The Midults’ guide to…

To-do lists

WHO KNOWS HOW we fill our time. Why we decide to do what we decide to do when we decide to do it. If we decide to do it. Because every week, so many tasks and jobs and bits and duties and pleasures and chores and projects and enquiries and forms and activities and organisings and hobbies and emotional hurdles and conversations slip through the colander of life. And then those undone, unloved, incomplete, perfectly innocent mini-missions morph into niggles and worries and bothersome shadows that tickle us behind the brain. That do not allow us that sense of completion. Because life is never complete, is it?

Here are a few things that you might have forgotten to do this week alone…

1. Take that print you bought in a Paris flea market five years ago to the framer.

2. Or hang any pictures.

3. Use that Estée Lauder sheet mask you bought six months ago.

4. Get that life-crisis piercing. You’ve spent hours on the Maria Tash website and still NOTHING.

5. Look into your pension. Hang on, what pension?

6. And let’s not even mention wills.

7. Savings. LOL.

8. Learn how to put GIFS on Instagram stories.

9. Watch Blue Planet. (Although you pretend you have.)

10. Delete everything you are never going to watch from Sky Planner.

11. Find a cool thing to put the loo rolls in, so they don’t roll around the bathroom floor.

12. Write your novel.

13. Learn how to contour.

14. Pilates.

15. Sort out the towels (and throw away the ones you bought when you were a student).

16. Buy buttons for the bottom of the

Look into your pension… hang on, what pension? And don’t even mention wills

duvet… The original ones were eaten by the washing machine.

17. Sew buttons on anything. AT ALL.

18. Go on a silent retreat in India.

19. Grow vegetables.

20. Spice up your sex life in a meaningful way.

21. Learn calligraphy.

22. Work out how you feel about death.

23. Sort out the mugs.

24. Take that vintage dress you bought last year to the dressmaker to be turned into the world’s most magical sheath that will be the envy of all and make everyone think you are a bit French and dating Mark Ronson.

25. Clean all your silver jewellery that has oxidised.

26. Read War and Peace.

27. Ask for a pay rise.

28. Meditate for longer than three minutes. OK, two and a half.

29. Clean the dishwasher filter.

30. Throw away your mixtapes, which you still have even though you have no means of playing them.

31. Make a soufflé.

32. Order those life-changing probiotics that you heard about

33. Forgive your mother.

34. Buy one of those ‘instant wardrobe updaters’ that you keep reading about. *pullsonblackdress*

35. Clear out that pile of dusty, sticky, lumpy coffee-table books.

36. Update your IOS – the fear, the fear.

37. Understand Bitcoin.

38. Hook up the Alexa you got for Christmas.

39. Book tickets to the next Guilty Feminist live show. Or Hamilton .Or

The Ferryman.

40. Buy new headphones. The wires are sticking out and they look genuinely dangerous, but if you hold them at a certain angle then they sort of still work, so on you plough.

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