Psychological Blocks!

[XmisterIS]

I have always hated vacuuming with a passion. It has always enraged me. I have always attended to it half-heartedly while grumbling to myself about, "bloody stupid vacuum cleaner takes ages sodding thing could be doing something more interesting sod it bloody nuisance do I look like a skivvy??!"

Anyway, I decided to time it today - and to do a full dust + thorough vacuum clean (without the moaning!) took me ... 35 minutes! I have a 3 bed house with conservatory (so 8 rooms to vacuum).

All these years my psychological block has been that I see it as this huge and boring task that takes ages ... whereas it's actually only 35 minutes. If I do that once a week, every week, my house will be a lot cleaner!

So - that's a psychological block well and truly cracked!

What are your blocks and do you reckon they can be cracked?

I'm actually rather chuffed with myself.

 

[vernon]

You can't have much clutter in your house and/or you're not doing a thorough job.

 

[Wigsie]

So - that's a psychological block well and truly cracked!

Psycological Block?

You mean "I don't hoover that much as I am lazy and would rather be doing something else"

 

[XmisterIS]

You can't have much clutter in your house and/or you're not doing a thorough job.

that's correct ... I hate "stuff" lying around - it's all in boxes/cupboards, etc.

 

[buggi]

when i first used to bike to work, there was a really hard hill. Now i've done much much harder hills and my new commute has at least 4 real darlings on it, much worse than the other one. In fact, they make it look flat. But for some reason, i still really hate that other hill and it's always been my nemesis. If i ride out that way and i know it's on route, i think about all the way until i'm up and over it.

 

[trustysteed]

35 mins? i can do the whole house (same size plus ground floor extension) in under 15mins!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Mine - Soap operas, celebrity culture and judged talent shows.

No, I can not be cured.

 

[ComedyPilot]

.....and football

 

[vernon]

.....and football

+1

 

[ComedyPilot]

+1

I LIKE you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vernon]

Blue cheese is my major sticking point.

I used to enjoy Lymeswold cheese, which I thought was a nice soft British cheese along the lines of Brie, until the day I found a capsule of spores in it and promptly retched.

Still can't tolerate blue cheese. I can identify the cause of the problem - being made to eat gorgonzola at the tender age of four.

Don't particularly have any desire to be cured.

 

[Kirstie]

It used to be hoovering, I still don't particularly like it but I hate putting clean clothes away much more. Hate hate hate it. I procrastinate so much with it it ends up taking me an hour when it could take 20 minutes.

 

[Baggy]

Am a fellow hater of putting away clean clothes. Usually they sit around in their basket and I pluck out whatever it is I need...until hey presto, the basket is empty!

 

[Kirstie]

The prospect actually makes me feel depressed. It's ridiculous!

 

[gbb]

Mine used to be office based...i hated faxing things...just had no patience for the blasted thing to go through. Jeez, its only 2 minutes out of your life, but it used to bug me something terrible. CMONNNNNN