Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

My kids seem to think that doing the laundry means shovelling everything off the floor into the laundry basket.

...and then complaining when everything is not back in their cupboards within hours.

They can cook for themselves, though their standards of tidying the kitchen are not high.

PasturesNew

I used to do my own washing, in an old twin-tub, followed by getting the stuff out of there and into the old fashioned spinner.

I couldn't tidy my room because it was so small and without good furniture that there was no place to tidy things to. In order to be tidy, everything has to have a place.... if you've not got that then there's no point starting.

I used to collect shoe boxes from the local shoe shop to try to organise things (if a stack of about 20 shoe boxes counts as being organised). I just never had a cupboard or decent other furniture.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I couldn't tidy my room because it was so small and without good furniture that there was no place to tidy things to. In order to be tidy, everything has to have a place.... if you've not got that then there's no point starting. .

I get this. As a kid to ''tidy'' I used to move stuff all in to a heap, or even, to my parents horror, the hallway, then move things in and put them in a place.

Kids now seem to have so many clothes/so much stuff it must be even harder!

Its so much easier keeping tidy/organised when everything has a place. In the past it feels I've just made ''places'' for everything then I move on to somewhere new. Even though I'm messy, extreme organisation really thrills me. The problem is when it isn;t easy/possible...lack of space, hoarding tendencies etc etc.

e.g. my car used to be a shrine to good order. I even used to hoover it almost daily with its silly little car hoover..when ever anyone got ut having left ''mess'' from their feet, etc. Then dh came a long, flouted my ''no food in the car rule'' and before I knew it there were hundreds of wrappers/bottles in it. That makes it longer/harder to organise and clear out. By the end I'd given up.

For me, if its hard to keep neat I give up. If its easy ...its easy, no problem.

This car, now a shared one not his or mine, I've asked we keep one bag of ''stuff'' in, a couple of other agreed essentials and a BIN BAG.

Still, I spilled compost in it last week and didn't brush that out until today. :o

misskool

*sob* *dramatic swish of hair*

i want some rain so i can garden properly

*exits stage left*

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

*sob* *dramatic swish of hair*

i want some rain so i can garden properly

*exits stage left*

poor misskool. Our ground is still pliable in the main, in the garden anyway. is your bathroom upstairs? Bath and a siphon afterwards? I reckon we;ll all be on drought measures soon at this rate anyway..might be asked to shower only if this happens, so get a bath while you can...I don't have a shower, yikes!

Also, today I couldn;t find y deodorant so used DH's, yuck...I've been getting a whiff of strange man all day....I really NEED a bath, that stuff stinks of shaving foam and medicine...why doesn't it smell so vile when on men?

chewmylegoff

20.35. Finished work and on the way home. Earliest ive finished work in at least three weeks. I'll get home just after 9 - that actually feels like a privilege right now.

Feeling privileged that you made it home by 9pm. A new low.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

before I knew it there were hundreds of wrappers/bottles in it. That makes it longer/harder to organise and clear out. By the end I'd given up.

I try to keep a supermarket carrier bag in the passenger footwell, with the handle hooked over the gearstick, so wrappers/rubbish go in there.

I can own a car for years and make less footwell mess of tiny stones/sand/similar than my sibling can create in one 4 hour outing

PasturesNew

I'm worried at the moment. The olds don't understand modern food in supermarkets. Supermarkets don't use big industrial fridges like they did years ago - and it's hard to spot some chilled items that require refrigeration. So the olds go into the shops, buy stuff that should be refrigerated, then leave it out.

I opened a cupboard the other day to discover a small pouch of ready-cooked (chilled) rice .... it'd been in the cupboard for 2 days. They had no idea that it was: cooked, chilled, should be refrigerated, would probably kill them if they ate it. If I'd not discovered it, it could have been eaten at any random future point, from 1-2 days hence, or even 1-2 months later!!!!

The labels to keep things refrigerated are often hard to spot or even find - and often covered by the REDUCED sticker that seems to be the brand of choice here.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm worried at the moment. The olds don't understand modern food in supermarkets. Supermarkets don't use big industrial fridges like they did years ago - and it's hard to spot some chilled items that require refrigeration. So the olds go into the shops, buy stuff that should be refrigerated, then leave it out.

I opened a cupboard the other day to discover a small pouch of ready-cooked (chilled) rice .... it'd been in the cupboard for 2 days. They had no idea that it was: cooked, chilled, should be refrigerated, would probably kill them if they ate it. If I'd not discovered it, it could have been eaten at any random future point, from 1-2 days hence, or even 1-2 months later!!!!

The labels to keep things refrigerated are often hard to spot or even find - and often covered by the REDUCED sticker that seems to be the brand of choice here.

fwiw my mother doesn't ever put stuff away nowadays and nothing kills her. or even seems to make her ill. Last time I was at her house she gave me a glass of lemonade that was revloting but not flat. I was ill it was so vile. then I went in to the kitchen for a glass of water and niticed the bottle said ''still lemonade'' and it had gone fizzy with being off. She was happily swigging it. Likewise she makes rice days in advance and eats it cold, not heating it up. I think I take risks with rice...but I do get it hot, hot through when re heating and try and cool it fast. she makes and leaves in a pan, then leaes the pan on the hob and scoops out of there.

Maybe we should introduce our parents to each other.

michaels

My understanding with rice is that it is not the nasties that grow in it when warm that kill you but the toxins they secrete and that these can not be destroyed by heating so once it has gone bad by not being chilled quickly enough no amount of reheating will help - could be wrong tho...

lostinrates wrote: »

fwiw my mother doesn't ever put stuff away nowadays and nothing kills her. or even seems to make her ill. Last time I was at her house she gave me a glass of lemonade that was revloting but not flat. I was ill it was so vile. then I went in to the kitchen for a glass of water and niticed the bottle said ''still lemonade'' and it had gone fizzy with being off. She was happily swigging it. Likewise she makes rice days in advance and eats it cold, not heating it up. I think I take risks with rice...but I do get it hot, hot through when re heating and try and cool it fast. she makes and leaves in a pan, then leaes the pan on the hob and scoops out of there.

Maybe we should introduce our parents to each other.