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Sunday 5 October 2025

What is one boring thing that has made a real difference?

The boring things are the real ones. — asked by Petra

Ozzy GWalsall, UK

Batch cooked six labelled boxes and felt insufferable about it.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR

Tested a cool bag against a thermometer for eleven hours because I am that person. It held.

6

JuniperMachynlleth, UK

Wrote three questions down for Thursday. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

5

Tasnim I am eleven weeks behind you and this helped.

Obi OEnugu, NG

Asked occupational health for a locked drawer and got one the same week.

5

Rowan I hope Thursday goes well. Come back and tell us.

IvesPenzance, UK

Put the three things I can always eat on a list on the fridge. Best thing I own.

4

IdaRotterdam, NL

Worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four housemates and a toddler.

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Gethin I have read your last few weeks and you are doing more than you think.

SalmaManchester, UK

Set a repeating alarm for the injection so it stops being a decision.

6

OdessaLviv, UA

Batch cooked six labelled boxes and felt insufferable about it.

6

HarlanDenver, CO

Labelled the freezer boxes with what is in them and how I felt when I made them.

9

LandoLeeds, UK

Told work. Practical rather than emotional, in the end. Ten minutes and a form.

9

HettyCambridge, UK

Got the prescription transferred between two counties without a single phone call, which I am still smug about.

6

Tor Here if you want to talk it through, no fixing offered.

SorayaTehran, IR

Two lines a day in a paper diary. That is my entire system and it has twice changed a clinical decision.

5

BunnyWeston-super-Mare, UK

Batch cooked six labelled boxes and felt insufferable about it.

4

RowanInverness, UK

Got the prescription transferred between two counties without a single phone call, which I am still smug about.

5

Hannah I have read your last few weeks and you are doing more than you think.

BramwellNottingham, UK

Solar fridge finally sorted, which is a specific problem for those of us off-grid.

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