Jenn: Lazy, Or Just Awesomely Efficient?

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‪So the other day I realized that half of the light bulbs in our house are...missing. And it's because, unthinkingly, every time a new one goes out we make a loose calculation on the value of light in one room vs. another and swap the light bulb of lesser importance and just go without light in that area. This was a totally weird revelation to me and it was like taking the red pill down the Matrix of all the other bizarre little workarounds I've concocted throughout my daily life. How many other things like this do I just do automatically that I don't even know about?? And is it just out of laziness or somehow kind of beneficial to me? So I started to explore...

In the spirit of getting to know me, what better way than to tell you about how ridiculous I am? Here's some of the other dumb things in my daily life that I've just discovered I'm guilty of:

• When I need a just a specific item or two to wear from my dirty laundry for a special event of some sort, I wash only those items instead of the whole load of laundry.
• When we run out of hand soap in the bathroom, I start going to the kitchen to wash my hands with dish soap.
• I tend to use a new cup each time I wander into the kitchen to get a drink of water. Then I set it aside, forget about it, and repeat next time. THEN I get mad about why the sink is full of dirty cups and try to blame my husband. Memory like a goldfish, for real.
• You know that stupid thing where you're vacuuming and there's an object on the floor that the vacuum won't suck up, so you pick it up inspect it, then drop it and try to vacuum it, again? Yeah, guilty. Instead of just taking it to the trash I am VACUUMING and I want the satisfaction of conquering it with the VACUUM, dang it! And also, "vacuum" is fun to type.
• I have a headlight out on my car so I at night I just drive with the working headlight on bright all the time. Oh...sorry fellow drivers...
• My windshield wiper fluid is out. I just discovered how bad my windshield had gotten when my husband was driving us out west at sunset recently and we could barely see through it for all the sunlight diffused in the dirt.
• I have a gazillion chap sticks and lip glosses in various places so that one is always nearby. I have at least 5 in my purse (2 I can never seem to find..) several in my bathroom and my office and a few in my car, still. Probably horribly melted at this point. Fabulous...

So there you have it. Though while all of these things are largely lazy and may lead to some inconvenience later, at the time they allow me to get done what I need to immediately and keep living my life at a mile a minute! Once the need becomes really obvious, I then remember it better and take action.

And I know it's not just me that has these crazy quirks...'fess up. What are some of the things you let yourself get away with due to a clever combination of laziness and efficiency?

Jenn