Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

LovelyLollipop

oooh just remembered when someone typed "fleeces" up there ^^^ - not sure if this is the right place to put this (not got the hang of the boards yet, tend to stay in here!!!) but Asda have two cheap fleeces for £3.00. I've bought four this week - two for the settees and two for projects as yet unknown - possibly some tied blankets or maybe hammocks for forthcoming ferrets. Bargain, I thought

sammy_kaye18

lambanana wrote: »

This morning DH decided we need to start putting our heating on it was chilly but not unbearably so but he said he felt really cold and our washing has been taking days on end to dry so I suppose he's right. We'll only have it on for an hour in the morning and two in the evening I think so not exactly always on. Allegedly we have a thermostat which should just click the heating on but it doesn't work very well at registering the temperature because it's such an old and rubbish system.


..... and the worst thing is I end up comparing myself to my mother in law who is an absolute neat freak and obsessively cleans all the time and obviously I fall short in this comparison.

Just adding Sammy, we're the same age and I'm absolutely in awe of how you manage with everything!

Lol I copied and pasted before you had updated the post! :rotfl::rotfl:
but thank you --- its just a case of I have had to do it though. A lot of how I manage is thanks to MSE and an OS upbringing by my grandparents who raised me most of my childhood (mum worked, dad was always on detachments with the RAF so every holiday I was sent away with my grandparents or to my great aunts in scotland) - I've been under the name Sammy_Kaye since July 2006 but some will have known me before that as welsh_babe and I joined just after my son was born so Ive been a member for 6 years now.

Talking of heating - now those winters with my great aunt were COLD winters - only a fire in the living room and my room was in the attic - it was baltic up there. Even my pooch Stalin slept under the duvet - I remember going to bed praying I never needed the toilet in the middle of the night and trying to get dressed under the covers. I can even remember one winter when I was about 8 -- me, my sister who was 5/6 and mum all sharing a bed for body heat :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I sympathise too - my mother in law is a compulsive neat freak and so is my mother - think show home and your about 50% there -- Owen use to say I was rebelling against the tidiness! but told him he'd find it hell if I was as OCD as they are. Don't get me wrong I like things tidy but I don't feel the need to spring clean every other week.

sammy_kaye18

LovelyLollipop wrote: »

oooh just remembered when someone typed "fleeces" up there ^^^ - not sure if this is the right place to put this (not got the hang of the boards yet, tend to stay in here!!!) but Asda have two cheap fleeces for £3.00. I've bought four this week - two for the settees and two for projects as yet unknown - possibly some tied blankets or maybe hammocks for forthcoming ferrets. Bargain, I thought

That may have been me.

I have brought 3 from B&M - they were £1.99 each in a chocolate brown colour - they were intended to go on the sofas which are now fabric (DFS) but so much warmer than the leather ones we did have! Nothing worse than a cold leather seat first thing in the morning!

Found some old curtains in the airing cupboard so will line bedroom curtains with them I think and so that should help a little bit. Got fleece blanket for under babes bedding - and the sleeping bag is at my mums ready to be given to me when Owen finally goes back to work for little one.

Will put a fleece under bens bottom sheet today too - he has a Ben 10 one on top of it but he has a spare power rangers one that can go underneath for added comfort.

REally need to get my act together with cooking though - keep cooking ben dinner and half the oven is empty so effectively wasting gas to cook a few fish fingers! :mad::mad::mad: stupid girl - really must rectify this asap! and then can leave the door open to let heat come out into living room.

lambanana

Sammy - just because you have to do it doesn't mean how you cope isn't admirable I lived with my grandma and mum when I was little, my mum worked so my grandma taught me how to cook which I do think has helped me a little, one thing I can do is cook from scratch! I don't know if my DH would want to live like his mother, I didn't dare sit down the first time I went in their house for fear I'd mess it up! I know we can do a bit better though and stop leaving magazines out and keep up with the washing and ironing!

lovelife_3

When they are long gone , no-one is remembered by how tidy their homes were

sammy_kaye18

lovelife wrote: »

When they are long gone , no-one is remembered by how tidy their homes were

EXACTLY!!! Well said LoveLife.

x x x x x

parsonswife8

Sammy, you're a lovely looking young lady, so pretty.

I hope that things will work out for all of you and it is sounding much more positive now.:j You've got a good heart and you're not a quiter.

Plus, I have developed a "soft spot" for you, as my only daughter, is also a Sammy.:)

Fruball

I am amazed by peoples neat and tidy houses too Most days I would ignore the door rather than let someone into this chaos.

I have sorted the kitchen though and am ploughing my way thru the living room. I haven't been altogether lazy this morning as I made up paper mache to plug a plumbing hole on my outside wall which goes right into the kitchen so that will prevent lots of cold coming in this winter

Best get on *sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

lambanana

I think the worst bit tidying wise is that when MiL calls to speak to her precious son she asks how we're getting on with the housework :eek: cheeky mare, it's always spotless when she visits

I didn't grow up in a showhome type house, my mum couldn't afford fancy decorating and posh furniture and what money she did have she preferred to save to take me on holiday and make sure I had what I needed and a fair bit of what I wanted instead of fancy decoration I imagine this has contributed somewhat to my rather relaxed attitude to housework and I know our house is A LOT tidier than the one I grew up in. You're right that people aren't remembered for how clean their house was but I would like to make sure things are at least put away instead of being left. I don't help myself as I'm a spilling machine, last night I was squeezing tomato puree into our dinner and the top of the tube split and it exploded all over the walls, it looked like there had been a massacre :rotfl: quite funny but at the same time I now have to repaint some of the wall as it wouldn't come off :eek:

gailey_2

Hi

sorry not been on since last week.

sorry you going through tough time sammy, you do wonderful job.

Hope everyone else doing ok.

switched on heating very cold here, took hot water bottle to bed.

started feeling less sick in afternoons so started cooking more did chicken other day and got lots out of it as well as 24mini chese and ham quiches which went down a storm.

decided to do beef stew for dinner party fri as reckon could stretch it to beef pie next day maybe or could try mini pies.

trying to meal plan next month as hubby gets paid fri.

we nearly out of money cant wait petrol such huge essential cost for hubbys work.

no news on job front
hes sent off tax form to try claim some tax back

paid for daughters school trip as sold a pram but got another event to pay for next week seems neverending.

Thankfully shes got used to packed lunches as school dinners just too much additional expense right now.

looking up some veggie recipies that hubby might like as thats key to keeping costs down hes so blooming fussy, the bit on hugh everyday this week with fireman meat free gave me hope will bulk everything out with lentils!

Hoping if flutter my lashes at butcher friday might get a good deal he does discounts for bulk buying.

Made sausage casserole last nite hubby had leftovers for lunch today.It was cheapy morrisions mix 35p I think just added few dried chillis and worseter sauce to give it a kick.

gave away couple of tinned soup for harvest for homeless at school.

hubbys day off fi but got so much to do will have to put off bulk of foodshopping until next week as writing huge lists. hubbys fed up of frozen food so need to cook more but felt so poorly.

family happy about baby at least and should be very oldstyle and not cost us much.

need to get down primark and get throws and ikeas for jars.
determined to be ready for xmas and winter.