My home is a mess

natlie

Hi
I need to do kitchen and clothes today (including ebay) - going to try to ignore everything else until tomorrow.

Didn't win Euromillions last night :sad: again

will be back after to see how everone else has done as you all seem quite motivated ATM

posted a bump pic on my profile 5 weeks to go!

edit: the people next door are having cavity wall insulation put in - not only is it extremely noisy but its setting off the house alarm - what a horrible start to the weekend! want to go over and tell them very unpolitely to shut up! and to complain to these neighbours who have just moved in about the time they have chosen to get this done! groan! Im all for insulating but really!

natlie

sirlizzie wrote: »

I just saw this thread and thought it sounds just like my home.

So is there a best place to start? Upstairs? Downstairs?
I want to get cracking now:T so point me in the right direction, please

I prefer to start downstairs as people tent to see downstairs if the come over and I don't like people seeing my mess, but if you do tend to stop half way through maybe upstairs would be better?

Dave101t

im tidying up while the wife is away, its so easy, just start and dont get sidetracked by..erm...looking on mse!bye!

Rummer

I have woken up with a fresh motivation

Our DD has been away for a week and we had high plans to get the house all tidied with the possibility of getting some decorating done. However we ended up living like very untidy teenagers, and now the house looks like a whirlwind has passed through it spreading debris and mess everywhere :eek:

So I have got up ridiculously early and have made a start on the laundry, cleaned out the animals and have got half the living room tidied. Just stopped for a much needed coffee and gingerbread man

This is the point when I would love someone to just appear and do all the rest of the work me, what do you think my chances are :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

helen_jelly

Dave101t :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ExTrolley - WayToGo Lady :T:T:T- well done on getting it sorted and its lovely to see you so upbeat

Yesterday I did nothing :eek: and today I have so much to do that I don't know where to start!! Hall and Kitchen aren't too bad so I'm leaving them and concentrating on all the other rooms and the ironing and the washing and so on and so on................!!

Dog needs a bath too but that'll have to wait :rotfl:

DD went with ExMIL to see JLS last night - her 1st concert, she spent wisely and would not buy a t-shirt at £45 as it was too dear and she can get cheaper off the internet - I felt quite proud of her, she's 11 and I've been trying really hard to install money sense into both of the kiddies and we continually yack about shopping around and getting value for money and she obviously took note so I'm a happy Mum!! It then took over an hour to get out of the car park - no Police or whoever directing traffic etc, bit of a nightmare but at least she had a good time and sung her heart out, ExMIL who is 70ish thoroughly enjoyed herself too!!

Anyway, off to make some sort of start [even if that involves checking out more threads or here lol]

Have a cracking day everyone

Helen x

hart44

Morning everyone

I have been awol, sorry, I have been feeling like s**t the last few days I just wanted to sit in a corner (if I could have found one clean enough) and cryed I think everything just caught up with me and I had been going on with my head in the sand

My OH just sits on his PC and if I say anything he says he has had a crap day at work :mad: like I haven't

Im feeling a bit better today I decided to stop wearing cleaning clothes and put something a bit more nicer on (my best jeans :rotfl:) and do my hair

Everyone here has gone out so I have hoovered through (can't remember when or if I did it last wk )
One load of wash done and the heavy stuff on the line, not risking all as it might rain yet

Anyway going to pull myself together and get out of this down mood and do a bit of sewing today

Hope everyone else is doing ok and will drop by again later

laurel7172

sirlizzie wrote: »

I just saw this thread and thought it sounds just like my home. So i read the first page tips/abbrev etc and some inbetween and the latter ones too! So at least I don't feel quite as down and depressed, but its just making the start - where???
In my defence, I have Ms and get the dreadful tiredness which leaves things sometimes half done or never started, but .......I am determined that a declutter, thorough clean up is iminent and overdue, even though i know it really will be babysteps.

So is there a best place to start? Upstairs? Downstairs?
I want to get cracking now:T so point me in the right direction, please

Start off something that will get on by itself-like running the washing machine, or hanging up a load to dry. If you need it, you can then have a rest while your home gets cleaner with no further effort on your part.

If you can only manage one thing, prioritise something that will create more work if you don't do it-like drying washing before it's left to go fetid in the machine. (Who? Me? )

When catching up, try to do first what will only need doing once. My kitchen floor will get cleaned next week anyway, but putting away my coursebooks and washing my daughter's prom dress would still be waiting for me if I hadn't done them this morning...

natlie

Hi
I have been out done a bit of top up shopping, washed a load of dishes and a loads of clothes and dried a load of towels OH currently hanging washing out as its stopped raining. Went to Mothercare and spent my £50 voucher - thanks to work. Got a matress for the transporter car seat so I can use it like a moses basket, sheets, grooming set, nappy pail for my real nappies and towels and a cardigan in the sale for DD2. Put 10 things on ebay. Off to put shopping away, make pasties and clean kitchen.

candygirl

Have hung washing out, n chucked some in dryer as there's sooo much of it:eek::eek::eek:
Am off out to watch rugby in the pub this aft/eve so will prob grab a takeaway later:beer::beer:
NATLIE don't overdo it hun:D

lawbee

Well after trying to follow this thread since the beginning, its time I faced up to the fact I am a messy!

My spare room is so bad I cannot actually step foot in it and the rest of the house is just messy (and cluttered!). I dont like throwing things away in case they come in handy, so years of junk and mess have piled up. I moved into my house 18 months ago after living in a flat, but looking at the place you would think I had been here years due to all the mess.:eek:

After writing lists for things to do each weekend, I have decided to break the list down into much smaller individual jobs and then make sure I do 10 of the 25 things on the list before the end of the weekend and try to get 20 things done before I start another list next weekend. I have started ok, already have completed 4 things so only 6 more to go over the weekend. Hoping by breaking it down, the cleaning does not seem so daunting and will prevent it taking over my life and stressing me out.

Right cup of tea then back to it!:beer: