anyone else os but not good at it...

Mellika

*moggins* wrote: »

Any houseplant given to me is doomed to die within two weeks

(Still wondering how to explain to MIL what happened to the ones she gave me when she comes over next week...)

jinky67

jinky67 wrote: »

whooooo hoooooo people like me:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I thought i was the only one.:j :j :j :j



I detest housework and try and avoid it at all costs, ironing gets done when no-one has clothes, and even then i just do what is needed at the time.:D

Baking... once in a blue moon:cool:

Cooking.... most things are from scratch, but it tends to be the same things all the time, even though I have loads of recipe books

In fact the other thing i bother about is my kitchen/worktop being clean. I have a bit of a *thing* about it:cool:

Frugalista

My OH asked me if I was cultivating the big, dusty cobwebs in the corners to sell to Hammer House of Horror :eek:. I also overheard him telling a friend that our 2 year old dogs were terrified of the hoover because "they've only seen it in action a couple of times"!!

I am a good thrifty cook though :A :rotfl: :rotfl:

skintmumof3

Frugalista wrote: »

My OH asked me if I was cultivating the big, dusty cobwebs in the corners to sell to Hammer House of Horror :eek:. I also overheard him telling a friend that our 2 year old dogs were terrified of the hoover because "they've only seen it in action a couple of times"!!

I am a good thrifty cook though :A :rotfl: :rotfl:

in my bedroom its the spider sanctuary...well, there could be some eight legged endangered species dwelling there and i wouldn`t want to wipe it totally off the planet

milkybars

Frugalista wrote: »

My OH asked me if I was cultivating the big, dusty cobwebs in the corners to sell to Hammer House of Horror :eek:. I also overheard him telling a friend that our 2 year old dogs were terrified of the hoover because "they've only seen it in action a couple of times"!!

I am a good thrifty cook though :A :rotfl: :rotfl:

I'd be asking your OH if he would like to desensitise the dogs to the hoover by exposing them to it himself!

BB1984

I'm not a bad cook (although need more practice at baking). I'm pretty handy at DIY. I'm very disorganised, however, when it comes to housework - it's not that I hate it so much as I never seem to get round to doing it...! I'm looking forward to trying gardening, so not actually sure yet whether I'm good or bad at it!
BB

Jasper27_2

My cooking is OK but I'm happy to spend time cooking from scratch as I enjoy it. I hate cleaning but keep on top of it as I hate a messy house even more. However I'm lousy at gardening and DIY and can barely sew a button on despite having 'O' level needlework - it was nearly all theory! The trouble is my Mum is an expert knitter, seamstress, embroiderer etc who produces beautiful work. My Dad can do anything, he's built a boat, a small guage steam engine and many other things and can fix anything you care to mention. Somehow all these genes seem to have missed me, or maybe I'm adpoted and don't know it?!

dutchy

My Mum always taught me 'never go up or down stairs empty handed', and I live by this. This, to me, is tidying up. Mostly I loathe housework, but if in the right mood can do a very good job of it. (By the way, couldn't agree more about the Dyson/Henry thing! I hated my Dyson with a passion!).

I am, however, very good in the kitchen, and am blessed with the ability to make a meal out of virtually nothing. Food is something that simply does not get thrown away in this house (comes from having a Mum that survived the war years and rationing). Only this evening I cooked a HUGE biriyani (enough for tomorrow too) and two loaves of bread.

I believe the best way of OS-ing is to cherry pick what suits you, and not get too hung-up about what you don't do.

Dutchy

Olliebeak

I love cooking and baking - but no good with anything with yeast in it.

I'm very good at sewing, knitting and crochet .

I've 'had a go at' gardening (last summer I grew coriander, parsley, basil and chives but failed miserably at spring onions and radishes) - basically I'm terrified of worms :eek:).

I'll 'have a go at' d-i-y - quite a dab-hand at flatpacks .

And - very ashamed to admit it - not very good at housework (kitchen is untidy BUT my worktops are hygienic. I am very aware that my cat will climb on them when I'm not looking so I'm always cleaning those!).

We rather like spiders (well that's my excuse for cobwebs - and I'm sticking to it :rolleyes:) because they trap and eat dirty flies.

Mellika

Frugalista wrote: »

I also overheard him telling a friend that our 2 year old dogs were terrified of the hoover because "they've only seen it in action a couple of times"!!

Sounds like my cats :whistle: