My home is a mess

Cat501

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

WHERE does the time go??? Almost time to start dinner and all I've done since coming in is put the shopping away and make a "to do" list!!:(

GreyQueen

:jHello Messies, I am lobbying to be awarded a special Messy Medal for services to tidiness above and beyond the call of duty.

Yes, Mum and I rolled up out sleeves and opened the broom cupboard door, looked in, looked at each other in horror and tried to find something easier to do, such as scaling a small mountain.

Howsomever, it is too late in the season for Everest, and Mount Washmore is off limits as the wm is still disabled by a bottlebrush in the gubbins so we felt that we had no choice but to tackle it.

It took 2 grown women more than 3 hours of hard graft to discipline this blasted cupboard. Close to midday, I was reaching in gingerly to lift the last kipple from the floor, carefully because there might be SPIDERS there and I found a microfibre cloth chewed to shreds and little pellets of mouse-poo.

Thought Mum would have forty-fits but this turned out to be old news- cats had brought mousie in as a chew toy, mousie had escaped, shacked up in the cupboard for a while but had been captured later and turned into catfood.

So, we had a moose in the hoose- is that worth a prize?

Tomorrow I shall clean the cooker. I may not make it back alive. If I should go silent, please can fellow messies say a small prayer......:rotfl:

sparklymessygirl

Hello Messies,

I am a lurker who lives in a hovel. Close to having my first baby and dreading having health visitors etc. Trying to stay chilled and doing what I can but difficult because of my bump.

Just wanted to make a suggestion re papers for those who are completely over-run. I had piles of papers ready to be shredded. I bought a bin to burn them but that didn't work. I have a shredder but the piles were so huge - boxes and boxes. Some of the papers were dusty and dirty too Anyway, eventually I gave in and took them to a commercial shredder and I thought it was very reasonable at £5 per big bag or archive box. I had procrastinated for years and it was a huge relief. The place I went was a self storage facility.

Sparkly

Fruball

Dragoncry wrote: »

Confessions....

Where to start I too have a casserole dish lidded and sat waiting to be washed. However mine has moved from the kitchen to inside the garage (attached to house with kitchen access) on the floor and I haven't dared open it yet. In fact it has been there so long I can't remember what was cooked in it

Also have filled the cooker with frying pans etc when people came over and have moved things to where they don't belong for the same reason. Oh to have a less cluttered life and be able to have people over once in a while without that panic beforehand to get tidied and a little bit respectable

DC xx

All I seem to do whilst reading this thread is disturb the DDs :rotfl: Laughed til my ribs ached reading this over and over! My SC dish often migrates from the kitchen to the garden, where exposure to the weather seems to help shift whatever unpleasantness is in there! I highly recommend leaving such matter to the elements for a few days - makes life very much easier when it comes to tackling the problem. Rain/moonlight seem to work miracles when it comes to lifting off burned on stuff!

I'm always shoving stuff in the oven - often clean stuff but my cupboards are so badly organised that, without causing an avalanche, I can't put things away in there

laurel7172 wrote: »

I threw out a bowl this week. I mixed up the filler for the holes in the ceiling in it, then CBA to clean it (oh, it'll just pop out when it dries). No, it didn't

I've just put on another layer of filler, and stood looking at the leftovers in the latest bowl. I daren't flush it down the sink, and didn't want to ruin a cloth either.

Then I realised. It looked like hoummus. And what mops hoummus out of bowls? Bread. I grabbed the crust from the children's loaf (they won't eat it anyway) and wiped the bowl clean in one sweep. Genius :rotfl:Even if I do say so myself

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant! that is too funny for words! is that what they call lateral thinking? I sometimes think us intelligent folk are messier than others mostly because our clever brains are too busy doing intelligent stuff to worry about carp about the house :rotfl:

Emm-in-a-pickle wrote: »

With the place to ourselves in DS`s absence, having a nice chilled out sort of day. I just showed OH some of the last few pages here, the confessions (many of which I can also own up to!), Laurel`s Bookcase saga, and the stuff about Mount Washmore - and we`ve had a really good chuckle together. Thanks, my lovely Messy friends. OH is a dear tolerant soul, but there are times I think he must cringe at how messy I am...his verdict after reading here? `But THESE are the normal people, not the Spick & Span brigade. Their homes are lived in, like ours!` Isn`t that sweet?

Cat501 said your OH is a sweetie - I say "HE WANTS CLONING" :T What a lovely OH you have! :A

I had a nightmare this afternoon - CH has gone wrong... Left a message for my plumber explaining the noises coming from airing cupboard and asked him to call back... came downstairs... asked kids to take a bag up and throw away all the selection box carp that was on the landing from boxing day... heard a knock on the door :eek::eek::eek: OMG I thought, PLEASE don't let be the plumber :eek::eek::eek:

IT WAS!!

Don't get me wrong - I am delighted to have a plumber that appears like the genie from the lamp... but I would have liked to at least have cleared a pathway for him!!! Bless him... Needless to say, he ignored the mess and gave me the lovely news that its going to cost £140 :eek: Damn this year... Its been one thing after another.

Roll on 2012 - The year I WILL get organised :cool:

Thanks to all the messies who have posted confessions! I really think there are more skeletons in those wardrobes so come on, please confess more!

I am enjoying reading them, makes me feel more normal, and I bet the lurkers are laughing their little socks off and thinking that they are normal too!! POST YOUR CONFESSIONS! Nobody knows who you are

Emm-in-a-pickle

GQ, your posts ALWAYS deserve a medal!
((HUGS)) to all, especially new Messies, poorly Messies (Laurel I`m sure the fresh air DID do you good!) & Messies who went shopping...
I didn`t go shopping, nor to the skips. I`ve compromised by picking the poo (how DOES my old Daftie-dog poo more bulk than she actually eats??) and TRIPLE-BAGGING stuff then placing it in the car boot ready to go tomorrow. This includes the fridge mystery item which was either an exploded mozarella or possibly the open pack of bacon which was best before 2nd November. I decided not to pursue the inquiry any further.
WM loads x 3 all hanging around the house now, and I`m about to light the fire and put another load in WM which will get shuffled onto nursery fireguard in due course.

TylersMummy

Hello messies!

Yesterday I cleaned the whole flat. I'm lucky as we only moved in towards the end of October and threw sooooooooooo much junk away but it's amazing how much crap you can accumulate in 2 months! :eek:

My mum took the baby for the whole day yesterday so I could get the flat sorted from post-birth and post-Christmas craziness (since Tyler was born it's been full steam ahead!) and I cleared the dining table (which you couldn't see for piles of washing, Christmas cards, paper work, presents etc), and found a home for every present we had which was difficult considering between me, OH and baby we had about 70 things... which of course meant I had to clear out drawers and the wardrobe which then opened a whole new can of annoying worms!
At one point, the entire bed was covered in bags and boxes and I was seconds from bursting into tears and screaming "WHAT HAVE I STARTED!?". The bedroom was already a wreck before I began emptying drawers and wardrobes but I had to or there'd have been no room for new presents.

I also then emptied the baby's chest of drawers and bagged up his 'tiny baby' and 'newborn' bits that don't fit any more and loaded it up with all of his 0-3 stuff which I wisely (thank God) had washed and ironed and put in storage boxes before he was born!

The bedroom is almost there, I just need to buy some sort of storage baskets to keep on the wardrobe floor and for the top of the wardrobe as me, OH and bubba are in one room so I need to be a bit clever with the storage somehow. I'm thinking some baskets and some storage containers will solve it.

I also cleaned out the bathroom after that (I was basically dead after operation bedroom but kept going!) and emptied the bathroom cabinet and have vowed that we are NOT buying any more bath stuff or shower gels until we've used the tonne we have! By 5pm I was done and I started at 10.30am! :eek:

On the 'left to do' list is organise and de-clutter the two storage cupboards in the hall way and get through the huge pile of ironing. I know I'm extra behind because Tyler was born mid November and then I had to tackle Christmas presents for an entire family. So together with that, a new flat, a new baby, recovering with all that post-natal loveliness and Christmas shopping, it's a wonder I have anything ironed to actually wear :rotfl: So I'm not beating myself up too much.

Phew! Relaxing with a box of chocs and Lee Evans DVD now! Hope you're all well and happy :j

kittywight

evening all

tylersmummy sounds like youve done fab


well today ive got a few things done ...
washed some dishes
did a load of washing
(i tumbly dried yesterdays load last night, havent sorted it out though, or thrown it in the bedroom as i prefer to call it, its still in the machine)
ive tidied up the livingroom a little bit
cleaned the table
made ds bed

im sure ive done more than this ....... but maybe not .... it feels like ive done loads, compared to the past few days i have... so its a start at least, slowly slowly wins the race

also played with ds crayola glowdome for the first time , one of his christmas pressies ...
freaked out at first because the pens were so pale (then i figured they were glow in the dark and thats why i couldnt see them- duh!) the room does have to be pitch black though for the desired effect but other than that its quite cool actually

Rummer

:j:j:jI went to the dump:j:j:j

I hope you are all proud of me! It was a bit of a shock though as we used to have a dump where everything was all chucked in together however it has had a makeover and every different thing had to go to a different location. Cue a comedy sketch style moment as I raced around trying to drop the huge amount of rubbish I had into the correct bins. The man that worked there kept following me and giving me directions, I felt like a contestant on the crystal maze :rotfl:

OH did the dishwasher and cooked dinner :eek: either he is sickening for something or my sobbing and declarations of "not being able to live in this mess anymore" has finally reached home. I do believe my emotional performance warranted an Oscar (I would settle for a BAFTA )

Ladies I have been thinking of starting a blog to keep track of my crafty hobbies. No intention of sharing my personal life just my crochet/knitting/gardening highs and lows, what do you think?

Dragoncry

All I seem to do whilst reading this thread is disturb the DDs :rotfl: Laughed til my ribs ached reading this over and over! My SC dish often migrates from the kitchen to the garden, where exposure to the weather seems to help shift whatever unpleasantness is in there! I highly recommend leaving such matter to the elements for a few days - makes life very much easier when it comes to tackling the problem. Rain/moonlight seem to work miracles when it comes to lifting off burned on stuff!


Haha Frugal your reply made me laugh too ! Glad we could cheer a few messies up and brighten their day :T I have to tell you that I braced myself and took off the lid !!! It wasn't as bas as predicted though I couldn't tell what it had been as it was now a mass carpet of lovely green mould with a few exciting golden bubbles on one part and no smell ! It slid nicely into the bin and I now have a beautiful pristine casserole dish again :heart2:

It must be true that there are more confessions to be heard and I no doubt have a few more if I thought harder.....

Other than wash up and make food for us all and OH's packed lunch for his night shift, I have not got anything done. Will try and plan AND do something tomorrow I promise ! I think it's all these dark wet days that somehow depress us into doing nowt ....

DC xx

Fruball

I am seriously doomed.

The plumber is coming to fix the heating at 9am tomorrow :eek:

OMG This is a nightmare. The hall and stairs are dreadful (landing not bad) and I am sure he will have to get into the fusebox cupboard which is badly situated at the end of the kitchen behind at least 1sqm of carp which will need shifting :eek: Not to mention the fact that he will have to come thru living room and kitchen.

I could cry

I don't know whether to stay up late somehow sorting it or get up early and heave it all outside just before he gets here . Problem is that none of it really belongs there... Its ebay stuff, washing baskets (all full) and other stuff.

Just had a thought... I could drag it all upstairs to my room which would definately look like a R ichard W allace room if I do that :o:o