Stop watching those TV ads and gain an hour a week !

GraciesGran

Have just started doing this - can't believe how many of those stop/start jobs I can get through.

kittycat204

does anybody else get a surprising amount done during advert breaks. not just making tea, i get washing up done, well at least half. washing taken upstairs, hot water bottled filled. I really can get so much done. everybody should give it a go if they don't.

Barneysmom

Washing Up Mode is great isn't it?

Lad the machine and brew up.
Empty the machine and brew up :cool:

rosie383

I do the same when I have bits and pieces to do. Also if I have have even 5 mins while I am waiting on the wee one to go to the loo before she gets her shoes and coat on for school, I will make a start on the dishes, even if I know I won't get them all done. Same as during ads. Even doing half the dishes is great, then get the next half done in the next break.
Since being an OS regular, I find I can no longer stand in the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil. I get at least a few bits put away or a surface wiped down.

Linda32

Yes, I do that, unloading or loading the washing machine is one. Folding washing, putting away etc.

Shame really for the advertisers

Pooky

Ahhh, now I can't stand half done jobs so I pop any programmes I want to watch onto record, do the dishes etc when it starts and then when I sit to watch I can whizz through the adverts at x30!

spike7451

Pooky wrote: »

Ahhh, now I can't stand half done jobs so I pop any programmes I want to watch onto record, do the dishes etc when it starts and then when I sit to watch I can whizz through the adverts at x30!

Same here! I Sky+ everything & just fast forward thru the ads,but I do on occasion forget I can do that & then realise I can half way thru the ad break!

bigfatpig

V+ everything and zoom through the ads, can watch an hours program in 35mins!

jovichick123

I do this, I watched part of the NTA's last night (until 9 when Masterchef came on), due to the sheer amount of ad breaks, I managed to do the washing up from dinner (dried and put away), unload the dryer and put a washing load ready in the WM for switching on this morning, fold and put away all the clothes from the TD load and had two hot vimto's in between

On Tuesday night I made a makeshift frame for one of DS's art projects whilst watching Eastenders :rotfl:

OH says I am incapable of sitting still

MandM90

jovichick123 wrote: »

OH says I am incapable of sitting still

DW gets annoyed at me because I'm always doing *something* when we watch a film whether it's catching up on correspondance via email, writing cards, making lists, knitting or flicking through a cookbook. I find it quite boring to only watch TV and I only really watch it to appease her; if it were up to me we'd sit in silence all evening with books/scientific journals or the whir of my sewing machine.