Organising Your Week - The Way Granny Used To Do It

Spendless

Yep-got a tie rack in his wardrobe. Is only me that ever hangs them there. :rolleyes:
Hmm I am tempted to 'bin' them each day until he realises he hasn't got any. . Course I can't really throw them as they'd cost a fortune to replace. Any suggestions anyone legal ones though, the house would be a right tip by time I'd served my prison sentence:D

joannasmum

willow_girl wrote:

Why do they always leave their jackets and ties lying around? My DH has this habit of taking off his tie when he comes home and leaving it on the kitchen counter. EVERY NIGHT!! And every time the conversation is the same to take it upstairs. One week I left them, and surprise surprise, had a collection of ties by the end of the week :rolleyes:

Routine, ritual or habit. I can't decide.

Definately habit in our house.

Normally DH works through the door and throws his tie and jacket on the playpen. Tonight he came in and slung them at thin air as I've collasped the playpen this morning:rotfl: :rotfl:

Dobie

willow_girl wrote:

Why do they always leave their jackets and ties lying around? My DH has this habit of taking off his tie when he comes home and leaving it on the kitchen counter. EVERY NIGHT!! And every time the conversation is the same to take it upstairs. One week I left them, and surprise surprise, had a collection of ties by the end of the week :rolleyes:

Routine, ritual or habit. I can't decide.

With mine it's the chair in the bedroom.
I just leave them to accumulate but then when I move the chair to vacuum they all slip onto the floor so I put them away eventually.
The other thing he does that drives me MAD is to leave his work shoes in the middle of the bedroom floor. By the end of the week there's 3 or 4 pairs & I get fed up of falling over them so I put them away too.
If I didn't love him to bits I'd have strangled him years ago.

broomstick27

Started reading this thread yesterday, laughing thinking "why on earth would anyone timetable their chores" Then started thinking, "when was it i did any hoovering". Visions of Kim and Aggy came into my head so i spent this evening making a chore chart for the kitchen wall. Great cos OH always uses the excuse that he doesn't know what needs doing - he'll have to think of a new one now!

P.S. he doesn't wear ties - phew!

maryb

shoes under the table drive me mad
plus it's clearly genetic - both DDs do it too

still at least DD2 steals his shoes from under the table when he takes them off during dinner which always winds him up very satisfactorily

shetitasatic

Like Yummum I also use a squeegee thing on the shower screen and tiles after a shower, then dry/polish off with a micro-fibre cloth. This keeps everything lovely and clean even with hard water.
Tchibo have their Bathroom Squeegee on sale this week, with a spare blade for £2.99 - https://www.tchibo.co.uk - they have shops in some towns as well.
I don't work for them or have shares - promise!! but this looks like a good one

Horasio

Our routine

Monday - Free
Tuesday - Washing, Bin Night
Wednesday - Free
Thursday - Shopping (done together)
Friday - Washing, Ironing (hubby does it)

Saturday & Sunday - Free

General admin and housework, consisting of vacuuming, cleaning kitchen, dusting and bathroom tends to get done when it needs to, usually every 2-3 weeks as we clean as we go if we make a mess. We clean our own rooms too, so the public areas are the places that tend to get really filthy.

Cooking is done when I get the mood to do so, it is either stuff I have made on a previous cooking session or I do from scratch, or someone else does it.

maryb

shetitasatic wrote:

Like Yummum I also use a squeegee thing on the shower screen and tiles after a shower, then dry/polish off with a micro-fibre cloth. This keeps everything lovely and clean even with hard water.
Tchibo have their Bathroom Squeegee on sale this week, with a spare blade for £2.99 - https://www.tchibo.co.uk - they have shops in some towns as well.
I don't work for them or have shares - promise!! but this looks like a good one

went to buy one today and they're having an extra 10% discount - which will last until England get knocked out of the World Cup. So tomorrow could be your last chance.

going shopping while the match is on is soooo peaceful

rkh001

Wow. You are all so organised. My chores get done as and when. Mostly it goes like this (bearign in mind I work FT);
Monday evenings - out doing voluntary work (6-9.30)
Tuesday evenings - art class (7 - 9.30)
Wednesday - catching up on weekend's ironing
Thursday - like to watch tV
Friday - possibly cleaning if I get away early from owrk, otherwise, washing and cooking.
Sat - usually go to see my parents in London which mostly turns out to be afull day. Not much energy left to do much when I get home.
Sun - catch up on all the chores, paperwork, get stressed about work on Mon etc.
And before I know it, the hampster wheel is off again.

Am I doing something obviously wrong? There's just the two of us and I never seem to catch up. There is so little time to work on my hobbies!

I admire you all.

moggins

When there's not enough time in the day there is only one solution, make more time, for me it means getting up 30 minutes before everyone else. My DS has to be up at 7am so I get up at 6.30. I also used to go to bed after everyone else doing the clear up before bed but now DH's job means he is often up until 3am and he can wreck a house faster than the kids I now only do that when he's not there.