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A lot of the stress comes from not wanting to do boring stuffs in weekends, so yeah I actually hate weekends from time to time.
by markus_zhang 5y ago
A lot of the stress comes from not wanting to do boring stuffs in weekends, so yeah I actually hate weekends from time to time.
- prtkgpt 5y agoI agree with you on that; specially after the lockdown & wfh combo. I started a cricket team in my town just because of this. Best thing I have done for my physical fitness!
- vorpalhex 5y agoDon't do boring things! Go build a robot in your backyard. Learn to sail a boat. Take up martial arts.
- gtirloni 5y agoWho's going to clean the house?
- senectus1 5y agoI'm not great at this, but i suspect we should be doing it during the working week...
- howlin 5y agoIt's trivial to hire house cleaners to come in once or twice a week, and to keep things minimally tidy in between.
- willcipriano 5y agoMost people take entirely too long to clean the house. Optimize for economy of motion and it becomes a sort of bin packing problem where you try and find the most efficient way to layer the various tasks that can be sort of fun in and of itself.
- markus_zhang 5y agoI agree with you. The best way to clean house is to divide it into small chunks and do each one as an exercise each day after work(you know, those garbage time). Sadly wifie doesn't agree with me.
- exdsq 5y agoMy wife makes us clean the house, run the laundry, and do any budgeting we need to do on a Saturday (the time depends on our plans). It takes an hour or two in total if you just focus on finishing quickly. Does it suck? Yes. Do I moan about it? Yes. Am I a big kid? Probably. But get it out the way as soon as possible and the rest of the weekend is yours to enjoy :)
- vorpalhex 5y agoI clean the house. I do it about ten mins a night. Sometimes fifteen if it's a mess.
- anyfoo 5y agoI don't understand. Do you mean you have to do boring chores on the weekend (because they simply have to be done, e.g. laundry), or do you mean that you choose to do boring things? If the latter... just don't do boring things? That's never been an issue for me. I cycle between many hobbies: Electronics, signal processing, my 90s record collection, video games, watching TV shows, aviation... sometimes it's clear that my body just wants me to lay on the couch and consume. Sometimes it's really the opposite and I ache for something "productive" and stimulating. Then TV shows seem boring, so I work on my electronics projects or learns some maths. Sometimes I hit the road in my car. If it's chores, then for many of them there's ways to make them more enjoyable. Lot of chores don't require your full attention, so you can listen to a podcast, an audiobook, or even watch a movie or TV show while doing so (works well for folding laundry, or doing the dishes if you have an iPad). I really place importance on the fact that what I watch or listen to has to be fun, though. No podcasts that are work-related, or about "serious issues". For podcasts, it's mostly about video games for me. Audiobooks are novels, i.e. fiction. Movies and TV shows likewise. Otherwise it isn't relaxing.