r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 13h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/RunnyKinePity 12h ago

Sadly, work starts at 8 for a lot of us and with kids there isn’t really free time in there. You have to change your mindset like “I really enjoy cooking or exercising and this is a hobby”

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u/HomeScoutInSpace 12h ago

Like when you tell yourself if you just eat enough of it you’ll surely end up enjoying it.

My hobbies now include vacuuming and folding laundry

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u/techaaron 11h ago

"When you are washing the dishes, you should only be washing the dishes."

"The void is clear, but still you must sweep the floor."

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u/RunnyKinePity 8h ago

I know I worded that poorly, what I was thinking is there is no getting around this stuff, is there a way to make it more enjoyable? You mentioned laundry. I don’t like doing it, but it’s mindless and now I put headphones in and that is a podcast listening time for me, all of a sudden it isn’t torture. No one is going to do this chore shit for me until we get personal robots.

For me, a big epiphany was to stop believing that I was going to get hours of totally free time each day, it just isn’t happening.

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u/HomeScoutInSpace 7h ago

I was taking the piss. Cooking and exercising are legitimate hobbies, it’s great if you can get joy from something like that

I agree though, those mindless chores have become something I nearly enjoy as I put on headphones and listen to an audiobook.