My home is a mess

mcculloch29

Hello again all.
Emm, how I love reading your posts.. always so warm, loving and supportive. There, I've said it, instead of thinking it!

Welcome Doobop!

Dibuzz, several of my family members have received counselling and really benefited from it (they got really good counsellors, TG). I do hope it benefits you. Great to read your dog is recovering, may things continue to improve.

Snookey, I don't know what a knee walker is but I'm going to find out. Please take it easy!

Buffy, my daughter gave my hair a trim the other day, what a lift it's given me. It's straight, fine and fairly short so it takes literally 2 minutes to cut. I kinda resent paying £12 at the hairdressers for that.

Kat, huge, huge respect. I think you're great.
My ex was in the Forces and I found it very difficult 30 years ago, being a pregnant solo Messy with a small child and no family support. I have osteo arthritis now, but I didn't then.

I have a cleaner to help me now - just a couple of hours a week or every other week sometimes as she can't always fit me in.
A lot of garrison areas now also have cleaners who specialise in preparing married quarters for handover, or just in keeping on top of things .
Could you get some help in before your lovely DH returns?
I'm so pleased you have a count-down date! Makes it so much easier.
Your daughters sound great . My kids loved using the hoover too.

My hallway is looking better.
I finally slung stuff this week that I'd had for years 'just in case' (I am an adult education tutor) and came across genuinely useful stuff I didn't know I had.
The hallway is huge for the size of the house and my trike is kept in it. The trike is now stored far more neatly where the boxes of 'stuff' were - DS's brainwave.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hello again!

Mcculloch, thanks for your kind words.x We all try to be supportive on here, we`re all in the same boat (or similar vessels at least!) sometimes more than we realise. Well done on the hall clearing. My hall is very small, and so is the kitchen, for the size of the house. I sometimes wish both were bigger, but I know they`d accumulate even more clutter if they were.
I`ve just spent a couple of hours in spare room of Doom....DS came and took over and now it`s worse than ever!!!GRRR!
I have at least got one big fruitbox full of his ex`s books & old paperwork, hope she`ll take it when collecting DGD later on.
I`ve also sorted and dumped (local recycle skip) a big box of old magazines/tatty old exercise books & comics, and another big carrier bag of general rubbish.
In spite of this the spare room looks worse, but I`m trying to be positive about it, hoping the `gets worse before it gets better` principle will apply. Eventually...
I have earmarked some stuff, mostly books, to go to charity shop too, but it`ll wait till next days off now.
Fire is lit = time to stop & chill out till supper...

allym464

My house is a tip. Walked up the stairs this morning and gave myself a mental telling off as I have a week off work as I'm on hols, I'm going to move from room to room and give it a blinken good deep clean. Fly lady thread is an interesting read but at the moment I can't fly as I crash into things (figuratively speaking of course!)

Doobop

Well, positives this weekend - I have de-lurked
Negatives - I am poorly with a cold and so house is looking terrible! Washing up at least done by DH and I have washed lots of clothes which are now decorating the house.
Hmmm.

sonastin

Evening all. Welcome to the new folks. Seems like we're pulling in fellow messies again - funny how we all seem to go into "gotta deal with all this" mode at the same sort of times. I guess "spring" cleaning didn't happen by accident!

Just popping by to report a productive weekend for once. We've been doing stuff in the garden all day every Saturday for about as long as I can remember (I think it started mid-Sept, but I have a lousy memory!). This weekend, OH gave me a "weekend off" so I spent Saturday doing bits of house stuff - inventorying the freezer, meal-planning to use it all up, checking meter readings, etc - and visting my mum & my grandma (who I've not seen for far too long). Somehow ended up back out in the garden this morning doing more moving of building materials but somehow by having Saturday off, it wasn't so painful today. And this afternoon, I was helping OH get his accounts ready for the book-keeper so while I was doing that, he henry-ed the whole house which makes it look tonnes better.

Sounds like we've turned into a bit of a doggy-forum again at the moment. I hope dibuzz's dog recovers soon! My mum was telling me that my 3 year old niece is mad-keen on dogs at the moment so that's help guide the choice of christmas present. I don't think the poor wee lass is ever going to be able to have a real pet dog unfortunately - my brother is a police dog handler so his dogs will always be grumpy growly mean police dogs. His first dog retired to be a real sweet pet but since then he's not had a single one with the temperament for playing with kids.

As for me, I'd love a dog but I'm allergic. OH is scared of dogs after being bitten as a kid but there's no way I'm letting him have a cat. I don't like 'em and I'm allergic to them too.

alec_eiffel

farmerswife - which game did you go to? We went to England v Ireland and Scotland v Italy this weekend. Really tired today, seemed to take yonks to get back from Workington.

Hi everyone, hello to new folks.

I'm at home all day today but sooooo tired, don't know how much I'll get done. There's a load of laundry in at the minute and the sun has come out so it looks like it'll be able to go out for a bit. I need to dust the living room and probably henry the living and dining areas. That might be it, DH is in charge of washing up.

Have a good day.

kat360

mcculloch29 You made me cry Thank you, I don't know why I hadn't thought of a cleaner. My brain isn't what it used to be.
I have to admit that every time I think that he'll be home next week I get a lump in my throat.

Today I'm sorting out my kitchen, I need to rearrange the bottom cupboards. I can't reach the very top of the ones on the wall without getting the step ladder out so I'm going to leave them until OH is home.

snookey

Im so pleased to see so many messy people. I think that we are the norm and the perfect show house people the abnormal,lol.
My scooter came today and I went to the doctors on it. Im so unfit. Its great going down hill but not up. Iv a feeling that my good leg is going to be twice the size of my bad one by the time the cast is off.
My bum muscle was killing me so it should be pert by the end of this.
Emm you made me smile over the dog. We used to be given money to buy the dog a icecream in the summer as kids.
Kat it must be so hard dealing with everything by yourself. You sound like a strong person though. Hugs. Oh get yourself one of those grabby things so you dont have to reach for things.

farmerswife75

Morning all!!

alec eiffel - we were also at the Scotland v Italy game!! We only live about half an hour away so the journey wasn't too bad!!

I've just put a steak pie in the oven for lunch, mr farmer is freeze-branding some young cattle today and he'll be a bit cold when he gets in as there's lots of standing about!

As for tidying....hmmm.....!! I've mopped the kitchen floor and had a game of 'hide the crap' ready for my parents coming tonight for a pre-bonfire buffet!! I hope they don't venture any further into the house............................;)

Have a good day everybody!!

jx

roobarb3

Hi everyone,

hello Doobop iam a newbie and greatly inspired by everone on here
dibuzz iam so glad that your dog is on the mend it must have been such a worry.Big hugs for you both

Kat 360 hi . iam an ex service wife of 30 years . And have son who has recently returned from afghan. i know how difficult it can be managing on your own with family hours away. everyone on this forum have been really welcoming and encouraging.
Just do what you can all he wants to see when he gets back is you and your children. Knowing that he has you all waiting for him is what keeps him focused, he wont be bothered by mess he just wants to be home with you trust me. You are doing a great job just being his wife and mother to his children. x