Old style housekeeping question?

rachbc

I didn't say you had - but you suggested it as an option if someone had smelly feet and I was asking if you were serious/ if you actually would do so?

MrsE_2

rachbc wrote: »

I didn't say you had - but you suggested it as an option if someone had smelly feet and I was asking if you were serious/ if you actually would do so?

Only if it were someone I felt comfortable enough to ask.

My DH asked his brother.

Gigervamp

It would be incredibly embarrassing for the person with stinky feet though and I know that my dad's feet would smell again only about 5 minutes after he'd washed them. It wasn't due to lack of cleanliness.

Barneysmom

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I don't feel I'm "lowering my standards" - they're my guests, and their comfort is far more important than a neat and tidy "show-house" which however you dress them, will never feel like "homes" to me

I'll bow out of this discussion now, in the knowledge that my friends come to visit me, not for how beautiful my home is, but because they're after a slice of what is reputed to be the best chocolate cake this side of the Pennines :rotfl:

Penny. x

Wow Penny! My chocolate cake is the best this side of The Penines :cool: :cool:

juliapenguin

Ooooh - I might have to fight you over this one, Barneysmom - my DS used to have an incredibly lucrative business at the school lunch table swapping bites of my HM chocolate cake for all sorts of bought stuff like crisps and chocolate... He's 21 now and his friends still talk about that cake - and my potato salad too.

Barneysmom

Juliapenguin, the swords are out lol :T
Potato salad, I've never made it, so you're a clear winner here! :cool:

freyasmum

I must say that I always take my shoes off, but would never send someone up to the bathroom to wash their feet :eek: and I would be thoroughly offended if someone ever did that to me!

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I'll bow out of this discussion now, in the knowledge that my friends come to visit me, not for how beautiful my home is, but because they're after a slice of what is reputed to be the best chocolate cake this side of the Pennines :rotfl:

Penny. x

You can't say that and not share the recipe

That goes for juliapenuin and barneysmom too

taurusgb

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

I don't think books have to look messy, just don't have more than you have shelves for.

I've never seen the point in keeping novels though, I never read a story twice just like I never watch a film twice. Once you know what happens there's no point. I have one shelf for novels and the rest are reference books.

Argghhhhh!!!! But books are living things! I love the feel of them, the smell of them, the shape of them (oh yes and I love to read them too!)....I just love 'em!

Like others on here we have books in every room of the house. The shelves are full - some shelves have books double parked (one row in front of another) we often end up with one or more stacks of books on the floor, on footstools, or on tables because we've been looking something up and want to go back to it, or we've visited an old friend (I NEED to read something said by Mr Bennet from Pride and Prejudice daily).

I have a very impressive friend who having run out of book storgae space started a pile at the side of each stair tread as she filled the one below - she is now 3/4 way up the stairs and wondering where to go from there!

I try and clean as I go by wiping work tops while kettle boils, taking stuff up or down stairs as I go (making my head save my legs as my grandma called it). I tidy up before bed and work like a demon doing what I can from getting up to going out to the office at 8.50am, so that when I get home at lunchtime the afternoon can belong to me and my books and my cross stitch before I have to cook dinner for the family.

Believe me, I agonise much more about whether to read a book or sew and listen to an audio book much more than I agonise over whether to dust or vacuum the floor. But we have a happy, healthy home and that is what counts most.

Gigervamp

taurusgb wrote: »

The shelves are full - some shelves have books double parked (one row in front of another)

Your bookshelves sound like ours! I do re-read novels. Some sets of books I've re-read loads of times and I still enjoy them. It's like meeting up with old friends.

Here are just some of mine.

oystercatcher

Gigervamp wrote: »

Your bookshelves sound like ours! I do re-read novels. Some sets of books I've re-read loads of times and I still enjoy them. It's like meeting up with old friends.

Here are just some of mine.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who lives in a house stuffed with books.
I do get rid of novels I know I won't read again but some I do go back to and things like Terry Prachett books will be read by all five of us, and my parents eventually so no way should those be got rid of !

I'd far rather curl up with a book than do cleaning or cooking. I wish I could be more tidy but there's so many more nice things to be doing. The dust just waits without complaining so it doesn't mind !!

Oystercather