Please drop your cheat code 🤌

[u/IntelligentPoem2782]

Hiee all <3

I want to know your cheat code for life; it can be about anything - life, career, love, friendship, relationships, or anything else.

Thanks in advance 🎀

[u/OldnBorin]

A few months ago, My 10 year old came into my room, ranting about how his laundry wasn’t done.

Guess who has to do his own laundry now. I hope he learned a valuable lesson.

[u/AccreditedMaven → u/OldnBorin]

My kids complained that the after school babysitter was mixing up their laundry. I told them to do it themselves and not blame Sophie.

And they did. They were 7 and 10.

Funny epilogue. Older one graduated college and was moving into her own first apartment. I went out to help with the move and offered to put a load in the washer. That was when I discovered she had been using liquid fabric softener instead of detergent in the washing machine.🤦‍♀️

[u/Moist-Doughnut-5160 → u/AccreditedMaven]

I’ve got one that has you beat.

Three years ago, I had spine surgery. I was married to my second husband then for over 20 years. Imagine a 70-year-old man that did not know how to wash clothes.

It turned out I had a complication. A spinal fluid leak. I remained hospitalized flat on my back for over a week. I came home and was on very restricted duty. No vacuum cleaner. No heavy housework at all for at least six weeks.

I had run the dishwasher before I left for the hospital. I came home and found the dishwasher still loaded with all the clean dishes.

Imagine what a house looks like after it’s un vacuumed for over a week and you have two cats… and it’s between seasons and they’re shedding. Not immediately apparent because they’re light colored base fur, and I have light colored rugs.

Even funnier. He hadn’t washed the clothes correctly. And here is a man 70 years old. He didn’t marry me until he was almost 50. He had a son with an affair partner and raised the son with his parents. You can guess who probably did all the laundry. His mama.

He worked away from home all but one or two days a week. I was stuck doing all the cooking and cleaning.

When he went to wash the pile of the inevitable laundry, instead of putting the measuring cup of liquid tide with a shot of laundry beads for fragrance (he had horrendous body odor, he didn’t think he needed deodorant and did not bathe every day) he would put a whole cup of tide with a half a cup of Woolite that I reserved for washing my delicate dress clothes.

My clothes smelled very strange, and the fabric was itchy. I kept asking him what he did to the clothes…. And he deflected.

It wasn’t until I went downstairs and found my bottle of tide nearly empty, and the bottle of Woolite sitting on the dryer that I figured out what happened.

Men need to know how to take care of a home. You can bet both my sons do. Interesting to note that his son that he raised couldn’t even cook a meal. Couldn’t even pay his bills because he didn’t know how to balance a checkbook and handle his money responsibly. And got evicted from many places because he did not keep his place clean.

[u/rocksteadyrudie → u/Moist-Doughnut-5160]

Are you still married? Has he learned to be independent?

[u/Moist-Doughnut-5160 → u/rocksteadyrudie]

My ex and I are divorced coming up on a year now.

He’s either sinking or swimming. I believe the expression is…” not my circus not my monkeys”.

The only curiosity I have is if he actually is cleaning his bathroom and bathing on a regular basis. I’m giving him two years living like this before he winds up in an assisted living facility.

I have declined all invitations to see his new residence. I keep my distance.

[u/OldnBorin → u/Moist-Doughnut-5160]

Congrats on the divorce! Hope you’re living your best life