Author Topic: do you waste their weekends regularly? (Read 1334 times)

Rman · « **on:** October 18, 2020, 08:31:51 PM »

every weekend i create a big todo list of fun things to do. some productive too. but when push comes to shove, i veg one day out. clean, groom, get ready for the week on the other day.

i'm not a shut-in, even in covid dayz, but my dream of doing woodworking or writing a novel are slowly dying lolz.

Transhuman · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:37:27 PM »

Not just the weekends

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:37:39 PM »

Nope, I waste mine though

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:39:44 PM »

In my opinion it's the weekdays that are wasted.

james · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:43:08 PM »

I've been meaning to clean my vacume and coffee machine for like 13 weekends now

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:48:22 PM »

Quote from: james on October 18, 2020, 08:43:08 PM

I've been meaning to clean my vacume and coffee machine for like 13 weekends now

To hide the evidence?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2020, 09:02:46 PM »

Quote from: Transhuman on October 18, 2020, 08:37:27 PM

Not just the weekends

but the women and children too.

Bebpo · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2020, 09:10:40 PM »

Yeah, since Covid I suck at this if I don't have chores to do. If I have chores/cooking, I get that done, but then days like today when I've got nothing I just grind rpgs and nap instead of going out or doing something productive :'(

Was easier before covid when could make social plans on weekends to fill them up + chores.

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2020, 09:32:09 PM »

Feel like the last 3 years have been wasted with chronic fatigue. Just sleeping and sitting in front of my pc with no energy, when I'm not working

james · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2020, 11:24:01 PM »

Also I was going to vote this weekend but didnt leave the apartment whoops

team filler · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2020, 12:31:17 AM »

No I don't believe in the wasting of time,
But I don't believe that I'm wasting mine

Transhuman · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2020, 01:27:46 AM »

That and extraordinary machine are my favourites

chronovore · « **Reply #12 on:** October 19, 2020, 01:48:27 AM »

The less spare time I have, the better I use it. I've found many people share this tendency. I had 6-day, 70-80 hour weeks for the last two months, and I had a single Sunday that was so fantastic, I posted about it in the triumph thread. Contrast it with this 3-day weekend I'm now in, and my lazy ass just accepts that I'm in recovery mode. Hell, yesterday I even had a nap.

Ghoul · « **Reply #13 on:** October 19, 2020, 04:47:52 AM »

These be productive with your free time people are freaks, I don't want to make a fucking podcast. I generally try do stuff at weekends, cook, some cleaning, but then I'll watch shows and play games and just try relax.

thetylerrob · « **Reply #14 on:** October 19, 2020, 12:18:03 PM »

18 hours of Vermintide 2 this last weekend

2 days a week to recover from 5 straight days of soul sucking work will never be enough honestly.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #15 on:** October 19, 2020, 12:30:32 PM »

Pretty much alternate, yeah lol

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #16 on:** October 19, 2020, 12:56:11 PM »

I have been mostly wasting them but this weekend actually went ok, made some progress on both programming and music projects. hope it's the start of a trend.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #17 on:** October 19, 2020, 12:58:28 PM »

lol being productive right now.

paprikastaude · « **Reply #18 on:** October 19, 2020, 01:25:51 PM »

Quote from: Trent Dole on October 19, 2020, 12:58:28 PM

lol being productive right now.

lol ever being productive.

Not being productive and blaming the boomer virus

BIONIC · « **Reply #19 on:** October 19, 2020, 03:56:42 PM »

Quote from: riotous on October 19, 2020, 01:33:29 PM

Any time I have real weekend plans I sometimes feel like that was the waste of my weekend.. and I wish I'd just spent it vegging out.

Actually kinda prefer doing random social stuff on weeknights.

As far as chores and housework goes.. I mean, there are people that do that stuff for you.

Brb, getting myself a 19 y/o wife

Coffee Dog · « **Reply #20 on:** October 19, 2020, 04:26:24 PM »

Every time. I even take up new hobbies to ensure I don't progress my old ones.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #21 on:** October 19, 2020, 04:36:21 PM »

Quote from: Coffee Dog on October 19, 2020, 04:26:24 PM

Every time. I even take up new hobbies to ensure I don't progress my old ones.

Have you tried structured procrastination?

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I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time. All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.

Let's Cyber · « **Reply #22 on:** October 19, 2020, 05:08:19 PM »

During the week, I always have grand plans and important things to do for my days off.

...and I always spend them gaming.

I moved a few months ago and still haven't unpacked most of my shit.

I'm gross and disgusting.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #23 on:** October 19, 2020, 05:20:33 PM »

I actually wish I could procrastinate by gaming or reading books, etc. I used to do that as a kid/teenager but since I got on web forums and especially twitter, youtube, etc. I don't have the attention span for games anymore ...

tiesto · « **Reply #24 on:** October 19, 2020, 05:21:30 PM »

I have all these grandiose plans of doing stuff on the weekends - mostly cleaning, reorganizing, etc. If I finally get into something I'll get hardcore into it and won't stop until I'm done... but for tasks that take a few hours, I find it really difficult to split it up. So I wait for the weekend where I won't have any interruptions like I might have during the work week... in theory.

chronovore · « **Reply #25 on:** October 19, 2020, 07:15:14 PM »

I also find that I feel guilty if I don't do something productive each day. Degree of productivity is relative. For instance, yesterday I was feeling bad that I'd only done the dishes and a washed/hung/folded a load of laundry, then realized I'd also switched all my summer clothes into storage, and hung out my winter wardrobe.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #26 on:** October 20, 2020, 08:56:48 AM »

Quote from: Let's Cyber on October 19, 2020, 05:08:19 PM

During the week, I always have grand plans and important things to do for my days off.

...and I always spend them gaming.

I moved a few months ago and still haven't unpacked most of my shit.

I'm gross and disgusting.

I relocated april 19 and like more than half my shit is still in boxes.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #27 on:** October 27, 2020, 04:42:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/QJualey/status/1321188241488244737

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #28 on:** October 27, 2020, 08:51:32 PM »

I’ve already given up on ever being as successful as the Unabomber.

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Author Topic: do you waste their weekends regularly? (Read 1334 times)