snooze
When I had remote school last year I did this a LOT. Signed in to a zoom class and rolled right back over in bed. "Kinda" listening but often just fell asleep again. Thankfully the subjects were so easy I didn't miss much.
Shhhh the managers will see
How about keeping your work laptop right by your bed, and doing that but never leaving bed
Can you please not speak about that in public like that? Managers also browse Reddit. Most of us would like to keep our work-from-home privileges.
•My entire adult life I've been buying only matching socks (ankle-high, cotton, all white) so that I never have to sort or match socks and can just throw them all in a drawer. Within the last year or so, I've been hearing this on social media as a "life hack" and I'm over here like "well this is awkward because I've been doing this for years..."
So you buy let's say 20 pairs. All is fine. But some get used up, no problem 39 socks are easy to pair up, just take any 2. Then it's 20 socks, so 10 pairs, all fine. But one day there's just too few, you decide to 'top up' and you find out they changed the design and you just can't buy anything that matches the socks you already have. I have that problem now.
I used to live in a motel with one of those big a/c units under the window, in the winter my neighbor and I would "blow dry" our hair just sitting in front of our heaters that were already on anyways lol
My entire wardrobe is black - shirts, pants, underwear, socks, everything. I can literally throw everything into the wash and not worry about sorting colors, whites, etc.
Most of the time sorting colors is unnecessary now due to a change in the formula of detergent.
i have never once sorted colors and whites and i’ve never once ruined something white
Perks of being a Goth :)
Every week at work there is an “operations” shift from 8am-3pm where you order supplies, approve payroll for the week, message candidates on indeed, etc. Nobody else gets there until 11am, and when they do, they’re doing other stuff. This shift is 6 dedicated labor hours because it takes my boss and colleagues 6 hours to get everything done. They’re all incredibly slow workers.
When I worked as a night watchman at one place... they had the old unused offices down the hall from the one used office. No one ever went down there. The hallway kind of twisted and turned some, this way and that. Right before management came in I would go to an empty office and spend a couple of hours in there sleeping or quietly browsing the internet or even watching a film (I have hard drives full of tv shows and movies). And I have my own mobile hotspot. WOuld hang out there until it was time for me to go home. Btw most of the night there was no one at work but me. Only two hours or so in the morning were there people there (management in the office and employees out on the factory floor).
Every job I have ever had has been a constant stream of things to do until I clock out.
Are you george costanza?
I stopped ironing clothes when covid lockdowns started.
I just simply never ironed clothes in the first place 🤷🏼♀️
I have never in my life ironed a clothes, nor do I know anyone that does. Is this something people do for like, their work clothes?
So, I'm unashamed to admit that I was raised as a pampered little shit, and the knowledge that I'm moving out soon-ish made me realize that this will probably be the last time for a looooong time that I'll wear ironed clothes.
If you properly time your dryer cycle, and also have a place to hang clothes properly, i.e. on hangers that don't distort the shape of the garment, then you don't really need to iron them.
Sit in bed, do remote job, look on social media, do more remote job, finish remote job, take a nap.
I realized that the buttons on my shirts are just decorations! I pull over all my shirts now. I also now load beers or sodas into the 'fridge by opening the case placing on the shelf open side in then open the back and just hold the cans and pull the cardboard out. It's like an ammo magazine of beer!
They actually changed the shape of 12-pack boxes specifically so people could do stuff like that.
Clean dishes from the dishwasher get taken out, used, and then rinsed and put in the sink. As soon as the dishwasher is empty it gets filled again. Cupboards shmuboards.
You need a second dishwasher.
Ah, the wet cupboard. I know it well.
My dishes and utensils live in the drying rack, except for my chefs knife, spatula, and cutting board, which live on the counter spot where I use them.
Shrug with one shoulder because I can't be bothered to use both
That can be misinterpreted as an Italian judging a person, place or thing.
Not ironing (haven’t owned one for a decade) and only by frozen onions. I also store most on my clothes downstairs where I wash/ dry and fold them otherwise they’d never get put away. I have adhd though so I have to strategise for executive dysfunction.
I dialed it down like 5-10% with work focus and shifted that energy into my normal life. I used to have delusions of grandeur and extreme wealth (I am in sales) and once I realized the philosophy of "good enough" my happiness skyrocketed and I no longer freak out as much as I used to. Career is going great as well. With my old mindset id probably never feel good about myself.
Good enough is good enough.
I guess I'm lazier than I thought. I also only push one button on the microwave. I don't fold clothes, I just put them in the drawer. When I send something in the mail to family members, I don't even put the names on the packages, just the addresses. That's one whole line of writing I don't have to do. I sleep on top of my covers with a lap blanket so I don't have to make the bed in the morning. I brush my teeth in the shower, I also wash my delicates while I shower. I have various old spoons and hand shovels stashed around my garden so I never have to walk to find a digging tool.
I have serious depression and even though it’s managed, my biggest struggle is that I find everyday life maintenance overwhelming and nearly impossible to upkeep. What you’re describing right now made me realize that there’s more than one way to complete tasks. Thank you for the hope stranger ❤️
Not correcting the clock in my car for daylight saving time, pretty much since I started driving.
I'll start. I began eating watermelon without removing seeds when I found out the seeds don't harm me (Unlike Apple seeds that apparently have poison).
You could just eat up to the green then toss it. That’s arguably even lazier
Apple seeds also won't harm you.
Watermelon rind is
I make myself something like toast, an english muffin, or a bagel every morning for breakfast.
I use a paper towel so I don’t have to wash an extra dish
LPT: if you have a toaster oven, leave the plate on top and then you have a warm plate for your breakfast bread of choice. That’s where my breakfast plate lives
I started skipping breakfast mostly as part of my weight loss plan but it stuck even after I reached my goal weight. Before I'd take an entire hour in the morning slowly making and eating breakfast - now I sleep in later, brew and drink a cup of coffee, and I'm ready to go. Sounds efficient, but I mostly do it for the sleeping in aspect.
I'm not even trying to lose weight and can confidently say that at this point in my life, I've probably eaten breakfast around only half of the available mornings in my life mostly due to wanting to catch some extra sleep.
I'm single and instead of cooking for one every night, I continue to cook for 4 like when I lived with my parents, and just eat leftovers for the next few days.
This isn't lazy, this is just living smart. Hats off to you.
I'm a big fan of cooking for 8, then freezing half. It's great for those days when I really can't bring myself to cook, but don't want to splurge on eating out.
I found out about overnight oats. I bought five mason jars, figured out the perfect ratio, drew lines on the jar. Prep the oats at the beginning of the week and now all I need to do is fill one with milk every night and put the toppings on it in the morning.
Yeah i do exact same thing. I also wouldnt consider it lazy but kind of optimizing time/money with the food. Also as a single, i consider food as a staple or fuel for my bodily functions, whats the matter anyways making some super nice food if you only enjoy it yourself?
Cooking a single portion is hard.
I participated in Ramadan this year and got lots of kudos from my co workers for participating as a non-muslim. Honestly though, not having to get up to get breakfast nor pay attention to time in the lab to make it for lunch was kinda nice, with the bonus of having less calory intake while gorging a nice dinner too!
sundaymealprep
I put my laundry baskets in the middle of my room till I get a “free weekend” to put the clothes away. My weekends are totally filled to the brim /s. I just play basketball all day…
Having my “getting home outfit” which I wear for a good week straight. Whenever I get home I put on the same clothes I’ve wore for the last 6 or so days just because it means less washing
So I noticed, thanks to apocalypse number 43 AKA the Coof, that I only wash clothes when I need to. Since working from home, I find myself waking up 10m before my work, and showering at my first 15m break.
I own one pair of jeans currently. And like 4 pairs of pyjamas, and that's it for pants. Jeans 40hrs at work, pyjamas for everything else except when I'm home with no pants on, like right now.
My school district is awful and split the work for 90% of your grade was test results and quizzes and the other 10% is homework. The district has yelled at us so much for ignoring the homework. I think they did a statistic and over 67% of the district has nearly 10+ missing assignments in each class.
Why do the homework when you can get an A for just passing the tests? Dummies.
I'm 35 now, and I still look back on homework as a stupid idea. You spend a workday's worth of time going to class, then you work more at night. The hell is that!? That is the antithesis of work-life balance.
I CANNOT believe I'm posting about Erma Bombeck twice in two days loool, but I used to read her books when I was a kid (I'm old); she had a humorous essay about temporary measures that turn permanent. It didn't mean anything to me as a kid, but I think about it now a lot (as that's basically the central concept of my life).
When she died, way too young, I felt like a favorite aunt had died. I read her books when I was a kid.
I love erma bombeck lol I’m 31 but she’s brilliant
Hanging all my shirts (including t-shirts) in my closet instead of folding them and putting them in the dresser.
That's just smart
Wait this is not what other people do normally?
Not washing my water cup everyday lol I change the straw but don’t wash the whole cup. It’s just to much in the am lol I don’t care who judges me
almost every day I'll get a drink of water by finding a half empty glass left over, and just dumping it out and refilling.
I usually use my water cup for about a week before washing
I realized this was getting out of hand when I said out loud the other day "I think I'll treat myself to a new water cup today!"
Instead of putting leftover food in containers, just shove entire pot or frying pan in the fridge.
There is a volume of leftovers wherein the number of Tupperware containers that would be required is untenable. I have this problem frequently.
I've put unfinished plates in the fridge so I don't have to wash it right away or worry about it attracting ants
I honestly don’t understand why people don’t already do this as the standard? I only realised I was not the norm for doing it when people who saw commented on it.
Garlic press, when I realized you don't have to peel them off first it's pretty handy in the kitchen
wait, what? you don’t have to peel the garlic before you crush it?
When watching Movies or series im often too lazy to start up and connect my big ass screen at the footend of my bed to my laptop and just watch it on that much smaller screen.
I've been too lazy to update the Netflix app on the tv in my room for almost a year now so I sit in front of it and watch netflix on my phone.
The fact that I have to get up to get the ps4 controller is apparently too much work for a Sunday so I just end up in bed watching YouTube half of the day.
Not getting dressed.
Picking stuff up using my toes/foot
Not using fabric softener
fabric softener works by deteriorating your clothing. you shouldn't use it regularly anyway. instead of dryer sheets (wasteful, expensive, contain fabric softener), get a set of wool dryer balls. they remove static just as well as dryer sheets, and you only have to buy them once. for the lazy, take a look here (can't vouch for this article though, I haven't actually read it)
I haven't used fabric softener in over a decade. My mother-in-law passed away over a decade ago, and when we cleaned out her house, we were amazed at how soft her towels and washcloths were. Her sister told us that my MIL used white vinegar instead of softener. I've been doing it that way ever since.
Whatever you do, don't use it on your towels. It makes them less absorbant.
Fabric softeners are a scam IMO.
Making instant coffee. It's not great and I still use my french press a lot but sometimes I just need a quick cup of coffee
i like iced so i take a closeable bottle, tablespoon of instant coffee, 50/50 chocolate oat milk and cold water, some ice. shake it like a martini and enjoy.
I asked my spouse, answer was "masterbation, I have you for that now"
Who said romance was dead 😂
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There's a thin line between laziness and efficiency.
Online shopping. I know it might not be a lazy hack for some, but the pandemic introduced me to me online shopping for everything. I barely go out .
I don't wash my jeans unless I broke a serious sweat in them or got something on them. It keeps them in good condition longer and it's just unnecessary.
Get C's in school
Cs get degrees!
I hated english class in school. Never understood sentence structure and what everything is called. Adverbs and all that jazz. I literally would barely do any work all semester, in class or homework. At the end of the semester the teacher would give me a packet of the assignments I skipped and said if you get all this done by the end of the week, I'll give you a D so you can pass. Deal. Would always pass with a D and gave zero F's.
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Honestly the day I realized that it actually doesn’t matter was the day 18 years of A weight was lifted off my shoulders.
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Not Shaving 🪒 just let it grow
No Shave November whole Year.
Not me but a lazy coworker:
Patruh
I knew a guy who was so lazy, he married a girl who was already pregnant.
Stopped ironing clothes
My cabinets are always open in the kitchen. Constantly opening and closing stuff to try and find things was too much work.
Just take the cabinet doors off? So u just have shelves?
As a man, peeing sitting down. Way cleaner. Saves time putting the seat back up.
I eat my pizza off the pizza box and use the box as a cutting board to slice my pizza, because fuck it.
I take my shirts directly out of the dryer and put them on hangers while they're still warm. That way they don't have any wrinkles and I don't have to iron therm.
I don't clean the table. I just eat on top of a catalog and turn the page when its dirty
I'll break my pizza into pieces while it's frozen so I don't have to dirty a pizza cutter
Wait. Does that work? Doesn’t the cheese run all over?
Pretty much everything. If I don't receive prompt negative feedback from the world I am not doing shit.
Not folding my laundry. I have a clean hamper and a dirty hamper, and sometimes put clothes in drawers if I feel like it.
I never undo my sheets, I get home sleep over the covers if it’s cold I’ll grab a blanket, I still change the sheets every 2-3 weeks but I won’t undo them so my room is always looking neat.
After I use a dish I wipe it off with a paper towel and reuse it several more times. Same thing with my tea cup
Colors, whites, all goes in the same load. Too lazy to separate colors.
If the shirt is inside out, I'm gonna hang it, that way. It's a bonus, actually because the hanger dents don't jut out when I decide to wear the shirt (right-side out).
Not Showering every day
Pandemic saved my skin, literally, from drying out.
Showering too often is bad for your skin and hair. I work out 3 days a week and shower after that, or after anything else that results in me getting even slightly sweaty, like going for a walk or spending more than 10 minutes outside in 80 degree weather. I'm never out in public without having either showered the night before, or showered two nights ago and haven't done any physical activity since.
Not making my bed everyday. I only do it when the layers of blankets get messed up.
Using canned air to dust.
I stopped mowing my yard every week. So many people judge you by how high you let your yard get and idgaf anymore. On my off day, instead of mowing it, I’ll sit on the porch and watch it grow some more.
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Stopped folding underwear. Can we call it efficient instead of lazy?
Use the same mug for coffee, milk, water, cereal, ice cream throughout the day and only wash it once at the end of the day
I buy all the same style of black socks. When they're dry, I throw them in the drawer.
Idk if it’s considered lazy? But I haven’t worn a bra for the past year. No need anymore. I’m a SAHM. Now I’m pregnant again and probably need to wear one again but they’re so fucking uncomfortable.
Chair in the shower simple and relaxing especially with a water proof phone
I just shower while sitting on the floor. I call it a depression shower.
But the water on the screen messes up the touches, doesn't it? I have that problem.
As a child I would sleep with my school cloths instead of pajamas so I didn't need to get dressed in the morning, I thought I was the smartest!!!!
cleaning the shower while i'm showering myself. it seems like a huge job until i realised i could just put product over before i get in and then spray it down once i get in. it means it gets done more often and i dont have to scrub as much when it does.
I use the same plate for all of my meals for the day so I only have one plate to wash at night.
My microwave has a 30s button. And instead of punching in the number. I just keep adding 30s for my desired time. Too lazy to move my finger.
I use my feelings to know when food is done cooking
Showering way less since covid
after making frozen food in the oven, transferring the baking sheet onto the plate so it doesnt get as dirty(didnt have the option of using or installing a dishwasher)
parchment paper. never wash a sheet pan again.
I use a dry shampoo on my jeans when they smell a little, that way i dont have to wash them often
Ironing clothes by throwing them in the dryer for a bit with a damp towel.
Brushing my teeth in the shower
When I order a whole large pizza for myself, I'm too lazy to walk downstairs to put the leftovers in the fridge, so just leave it out for a few hours in the box before I finish it.