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I'll do it later.
I take a lot of photos, and my routine is to go through them all, rename the files to contain the subjects, and copy them to my media center and a backup drive.
And by routine I mean I keep postponing it and now have a backlog that goes to photos from 2023.
A friend of mine is working on a photo book of her childs life.
The work is paused since 2016.
There are some things computers are just not good at, and collating memories is one of them—thus I am a huge proponent of scrapbooking. I’ve been scrapbooking since 2014, and since then I haven’t touched any of the tools, binders, or boxes of keepsakes I’ve been intending to go through.
My nick-knacks cupboard is a total mess: overfilled and has things just hastily tossed into it to the point that opening it guarantees that something will fall out onto you. I've been meaning to empty it and refill it in an orderly fashion, perhaps added dividers and bins as appropriate to help keep it organized.
For twelve years.
This is something I could literally do in an afternoon of light labour, but I haven't.
Putting all my clothes into my dresser from my move 2 weeks ago
Recently? A shower door catch was broken. I got a new one and it sat in the package on the bathroom counter a foot or two from the shower door for a really long time. All that was needed was to fetch a screwdriver, take two small screws out, and replace the unit. 30 seconds to do, if that.
Meanwhile, if anyone used the shower, you had to creatively wedge something in the door every time to keep it from opening. That took far more effort than simply replacing the catch.
Not the most recent incident, but where I live we observe daylight savings time (which is dumb). I have a large wall clock in the main room of my house in a very visible location, but up high enough that I have to use a ladder to fiddle with it.
Daylight savings ended and I put off changing the clock. Months went by and it eventually got closer to daylight savings coming back so I told myself I'd just wait it out until the clock was right again. 24 hours after daylight savings kicked in (the clock is correct again, I lazied my way into a win!) the battery died and I had to get the ladder out anyway (shit!).
Ripped a button off a shirt a few weeks ago and haven't sewed it back on yet. The button was on the sleeve and it's getting warm enough where I'd have the sleeves rolled up anyways, so I am considering just not doing it until the end of summer.
Edit: Nevermind, I just sewed it on.
An oak tree started growing near my house in a problem spot. I kept meaning to pull it up. By the time I cut it down it was 8" in diameter and about 25' tall.
You what 😂, how many years did that take?
About 10 years.
Ugh, making a car mechanic appointment has been on my list since October. Nothing's actively wrong with it, and I'm not due mileage-wise. I just want to make sure it can handle a medium length trip that kept getting postponed due to a few things I couldn't be away from home for more than a day for a while.
hauling a bunch of old tech out to the curb so it could be picked up (also by me, later today) and taken to an ewaste collection site.. including a crt tv old enough to be 'made in usa'
Somebody wants that TV, and maybe some of the other stuff as well if it's old enough.
If the CRT works there are melee players that will buy it
Changing the furnace filter. Really dumb thing to forget, too. Couldn't tell you how long. 9 months maybe? More? I had spares sitting right there. But the utility room in the basement is out of sight out of mind.
I set a phone reminder to bug me about this every 30 days. The HVAC people that service my furnace recommend the cheaper filters and replacing them more frequently.
If you don't want to bring technology into it, you can always pencil in a day on the calendar to do it.
Wait how often are furnace filters supposed to be changed?
The guideline is 3 months but it is entirely dependent on how often you run your furnace, and how dusty or pet-filled your environment is.
I used to manage buildings, so I would deal with hundreds of filters at a time, people with pets or those who ran the circulation function continually needed 3-month replacement. Other people who did not run the fan continuously and did not keep pets, and stayed clean, you could easily get away with a year.
You have to hold the filter up to the light to know, there's no way to judge it based on time it's just not useful
So I'm well overdue for a new filter lol. Still dealing with sprinter (spring winter)where I am and have a dog. Not gonna say how long it's been since I switched it.
Every three months. Maybe less if you don't have central A/C. There are also really big fancy filters that might last a year but my furnace doesn't have that.
My front tooth is chipped. It was already a crown, but my kid headbutted me in the face and it broke. I meant to Google a dentist the next day. It's been a month and a half. I look like a much dumber version of myself
I have a smart plug controlling a lava lamp in my bedroom that's been turning itself on at semi-random times for probably 6-8 months. Some old schedule that didn't delete properly, but wasn't displayed in the app anymore.
Took a whole 5min to reset and setup again; once I finally stopped putting it off.
I’ve had holes in my wall from some electrical diy work since 2019.
It’s getting fixed this week.
Fuck, I hate plastering. Actually, I hate detailed finish work. I’m cut out to be a plumber or electrician, none of this fancy shit.
I feel this hard. Replaced a shower in 2019 and keep having leaks and opening the kitchen ceiling to fix them..I think it's good now l, but holy damn I'm tired of doing bad drywall work
Now this sounds like a topic for !dullsters@dullsters.net
Oh definitely, but at the same time I feel like CasualConversation is more generic than Dullsters, so I prefer to post to the more generic one
Does eating count?
Making vanilla syrup after not being able to find it in the store. Convinced myself it would be too hard.
It took 10 minutes of actual focus
I waited over a year before buying a new water filter for the fridge, and then when it arrived I let it sit for another year before replacing the old one with it.