My home is a mess

TylersMummy

Hope you don't mind me "joining" this thread. Happy day-after-boxing day!

Well I plan on spending this week getting our lovely (but currently bomb site-like!) flat in order with a 6 week baby in tow and OH at work on long shifts! Today, while DS slept and played under the God send of a play mat we have, I managed to sort through all of my cupboards, fridge and freezer, chucking things that we'll never use away and chucking well out of date food away and crisp packets with 3 crisps lurking in the bottom, making room for new things and my next food shop. I then cleaned all of the cupboards, done all of the recycling, cleaned the hob and all appliances and just generally decluttered.
I am now sooo happy with my clear kitchen with tonnes of work top space!

Tomorrow it's the living room's turn and I'm going to start with opening the first drawer on our cabinet and chucking away everything we haven't looked at in months and old old old bills! Then I'll tackle the other four drawers...

Trying to do one room at a time - much more realistic with a newborn!

x

jpscloud

TylersMummy wrote: »

Trying to do one room at a time - much more realistic with a newborn!x

Welcome TylersMummy! Heck yes, all I have is a cat and I sometimes forget to feed her. She does fortunately remind me rather loudly so doesn't starve, but it's probably a good thing I don't have children!

Well messies I am back from my parents' house - I had a very happy, if totally disrupted (hospital visits etc) Christmas and got to spend lots of time with my lovely Mum, something we really enjoy.

My house felt rather strange when I walked in, as the downstairs is clean and tidy for the first time in - well - years actually

Glad everyone is reporting in well and happy, hugs to anyone who needs 'em and I am off into the kitchen now to furtle out some cheese and biscuits!

YORKSHIRELASS

Hello all, welcome new messies. TylersMummy, I think you are doing great. I remember when mine were that age it took me all my time to just keep us all fed and in clean clothes never mind anything else!

Laurel you made me laugh because that is the sort of thing that happens to me. You start out with this plan which sounds really simple then half way through it all starts to go pear shaped and you regret ever starting but you have got to see it through! The new table sounds lovely though and I am sure it will be worth it.

I am itching to get rid of some of the "festive mess" (great words Kitty) but stuff it. No-one else is bothered, we havent got any visitors coming and it can wait another day or too. We have got so many chocolates and sweets for Christmas its disgusting. I am working on the theory that the kids can eat as much rubbish as they want for the rest of this week then hopefully a lot of it will be gone.

Emm - love your theory. My worst "flat-surface" is the breakfast bar in the kitchen. It has this magnetic quality for junk and drives me batty. Its also very visible to anyone who walks in the house and even if the rest of the kitchen is fairly tidy it makes it look messy.

Right I am going to put some washing on then at least I have done something productive - then see whats on the telly. Hugs to those feeling poorly or down.

jpscloud

:j My sewing machine works! I had just threaded it wrong, of course!

Well now a whole new world of messy opportunity is open to me as I get the old clothes etc. out of the loft to make some lovely cushion covers etc.!

Practising a few stitches now...

kittywight

hello all

welcome to all newbies and hugs for those in need

i went to the christmas sales today .......... 2 shops in 3 hours!!!! yes. it was that bad , and we didnt even go into the main shopping high street.... needless to say we just came home after that

today i have tidied ds room and also put a black bag of old toys together to go to the charity shop, took ds new toys out of livingroom and put them in his room , hes got some nice new storage boxes so hopefully things will stay nice in there for a while

but now my livingroom and hallway is messy why is it when i tidy one room other rooms get messier

my new years resolution is to sort my house out, throwing junk out or taking it to charity shops
sorting out my damp walls (stupid condensation)
painting (been living here over a year .... still not painted all the rooms , and its a small 2 bed flat )
and general nice household renovations .... i have a big sofa throw that i want to dye ... and today i bought 2 cushions in the sale, one purple one with a crown that says 'mummy rules' and 2 black ones with silver zebra print on them

...... lets just hope i can pull myself together ....

also did a load of washing .... still in machine , cant be bothered to take it out

xxx

Cat501

Hi Tylersmummy, I agree you're doing amazingly well! I don't think I even got dressed when my first was a newborn!

noooo! I'd forgotten how expensive paint is:(:( Bought paint for the woodwork too although I hadn't planned to. Also bought a new printer, haven't had a working one for years, and a new expanding file box, oh the best laid plans!!!

Went into Argos for an external hard drive but there appears to be a national shortage. I wanted to download some organising software called Evernote but I've no room on here at all.

Oh well, guess I should make a start - after another coffee:D

candygirl

jpscloud wrote: »

:j My sewing machine works! I had just threaded it wrong, of course!

Well now a whole new world of messy opportunity is open to me as I get the old clothes etc. out of the loft to make some lovely cushion covers etc.!

Practising a few stitches now...

I got a sewing machine too, but no idea wot to do wiv it:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

laurel7172

Welcome to the Messy-lounge,Thriftwizard and TylersMummy!:j

Well, I'm there with the bookcases. Sort of. I ended up making another cut in the wrong place , but neither of them are visible. And the internet is (obviously) back up, so I must have got most of the cables in most of the right places.

Now "all" I have to do is put the books back, and sort out the basket of kipple from the old desk. There's nowhere to hide it now!!!:eek:

Have just persuaded offspring that we need to de-Christmas tomorrow. Normally they hold out for the 6th, but we have a Chinese exchange student arriving on the 8th, and it's DS's birthday on the 7th...so if we don't want to spend his birthday cleaning, we'd better get cracking...

short_bird

Cat501 wrote: »

Went into Argos for an external hard drive but there appears to be a national shortage. I wanted to download some organising software called Evernote but I've no room on here at all.

Hi, Cat: hard drives and such like get built in Japan so suppliers ran into production difficulties after last year's tsunami & earthquake. They haven't really recovered yet. Can you take some rarely used "stuff" off the current hard drive, archive it on to something else, then defragment?

Cat501

short_bird wrote: »

Hi, Cat: hard drives and such like get built in Japan so suppliers ran into production difficulties after last year's tsunami & earthquake. They haven't really recovered yet. Can you take some rarely used "stuff" off the current hard drive, archive it on to something else, then defragment?

Ah! thanks, that didn't occur to me - the tsunami I mean! I wish I could take stuff off Most of it is DD1s and apparently there's "nothing" left she can take off *sigh*!! I'm constantly cleaning up and defragging these days to little avail!:(

eta ordered one from play 2TB, if that's not enough for her, I give up lol