The Housework Lovers Thread

Beamish

katini wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread but I thought one of you might be the best to help me. I am looking to buy something like this (http://www.slingsby.com/p-44278-handy-cleaning-tidy-slingsby.aspx?sku=360355&utm_source=google&utm_medium=basefeed&) to carry all my cleaning stuff about the house with me so I don't end up with armfuls of bottles, cloths etc etc which I then inevitably drop.

Do any of you have one of these and if so where did you get it from and how much was it? Or have you found another good way of ferrying everything from room to room whilst cleaning?

Thanks for your help!

I use the cardboard Mr T wine carriers for carrying all my cleaning stuff around the house, I also use them for gathering up the dead leaves, wiping the snow & ice off the car and for starting off the sprouting of potatoes, how green is that :rotfl:

Or you could buy the everlasting wine carrier and use that for carrying your cleaning equipment around the house.

HTH

Beem

bluebag

Gandalfthegrey wrote: »

Hi

I'm 8 and half months pregnant and nesting like mad so I really love reading things like this at the moment!
I actually enjoy 'doing' the housework as well as the finished 'results' (although im not usually like this!)
It's really nice to relax in the evenings once my toddler is fast asleep, in a clean and tidy house. I love it! I light some candles, put a lamp on and snuggle down on the sofa with a mug of hot chocolate!

Also I just love scrubbing things at the moment and I know this sounds strange but I just love bubbles and the sound of things being scrubbed?! I go off into my own little world cleaning the kitchen and house with the music on!
In fact right now im fighting the urge to go up into the bathroom and clean the sink and bath!!
Pregnancy is quite strange!

The day before I went into labour with my second I pulled all the furniture out of the bedroom and stripped the walls, it stayed like that for quite a while!LOL

pigpen

My sister is a housework nut.. I even offered to pay her to do mine!!! Seriously.. I just do not have enough hours, enough motivation or enough of me!!

I love my house being tidy and smelling nice.. which reminds me I need to boss DS3 to muck out the bunnies tomorrow! We constantly have dirty laundry and piled up pots in need of a wash.. but under that is usually clean..

I would love to find housework a delight.. but I'd rather do my knitting, read a book or go out and not see the mess.. and I do!

redlady_1

When I was married one of our friends bought me a fridge magnet which said "dull women have immaculate houses" which I was right pleased about. My house was immaculate. Nothing was out of place, everything clean and put away, washing and ironing done, and I managed to work full time and go to the gym, not to mention having two cats and a dog but you would have never known.

Now I am on my own and have been renovating the house, the mess has driven me insane at times. Slowly I am beginning to get organised as I have cupboards etc.

The worst house I have ever been to was one I was looking to buy. I walked in and turned around and walked out again. The smell was just shocking. I really couldnt go through the door.

I am new to stardrops (I have never tried it) but use vinegar and newspaper for the shower screen and vinegar for the drainer.

jackieb

katini wrote: »

I hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread but I thought one of you might be the best to help me. I am looking to buy something like this (http://www.slingsby.com/p-44278-handy-cleaning-tidy-slingsby.aspx?sku=360355&utm_source=google&utm_medium=basefeed&) to carry all my cleaning stuff about the house with me so I don't end up with armfuls of bottles, cloths etc etc which I then inevitably drop.

Do any of you have one of these and if so where did you get it from and how much was it? Or have you found another good way of ferrying everything from room to room whilst cleaning?

Thanks for your help!

I bought one from Asda a couple of weeks ago for £1. It's my 4th - I seem to collect cleaning stuff.

rosieben

I'm a random housewife, sometimes I do it and enjoy it, sometimes I don't; after years of fighting depression I do get a lot of satisfaction from having a clean house, though I can't say I enjoy the process

DUKE wrote: »

Me an all :j I actually love ironing too if in the mood.

my dd loves ironing too, can't figure out where she got that particular gene from

jackieb

I love ironing as well. But I have to set myself up. I like to sit and watch something good on the TV. I have a hangaway to hang up the stuff that's been ironed. I hate not having anywhere to put the stuff once it's ironed. This way, I can hang everyone's clothes together, and before they go upstairs they just take off their own stuff which are already on hangars. I need to have a good iron and a sturdy board as well. I sometimes iron at work and I don't like doing it on a small wobbly board, with a rubbish iron. I like the smell of the clothes, and the noise of the steam.

Nowt as queer as (some) folk.

rosieben

I have the 'Dull Women live in Tidy Houses' fridge magnet too - bought in my feminist campaigning days

katini

Thank you all for your help, I'm really grateful. I have already tried Wilkos but will look in Asda and Poundland as well. In the meantime I think when I am next in Tesco, I will get one of those wine carriers as Beamish suggested.

I had no idea that they were called "Tack trays", I had been searching for variations of "cleaning tidy" which is why I'd only found two results! Thanks for that, buyitall.

Bexster, I do have a whole collection of cleaning products which I carry around with me as well as a variety of cloths (e.g. duster, general, glass cloth). I will have a look at the stardrops posts as you've suggested. Without sounds completely idiotic, do you literally carry around a pot of bicarb, a bottle of vinegar etc etc or do you premix things?

Thanks again for all the help.