I tried to preemptively earn some sleep today by volunteering a few chores over night. I share access to a To Do list with my mother. I thought I’d get brownie points and less bitching about chores if I told her to add a couple things to my list that she would appreciate being done during the night. I figured she’d give me a couple things like “do a load of laundry or two” and “bring stuff downstairs from the den.” Relatively easy and not time consuming stuff.
She outsmarted me. She did give me relatively easy and non time consuming stuff. But she cookied me before I even started.
Her asks:
1. Sweep kitchen floor
2. Clean out fridge
3. Take trash out
The only one that takes any time is the fridge and that’s just because I have to rearrange more than anything. We keep our fridge pretty good and gross free.
Except.
To sweep the kitchen floor I had to put the air fryer away (which involves maneuvering around a table, two big bins of Tupperware and glassware, and a pachinko machine), figure out what to do with an empty box for a kitchen aid attachment (because if I break it down and throw it out she’ll want it and if I stash it somewhere I’m dumb for not throwing it out), figure out where a 4lb bag of pancake mix is supposed to go and take some groceries to the pantry downstairs.
To clean the fridge I needed sink space so I had to empty and reload the dishwasher, wash out the water bottles that can’t go in the dishwasher, put away the dishes in the rack, and run the dishwasher. I had to empty the trash to have space to throw anything from the fridge away but then I had to take trash out again so fridge stuff didn’t stay inside. I had to move the recycling can to sweep so in moving it I had to take it out and empty it into the big bucket or it would have spilled.
So yeah. I ended up doing way more than the three minor things she listed.
Diabolical bitch.
Thanks ma.
