My home is a mess

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Aw Helen! (((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

How horrible - what about pest control? If there are that many and the problem hasnt been sorted they may be your best bet.......

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tenmah

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Tenmah - I really dont have the time (or the inclination) to blitz upstairs and downstairs in one weekend so I alternate.

This week upstairs will be blitzed while downstairs will be tidied, bit of a dust and a hoover and then I swap the following week. If I do end up with some free evenings in the week (which is rare) I do a bit extra.

I try and do a bit while tea is cooking and I do try and keep on top of the washing and ironing but May is v busy volunteer wise (I'm in the army cadet force). I am also trying to get fitter and walk the dogs more often so sometimes something has to give!

Could your daughter perhaps do half an hour each evening? Her room would soon get done then.

Hope that helps

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Thanks for the suggestion, I should have explained that my daughter has a chronic pain condition and chronic fatigue syndrome so she isn't able to help. That is why I find it so hard because i have to do everything and work full time as well!

helen_jelly

1_step_closer wrote: »

Aw Helen! (((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

How horrible - what about pest control? If there are that many and the problem hasnt been sorted they may be your best bet.......

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£50 for them to come out and look!!!!! No blerdy way - DH can get his backside out there and sort it but thanks for the suggestion x

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Oh dear! Not very helpful am I!

Tenmah - 5 mins? That is a really bad condition to have bless her.

Helen - I would offer my cat but she's old and decrepit now and lets the magpies eat her food 9she eats outside). her get up and go is resevered for the dogs!

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helen_jelly

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Oh dear! Not very helpful am I!

Tenmah - 5 mins? That is a really bad condition to have bless her.

Helen - I would offer my cat but she's old and decrepit now and lets the magpies eat her food 9she eats outside). her get up and go is resevered for the dogs!

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LOL

I've a dog but he's getting older too and deaf, I'm calming down now but DH better be contrite when he gets in or all Matrimonial Activity will cease hence forth hehe

GreyQueen

This reminded me of a funny little book called the "I Hate to Housekeep Book" by Peg Bracken, sister volume to her "I Hate to Cook Book". They were originally published in the early 1960s but I have mine as funny little Book Club Associates hardcovers from 1970.

They're an absolute scream if you can get them 2nd hand. The Housekeeping book has chapter headings like this;

"Don't just do something, sit there."

"Dinner will be ready as soon as I decide what we're having."

"How to be tightfisted without having it show."

"Hostess with the leastest."

Peg Bracken may have been a 1950s housewife (and writer, of course) but she was a true Messie Klub member and decidely anarchic to boot.

One of her suggestions was to start each major cleaning session in a different room, otherwise you'd always conk out about the same place and end up with one room in such a state that you'd have no choice but to saw it off.........:rotfl:

princess_skint_a_lot_2

morning all

not posted for a few days DD hasnt been too well, and had a lot of stress on with her dad grrrrrr another story for another day. Anyway i havent done much housework but just picked n tidied as ive gone along and have managed to keep the 3 rooms id really tidied fairly ok, bit cluttered but not terrible. Today i have cleaned the chickens out and am just away t start on bathroom n kitchen, not too bad so wont take long. So am really commited to getting ma wonderful wee corner of scotland organised n clean asap so am def going to start kids room this weekend. I am dreading it. I just want to get to the point where i dont have to be embarassed if someone calls. Hopeyou are all ok.

love princess

ps KT im in perthshire xxxxxx

soupdragon10

Helen if it helps think of rats as cute squirrel nutkins without the furry tail (cos that's a nicer way of thinking about them). I know OH is terrified of rodents while I don't mind them (or most other animals tbh). Only thing I hate is wasps. (should point out OH is 6'2" and I about 5'3"). He also hates spiders and bugs :rotfl: which is not good as we live in the country.

Archiving is in the loft, and have started to sort out craft and sewing stuff (not sure where it's all come from as I don't remember buying half of it).

Do messies shop in their sleep? Perhaps this is why we have so much stuff accumulating.

Hope your OH is able to sort out the rodents soon Helen.

parsniphead

I started typing this earlier but the bloomin laptop run out of juice.

I feel for all of you who have anemia, I've had bog standard anemia while pregnant and that's horrible enough, it must be a real pain to have it all the time.

I started off well today but sloped off to the library and picked up a book called 'No More Clutter' which I have spent the rest of the day reading. Unfortunately I haven't done anything else since.:o;) You never know it may spur me along tomorrow.

espresso21

I am feeling extremely unmotivated to do any housework today. I have brought home a ton of work to do and have been working on it nonstop today although I am just about finished. Then I need to get my CV dusted off and updated since my current work is cutting my hours soon which is going to make it pretty difficult to actually earn a living. Urrrgh so demotivated. O and on top of that I am fighting with a debt collection company who keeps sending threatening letters looking for someone who owes money BUT that person doesn't live at this address but I can't seem to convince the debt company of that and this is just going on and on causing so much stress. O well.
Hope you are all doing ok!