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What's it called when someone...

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Baggs Sat 05-May-18 14:43:11

...keeps doing certain things simply in order to avoid doing other things that they really outht to be doing?

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Greenfinch Wed 09-May-18 07:15:51

Faffing around.

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Grammaretto Thu 10-May-18 18:10:18

Why put off till tomorrow what you can leave till the day after?
I actually bought a book about procrastination. It was called DO IT NOW but I never got around to reading it.

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travelsafar Thu 10-May-18 18:17:34

Stalling!!! lol

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pollyperkins Thu 10-May-18 18:22:15

Grammarretto?

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Glitterknitbaby Thu 10-May-18 21:34:23

I convinced myself I was a procrastinator but now think I have just become very lazy and using procrastinating because it sounds better! Right now I’m sitting here on my tablet when I haven’t even washed up the tea dishes which was eaten just after six this evening. I wanted an early night after visiting a very ill family member but can’t do that till the dishes are done!

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annep Wed 06-Jun-18 22:05:05

Kittylester- spot on ?!

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Jalima1108 Wed 06-Jun-18 23:06:39

Esquivalience.

Procrastination or displacement activity are not necessarily bad because all kinds of other tasks can be undertaken and completed whilst putting off the one which needs to be done.

You could find a few days later that the task which you kept putting off never needed to be done at all anyway!

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Jalima1108 Wed 06-Jun-18 23:08:12

Esquivalience.
I mean to comment on that but procrastinated grin

What an interesting new word

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NfkDumpling Thu 07-Jun-18 06:20:00

I love Esquivalience! I wonder how many words started out as mountweasels.

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