My home is a mess

Rummer

We really got the house in shape today :j

• Laundry x4
• Clean laundry folded and put away
• Tumble dryer loads x4
• Dishwasher loads x2
• Kitchen counters washed down
• Kitchen floor hoovered
• Living room tidied
• Bedroom surfaces cleared
• Xmas gift bags and wrapping stuff put away
• Christmas cards taken down

Just about to get the animals organised and their beds refreshed

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hello again you wonderful bunch of Messies! I`m only now winding down after 2 log-day shifts, fed DS & OH who`s working again tomorrow & well asleep by now...finally had chance to read here & catch up.

Rummer - it IS great to hear you sounding like yourself again - you had me worried a few days back!
Princess Skintalot - I LOVE the term `Dump Zones`, and will plagiarise it shamelessly!
Beanrua - welcome, but please don`t type `messies` in small letters, we`re all Messies out & proud (ish..) here, we sometimes inspire each other to action, we also comfort & condone...
GreyQueen - I haven`t come across the word `clart` for nearly 40 years (except when I use it myself!)
Cat - (HUGS) to you pet, I used to get post-Christmas glums when I led a `normal` life (before nursing), I think partly because of days getting darker (starts getting lighter very soon!!), partly having overspent, & partly a feeling of anti-climax. Last couple of decades, I`ve worked nearly all the Christmases & Boxing Days, and by then felt so glad of my days off that it`s never been a downer! I tend to plummet in mood a week or so after New Year.(BRACE Yourselves - for I shall winge then!)
Thriftwizard - Welcome. Your post struck a note here...I too can GIVE stuff away, but can`t chuck it! I`ve lived with the `might be useful` theme all my life, & unfortunately I think it`s hereditary, I get it from my mum, my DS is worse than mum or me ever were. As for chairs/ sofas - it`s a NATURAL LAW, like in science,OK?
These are - (my scientific theory) -
FLAT SURFACES! and therefore they shall have Stuff deposited upon them. And the Messy person `in charge` shall periodically CLEAR the Stuff (shed/caravan/bin or `Dump Zones`) in a vigorous burst of energy and shall loudly berate the other members of the Household if they attempt to deposit more Stuff upon the Surfaces...for a few days. Then when Messy One (who is the only one who seems to mind) relaxes/turns her back or is absent at work for a day or 2 MORE Stuff miraculously gravitates to the Flat Surfaces, & no member of Messy One`s household knows (admits) how it got there, even if it is very obvious who SHOULD know & remove their Stuff.
Stuff then STAYS on FLAT SURFACE until Messy One gets another burst of outrage/ energy/has a major squawk at household members (best done day before bin collection!)
FLAT SURFACE fully or partially reclaimed, usually for less than a week.
I reclaimed the settee here in my LR, just over a week ago I think it was, I was SO pleased...can barely even SEE it now. But I have Plans HA HA ... OH is having to do nightshifts for several weeks after new year, I intend to kip on settee when he`s not here (easier to wake up for work/can listen to radio on Iplayer to get to sleep) also a bit of `reclaiming territory in LR` as DS & DGD tend to spread Stuff. This is about `Lebensraum` in my house too. AND my old Daftie-dog will be happy to sleep downstairs (I have to help her upstairs sometimes, she has to come with me & sometimes struggles a bit)
I`m doing a venison casserole tomorrow (treat for OH) Marinading it now.
I`m thinking ahead/trying to plan nice meals for him to take on nights in food flask. Salads only if I`m working & not home before he goes off to work. (We live by the Rota, not what day of the week it is!) Also, I`m thinking of suppers alone as opportunity to eat stuff he`s not so keen on (eg toasties/pasta/ wraps, or just nibble a bit of salad whilst cooking a decent PUDDING (Bread& Butter pud, or a fruit sponge pud in microwave.I`m the only one who likes this stuff here.)

I`m trying to think positive. See the Up-side of life. Christmas was a mixed feeling on the ward, we had a few very muddled, a few poorlies on the mend, and a couple of deaths. The rest made the best of it, open visiting last 2 days so relatives/visitors to add to the mix- some trying to be festive (some a bit too tiddly!) some grieving, some wanting to stay all day & some just showing faces for `duty` visit.) And the Sally Army Band on Christmas morning - one of the best bits, as always!
I`m nearly asleep here...drags self away from pc, & attempts to wake deaf old Daftie-Dog to come up to bed or she`ll bark within the hour if I leave her down here.
I`ll let you know how the venison turns out...

helen_jelly

Emm - great post as always - love reading what you and yours have been up to,

I was expecting to wake with a major hangover but luckily I'm one of those people who can have a drink or 2 [read alot!!] without having too many side effects, but I didn't wake up early enough to go the shops before the crowds hit!! Just organised a trip with DD for tomorrow.

I've washed up, paid some bills online and bathed.

Off to do some sorting and tidying of the LR cos its statring to annoy me and I want to take some decs down

Hope you all have a lovely day

Helen x

Buffythedebtslayer

Hello Messies,

well Christmas is done, I always feel a bit down, look at the Christmas tree and wish I had put it sooner and not left all the tidying to the last minute!

I was up stupidly late Christmas eve wrapping presents, they did look lovely, all colour co-ordinated and organised. Oh how I long to be organised.

Christmas Day and Boxing was spent with family and it was ok. I got lovely presents but it wasn't an especially relaxed affair. Still I spent the last week visiting my friends so it all balances out.

In other news Mum complimented me on how tidy the front room and conservatory looked. So that was good......not like I am looking approval or anything...lol

Today I was meant to go out into the [STRIKE]Jungle[/STRIKE]garden but Mum has put last week's Grey's Anatomy on so ermmmm. not moving............

apart from to make tea........

xx

candygirl

Hi fellow messies:D:D
Am still full of cold so am chilling in bed for now, then going shopping later:D:DGot new sheets for the bed yest n OH changed it and found one of the missing library books:eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Daren't take it back after my recent rant:D:D
Had a fab Xmas, but am glad things are getting back to normal:D:D
Might have a bit of a declutter later;)

laurel7172

Hi Messies!

So glad everyone has had a nice time-and Emm, what would we do without people like you???

I did a terrible job of doing nothing yesterday. And a little job in the study/dining room turned into a huge exhausting MESSY palaver. As my Christmas and birthday present to myself I've got rid of my shabby, creaky, chipboard computer desk and bought a lovely secondhand Sixties dining table instead. All the computer peripherals are supposed to fit into a corner bookcase, and they do. But the power socket is a fair distance away, and the original plan was to pull out the bookcase, cut a hole in the back for a power lead and run a cable from the socket, under the radiator to a gang plug inside the big bookcase. Simples.

Except...the corner bookcase can't be moved unless the one next to it is removed first...and at that point I suddenly thought...there must be power sockets behind the bookcases, and if I can find one, there will be no need for any trailing cable at all...

Oh, what a mess. The whole room is knee deep in books. It turned out that I'd had the sense to cut a hole in the back of a bookcase where the powerpoints were, but golly, they still took some finding. And they're behind a bookcase that goes tight into a corner, which meant I'd have to take the room apart to ease it off the wall to get the plug down behind...so I went out, bought a new plug, cut off the moulded plug, and at that point realised that while the new gang plug cable was long enough for the job it had been bought for, it was now a good metre short....

So....a new gang plug with a long cable being (bizarrely) cheaper than another metre of cable and a connector, I have now cut the plug off a *second* multiplug, fed the cable down the back and put the new plug back on. All I need to do now is cut holes in the side of the big bookcase so the broadband and phone cables can get in...only...the whole room is two feet deep in books and I can't lay it down to do it...you know, this would only happen to a Messy:rotfl:

laurel7172

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I just had a really good idea as to how I was going to get the broadband cable through, rushed out to the garage for the saw, measured, marked up and started sawing...THE WRONG BOOKCASE!:rotfl:

Oh dear.

Cat501

Hello Messies - feeling a little better today, still brooding but had a good cry last night for DD1's GF, it helped a bit.

Emm I loved your clutter theory! I've had one for years which is a lot less interesting but just a rejigging of Parkinson's Law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion)....Cat's Law - Clutter expands so as to fill the surfaces available. It's just unfortunate that in my house surfaces includes floors...

Well done to all busy people. I've got a plan for tonight, have told DS I'm going to be painting - so I'll have to do it. Done some dishes but nothing else really, another poor night's sleep so I'd happily go back to bed right now:o

hugs all xxx

GreyQueen

Afternoon Messies, how is everyone today? I'm warming my heart on the small triumph of a window, windowsill and computer desk and a tiny part of the floor near the desk being vac'd of several inches of fluff and lots and lots of kipple.

It was a complete workout just getting at the window and if I was any shorter I don't think I would have been able to do it. It was outrageously-grotty, bordering on Kim and Aggie territory. :eek: Glad that it was done. I chucked the net curtain into a sinkful of sudsy water which quickly turned grey-brown......the shame, the shame.

In my defense, this is the parents' place, I don't even live here but a mess is a mess and I'm bound to help where I can.

Emm, I acquired the word clarty whilst living in Scotlandshire many years ago, along with minging, another fine and graphic word. I'd no idea it was such a rarity.

Mount Washmore has sneakily been tackled with the odd washload in the background and we've even been able to line-dry stuff most of the way outside and just finish it off indoors. Line-dried laundry is just about my favourite smell of all time, am I sad or am I SAD?

I snuck off to re-arrange Mum's linen cupboard this morning and satisfied my slightly-OCD tendancies by jelly-rolling some towels and well as finding some linens which can and will be Freecycled next week into somebody else's life.

I have just strong-armed Mum into the recliner with the newspaper and told her that she's grounded for the rest of the evening as she does so much and she's pushing 70 and needs to chill-out.

Hope all us Messies are having a leisurely time and that you are all enjoying the latest addition to my sig line.........in very small print so that any Neatnicks won't laugh at me on other threads..........

Have a lovely evening and catch you tomorrow with further news from the far frontier of Deep Cleaning.

Laters GQ xx

Cat501

GreyQueen wrote: »

by jelly-rolling some towels

Laters GQ xx

LOL - whatting some towels???:)

Grr, just realised the paint I was going to use obviously didn't have the lid on properly, it looks minging:D Looks like a trip to bl***y Mr T which I can do without....