Following instructions is hard, yo

BankerBSN · April 2013

With all the post asking simple questions that can be found on the instructions of the OPK or HPT got me thinking...

Do you always follow instructions? What a is the one (not TTC related) thing you do that you say "fluck the instructions" before you start?

Mine is making banana bread. I just throw roughly what I think belongs in the loaf and go from there. Sometime is comes out as a lovely banana bread other times it is a banana brick. I am a real whiz in the kitchen :P

CMSullivan326 · April 2013

I'm snowballing off that and saying Cooking. I'll see what the recipe is, then change it up to what or how I want it. I love to cook and making it my own is fun.

EmeJay · April 2013

I arely read instructions in general.

I almost always "wing it" when I do a recipe, and to this day, I've always freely put together IKEA furniture.

I'm the girl who will press skip-skip-skip when playing a video game. Don't bother ex

2Dash · April 2013

Ikea furniture - I always figure it's obvious and I can wing (I'm not always right)

Ladiebug710 · April 2013

I guess I'm kind of a nerd. When I put things together I have to read all of the instructions before I start, and then I follow them closely as I go along.

A couple years ago I made banana bread after I got home from a night shift.

MiaMyPuggle · April 2013

Ikea furniture. I don't understand Sweedish instructions and the pictures are a p in the a to comprehend. I have common sense, so I spend less time putting the thing together than I do reading the effing instructions.

rockopera · April 2013

Cooking, def. I usually start with a recipe, but if it turns into something we make regularly, I start making it up myself until I eff it up enough that I have to go back to the recipe and see what I changed over time.

FoxiePM · April 2013

I don't follow directions in life. I make up my own rules. I am all rebellious and shiiiit!

mrskitton · April 2013

I always read instructions....if I didn't I think some things would blow up. Plus, I'm just anal like that....I want it perfect.

jaytee16 · April 2013

I would say when it comes to putting things together, like furniture from Ikea or something like that. I usually just start doing stuff and only go back to look at the directions after I get stuck or realize I'm not on the right track.

herecomesthesun · April 2013

For the most part, I follow instructions unless there is cause to question them. Then I'm all over that.

I guess it's because those that don't read all the way through things or don't listen/pay attention end up calling my workplace and asking qu

blindvictory · April 2013

Definitely cooking. I follow the recipe when baking, but I throw caution to the wind with normal food.

And I never wash, rinse, and repeat. I just wash and rinse, cause I'm hardcore like that.

sarahharmintx · April 2013

CMSullivan326:
I'm snowballing off that and saying Cooking. I'll see what the recipe is, then change it up to what or how I wa

kali55 · April 2013

I'm going to have to say cooking as well. If something calls for "2 tbsps" of whatever, I throw in what appears to me to be 2 tbsps, but could, in reality, be much more or less.

BankerBSN · April 2013

I have to give you ladies who toss the IKEA instructions mad props. I would have a giant pile of laminate wood for furniture if I did that.

Tribany1 · April 2013

nail polish/ nail polish remover.....why do they even need instructions?!?

mmb248 · April 2013

Everyone in my life thinks that I hate instructions and ignore them on purpose. In reality, I am all about some instructions. My mom said when I was little I had more fun reading the instructions for a game than actually playing the game.&n

Maya+More · April 2013

My mandoline. I never use the food guard thing. I KNOW I KNOW it's a great way to lose a finger, and yeah there have been a few salads with a little extra iron... but it's so cumbersome and doesn't hold the food, and then you can only cut up half of it.

brneyemom2 · April 2013

I honestly think the only thing I read instructions to is the children's medications and that's just so I don't overdose my kids : ) All other instructions hit the trash once they come in our house, I hate hanging onto useless things.

EmeJay · April 2013

FTR though, I would never call/ write a email / *** on the interwebz about something I did not read the instructions.

When I'm stuck, I'll go and read and will do whatever it takes to find the answers myself (You know that Google thing?)

Twinkie0612 · April 2013

Slapalicious:
I always read instructions. If I didn't, no one in our household would.
DH hates reading instruction

MissMandyD · April 2013

Cooking for sure. Although not baking.

lala0304 · April 2013

2Dash:
Ikea furniture - I always figure it's obvious and I can wing (I'm not always right)

sueann911 · April 2013

jessuhmarie:
The shampoo bottle instructions. I do not repeat.

Hahaha. This.

I repeat

Spookster · April 2013

I don't usually follow instructions, unless I am totally confused.

DLpanda08 · April 2013

I'm kind of a fan of following the directions. It's one thing to improvise when there really aren't directions in the first place (like DH's grandma's bbq sauce recipe), but if it's something like an assignment or furniture you better believe I will fo

candrew05 · April 2013

I am going to agree with cooking or baking. I am big on following instructions and or directions closely for anything else. I don't like doing things how I am not supposed to.

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