PARENTING IS TOO COMPLEX TO BE FIXED BY NIFTY #LIFEHACKS. OR IS IT? ASKS KATE SIDLEY
I’m a sucker for those #lifehack-type listicles that promise quick and easy solutions to life’s tricky little problems. I’ll be ploughing through my emails, and my eye will alight on a random headline: The ONE simple way to organise your sock drawer. The state of my sock drawer is, frankly, the least of my problems. But now I know that there’s ONE simple way, well, I’d be a fool not to do it. I click on the link, and there goes another little piece of my life that I’m never getting back. Mostly, I don’t even get as far as the implementation, but I always know I could, if I wanted to, have a perfectly organised sock drawer.
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