So not bathroom related tasks, but more like some arbitrary thing you must and always do daily.
For me, I watch Anton Petrov’s daily white paper summary with dinner since some time in 2018. Even when New Pipe is down, I hit up Vimeo or Odyssey to watch Anton.
I drink coffee on my porch with my wife so we can identify birds and say hi to all the runners and dog walkers.
I have to find my glasses. If your vision was so bad as mine that you can’t find your own glasses, and you’re two days out of work because they fell behind the night stand and you can’t see to find them, you’d understand…
The optional part was whether I wear my glasses while I sleep, as I usually have all my life, or place them on the nightstand…
I thought you were going to say the optional part was the missing work for 2 days rather than wear your spare pair.
Do you have a container on your nightstand to hold your glasses? Something big enough it’s unlikely to fall behind the table, that helps position them the same way every time so you won’t smudge the lens when you’re feeling for them?
No. That just makes me more likely to lose my glasses. I usually just wear them, 24/7…
I feel you, dude. Sleep is the only time mine aren’t on my face and I keep them grabbable, but I don’t want to squish them rolling over in my sleep.
Making coffee and tea for my wife when she wakes up, make the lunchbox for my student son, sometimes also for my wife if she needs to get to the office. Nobody eats breakfast so after that I clean up and fill the dishwasher from last nights dinner, that I cook daily. Inbetween I game, relax, make music, pet the cat.
It is nice being early retired and doing the housekeeping.
I do the crossword every morning with my coffee
Eating dinner with family daily. I was talking with some coworkers and apparently this isn’t something most people do anymore? I really enjoy this time with them and we’ve always had great conversations while I was growing up and now with my own family.
I’m very interested, would like to have family dinner tradition too when/if I start a family. I just don’t have any idea how to start. Can you tell me more how does the routine go? Like, who is responsible for what? Do you cook/buy dinner? What are the do’s and don’ts while having dinner? How to enforce it while making sure everyone enjoy this routine? What kind of obligations are okay as an excuse to not participate?
I know it’s too many questions, just the gist of it is fine.
It’s more for immediate family in the house. My wife loves to cook so she usually does, unless she’s going to be busy and then I’ll chip in. Sometimes we have the kids make dinner and we meal plan so they get to decide what to make.
Conversation is a lot more organic than you’re thinking. We talk about our day or what we’ve recently learned. Could go into taboo subjects like religion and politics. The kids get some great critical thinking exercises. If someone has something going on then we try to eat around that (ex. like a sports function to be at). Most other people eat around the same time (5p-6p) so it’s fairly easy to ensure we eat together most nights.
I guess the biggest take away is that we set this expectation since before we had kids, my wife and I tried to eat dinner together whenever possible, and the kids have grown up with that routine so they’re used to it.
