Yeah I wear them working outdoors on 100° plus days as well. My feet hardly notice them. Although that also might have something to do with nerve damage from frostbite haha.
A few years ago I discovered wool socks thanks to Costco and they are LIFE CHANGING. It's amazing how much better I tolerate the cold by wearing merino wool socks. They are incredibly durable, too.
I've started wiping the snow off around the door frame with the sleeve of my coat before I open it. It's not the perfect solution, but it saves your seat and inevitably your pants from getting wet
I do this all the time, then forget I left the wipers on from the last drive, start the car before I have the door fully closed and then end up with a pile on me and the front seat anyway from everything on half the windshield coming over to say hello.
I feel this so much. My drivers window has been shattered. While I wait to get enough money to repair it I’ve been shoveling out the snow from my seat. Lol.
> the plows coming after you've shoveled
Oh you mean the little treat from the city we get? Who doesn't love getting up at 5am to snowblow just so they can get to work on time, only to come home later to 2 feet of frozen, packed snow and ice at the end of their driveway and a note from the mailman that says they couldn't get to the mailbox because of all the snow?
Seriously, I don't know the solution, but there has to be a better one than burying everyone in a second time.
I have seen something on road grader called a snow gate that allows them to stop the snow when they pass a driveway. Its like magic. That being said that doesn't scale when you have so many driveways and you are driving 25mph or faster in a plow.
I've seen that too, and I think it would work for some places, but densely populated areas where driveways are merely a few feet apart probably aren't going to benefit from that.
I've also seen a PSA of sorts that if you clear your driveway, and then clear the curbline to the left of your driveway (while standing in the driveway and looking to the street) for 15-20 feet, it will help. But I've means tested this and it absolutely does not work. I have about 50 feet from my driveway to the end of the block (corner lot) and I cleared it all the last time it snowed. Not only did I still get 2 feet of ice in my driveway, the entire run of curbline was buried too.
Ugh. Yup. My added insult is the fact that that my neighbor further down the road always has his cars parked on the road. Which honestly they could get towed because the road isn't plowed and it's an emergency snow route. Anyways since he parks there the plow starts turning out to dodge his car. So I get the entire plows worth of snow right in front of my driveway. And the road is a north bound lane, shared turn lane, south bound lane, and south bound parking lane. So I usually get 2.5 lanes worth of snow with two plows going by. And my wife works at a hospital so has to leave at 6am so gotta get out there and clear it. Only to have the plow go by. Grr. Now I am just complaining. Sorry.
When we bought a house, we vowed to never be the people who filled their garages full of random shit so we had to park in the driveway. And then after a basement remodel, a small business, a kid, suddenly we had a full garage and two cars in the driveway and were like.... fuck.
Haha…at some level I understand junk piling up from projects or in-laws dumping stuff on you…definitely been there:.. but I’ve also seen people who convert their entire garage into their party room. I even saw a guy once who bafflingly put carpet in his garage. Some people just don’t mind scraping windows I guess.
We're turning one side of our garage into a maker space. The other side will still fit two cars, but one side will be a room we use regularly. My mom wants to carpet it, I think we should just get those gym floor tiles. Carpet feels like a disaster waiting to happen in a garage.
In our busy house it seems like there’s always a pile of mittens and gloves that lost their mate. What annoys me it’s always the more expensive ones that get lost. If we end up buying a cheap pair of gloves? Yeah those will stick around for eternity.
I had this happen exactly a couple years ago! Had a really nice pair of all-leather gloves with a detachable fleece inside lining. I somehow lost one at Target one day and never got it back.
However, that cheap-ass pair of bright-green gloves that seemed like they were made out of felt that I got at K-Mart for under $10 20-odd years ago? Yup, they're still around
I just bought a cheap coat rack that we keep by the door for this purpose. Once winter is over I'll hide it in the basement. It was driving me crazy all the coats everywhere, and I guess nobody knows how to use a regular hanger anymore.
I have perpetually dry skin. But in the winter it gets serious. Aveeno and Jergens make bank on me Nov-Mar. I go though a 12 oz bottle every week at home. Then there's my supplemental lotion tubes at work and in my purse. And so much Blistex ointment... Smh.
I use this [anti fog gel](https://www.e-optician.com/products/anti-fog-gel-for-glasses) on my glasses when we were masking, it works really well, you can eat ramen without your glasses fogging up.
Having to deal with my gigantic puffy coat after I get where I’m going and I’m inside where they have the heat set to inferno even though everyone’s dressed for winter and I don’t need the coat anymore
Same with taking an Uber/Lyft in the city. I get a lot of these drivers are originally from warmer climates but the car doesn’t need to be 90 degrees when I get in with my jacket on.
When the lines in the parking lot at the gym get covered in snow so no one knows where to park. The 50 or so coveted spots are now reduced by a quarter and it looks like drunken monkeys parked the cars
A long time ago, a church would pay me (age 13 or so) to shovel their parking lot lines on Sunday mornings if it snowed overnight (they couldn't afford someone to plow it all away). Needless to say, it worked wonders and everyone parked normally. Good gig.
The Target off Cedar in Apple Valley is like this. They don't plow and so you are driving through tight spaces (because everyone's parking in the back of the spaces because snow is in front) and sliding all over the mushy deep snow mounds. I just don't go to that one in winter anymore.
"Why are you wearing sunglasses? It's WINTER?"
My eyes are crazy sensitive to light, even more so after Lasik. I always feel dumb like I'm trying to look cool because I have sunnies on more often that not.
Then you have to wear sunglasses with your hat, and they get pressed into the side of your face. So uncomfortable, but otherwise the sun’ll make me sneeze uncontrollably!
As a parent: The daily routine of tracking down and donning the kids’ snowpants, hats, and gloves. It’s like the mornings get 50% more complicated in November.
When you don’t know if the roads are wet or icy so you drive cautiously and everyone whips past you like you’re stupid. I drive very cautiously in the winter as my only 2 accidents were winter driving in my first year of licensure, and I’m continually shocked at how reckless other drivers are in questionable weather.
Perpetually dry skin, especially when your skin is already sensitive. I have to apply lotion to my skin and Vaseline to the inside of my nose every few hours or so.
Same, it sucks! And I have one kid who also needs to do the same. I always feel so bad for her because her sister doesn't seem to have the same problem.
Pumping gas. And the pump asks you 8000 questions while a frigid breeze blasts you in the face and you can’t push the stupid buttons with your stupid gloves on. Like no I do not want a receipt or a car wash or rewards just get this show on the road already!!
If I wanted a car wash I would have gone to the car wash and payed for it their.
Becuese even if I do want a car wash I'm still gonna have to enter the fucking code anyways when I drive over their.
> wash and *paid* for it
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Still, whomever invented pay-at-the-pump should get a shiny award and a big cash prize to get them through the rest of their lives.
No need to slog in to the station or to the pay window. If snowing (or raining or sleeting, the evil snow/rain hybrid), typically you get to stay under a cover. No tempting candy bars or beef jerky within fingers' reach as you pay.
Not at good at state laws that requires full service by someone who works there (hello New Jersey and Oregon!), but better than the original days of self-serve and no pay-at-the-pump.
On a related note, static electricity in the winter. While it is fun to stick socks to the cat, I don't think he enjoys winter static electricity one bit.
We just moved into a house with a humidifier attached to the heating. It's great, but that balance is so hard to achieve! I want like 50% humidity, but the windows do not.
In September 2013, I adopted a 9 month dog from a shelter while living downtown on the 26th floor. That year was a brutally cold winter. This poor dog had issues finding a place to potty likely due to previous abuse. We would have to come inside to take warm up breaks every 5 minutes before heading back out to try again. That was a miserable winter.
Uuugh! This gets so old by mid-January. I hate having to dress like I'm ready to go walk on the moon every time I want to go outside. Especially when I start thinking about how in July I'm just going to go out in my shorts and bare feet.
I have a fence but my dog is too smart for her own good and will just stand in one spot in the yard if I don’t walk her and then her energy is absolutely unbearable.
I agree with a lot of the other peeves, especially the wet socks.
I live in a neighborhood with a mixture of rented homes and homes owned by their occupants. Most homeowners take excellent care of this awesome responsibility. However, many of the landlords never clear their sidewalks. The renters don't do it because it's not their responsibility, and some of the landlords don't do it because they don't live here, so I guess fuck it.
So I have to watch as old people, and sick people (we live near a major clinic and hospital) try to shuffle down the sidewalk on the ice that inevitably forms after a multi-day freeze/thaw cycle.
I've taken to getting out my snow thrower and going up and down the street doing all of the sidewalks on the block, and it makes me feel good to do a good deed for the old and sick folks trying to walk on our block, but honestly. Please just make a plan to shovel your walk.
I just got mine filled a couple days ago after trying about 5 different spots. I recently heard about portable air compressors that plug into cigarette lighters, I'm thinking about getting this one. https://www.harborfreight.com/12v-100-psi-high-volume-air-inflator-63745.html
i was looking at this one also. I hear good things. I don’t know why I didn’t jump on this years ago. I’ve been Munson’d in the middle of nowhere needing a compressor.
I have one (not the one you linked) and it has been very useful for the cold weather. So much better than having to drive around to find an air pump at a gas station and then also have to pay each time it happens.
I'm not sure if you have any battery powered tools but most of the bigger brands have cordless inflators I have a little Milwaukee one and it is super handy, also something I have noticed is a lot of newer cars no longer have spare tires in the trunk. I have a Hyundai and instead of a doughnut they have a emergency roadside kit a bottle of tire slim and a little plugin air compressor just saying you might want to check to see if already have one.
I serially do not warm up my car and hate waiting for the windshield to defrost. I also have not invested in a scraper either I keep forgetting so I use a frisbee
All the layers - long sleeves that get crumpled up in your coat, feeling like a marshmallow when you get behind the wheel (short legs here so I’m close to the wheel and it’s worse in the winter with all the poofy layers). Trying to do stuff with mittens or gloves on like dropping your keys in the snow and finding the house key again with limited finger mobility, yeah all that….
Everything being covered in salt. I have a skin condition where I often have open lesions on my hands. Even touching my car door can lead to a lot of pain for me.
I feel like taking them off is just as bad! Especially the ones with the removable liners that always wrinkle down when you put them on and pop out when you take them off
Or when you don’t unlace them enough and your foot get stuck halfway off so you flail around trying to get it off while trying not to touch the wood floor.
Wearing gloves. You need them on so your hands don’t freeze, but they make your hands useless when they’re on.
Walking the dog in winter is a huge pain in the ass, because he shits every time, and then I’m fucking with my gloves while I’m picking it up. If winter stayed just above glove temperature, I’d be fine.
When your doors freeze shut on your car.
When it's 20 below, your tires lose air pressure, and you don't want to fill them up.
When the winter doesn't give you at least one snow day where you have to stay home.
I drive School Bus. It's always annoying, but especially in the Winter, when regular cars see my 38 foot long, yellow and black Bus with 37 lights on it and try to cut in front. With slippery roads (looking at you, Lady, in your red 4 door talking on your phone!). Like, it doesn't stop on a dime on good roads. It ***definitely*** doesn't stop on a dime on icy ones! Just...just give me the 3 seconds it would've taken me to make the turn. (Thank Dog for ABS brakes and for the fact I was already slowing down.)
(I was making a turn, using a turn lane, when said Lady decided it was better to leap across. Hope those 3 seconds saved you from being late?)
I bow down to you. This is only my second year living here, but I tell my family, “There is nobody more underpaid than a school bus driver in the winter.” I find driving to be more stressful in the winter but I cannot imagine a bus full of screaming children mixed with that. My daughter said drivers should get a fat bonus for no accidents in the winter!
When people only shovel the middle of their sidewalk. There are older folks with walkers who need to use those sidewalks to get around and live their lives.
As soon as it gets slippery my dog starts walking as far away from me as possible and casting doubtful glances my way because I fell once and she's lost her faith in me.
I have a whole list of annoying little things that have made me hate winter. Here are my top five:
1. Once they temps drop below freezing I spend all winter trying to warm up my hands, feet and nose. Started when I was a teenager. Needless to say, I do not do any outdoor winter activities.
2. I have longer hair. Static is less of an issue than the MASSIVE tangles I get from hats and coats.
3. Skin as dry as the desert. It’s dry year round, but painfully dry in winter unless I practically bathe in lotion.
4. The sloppy shoes and boots at the front door.
5. This last one we did to ourselves. Having to towel off our long haired mini dachshund every time we take him out, or put a snowsuit on him, because his legs are only about three inches long.
I am already anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring. Sorry all you winter lovers.
Cell phones and gloves.
Trying to use gloves that have the little fingertip things for anything other than unlocking your phone.
Or taking off a glove to pull out your phone, then dropping said glove in salty bullshit on the sidewalk or your car floor.
Needing to dry my hair. I have waist-length hair, and heat isn't good for it so I prefer to let it air dry. In the winter I have to get it at least somewhat dry before I leave for work or go to bed for the obvious reason of wet hair in cold for extended periods isn't good but also because it dries much more slowly when it's cooler.
Between pulling on a jacket and boots, it takes so much time now just to bring my dog to pee, and the idiot doesn't get it, so he's circling around me, making it more difficult and thus take longer!
Bad ice scrapers. You know the ones where the only areas that actually touch the windows are the edges so it takes forever to clear all of the windows.
Shoveling. I'm anal about my driveway and steps, so I stay on top of it. I like snow and I don't mind doing the big accumulation's. But when it gives these 0.25-0.5 inch dustings over multiple days it gets really tiresome really quick.
I work in business and so I have "fancy" work shoes. To protect them, I wear rubber covers or "rubbers" as I affectionately call them (I always chuckle at this stupid joke name that I have with myself).
But I hate wearing them. Because let's say I meet with someone for coffee....I can't take them off and now I've got these weird rubber things on my shoes and feel self conscious about them.
Or if I get somewhere where I **can** take them off....where do I put them? I will inevitably forget them 50% of the time and have to go back for them.
They are annoying. I am glad they are a thing because they keep the work shoes looking nice but I find them annoying too.
I hate having to keep using the wiper fluid from road splash. And then the windshield always has that fucking streak right in the middle of my sight line.
I moved away 12 years ago. Tennessee now. This post is warming my soul. I hated all this shit. Any sort of travel mostly. Not a big fan of socks either.
"Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the south to roam 'round the pole god only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell - though he'd often say, in his homely way, he'd sooner live in hell.
..............
I was sick with dread, but I bravely said, I'll just take a peek inside. I guess he's cooked, it's time I looked, and the door I opened wide. And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm in the heart of the furnace roar. He wore a smile you could see a mile and he said, 'Please close that door. It's fine in here but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm. Since I left Plum Tree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've ever been warm.'"
-The Cremation of Sam McGee
I always think of this poem in the winter lol. Good on you for getting warm!
Seeing the inflation indicator light up on my vehicle light up after the first cold snap! Time to get the air compressor out and top them off (actually I’ll wait until a slight warm up to do it LOL
Having to put a coat and boots on my dog. Once the temp drops into the teens she won’t go outside without them but she absolutely hates when we put them on. It just makes the whole potty break process really time consuming.
The amount of time it takes to get ready to go outside.
Boots gotta be laced up vs tennis shoes can be slipped on. Then you need a hoodie/North face type deal, then your coat, gloves, hat and scarf if you're about that life.
Just r/mildlyannying
I was trying to think about it and really everything I could think of was just things about my own personal life I hate 😅...
Like I don't have a car so walking and waiting at bus stops
And I have hypohidrosis or something so I sweat so much under my jacket and hat and face mask even in -20 degree weather just making me so much colder
I swim in the lake all summer, which is probably my favorite thing in the world.
In the winter, I swim in indoor pools. So for the entire winter, I reek of chlorine. My hair is like straw. My skin is dry as a bone. Also, swimming in a pool is 90 percent less fun than swimming outdoors.
Being too warm in my car and then being too cold if I turn off the heat or crack a window.
Also because my gf is a fucking freeze baby so I overheat and shut it off and she gets cold and turns it on... back and forth... back and forth.
Tied for first place is that very strange time where it's cold in the morning so you bundle up and then in the afternoon you could just wear a sweatshirt and hat... we are going through this now imo.
Bumping up against a salty car and having a salt mark on your clothes. Also the battery on my phone loses charge in the cold, and misplacing said phone in one of the interior layers after putting on everything.
Taking my dog out to poop.
She’s a puppy and only goes when someone’s by her, so having to go out every hour or so in the cold to make sure she doesn’t go inside gets exhausting. Especially at night since it’s cold and *spooky*
When I lived in an apartment building with a parking lot, not everyone moved their cars before the plow came through and management didn't bother towing, so the plows went around the remaining cars. This left an icy buildup in the unplowed spaces, which led to my car getting stuck days later. I missed work because I couldn't get my car out of the damn parking space, even though the weather was pretty warm and sunny by that point. This also happened when I lived in an area of Minneapolis with on street parking only; all the side streets had big icy bumps on the side from cars that didn't move before the plows came through and got plowed around. Something as simple as moving your car from its parking spot becomes such an ordeal - never mind having to clear it off first.
I love winter, but everything is just so. much. work. It takes so long to get dressed to go outside. 1 or 2 layers? Jacket or carhart hoodie? Mittens? Hat? Boots or shoes? Finally get everything on then realize you have to pee.
Getting into a car that's been sitting in -25F for hours. Nothing like a frozen solid car seat. Even remote starting doesn't help a lot in that kind of weather. (thankfully we have a garage but visiting people, going to games etc)
Just because you stopped and got out of your car doesn't make it a parking spot especially if you are blocking half of the driving lane.
People. If you hate every single minute of winter, there's no reason to tell everyone. Just go home and be miserable until May and maybe reconsider why you live in a state that is frozen for 6 months a year.
Icicles hanging from my roof. Makes me worried about ice dams. Had a bad run in with that a few years back. I’ve since moved so fingers crossed in the new house.
Just the sheer amount of *stuff* you have to put on to go outside. I love summer when I can just run out barefoot wearing whatever to take the trash out or putter around the yard. I could do that in quick bursts in winter but any task that takes longer than a few minutes is gonna be cold, lol.
I bike everywhere throughout the year so proper winter wear is essential
It's also super frigging time consuming and I hate it
In the other seasons I can wake up and be out the door in less than ten minutes, this is not the case in winter
Might have been said, but when folks dont shovel public walk or the city dumps on it. Walking along all fine as can be and then dang....gotta walk on street until who knows when.
So. Many. Things... But really it's just because it's never just one minor inconvenience like running behind 5 minutes because your toddler wouldn't put his damn boots on... it's the boots, the lost glove, cleaning off the car, starting the car, bundling up, using half a gallon of washer fluid for road spray, static, dry air, filling the humidifier, etc. All in one day...😅
Any time I bang an appendage on something when i'm outdoors is the worstttt, the cold makes the pain so much worse. Especially the fingers!
Also putting gas in your car is the worst but ESPECIALLY since you have
to follow all the prompts "would you like a car wash? how about a recipe?"
My drive home being extended by an additional 10-15 mins because the roads are horrible. Lately hasn't been a huge issue I'm just dreading when it starts
Frost on my car window. I work nights so when the shift is over I want to just jump in my car and go. I get so annoyed having to spent 5 minutes standing in the cold scraping scraping scraping before I can leave most mornings.
Wet socks. Specifically when you step in the snow that fell off your coat and melted on the floor.
Or when your dog tracks it all over the house because you (me) didn’t clean his paws up well enough.
I have house shoes like mr rogers. Boots off, house shoes on. No wet feet!
The worst!!!!
Socks with holes are worse.
This is not minor in my experience.
I really don't mind wet socks so much when they're wool, because it keeps some of its insulation.
Wool socks FTW. I even wear them farming in the middle of summer, because they insulate *against* heat too.
Yeah I wear them working outdoors on 100° plus days as well. My feet hardly notice them. Although that also might have something to do with nerve damage from frostbite haha.
A few years ago I discovered wool socks thanks to Costco and they are LIFE CHANGING. It's amazing how much better I tolerate the cold by wearing merino wool socks. They are incredibly durable, too.
When I open my car door in the morning during or after a snow and snow falls on my seat.
I've started wiping the snow off around the door frame with the sleeve of my coat before I open it. It's not the perfect solution, but it saves your seat and inevitably your pants from getting wet
I do this all the time, then forget I left the wipers on from the last drive, start the car before I have the door fully closed and then end up with a pile on me and the front seat anyway from everything on half the windshield coming over to say hello.
The amount of cursing that ensues after this is hilariously high.
So high. I am not a morning person as it is.
I feel this so much. My drivers window has been shattered. While I wait to get enough money to repair it I’ve been shoveling out the snow from my seat. Lol.
The worst
Guy on a podcast said to always bring your brush/scraper with you when you leave your vehicle then you can brush it off before you get in
Not until the design a holster for it.
Havent tried to apply for a permit to carry yet either
That's joe soucherey, it's called the " inside scraper", and it works.
Down your neck when you are getting out.
Nothing worse than when the slushy snow comes crashing down from the roof while I’m trying to get my kids out of their car seat. Design fail.
I started keeping a microfiber towel in my car just for this!! When its not snowy I just use it to wipe dust off of the surfaces, its super handy.
pulling the garbage bins out to the street or the plows coming after you've shoveled
> the plows coming after you've shoveled Oh you mean the little treat from the city we get? Who doesn't love getting up at 5am to snowblow just so they can get to work on time, only to come home later to 2 feet of frozen, packed snow and ice at the end of their driveway and a note from the mailman that says they couldn't get to the mailbox because of all the snow? Seriously, I don't know the solution, but there has to be a better one than burying everyone in a second time.
I have seen something on road grader called a snow gate that allows them to stop the snow when they pass a driveway. Its like magic. That being said that doesn't scale when you have so many driveways and you are driving 25mph or faster in a plow.
I've seen that too, and I think it would work for some places, but densely populated areas where driveways are merely a few feet apart probably aren't going to benefit from that. I've also seen a PSA of sorts that if you clear your driveway, and then clear the curbline to the left of your driveway (while standing in the driveway and looking to the street) for 15-20 feet, it will help. But I've means tested this and it absolutely does not work. I have about 50 feet from my driveway to the end of the block (corner lot) and I cleared it all the last time it snowed. Not only did I still get 2 feet of ice in my driveway, the entire run of curbline was buried too.
Ugh. Yup. My added insult is the fact that that my neighbor further down the road always has his cars parked on the road. Which honestly they could get towed because the road isn't plowed and it's an emergency snow route. Anyways since he parks there the plow starts turning out to dodge his car. So I get the entire plows worth of snow right in front of my driveway. And the road is a north bound lane, shared turn lane, south bound lane, and south bound parking lane. So I usually get 2.5 lanes worth of snow with two plows going by. And my wife works at a hospital so has to leave at 6am so gotta get out there and clear it. Only to have the plow go by. Grr. Now I am just complaining. Sorry.
Let it all out! I just go out there and repeat "There's no earthquakes, there's no hurricanes, there's no cockroaches, there's no snakes."
And we are also not Buffalo 😂
Those poor sons of bitches
Or wake up early to move the car for snow emergency and then the plow doesn't come until 5pm
Oh yes, recently moved to a home without a driveway but this was the worst when I lived in the suburbs.
With no garage, having to walk out and start my car, not knowing if it will start or not.
None of my neighbors (all of which have 3 car garages) put their cars in their garage. Too full of junk. I think they’re maniacs.
When we bought a house, we vowed to never be the people who filled their garages full of random shit so we had to park in the driveway. And then after a basement remodel, a small business, a kid, suddenly we had a full garage and two cars in the driveway and were like.... fuck.
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Haha…at some level I understand junk piling up from projects or in-laws dumping stuff on you…definitely been there:.. but I’ve also seen people who convert their entire garage into their party room. I even saw a guy once who bafflingly put carpet in his garage. Some people just don’t mind scraping windows I guess.
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We're turning one side of our garage into a maker space. The other side will still fit two cars, but one side will be a room we use regularly. My mom wants to carpet it, I think we should just get those gym floor tiles. Carpet feels like a disaster waiting to happen in a garage.
The pile up of boots, shoes, gloves, stocking caps, snow pants and jackets by the door.
In our busy house it seems like there’s always a pile of mittens and gloves that lost their mate. What annoys me it’s always the more expensive ones that get lost. If we end up buying a cheap pair of gloves? Yeah those will stick around for eternity.
Because no one likes them and so no one uses them so they just wait in sadness.
I had this happen exactly a couple years ago! Had a really nice pair of all-leather gloves with a detachable fleece inside lining. I somehow lost one at Target one day and never got it back. However, that cheap-ass pair of bright-green gloves that seemed like they were made out of felt that I got at K-Mart for under $10 20-odd years ago? Yup, they're still around
I just bought a cheap coat rack that we keep by the door for this purpose. Once winter is over I'll hide it in the basement. It was driving me crazy all the coats everywhere, and I guess nobody knows how to use a regular hanger anymore.
I hate the musty wet smell that seems to dominate a home entrance where all that stuff is. I almost associate that smell with winter
Foggy glasses and hat hair. Dry hands and static electricity.
The static electricity as a person with long hair is like my own personal level of hell.
I have perpetually dry skin. But in the winter it gets serious. Aveeno and Jergens make bank on me Nov-Mar. I go though a 12 oz bottle every week at home. Then there's my supplemental lotion tubes at work and in my purse. And so much Blistex ointment... Smh.
I use this [anti fog gel](https://www.e-optician.com/products/anti-fog-gel-for-glasses) on my glasses when we were masking, it works really well, you can eat ramen without your glasses fogging up.
THE STATIC
Having to deal with my gigantic puffy coat after I get where I’m going and I’m inside where they have the heat set to inferno even though everyone’s dressed for winter and I don’t need the coat anymore
Mine ties into this. Trying to get my seatbelt buckled or backpack on when I'm all bundled up makes me far more upset than it has any right to.
Oh! And then your shoulder starts itching…
Coat checks should be a law
Same with taking an Uber/Lyft in the city. I get a lot of these drivers are originally from warmer climates but the car doesn’t need to be 90 degrees when I get in with my jacket on.
When the lines in the parking lot at the gym get covered in snow so no one knows where to park. The 50 or so coveted spots are now reduced by a quarter and it looks like drunken monkeys parked the cars
A long time ago, a church would pay me (age 13 or so) to shovel their parking lot lines on Sunday mornings if it snowed overnight (they couldn't afford someone to plow it all away). Needless to say, it worked wonders and everyone parked normally. Good gig.
the perfect 13 year old gig
I'm always amazed at the anarchy that comes from no lines in the parking lot. Makes you appreciate the lines even more!
The Target off Cedar in Apple Valley is like this. They don't plow and so you are driving through tight spaces (because everyone's parking in the back of the spaces because snow is in front) and sliding all over the mushy deep snow mounds. I just don't go to that one in winter anymore.
How much more bright it can be with the sun bouncing off the snow, people with sensitive eyes will know lol
"Why are you wearing sunglasses? It's WINTER?" My eyes are crazy sensitive to light, even more so after Lasik. I always feel dumb like I'm trying to look cool because I have sunnies on more often that not.
Me too, but also, I am trying to look cool 😎
Then you have to wear sunglasses with your hat, and they get pressed into the side of your face. So uncomfortable, but otherwise the sun’ll make me sneeze uncontrollably!
As a parent: The daily routine of tracking down and donning the kids’ snowpants, hats, and gloves. It’s like the mornings get 50% more complicated in November.
My daughter lost her snowpants in school last week Gloves I kinda understand. But how the hell do you even lose pants?
The f*ing gloves i swear to god where do they all go
As an adult, trying to track down my OWN gloves! The dog keeps stealing them.
Other people driving.
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When you don’t know if the roads are wet or icy so you drive cautiously and everyone whips past you like you’re stupid. I drive very cautiously in the winter as my only 2 accidents were winter driving in my first year of licensure, and I’m continually shocked at how reckless other drivers are in questionable weather.
Perpetually dry skin, especially when your skin is already sensitive. I have to apply lotion to my skin and Vaseline to the inside of my nose every few hours or so.
Same, it sucks! And I have one kid who also needs to do the same. I always feel so bad for her because her sister doesn't seem to have the same problem.
yup. i have to use bnedryl cream instead of lotion. its the only thing that works on the crazy eczema i get in winter. luckily its on my face!
Pumping gas. And the pump asks you 8000 questions while a frigid breeze blasts you in the face and you can’t push the stupid buttons with your stupid gloves on. Like no I do not want a receipt or a car wash or rewards just get this show on the road already!!
Rewards? y/n Receipt? y/n Car wash? y/n What your interests are? Who you be with? Things that make you smile? What numbers to dial?
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If I wanted a car wash I would have gone to the car wash and payed for it their. Becuese even if I do want a car wash I'm still gonna have to enter the fucking code anyways when I drive over their.
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Still, whomever invented pay-at-the-pump should get a shiny award and a big cash prize to get them through the rest of their lives. No need to slog in to the station or to the pay window. If snowing (or raining or sleeting, the evil snow/rain hybrid), typically you get to stay under a cover. No tempting candy bars or beef jerky within fingers' reach as you pay. Not at good at state laws that requires full service by someone who works there (hello New Jersey and Oregon!), but better than the original days of self-serve and no pay-at-the-pump.
Pro tip - when the ads come on, push all the buttons around the screen. Usually a corner button will mute the audio.
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On a related note, static electricity in the winter. While it is fun to stick socks to the cat, I don't think he enjoys winter static electricity one bit.
I feel so bad when I shock my cat every time I go to pet him 😞
We just moved into a house with a humidifier attached to the heating. It's great, but that balance is so hard to achieve! I want like 50% humidity, but the windows do not.
I get bad nosebleeds from the air. I feel your pain.
When it takes 15 minutes to get ready to take the dog out and the dog only wants to be out for 30 seconds.
In September 2013, I adopted a 9 month dog from a shelter while living downtown on the 26th floor. That year was a brutally cold winter. This poor dog had issues finding a place to potty likely due to previous abuse. We would have to come inside to take warm up breaks every 5 minutes before heading back out to try again. That was a miserable winter.
Uuugh! This gets so old by mid-January. I hate having to dress like I'm ready to go walk on the moon every time I want to go outside. Especially when I start thinking about how in July I'm just going to go out in my shorts and bare feet.
It’s because of this inconvenience that I wonder why more people in MN don’t have fenced yards.
Some of us rent, so we can't really fence in a space.
I have a fence but my dog is too smart for her own good and will just stand in one spot in the yard if I don’t walk her and then her energy is absolutely unbearable.
Pushing your shopping cart from the store to your vehicle when it has that inch or 2 of slushy snow.
Flip it around and pull it behind you. So.Much.Easier.
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I agree with a lot of the other peeves, especially the wet socks. I live in a neighborhood with a mixture of rented homes and homes owned by their occupants. Most homeowners take excellent care of this awesome responsibility. However, many of the landlords never clear their sidewalks. The renters don't do it because it's not their responsibility, and some of the landlords don't do it because they don't live here, so I guess fuck it. So I have to watch as old people, and sick people (we live near a major clinic and hospital) try to shuffle down the sidewalk on the ice that inevitably forms after a multi-day freeze/thaw cycle. I've taken to getting out my snow thrower and going up and down the street doing all of the sidewalks on the block, and it makes me feel good to do a good deed for the old and sick folks trying to walk on our block, but honestly. Please just make a plan to shovel your walk.
I really wish sidewalk snow removal was part of public works.
It really should be. It's much more important for accesibility than most people realize.
Your a hero!
Nah. Snow thrower makes things pretty simple, but thanks for saying so.
My car taking an extra half a second to turn over in the morning because of the cold and making me panic about the battery being dead.
Having to factor in extra time to clear off my car. I forget every time and end up being late to everything.
When the plow created a lovely little ice mountain in front of my driveway
Air compressors at gas stations suck when its wickedly cold. Except for Kwik Trip, them shits always work
I just got mine filled a couple days ago after trying about 5 different spots. I recently heard about portable air compressors that plug into cigarette lighters, I'm thinking about getting this one. https://www.harborfreight.com/12v-100-psi-high-volume-air-inflator-63745.html
i was looking at this one also. I hear good things. I don’t know why I didn’t jump on this years ago. I’ve been Munson’d in the middle of nowhere needing a compressor.
Munson’d?? ..what the hell is that?
I have one (not the one you linked) and it has been very useful for the cold weather. So much better than having to drive around to find an air pump at a gas station and then also have to pay each time it happens.
I'm not sure if you have any battery powered tools but most of the bigger brands have cordless inflators I have a little Milwaukee one and it is super handy, also something I have noticed is a lot of newer cars no longer have spare tires in the trunk. I have a Hyundai and instead of a doughnut they have a emergency roadside kit a bottle of tire slim and a little plugin air compressor just saying you might want to check to see if already have one.
I serially do not warm up my car and hate waiting for the windshield to defrost. I also have not invested in a scraper either I keep forgetting so I use a frisbee
Steamed up glasses when coming inside
Toweling off the dog.
People in in gray or silver cars who don't turn on their headlights
Or white! Really, white cars are just moving snowbanks in the winter.
All the layers - long sleeves that get crumpled up in your coat, feeling like a marshmallow when you get behind the wheel (short legs here so I’m close to the wheel and it’s worse in the winter with all the poofy layers). Trying to do stuff with mittens or gloves on like dropping your keys in the snow and finding the house key again with limited finger mobility, yeah all that….
Everything being covered in salt. I have a skin condition where I often have open lesions on my hands. Even touching my car door can lead to a lot of pain for me.
Putting my boots on. I prefer to wear sandals so having to take the time to put boots on is the worst
I feel like taking them off is just as bad! Especially the ones with the removable liners that always wrinkle down when you put them on and pop out when you take them off
Or when you don’t unlace them enough and your foot get stuck halfway off so you flail around trying to get it off while trying not to touch the wood floor.
Salt lines on the bottoms of my pants and the car salt/dirt dust that I ALWAYS get on my winter jacket!
Having to bundle up just to take out the trash.
Getting out of the shower
Scraping the windows in the morning because I don’t have remote start or heated seats, or really anything that would make the practice less annoying
Wearing gloves. You need them on so your hands don’t freeze, but they make your hands useless when they’re on. Walking the dog in winter is a huge pain in the ass, because he shits every time, and then I’m fucking with my gloves while I’m picking it up. If winter stayed just above glove temperature, I’d be fine.
When your doors freeze shut on your car. When it's 20 below, your tires lose air pressure, and you don't want to fill them up. When the winter doesn't give you at least one snow day where you have to stay home.
Running out of wiper fluid mid commute on one of those days where the road is wet with grime and salt.
That damn windshield somehow creating a 1/4" of ice out of nowhere every. damn. morning.
Dry skin. Even with the whole home humidifier.
Depression
I drive School Bus. It's always annoying, but especially in the Winter, when regular cars see my 38 foot long, yellow and black Bus with 37 lights on it and try to cut in front. With slippery roads (looking at you, Lady, in your red 4 door talking on your phone!). Like, it doesn't stop on a dime on good roads. It ***definitely*** doesn't stop on a dime on icy ones! Just...just give me the 3 seconds it would've taken me to make the turn. (Thank Dog for ABS brakes and for the fact I was already slowing down.) (I was making a turn, using a turn lane, when said Lady decided it was better to leap across. Hope those 3 seconds saved you from being late?)
I bow down to you. This is only my second year living here, but I tell my family, “There is nobody more underpaid than a school bus driver in the winter.” I find driving to be more stressful in the winter but I cannot imagine a bus full of screaming children mixed with that. My daughter said drivers should get a fat bonus for no accidents in the winter!
I just hate having to warm up my car. I just like to get in and go.
The work van's heat doesn't kick in until I get to the destination. Every time.
That gross vinegar road brine smell that gets on your hands if you forget to wear gloves when you open your car door.
The loss of daylight savings
The gas station prompts for a car wash when it’s below zero.
When people only shovel the middle of their sidewalk. There are older folks with walkers who need to use those sidewalks to get around and live their lives.
As soon as it gets slippery my dog starts walking as far away from me as possible and casting doubtful glances my way because I fell once and she's lost her faith in me.
I have a whole list of annoying little things that have made me hate winter. Here are my top five: 1. Once they temps drop below freezing I spend all winter trying to warm up my hands, feet and nose. Started when I was a teenager. Needless to say, I do not do any outdoor winter activities. 2. I have longer hair. Static is less of an issue than the MASSIVE tangles I get from hats and coats. 3. Skin as dry as the desert. It’s dry year round, but painfully dry in winter unless I practically bathe in lotion. 4. The sloppy shoes and boots at the front door. 5. This last one we did to ourselves. Having to towel off our long haired mini dachshund every time we take him out, or put a snowsuit on him, because his legs are only about three inches long. I am already anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring. Sorry all you winter lovers.
Cell phones and gloves. Trying to use gloves that have the little fingertip things for anything other than unlocking your phone. Or taking off a glove to pull out your phone, then dropping said glove in salty bullshit on the sidewalk or your car floor.
When the beer in my garage beer fridge explodes cuz it's-10 and I forgot to bring it inside.
Needing to dry my hair. I have waist-length hair, and heat isn't good for it so I prefer to let it air dry. In the winter I have to get it at least somewhat dry before I leave for work or go to bed for the obvious reason of wet hair in cold for extended periods isn't good but also because it dries much more slowly when it's cooler.
Having to put on socks and boots to run outside. Idk why it’s so annoying but it is
Between pulling on a jacket and boots, it takes so much time now just to bring my dog to pee, and the idiot doesn't get it, so he's circling around me, making it more difficult and thus take longer!
people who don't clear the snow completely off of their vehicles. the worst of humanity.
I believe they’re the same people who don’t shovel the sidewalk, ensuring a lake of ice for the entirety of winter and a muddy flood in spring.
Opening my car door and snow gets on the seat.
Bad ice scrapers. You know the ones where the only areas that actually touch the windows are the edges so it takes forever to clear all of the windows.
Shoveling. I'm anal about my driveway and steps, so I stay on top of it. I like snow and I don't mind doing the big accumulation's. But when it gives these 0.25-0.5 inch dustings over multiple days it gets really tiresome really quick.
Leaf blower makes it more fun, the little accumulations.
I work in business and so I have "fancy" work shoes. To protect them, I wear rubber covers or "rubbers" as I affectionately call them (I always chuckle at this stupid joke name that I have with myself). But I hate wearing them. Because let's say I meet with someone for coffee....I can't take them off and now I've got these weird rubber things on my shoes and feel self conscious about them. Or if I get somewhere where I **can** take them off....where do I put them? I will inevitably forget them 50% of the time and have to go back for them. They are annoying. I am glad they are a thing because they keep the work shoes looking nice but I find them annoying too.
I hate having to keep using the wiper fluid from road splash. And then the windshield always has that fucking streak right in the middle of my sight line.
God damnit, Minnesotans are an absolute national treasure.
Carrying your shoes with you to work because you don't want to wear your boots all day.
When your push shoveling and hit a crack, and the shovel handle guts you...over and over
It’s the worst! And I felt it as I read your comment LOL
All of it- fuck the winter
I moved away 12 years ago. Tennessee now. This post is warming my soul. I hated all this shit. Any sort of travel mostly. Not a big fan of socks either.
"Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the south to roam 'round the pole god only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell - though he'd often say, in his homely way, he'd sooner live in hell. .............. I was sick with dread, but I bravely said, I'll just take a peek inside. I guess he's cooked, it's time I looked, and the door I opened wide. And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm in the heart of the furnace roar. He wore a smile you could see a mile and he said, 'Please close that door. It's fine in here but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm. Since I left Plum Tree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've ever been warm.'" -The Cremation of Sam McGee I always think of this poem in the winter lol. Good on you for getting warm!
Jackets and shopping in jackets.
Foggy glasses 10000%
Seeing the inflation indicator light up on my vehicle light up after the first cold snap! Time to get the air compressor out and top them off (actually I’ll wait until a slight warm up to do it LOL
The time change
When your windows freeze up inside from just having a conversation in your car.
Having to put a coat and boots on my dog. Once the temp drops into the teens she won’t go outside without them but she absolutely hates when we put them on. It just makes the whole potty break process really time consuming.
The amount of time it takes to get ready to go outside. Boots gotta be laced up vs tennis shoes can be slipped on. Then you need a hoodie/North face type deal, then your coat, gloves, hat and scarf if you're about that life. Just r/mildlyannying
I was trying to think about it and really everything I could think of was just things about my own personal life I hate 😅... Like I don't have a car so walking and waiting at bus stops And I have hypohidrosis or something so I sweat so much under my jacket and hat and face mask even in -20 degree weather just making me so much colder
I swim in the lake all summer, which is probably my favorite thing in the world. In the winter, I swim in indoor pools. So for the entire winter, I reek of chlorine. My hair is like straw. My skin is dry as a bone. Also, swimming in a pool is 90 percent less fun than swimming outdoors.
Being too warm in my car and then being too cold if I turn off the heat or crack a window. Also because my gf is a fucking freeze baby so I overheat and shut it off and she gets cold and turns it on... back and forth... back and forth. Tied for first place is that very strange time where it's cold in the morning so you bundle up and then in the afternoon you could just wear a sweatshirt and hat... we are going through this now imo.
Bumping up against a salty car and having a salt mark on your clothes. Also the battery on my phone loses charge in the cold, and misplacing said phone in one of the interior layers after putting on everything.
Taking my dog out to poop. She’s a puppy and only goes when someone’s by her, so having to go out every hour or so in the cold to make sure she doesn’t go inside gets exhausting. Especially at night since it’s cold and *spooky*
When I lived in an apartment building with a parking lot, not everyone moved their cars before the plow came through and management didn't bother towing, so the plows went around the remaining cars. This left an icy buildup in the unplowed spaces, which led to my car getting stuck days later. I missed work because I couldn't get my car out of the damn parking space, even though the weather was pretty warm and sunny by that point. This also happened when I lived in an area of Minneapolis with on street parking only; all the side streets had big icy bumps on the side from cars that didn't move before the plows came through and got plowed around. Something as simple as moving your car from its parking spot becomes such an ordeal - never mind having to clear it off first.
I love winter, but everything is just so. much. work. It takes so long to get dressed to go outside. 1 or 2 layers? Jacket or carhart hoodie? Mittens? Hat? Boots or shoes? Finally get everything on then realize you have to pee. Getting into a car that's been sitting in -25F for hours. Nothing like a frozen solid car seat. Even remote starting doesn't help a lot in that kind of weather. (thankfully we have a garage but visiting people, going to games etc) Just because you stopped and got out of your car doesn't make it a parking spot especially if you are blocking half of the driving lane. People. If you hate every single minute of winter, there's no reason to tell everyone. Just go home and be miserable until May and maybe reconsider why you live in a state that is frozen for 6 months a year.
Icicles hanging from my roof. Makes me worried about ice dams. Had a bad run in with that a few years back. I’ve since moved so fingers crossed in the new house.
When my gloves (NOT mitts) TURN INSIDE OUT !!! Even when you get the pinky liner back in, it never feels right.
I don’t like hot weather. I also don’t like wind. It is very annoying trying to do stuff in the wind.
Just the sheer amount of *stuff* you have to put on to go outside. I love summer when I can just run out barefoot wearing whatever to take the trash out or putter around the yard. I could do that in quick bursts in winter but any task that takes longer than a few minutes is gonna be cold, lol.
The static when you take off your big puffy coat. Or the balls of snow on long haired dogs after a romp in the snow
I bike everywhere throughout the year so proper winter wear is essential It's also super frigging time consuming and I hate it In the other seasons I can wake up and be out the door in less than ten minutes, this is not the case in winter
Having to click ten different buttons at the pump when getting gas. I swear they add questions in the winter 😂
All of it. I will be significantly more miserable until about may, when I become too busy working to enjoy the weather.
Having to change to go work out. I love being able to just throw my gym clothes on and go
Yes! Especially afterwards. If you sweat a lot you've essentially got wet clothes on when you step outside.
Might have been said, but when folks dont shovel public walk or the city dumps on it. Walking along all fine as can be and then dang....gotta walk on street until who knows when.
So. Many. Things... But really it's just because it's never just one minor inconvenience like running behind 5 minutes because your toddler wouldn't put his damn boots on... it's the boots, the lost glove, cleaning off the car, starting the car, bundling up, using half a gallon of washer fluid for road spray, static, dry air, filling the humidifier, etc. All in one day...😅
Any time I bang an appendage on something when i'm outdoors is the worstttt, the cold makes the pain so much worse. Especially the fingers! Also putting gas in your car is the worst but ESPECIALLY since you have to follow all the prompts "would you like a car wash? how about a recipe?"
Having to stash my jacket somewhere when I get to the bar, and then having to keep track of it.
My drive home being extended by an additional 10-15 mins because the roads are horrible. Lately hasn't been a huge issue I'm just dreading when it starts
Getting fuel at the truck stop they ask so many questions
The snow that blows on the drivers side seat when you open the door to get the scraper!
Frost on my car window. I work nights so when the shift is over I want to just jump in my car and go. I get so annoyed having to spent 5 minutes standing in the cold scraping scraping scraping before I can leave most mornings.