My home is a mess

mishmash

Yesterday I got 4 lots of washing line dried, however this is now in a big pile in the sitting room waiting for me to sort!

I also hoovered/ brushed and or mopped all the downstairs floors (whichever applicable).

My real victory was clearing the coat cupboard in the hallway, it's been a bit of a dumping ground! So all coats no longer in use in bag for friends second hand shop, gloves paired, all coats still in use washed, bags sorted and gave it a good clean down. Looks all spacious now!

Oh I also half cleaned my car (husband calls it a skip with wheels) so I cleaned the insides, but it was too cold to wash the outsides!

daisy0210

Sounds like you have been very busy, you can come and do mine now!

[Deleted User]

Afternoon messies

Didnt get round to organising the garage yesterday as the painting dragged on forever and then decided to clean one half of the inside sliding door

Anyway this afternoon painted the last of the windows, and painted the bit of wall under it too. One half of floor mopped and furniture put back - DM will hang the blinds and wash the windows properly tomorrow.

Just got the other half of the sliding door to clean up, some wires to tidy, and a little bit of wall left next to and under the door to paint. Then need to sand and varnish the ledge under the door.

Garage has been tidied though, had some china to put out there so had to reorganise the boxes for car boot - amazing how slapdash-ish they had been packed! Threw out some old cardboard packaging and a few other odds and sods so that has been demessyed! :T

Will be nice when the rubbish men come on Saturday so I dont have to look at all the crap anymore!

fannyadams - thanks for the tip on the knives. We have packaged them up as we have a friend of my late Dad's coming to dispose of some furniture for us so we will give the knives (now all packaged up in cardboard with tape) to him to see if he can get rid of them at the tip for us, if not see if he'll take them to the local bobbie's office for us.

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well I hope the non posting is due to the lovely weather we're having!

have been very busy finishing conservatory, is all tidied now and put back, DM wasnt feeling too well so she's going to sort and put the blinds back up next week instead of doing them...er....yesterday

Today painted the main wall in the living room as for some reason it looked to have shadowy patches in places. All became apparant why when we took the pictures down on that wall - seems where the light has come in the big sliding door its faded the wall, so a quick lick of paint over that and looks much better now, no more shadows!
Had to touch up the skirting board with white paint too so it didnt look "odd" - just freshens it a bit I think.

Also tidied the living room, hoovered, changed the throws and cushion covers, and dusted a bit. Sorted out the second of two cupboards and put out some more china pieces for sale.

Hopefully if the weather is like this tomorrow we will be able to do a car boot!

YORKSHIRELASS

Morning all

Busy week this week so its going to be enough just keeping on top of the basics I think! Although my desk is definitely overdue for a declutter and I need to do some filing. I also should shred some old paperwork but that may be a job for when the kids have gone back to school.

I was supposed to be taking some friends home after a night out on Saturday and I realised how filthy the car was, so I gave it a proper clean out, even washed the mats. Then another friend gave them a lift home instead in the end!! At least the car looks nice, although I suspect it wont last. DH and DS managed a bit of gardening yesterday while I was out so progress outside, if not in.

Work this morning. Everyone else asleep in bed still so I am going to try and get a shower and get dressed quietly and get on. Have a good day everyone.

sonastin

The good news is that OH is currently on a mission to declutter the garden. The bad news is that it is purely a reaction to the cantankerous old g!t who lives in the house behind us who, having been told last year that we'd be looking to sort it out in the spring, has had the temerity to phone one of our other neighbours to complain about our garden being untidy :mad:

Just to explain, this is our back garden. It backs onto the side of our neighbours property so he can only see it if he walks down the path at the side of his garage. He is the only person who can see our garden. He is objecting to the pile of wood that we've accumulated during the building work which is going to provide us with free heating over the next few years. OH replaced the fence between our garden and his last summer so he went round today to tell the neighbour that he'll be replacing the rest of the fence in the next couple of weeks. Neighbour then complained that he doesn't want a 6ft high fence blocking the light into his garage. And insisted we buy good quality fence panels :mad::mad:

OH is so upset right now. Not least because he hates looking out at the mess but unfortunately we don't have anywhere else really to put it and it hasn't been as important in the build schedule as, say, getting the heating working and the wood burner installed. So now OH is going to drop everything to clear a space so that we can put the new fence in and hide everything so the neighbour can't object to having to look at it any more.

But at least it means the garden is going to be tidier soon

bearcub

Evening Messies.

Sonastin, your neighbour has no right at all to tell you what to do with your garden, unless it is having a detrimental effect on his, and even that's dubious. As for the fence blocking light from his garage, it matters not a jot; that only applies to accommodation. And it's totally up to you what sort of fence you put up and, in fact, legally, you don't have to put up a fence at all. If he doesn't like your fence, he is quite within his rights to put up his own choice of fence on his side of the boundary. Unless the mess in your garden was so bad that it was pushing his fence down (but it sounds as if the fence that side is yours, anyway), or piles of rubbish were encouraging vermin, then he has NO RIGHT to push you to do anything at all with your garden! I'm not surprised that your OH is angry, I'm angry on your behalf, too! How dare he?! Don't let your neighbour dictate to you or you'll never hear the end of it; let him boss you around over this, and he'll keep on doing it.

Good job done with the car, YL, even if it wasn't actually necessary in the end. It's done! :T

Most of my recent de-messying has been in the garden rather than the house, but washing has been dried outside, and I ironed while watching Foyle last night. I've spent a lot of time recently preparing materials for a kids' card-making session this morning, which went pretty well, I think. Now have to start thinking a bit harder about the adults' craft group starting in May. It has made me tidy up some of my folders, and put them away, although I do have some cards to make/finish. I've a bag full of rags that's growing almost by the day, as some items of clothing are getting beyond repair. The floors badly need vacuuming and/or washing and, hopefully, they'll get done tomorrow.

mcculloch29

Good luck with your adult's craft group Bearcub. I ran an Activity Club for adults of all abilities for many years. A lot of our adults had learning difficulties, but we were completely inclusive. It was amazing what they could do, we did all sorts. In the early days, there was access to some funding and we did crafts with some very well respected artists.

In later years, cost became an issue. Papier-mache was great (very cheap raw materials), ditto making clothes peg mini rocking chairs and making plastic mesh wool embroidery items. When doing an odd form of macrame with plastic threads was all the rage one year, we did that. Decorating flowerpots was always popular and thanks to Wilko's, cheap.

Wilko's became a super source of craft bits, though in the early years I was still childminding and diverted a lot of resources from scrap warehouses.

Storing all the craft bits... now that's one of the reasons I identify so strongly with this thread...!!!

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

Thank you, McC. The craft group, and an art group, are starting as add-ons to the Food Bank - not necessarily for those using the FB, but as something for the community. I shall be starting with cardmaking, because that's what I do, but I don't really consider myself an expert. It's a case of starting off the group, and see how it develops. I have loads of card and paper, although I shall have to buy some cheaper cards to start off, and we'll have a donation jar. I was told yesterday that someone has given us a dolls' house kit, which could become an ongoing project. :j No Wilkos here.

Really miserable and damp day today, so the cats are staying around but, atm, one is out, and the other out for the count on our bed, so I shall vacuum the lounge and kitchen.Have cleared away dried washing, and cleaned the bathroom.

Buffythedebtslayer

House is still a mess, Mum really depressed and me not much better!

I just want to run away!

How are the Messies doing?

xx