My home is a mess

hart44

Welcome BB :beer:
This is a great place to get motivated or just have a grummble about the mess :rotfl:

I am only doing the basics today, bins emptyed (smelly lol) side in kitchen have been wiped and the DW is on so thats it for today

Im going to do some sewing today as Ive not had time for ages

Dragoncry

Morning everyone

Hope you all had a lovely evening, seems some of you partied on here :rotfl::o

Well after blitzing the kitchen last night it looks wonderful this morning and today (when OH gets up after his night shift sleep) I might have a relaxing afternoon and do some crafts with the girls and keep up with the forum, which usually takes some time

Looking forward to a [STRIKE]messy[/STRIKE] tidier 2012 with you lovelies :T
DC xx

thriftwizard

Morning all, and Happy New Year! Today's project for me is eminently manageable - declutter the spice rack! I know I'm going to be given loads of herbs & spices in the next couple of weeks, by a friend who's upping sticks & moving to Portugal to help her arthritis, and I do use them constantly; in fact whenever I go to Spain, which we do regularly, having family over there, I come back with a suitcase full of cheap juniper berries, cloves and all sorts from the street market. So I'd better clear some space & chuck out anything which has managed to stick around long enough to get seriously out of date. I know there are some, bought cheap when a local shop closed down about 4 years ago, lurking amongst the old lottery tickets etc. etc...

laurel7172

BBTHREE: that modus operandi sounds SO familiar, lol

Well, ladies, today I am on a mission. I'm afraid that yesterday I attacked my dirty living room carpet. I did not go out and hire a cleaner. Very MSE. I brought my own steamer down from the loft-it's a dust-mite killer (which I used to use daily to keep my carpets free of cat fleas :eek: back in the days before the longer-lasting treatments were invented) not a cleaner. But it does loosen the dirt, especially sticky marks. Then I worked a whole packet of Dyson Zorb into the carpet (not THAT MSE then!) to soak up what it would.

And...oh my goodness....the steaming lifted stains deep within the carpet and it looks worse than ever :eek::eek::eek:

So this morning, I got up and immediately started ringing around to hire a Rug Doctor. I had to step over sleeping teenagers to get the phone, and it seems at least one can of Coke has been spilled on the carpet anyway, so it's probably a good job it wasn't sparkly clean yesterday

Anyway, I thought they'd be booked up until February (New Y:jear resolutions and all), but I found a local shop with three machines *and they were all in*.:j

Messies, we are the silent majority. Out and proud in 2012! :rotfl:

laurel7172

Oh, and Thriftwizard-I wondered why there were fennel seeds all over the worktop...until I realised the girls had spilled them while getting bicarb for the Coke.

Think my spice cupboard could do with some attention too!

(ETA: to soak up the stain, lol. I don't *think* there's anything weird and druggie you can do with baking powder...and it is on the floor)

GreyQueen

laurel7172 wrote: »

Oh, and Thriftwizard-I wondered why there were fennel seeds all over the worktop...until I realised the girls had spilled them while getting bicarb for the Coke.

Think my spice cupboard could do with some attention too!

(ETA: to soak up the stain, lol. I don't *think* there's anything weird and druggie you can do with baking powder...and it is on the floor)

I wouldn't be too sure of that, hun; one of my (reformed) druggie neighbours reckons that one of my (unreformed) drug-dealing neighbours cuts the heroin he sells with custard powder. Tell ya, I'll never look at a tin of Birds the same way again.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hello & Happy New Year again to all Messies. It`s lovely to have new & returning Messies here as well.

Reading here about carpet stains etc. makes me so appreciate changing to washable rugs in the LR. Now in daylight the clean rugs I put down yesterday look really nice & clean, & the `spare` pair I washed yesterday are nearly dry hanging over doors. I feel almost smug now...
One lot of next-door neighbours are moving in a few weeks - sad news. We all went outside after midnight, & I gave then a piece of coal - they`re going to take it with them for luck! My PC kept shutting itself down last night too, each time I put it on again it said it had overheated. Told DS when he phoned and he`s going to perform major surgery when he gets back. We ended up listening to CD`s on OH`s ancient ghetto-blaster, but it was cosy and fun and my beef curry was yum.

I`ve just re-checked my T*sco vouchers, and none expire till Feb, so no urgency to shop there.
Making a shopping list for M*rrison`s and trying to do a vague-ish meal-plan (to include OH Night shift snappins) but otherwise just having a gentle potter, planning an early night as we`re both up at 6 again tomorrow.

40somethingmum

Another Lurker delurking , firstly to wish you lovely ladies a Happy New Year, and Secondly to ask if I can jump on the messy bandwagon to join you all


Looking forward to getting to know you all better.

40SMXX

Rummer

:jWelcome 40SM the more messies the merrier :j

helen_jelly

Hello eveybody and a warm welcome to the new people joining us - grab a chair, cuppa and sit back and read!! Its New Years Day so no cleaning/tidying/hiding stuff!!!

Well I've painted about a 1/4 of the tiles - boring job but I've left the brush wrapped up in cling film so i'll do some more tomorrow

And thats all I've done apart from be on tinternet

Helen x