After looping it once, I drag the lace under the X of the criss-crossed lace on top of the shoe. The lace is then kept immobile by its own squeezed self atop it

Yeah that's one I have trouble with. I try to clean as I go while cooking, but sometimes stuff is left over and I don't want to eat my dinner cold. So the dishes have to wait til later, which is sometimes the next day when I have time for them.

I'm lazy by nature, hence I clean everything immediately. I spend 30 seconds wiping something down, washing dishes etc rather than letting it build up and being a half hour job. Put the shit away now, wipe the sink, put the clothes out for the morning, then you can sit on your arse with no guilt about things you should be doing and spend longer sitting down/ in bed

My ex-wife wanted to do this, but she'd still only do a single load of dishes after waiting over a week to touch them. Then she'd act all like the hero when she washed like 20/100 dishes and was like. "Now it's your turn!"

Moral of the story, don't be my ex-wife if you're going to do this.

Depends on whether I'm in a club where people wee on each other

I was in the same situation as you. How my wife and I got me to improve my perception is instead of just picking up after me, she’d grab me and point me to an area and ask what’s wrong here. You need to both go into this with a lot of humility to make it work.

That conscious checking is what you should be doing all the time, but initially getting help with figuring out where something needs attending to helps accelerate the process. It will initially take a little more effort on their part, but it will prevent them from shouldering the domestic burden for the rest of your relationship

This tip brought to you by Steve Urkel.

I have them in my high top Converse shoes. And sneaker

If you can afford it, hire a cleaning service. Oh and a robot vacuum helps keep the floors clean every day.

Talk it over with her but I've had success going around in a schedule. Monday is bathroom, Tuesday is Hallways, Wednesday is Kitchen, etc. If it's your turn on a day, you just spend 20 minutes cleaning up in there. For bathroom day that usually means wipe down the tub/sink/toilet and put the linens in the laundry, but sometimes there's a bigger job to focus on. It takes pressure off other areas of the house.

For daily-ish chores, utilize the power of waiting and link them to something you're already doing. Wipe down a counter while your hot pocket microwaves. Rinse the tub while waiting for the water to heat up. It sounds like your partner has already attached finishing eating and doing the dishes

You're using the wrong knot. There was a tedx talk about this. If your shoe loops are HORIZONTAL then you're tying them correctly. IF they are cockeyed, or slanted you are tying your shoes with the wrong knot.

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You need to do the X part differently, or the loop part differently. IE: If you currently place the right string on the bottom of your X you want to put the left string on the bottom. Then tie it normally. Bet it doesn't untie.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73BbtDHCbpA

This also helps weed out unsourced nonsense that occasionally worms its way into Wikipedia.

And from there, it often take a short hop into r/TodayILearned.

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A soak in highly salted water has always worked for me. I don’t know why

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Professor Here. This is a 100% correct LPT.

Studies are showing wikipedia is "as good" as an old-school encyclopedia for learning about stuff. But don't cite it. As stated, get the cites that are cited by the Wiki.

There are many different ways to lace shoes. I found one I like where the ties end up inside the shoe and I just treat them like slip-ons. Just search youtube or Google you should be able to find something that works for you good luck!

Never underestimate the power of Oxyclean.

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The hypocrisy in this comment lmao

If you struggle with this, tie your shoes the other way. Like, flip which is over and under. Symptoms of tying the knoy backwards are laces sitting vertically instead of perpendicular

Or just double knot em

Have you ever tried wearing a dress shirt?

You should never cite encyclopedias because it never is original work and that the requirements for peer revision is not adequate to be made into a source itself.

But if you just want to know something, they are all great.

This goes both ways, people who get mad at ppl getting mad at stuff is different sides of the same coin

I was in my 40s when I learned that I had been tying my shoe wrong my entire life. This is the correct answer.

I actualy do the "ian knot" from elementary school because someday I had forgoten how to knot my laces and came up with this.

But you can not see the problem because you are lucky and you make your shoes laces NOT mirrored.

The solution is posted from u/Bk758 above. Video

I can only add that someone has to mirror the knot OR the first.