My home is a mess

laurel7172

I re-started a garden job I stopped a couple of weeks ago. (I got distracted by chopping down Leylandii and potting on about a million seedlings). The theory is that I'm going to make a (small) swirly pattern of gravel path and square foot (ish) beds, edged in recycled brick.

I dug over and levelled the area, but it would be a mistake to assume I know what I'm doing from here...

Still have an ironing pile the size of Snowdon...

soupdragon10

Well my ironing pile is now the sum total of 3 garments smaller. Mainly because I need something to wear to go out tomorrow. May do a bit before I go to bed as ironing board is in bedroom and it would get it done in the cooler temp.

Spotless kitchen - hmmmm I'm sure I've heard of the concept, just never achieved it myself. Well done Jackie - btw if you want to divert to Cornwall on the way back from the emerald isle I have a real challenge of a kitchen for you

Night everyone and lets dream of baby steps towards spotlessness.

Ellie83

soupdragon10 wrote: »

If I am feeling really brave I will tackle the ironing pile tonight :eek::eek::eek: my OH usually does my ironing (I clean the drains so it's a fair swap) but he's had labyrinthitis for the past month and I daren't let him use a hot iron in case he falls.

Does laundry breed in baskets? Every time I look round there seems to be more. At least I now have washing lines and hanging everything up outside I ran out of clothes pegs.

I like your breeding basket hypothesis soupdragon. Mine are definitely breeding like rabbits, and apart from not wearing clothes, I don't know any contraceptive to that!!

jackieglasgow wrote: »

My kitchen is spotless. Don't ask me how it happened, I don't really know, but there is nothing on the worktops or the table, or under the table, or on the floor I think an alien may have replaced me when I had my afternoon nap today :rotfl: Still haven' finished my boy's room though. That will be tonight's potter

It's genie in the lamp!!!! :rotfl:

Well ladies, I'm amazed at myself. I finished the ironing (yes, you read that right!), I washed the Spring duvet ( :eek: ), AND OH and I de-cluttered 1/4 of the garage ( :eek::eek:). I can't believe it. The trip to the tip was so satisfying! I got to throw a lot of the old cardboard we had amassed through the years and I felt liberated!!!! Still had to throw some old tat in the landfill bin but most of our stuff is in the recyclable items bins Both my rabbits got suddenly ill though. Very common illnesses in rabbits but still very scary because I love them so much

Today, one more trip to the tip, with green waste this time. I'm going to wash the pillows (OH is asthmatic and it helps him breathe better - nothing I wouldn't do for my hunny ) and we are going to tackle 1/4 of the garage again and leave a full box of stuff to the charity shop. :rotfl:

Buddingblonde

Well after Jackie and her spotless kitchen yesterday I am tempted to start sorting out the kitchen cupboards. I have done it 3 times since moving in (8 years ago!!!!). God knows how much out of date stuff will surface. Even the thought of it it seems too big a job.
Might apply the same principle I have to the rest of the housework - do one cupboard at a time.
Really cant be bothered today but if I can hoover through. straighten the rooms I have already tidyed and do a couple of cupboards Ill be happy.

Buddingblonde

Ellie83 wrote: »

Well ladies, I'm amazed at myself. I finished the ironing (yes, you read that right!), I washed the Spring duvet ( :eek: ), AND OH and I de-cluttered 1/4 of the garage ( :eek::eek:). I can't believe it. The trip to the tip was so satisfying! I got to throw a lot of the old cardboard we had amassed through the years and I felt liberated!!!! Still had to throw some old tat in the landfill bin but most of our stuff is in the recyclable items bins Both my rabbits got suddenly ill though. Very common illnesses in rabbits but still very scary because I love them so much

Today, one more trip to the tip, with green waste this time. I'm going to wash the pillows (OH is asthmatic and it helps him breathe better - nothing I wouldn't do for my hunny ) and we are going to tackle 1/4 of the garage again and leave a full box of stuff to the charity shop. :rotfl:

Oh Ellie - that kind of satisfaction you cant buy! I have loads to go to the tip but I need OH to take it with me - it is too bulky for me to manage.

Hope your bunnys are ok! I used to have bunnys and guinea pigs when I was a child - loved them dearly and would have them again apart from all the cats I have.

jackieglasgow

Buddingblonde it took me about three weeks of going back and forward and walking around a pile in the middle of the kitchen floor before my cupboards were done. The worktops and table etc just took a day - I was a bit gobsmacked when I got up and saw it this morning again, and going to try my hardest to keep it like that. The Flylady list for the kitchen will now be much easier to do because it is already tidy and clean. I am determined to be better organised.

Buddingblonde

I think that is a great idea - flylady once spotless to keep it that way! Cant wait to get to that point.

jackieglasgow

Only only seven more areas to go, not including the garden :rotfl: but if my kitchen is clear I will feel better, I hated it being a mess, I used to cook professionally and hate an untidy kitchen, it has been quite soul destroying. Onwards and upwards today.

Ellie83

Buddingblonde wrote: »

Oh Ellie - that kind of satisfaction you cant buy! I have loads to go to the tip but I need OH to take it with me - it is too bulky for me to manage.

Hope your bunnys are ok! I used to have bunnys and guinea pigs when I was a child - loved them dearly and would have them again apart from all the cats I have.

It felt sooooo good at the tip Buddingblonde! We had a lot of old cardboard that we brought with us from our old flat!!! How crazy is that! We were so lazy, we didn't even throw them away before moving in And they aren't useful cardboard boxes either, they are the long thin awkward ones they use for flat-packed furniture And I can't wait to get rid of the charity box

I'm like you though, there is no way I could do the tip thing alone. For once, our car is really tiny, so has to be packed following DH's instructions :rotfl: And I am a very nervous driver, so dealing with all the cars at the tip? No thanks And DH feels all manly when I say I really need his help We are all winners

Good luck with your cupboards! Again, it feels so good to throw away old stuff!

Ellie83

Buddingblonde wrote: »

I think that is a great idea - flylady once spotless to keep it that way! Cant wait to get to that point.

Same here! I used to do flylady for a while (yes, there was a time when my house was more or less tidy!!!!! :eek: ) and it does work. I am one of these women who have no idea on how to manage a household, so it is nice to have some guidance. How come some people are so good at it while others have no clue?