What're your bad habits?

Several years of paperwork waiting to be sorted and filed.

Worry and anxiety . . .

(1) What should I wear? Deciding what to wear on the basis of what whoever I'm going to be with will think of my outfit (they probably don't give a damn about what I'm wearing!)

(2) Did I upset X or Y or Z? Usually with no evidence that I have upset them.

(3) Mulling over again and again over something that has happened when there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. And probably nothing I could do about it anyway. And it probably doesn't matter anyway.

Procrastination - flying by the seat of my pants, hoping I'll get away with not having done something important.

I am a big dressing gown sitter on my days off. I sit for hours watching breakfast TV and any old rubbish. Another one is throwing things into cupboards untidily to the point that something eventually falls out!

I only wash the windows on the front of my house.

Why bother ironing Legs55? Iron it when you need to wear it. That’s my philosophy, anyway my things only get squashed when in the draw or wardrobe, and then need ironing again!

I know I can be envious. Not in any sort of spiteful way, but when others seem to have things come easily I resent the fact I always seem to miss out on luck and that life has generally been a slog. I doesn't last long. It's a momentary thing and I am always able to count my many blessings, which sort of cancels it out.

I also tend to leave things till the very last minute. It's the only motivation I have. I tell myself I will be more organised and do things when I have time but I am queen of the last minute rush! (Never miss a deadline though!)

Oh and I like to have things 'just so' in the house. I saw a card the other day that described me perfectly.

"I am very flexible, as long as things are just the way I want them"

Smoking! Yes, I know, I know, I really do know. Been smoking since the age of 14 and 64 now and so far, completely unscathed. Hate it when people lecture. I'm an adult, a free thinking independent spirit who makes her own choices in life. Sigh, as she lights up.......

over thinking things ( it sounds better than anxious) and taking on more than I can cope with now I'm older!

Diggingdoris Those aren't bad habits, they're pleasures

Slobbing around in my dressing gown on GN etc, like now. Must get showered and dressed, I have a load of washing to hang out.

I'm the same as so many others here - procrastination and putting off doing things. Then I feel guilty about it and have a blitz of activity which is exhausting. Otherwise I'm a Mary Poppins - I don't think !

Nail-biting! Gosh I could get a Nobel Prize for it!

I can remember doing it at three years old - now I'm going downhill to seventy and I can't stop.

BradfordLass thank you for agreeing. Trouble is when I know someone's coming I have to charge about like a mad thing cleaning and tidying! Exhausting! If visitors catch me unannounced I try to steer them into the garden as it usually looks gorgeous!

I'm the most indecisive person in the world, - I think.
I drive myself mad with it.

1) Making arrangements to go out then not wanting to go when the time comes.

2) Hanging onto clothes I no longer fit into leading to ...

3) Procrastination about dieting - I'll start tomorrow - leading to ......

4) Buying more clothes I don't need.

5) Deciding a job needs doing but I'll just come on GN first

Extravagance, always lived beyond my means, trying to be more sensible now, in case I drop dead and my rather sensible children go through my finances with horror!

Always happy enough for me to treat them of course!

I used to be so carefree, but now I am a constant worrier.

I avoid housework, but I am tidy.

I write To Do Lists then don’t look at them.

I am on my IPad too much and read books less. I am making an effort to get back into reading as opposed to surfing.

I am a worrier and I am always anticipating trouble in the future. My son is getting married abroad and I ashamed to say that I am dreading it. What 'ifs' fill my mind - especially in the middle of the night. My eldest daughter is the same and my mum always said if any of her family were late home that she had been 'planning what to wear to the funeral!"

I always look forward to trips and holidays but on the evening before going I always wish I could stay home as I wonder if some disaster is going to befall us and I will never see my house again.

Like DanniRae's mum , if my husband is late home I start to visualise his funeral and how I would have to organise it. When he does get home there is a momentary relief that I won't have to go through all that, yet.

Leaving the bedroom so untidy because no visitor is going to see it anyway. I am trying to find a place for everything so I can get into the habit of putting things away in the same place at once. It is beginning to work as I find it easier to find things.

Hooked on the internet....

Giggle type bad things
I waft around in pjs till sometimes midday (this will change when husband retires )
I read way to late and then sleep in as well

On real type bad things
Always always have to be on time. Visiting I will park in another street and then drive over with a minute or two to spare
I worry about things I cant control.

What is the opposite of procrastination? I have that !

I just can't seem to put anything off once I have got the idea into my head, unless it involves "this place" of course.

My absolute worst habit is biting my nails and I hate it ! My GP once said that it was a form of "self harm" !

Ooh, how long have you got?! Sitting around not dressed til midday (like today); a bit like the 1st post - I put the kettle on to boil, wander off doing something else while I'm waiting for it, then have to reboil it as it's gone cold; ditto make tea and forget to drink it; mounds of future craft projects; keeping clothes that seem to have shrunk, and procrastination about starting a diet. I think there's many of us on here who get on soooo well because of our similarities!

I make a mug of coffee and then walk away and do somethng else.When I return I have to heat it up in the microwave.

I pull the skin away from around my nails. Have been trying to get out of the habit since I was about 6. One day, I hope, I will have nice nails and cuticles, but I'm not holding my breath.