how do you find time?

[RichieZX6R]

I got quite a few things on my list, such as the bike sitting needing new pads/disc's, chain/sprockets, a good service and putting back together, got to wall paper the sitting room, fix a small drip in the kitchen, get the car serviced, organise the christening for little legs, the list goes on i think. But i work full time and have a 3 month old son so must of this keeps getting put on hold. How do people find the time to do all this and still have a bit time to relax after the days work? Thank god i have a week off in may! Might get some thing done then
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Past: Kawazaki ZX6R 96 - Honda CBR 600F4 05 - Dragstar 125 02 - Honda CB 400 SF 94 - Honda NSR 125 51 - Gilera Runner XV125 04

[pwntifex]

Do everything half-heartedly and worry ye not about the consequences.
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the warped one: This is a follow up from the thread 'my willy hurts'

[RichieZX6R]

[pwntifex]

Hmm, you could always hire a small team of Eastern Europeans, then; they'd sort you out in no time. Bonus is they'd have enough MAs and PHDs between them to educate your son from elementary to degree level by the time they're done.
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the warped one: This is a follow up from the thread 'my willy hurts'

[RichieZX6R]

[DrDonnyBrago]

Skip the christening, your lad will almost certainly thank you for it in the end anyway.

Paint the walls or convince your lady that the fashionable thing to do atm is to have three painted walls and one wallpapered.

Change the oil on the car and skip the service or book it in to a garage near where your missus works and get her to take it in.

Don't feck around fixing the sink, just replace all of the plastic U bends etc, costs more but time saved a plenty. Either that or bodge it with some silicone and ignore it for a few more months.

THEN - sit in the garage (man cave) with your days of time saved and lovingly strip, clean, grease and reassemble the brakes, new seals if required along with new braided steel lines with colour matched hoses and banjos. Fit the new chain and sprockets that you spent hours on the internet choosing with your new top of the range Whale chain tool, fit the new Galfer wavy discs and HH sintered pads whilst relaxing with a few old CDs and a cold beer.

Bike time IS relaxing time, the trick is to get an old sofa for the garage .

[RichieZX6R]

[MarJay]

The trick is to not do anything with your spare time except slob about and work on the bike. Simples.
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[angryjonny]

It's amazing how much basic chores and housework etc eat into your day.

The best thing I've done from a "saving time" point of view recently is spending a morning plumbing in a dishwasher. That's saved me half an hour of washing up each evening, or a full 7 days a year if you look at it that way.

Also I have a washer-dryer where you can set it to dry automatically after it washes. So I just put the washing on in the morning before I go to work and it just needs folding when I get home. Simples.

Get your shopping delivered rather than going out to the supermarket. There's an hour or two a week of trudging round the store you won't have to do.

It all adds up.

[RichieZX6R]

[MarkJ]

[Damon]

Man up and tell the wife to fix the sink, do the painting and all the cleaning. I bet it's only her complaining about it anyway...

Then while she's calming down from being told what to do, go and work on the bike until she lets you back in the house.

HTH

[dogbot]

When whatever girl I'm with starts nagging at me to do stuff, it's over.

Amazing how much free time you suddenly have.

[Bendy]

Stop wasting time procrastinating about not having any time. If you add up all that time you sit around saying "oh I'm so busy, I don't have time to do this" you could probably get more done.

Turn off the internet. It's a time sponge.

Break the things down into smaller tasks, where possible. Wallpapering might take a day, but the bike things could be done in bits. Make a list. If there's a 'critical path' for a task (eg you can't fit c&s until you've ordered c&s) then work out the steps. If there are things which could be done in less than half an hour, don't keep listing them, just pick one and do it.

Be reasonable. If you want a weekend off then just have one. Nothing on your list sounds super vital. Don't have a 'oh, I'll do something this weekend' which ends up not happening, decide you're not doing it and then it isn't in the back of your mind. Equally, just pick a weekend and do the wallpapering. It won't be that bad.


I talk the talk.
I still haven't finished painting the kitchen, haven't started tiling the kitchen, have a box of bits needing fitted to my bike, have a stack of paperwork needing doing... and that's before you get onto my work 'stuff to do' list. But I'm dead busy, honest. Yeah, dead busy procrastinating.

[Nai]

[Suntan Sid]

[angryjonny]

[mistergixer]

Spend all available spare time smoking weed and drinking beer - that way you won't care about the unfinished jobs and you have an 'excuse' for belting the wife if she persists with her nagging.

Works for me.


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[RichieZX6R]

[dogbot]

[RichieZX6R]

haha i had that in the past with ex's dogbot. Hence why they they are ex's!
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Current: Kawazaki ZX6R 51
Past: Kawazaki ZX6R 96 - Honda CBR 600F4 05 - Dragstar 125 02 - Honda CB 400 SF 94 - Honda NSR 125 51 - Gilera Runner XV125 04

[nowhere.elysium]

The Mrs lights a fire underneath me, as a rule.
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