Ricki Yasha TarrYou ever put a task off for a long time, and then you finally do it, and it takes like 15 minutes?
Me, who finally watered my poor plants.
Khleedril@RickiTarr Aww. Couldn't you have given them tap water?
StevenSavage (he/him)
Steve Gisselbrecht@RickiTarr
Make sure you spend MUCH longer than that beating yourself up for wasting all that time you waited to take care of it! That's always so helpful when I do it.
Make sure you spend MUCH longer than that beating yourself up for wasting all that time you waited to take care of it! That's always so helpful when I do it.
@stevegis_ssg Definitely, always talk shit about yourself no matter what lol
punIssuer@stevegis_ssg @RickiTarr yes! Because you can totes hate yourself into a version of you that you can love!
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CANELA BLANCA@RickiTarr All the time. It’s what procrastinating is all about.
Take my kitchen sink full of dishes and containers waiting to be cleaned or loaded into the dishwasher as an example. Spoiler alert: still there!
John Mark 
☑️@RickiTarr lol only all the time
David Penfold 
@RickiTarr Many, many, times. I think it's got something to do with "Executive Dysfunction".
Vacuolic@RickiTarr even better, half do it the first time, finish it weeks later, realize total active time spent on task is 15 min. adds seasoning. a well-aged task.
Joe@RickiTarr I generally put tasks off because my wife will give me a hard time about it. That I didn't do it right away, or it's messy, or something.
@RegGuy Hubs and I have a rule about the dishwasher lol
@RickiTarr My wife and I have gotten into a balance with the dishwasher. I load it, she creates chaos in there and it's full with 1/2 the dishes it can hold. I have to rearrange it.
@RegGuy OMG I'm a rearranger too, I try not to do it in front of him.
@RickiTarr Ditto. A pot is placed strategically to occupy 30% of the lower rack. Um, move it here and it takes up 15%. She just laughs now and gets out of the way.
@RegGuy I hate wasting the water without filling it lol
@RickiTarr Oh, me too. I'm such an ecologist and have been since my early teens.
Mike@RickiTarr give or take six months 😆
DamonHD@RickiTarr About 12h ago...
Kim Possible 
@RickiTarr every time. It cannot be an evolutionary behavioral advantage, so I don't know why I keep doing it.
Pistolenkind@RickiTarr All the time.
Smirk 😏@RickiTarr The longer you put it off, the larger it becomes in your mind. I do it all the time.
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈@RickiTarr all the fucking time. Especially if FORMS are involved.
Patrick Hadfield@RickiTarr every time!
Bruno Girin@RickiTarr do you mean like the thing I had meant to repair at home for several years and that took me slightly under 1 hour when I did it at the weekend?
Wolfgang Hettfleisch@RickiTarr Time and again. My vacuum cleaner got used to it.
Derek Dahlsad [INACTIVE]@RickiTarr I love my wife, she's awesome, but the number of times I've gotten a text that says effectively "MY PRESCRIPTION IS READY AND I'M OUT OF PILLS SO IF YOU DON'T PICK THEM UP FOR ME AFTER WORK MY HEART WILL STOP BEATING AND/OR I WILL GO INSANE" and I've stopped reminding her that she can refill prescriptions, like, weeks ahead of time and then pick them up at her leisure.
Wandering HermitMy worst example is replacing a broken toilet seat. I usually put it off for months, the job itself takes less than 10 minutes.
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!@wanderinghermit @RickiTarr Welcome to my world!
Log 🪵@wanderinghermit @RickiTarr Toilet repairs are the worst. I hate those things. But if yours doesn't work, all your humanoid guests complain *endlessly*.
Michael Porter@wanderinghermit @RickiTarr Err, how often do you break toilet seats? What are you doing to them?!
On second thought, some questions are best left unanswered…
Zach Bennoui@RickiTarr Me RN. Need to go fill out a Google sheet and send to someone, gonna do it right now.
Parade du Grotesque 💀Yup.
I hate getting a haircut. I wait and wait and wait...
And then I go to the hairdresser. The guy is very funny, very fast and very cheap. I always have a great time, share a laugh or two and get out thinking: "That was actually rather decent".
And then I do it all over again.
@ParadeGrotesque I do this too! If I end up getting more than 1 haircut a year, I'm doing good, I don't dislike getting haircuts
James H McLaren@RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Huh. I thought I was the only person who did exactly that.
WideEyedCurious 🇺🇸 💙 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇦@RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Once a year? 😯 My hair grows so fast I’ve been getting one every 4-5 weeks. Plus it needs to be thinned out each time.
@WideEyedCurious @ParadeGrotesque I generally cut it short than grow it to my butt
@RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque Ah, that explains it. My hair grows about an inch every month, so that would probably take about a year and a half or so.
run_atalanta 😷💯@WideEyedCurious @RickiTarr @ParadeGrotesque
Wow, I wish my hairs grew that fast.
It takes about three years to get from "just long enough to braid it to keep it safe in the winds" (about 2" below my clavicle) to reaching my butt, when I cut it to keep it out of the toilet.😆 It gets cut back to minimal btaid length.
the one time I tried to let it get to 'beyond the butt" it took about 5 years. I had two friends who have hair >4' long.
One ran up to me one day when mine was getting down there "Do Not Let It Get Any Longer! They'll never let you cut it!"
@RickiTarr This is my *life*, constantly.
Between stressed-out procrastination and constantly forgetting why I came downstairs*, I often regret my wasted potential.
* It's not even a "why am I here?" thing, I arrive downstairs thinking I'm there to do something else, and forget the original task completely... Until I go back up to the office or whatever, and remember why I left the room in the first place 😄
chestasI reckon this is programmed into us at school and work with deadlines. If we were just made to do tasks in an order then each task wouldn't seem so significant/challenging.
Ps, I am a compulsive list maker 🤣
CodieneC@RickiTarr *sigh* all the time
The Flight Attendant@RickiTarr All the time, because I have ADHD 🥴
@RickiTarr All the time! It’s ridiculous!
Juggling With EggsI love it when this happens…I get on a roll with bashing through stuff I’ve sat on for months. But the downfall is then thinking ‘I can do anything!’…and then sure enough I hit a brick wall both physically and mentally. If only there was a way to stay on top of life admin without this procrastination, blitz, crash and burn cycle.
Max Leibman@RickiTarr Get out of my therapist’s notes, Ricki.
Alexander Knochel@RickiTarr no, that would be illogical
lol
Bob Jamieson@RickiTarr This is the way I do tasks. If a man says he will do something he will do it, he doesn`t need to be nagged about it every six months!