Some of my ways to procrastinate

Hello to all!
My last post was about procrastination, of sorts. Thinking(!) in more depth about this, as I am an expert procrastinater, just how many ways can you put off what is really important? Let's see.

1. My phone. I own a very basic mobile phone that certainly doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the new ones. I actually use it for making and taking phone calls, nothing else. So, how can I waste perfectly good time with this gadget?

I haven't a clue how to text properly yet. I mean, the phone is about three years old. My daughter has tried very patiently to teach me to text, instead of ringing all and sundry. My brother swears I am the dumbest woman he has ever met. ( He's younger than me, and married to a gorgeous woman, so we'll ignore that comment; besides, he has two other sisters!) And I simply haven't been bothered to learn. Hey, what's wrong with that?

The phone also has some of those amazing games on it. The amount of energy I spend playing them leaves me too exhausted to do anything at all constructive which I should be doing!

Those are just a couple of reasons I can blame on my phone, instead of other people. As for everything else, no one has that amount of time spare to read what I can find, but I will include a few more, just for interest.

2. The pot-plants suddenly look dull. Their leaves need washing immediately; today. No matter that there is a gentle misty rain outside which could do the job much better than I can manually, if I set them outside for maybe five minutes, and where's that leaf-polish stuff?

3. The pantry cupboard is a shambles, although I only pulled everything out, checked labels for expiry dates and removed the hundred or so spiders who were busily setting up home in the corners of the shelves that do not even remotely get used, apart from some unGodly stuff that has been tried, disliked intensely and stuffed promptly to the back.

4. The mending suddenly resembles Mt. Kilimanjaro. My God, is that where that pair of jeans disappeared to? Oh, guess what? There are five pairs that need buttons and I have the buttons here too, just looking at me. I've been wondering what five of the same type of buttons have been doing in that saucer.

5. Ditto the ironing. There's months worth there, and it looks disgusting. Besides, where is Aunt Sarah going to have her afternoon nap when she visits? Oh, that's right. She's moved States a couple of months ago. Oh, well, someone must need the bed for some reason, and I'm here anyway, so I may as well get rid of some of this. I do have a darling lady who does ironing for me sometimes. That's right, I've lost her number. And her name.

6. I haven't cooked a full load of cakes, scones, etc for ages. Oh, my poor deprived family. Never mind I saw my husband and daughter happily scoffing some bought rock cakes just this morning. Time to see if the oven cooks anything but roasts.

 7. There's that cupboard I really need for spare, in order to fill it up with junk again immediately,  so I may as well clean it out. I promised the Church charity a whole heap of stuff out of it and their used, pre-loved clothing sale is on in six months. I really need to get on with that.

8. There's that new Peter Robinson book I bought three weeks ago. I haven't read it yet, so maybe I just better see why I actually bought it in the first place. I've forgotten what the jacket said. I may as well read a little of it; after all, I do like his writing.

So you see, I can find a pile of things inside the house to do and they will take me all day. I haven't even given thought to the garden or outside. I have read up on how to avoid procrastination so much that it has become another procrastination tool.

So, what to do about procrastination? Keep reading how to avoid it? No. In my next post, I'll go through some strategies that may hopefully help you. There are many that really do work, if you practice them every day.