Every chore generates another chore: The law of increasing returns

[Cyclone]

I think you missed a trick draggletail.

 

MrsD - "I think we should have a garden shed"

MrD - "Here's the car keys love, tell me when it's done".

 

That's how to deal with requests for things that you know are going to be hard work :-)

[Mathom]

It's the curse of modern life. We get all these fab new gadgets and 'labour saving devices' but they only add up to more work.

 

A car? You've only got to wash and hoover it, take it to the garage, pay bills etc.

 

An MP3 player? Nice, but think of all that time spent ripping CDs, then renaming them because they've got not info on, then loading them up, then reloading them when you get a new player.

 

A DVD-R? Fab, but then you must format them discs and spend time labelling them. Plus then you notice the feature that lets you tap in info using the fiddly remote...and there's more dusting of course...

 

[julado]

It's the curse of modern life. We get all these fab new gadgets and 'labour saving devices' but they only add up to more work.

 

A car? You've only got to wash and hoover it, take it to the garage, pay bills etc.

 

An MP3 player? Nice, but think of all that time spent ripping CDs, then renaming them because they've got not info on, then loading them up, then reloading them when you get a new player.

 

A DVD-R? Fab, but then you must format them discs and spend time labelling them. Plus then you notice the feature that lets you tap in info using the fiddly remote...and there's more dusting of course...

 

 

 

Back to cave dwelling me thinks!!!!!

[mikey10]

It started with a shed.

 

Mrs Draggletail desired a shed to put all the garden toys and general 'stuff' in.

 

I resisted of coures, being a guy. Putting up a shed requires work.

 

So... we got a shed (and this is another 'law' - "the women generally get their own way in the in the end law")

 

Much work went into digging out the area and levelling it.

 

Then we got to thinking about the area next to the shed - perfect for a 'play house' for our toddler

 

Much excavating and laying of decking base ensued....

 

I lay my aching bod on the deck ... the space next to it was perfect for the garden bench as a seating area...

 

Much heaving and inserting of railway sleepers and we had a seating area....

 

I sat on the seat with a cup of tea. the overgrown area in front needed stripping out, planting and mulching .....

 

(Yes, yes it's done)

 

And the right angled crazy paving path with the unpointed dirt areas that our son liked grubbing about in is now gone, and gravelled with with feature terracing timbers)

 

How come every job to do with houses and gardens generates another job ad infinitum? Chaos theory proven

 

Looks nice though

 

its because you dont plan properly. being practical is as much use as being an intellectual, in fact its more use!

[Bago]

It's the curse of modern life. We get all these fab new gadgets and 'labour saving devices' but they only add up to more work.

 

A car? You've only got to wash and hoover it, take it to the garage, pay bills etc.

 

An MP3 player? Nice, but think of all that time spent ripping CDs, then renaming them because they've got not info on, then loading them up, then reloading them when you get a new player.

 

A DVD-R? Fab, but then you must format them discs and spend time labelling them. Plus then you notice the feature that lets you tap in info using the fiddly remote...and there's more dusting of course...

 

That's one of the funniest post I've read in a while.

Are you saying that you haaaate gadgets?

[Nabsdabs1@ti]

It started with a shed.

 

Mrs Draggletail desired a shed to put all the garden toys and general 'stuff' in.

 

I resisted of coures, being a guy. Putting up a shed requires work.

 

So... we got a shed (and this is another 'law' - "the women generally get their own way in the in the end law")

 

Much work went into digging out the area and levelling it.

 

Then we got to thinking about the area next to the shed - perfect for a 'play house' for our toddler

 

Much excavating and laying of decking base ensued....

 

I lay my aching bod on the deck ... the space next to it was perfect for the garden bench as a seating area...

 

Much heaving and inserting of railway sleepers and we had a seating area....

 

I sat on the seat with a cup of tea. the overgrown area in front needed stripping out, planting and mulching .....

 

(Yes, yes it's done)

 

And the right angled crazy paving path with the unpointed dirt areas that our son liked grubbing about in is now gone, and gravelled with with feature terracing timbers)

 

How come every job to do with houses and gardens generates another job ad infinitum? Chaos theory proven

 

Looks nice though

falls off chair for second time today:hihi: stoppit it hurts my sides:hihi:

[Draggletail]

falls off chair for second time today:hihi: stoppit it hurts my sides:hihi:

Glad to be of service

its because you dont plan properly. being practical is as much use as being an intellectual, in fact its more use!

It has to be said, if it had been envisaged as a 'grand plan' that dratted shed would never have got through the garden gate in the first place. No way.

[Mathom]

That's one of the funniest post I've read in a while.

Are you saying that you haaaate gadgets?

 

No, I'm a gadget fan, but they don't half take up a load of time! I spend half my life worrying if phones and mp3 players are charged and when I go on holiday all the chargers take up half me bag

 

Sometimes I wish I had the nerve to go and be a new age traveller and live in a tepee with only a shovel to serve for 'modern conveniences' The day the electricity runs out and we're all plunged back into the Dark Ages I'll be stuffed. I wish you could get a kind of IT Butler to take care of all your gadgets and that...