My home is a mess

Emm-in-a-pickle

Rummer - you kitchen saga sounds SO like what I find myself doing.
I started off with such good intentions the other day, to empty/clean & refill my deep fat fryer. Emptied.
Basket lovely & clean. Lid detached and soaked in hot soapy water...fished out of sink when sink needed, put back in more hot soapy water (this is day 3. Excuse is `well I have been working as well`...). I feel miffed that it should be in such a state as I don`t use it that often. Some of my kitchen stuff I LOVE, I have a good relationship with my slow cookers, and some of my casserole/roasters & pans. I do not have this with the deep fat fryer. And OH suggested chips tonight.

Helen, Pudsey, & MessyMare - how I WISH I could give my poor old Daftie-Dog such treats! She used to be like an extension of the dustbin, and really enjoyed everything that wasn`t dog-food! Now she has a skin problem - has to have hypo-allergenic (& COSTLY!) salmon & potato biscuits - anything else, and she starts biting her own hide till it`s bald & bleeding. I don`t grudge the price of the special dogfood, but I do feel awful when she comes sniffing in the kitchen and I can`t give her a tasty scrap, and when I have to smuggle meaty scraps & bones out for next-doors dog.

helen_jelly

Emm - thats a shame, poor Daftie-dog, mine will eat anything except jelly, lettuce and grapes, all food has to be dealt with ASAP otherwise he stands up against the worktop and gobbles it all down - many a chicken leg in its wrapper has been lost to the hound!!

Helen x

snookey

Just look out the window at the wind or rather the things blowing in it. Glad Im indoors.
Iv just paid my first overpayment on my loan ,only 20.00 but its something. It will be 40.00 a month overpay so it does add up.

Yorkshire lass hope your insurance acts fast. Iv not looked at the roof yet.
Talking about animals liking toast one of our cats does, she also eats plain bread,biscuits and anything else she can find. I think its down to her having to eat out of bins as a stray. Our dog used to steal my dd sweets.
Im going to do a bit of cleaning an washing this afternoon and alter my dd school skirts or rather move the elastic along inside until it fits. My dd is very slender with no waist. Wish I was.
Messy mare glad your feeling better.

Emm-in-a-pickle

((HUGS)) to wind-afflicted Messies. Not too bad here, just very wet and cold.
I`ve managed to talk us out of chips tonight by suggesting a green Thai curry. I didn`t have to add `with prawns as well as chicken`!

merlot123

Hugs to Yorkshirelass.:grouphug: Hoping the insurer assessor comes out quickly. Keep everything that is damaged so he can look at it, if stuff in the shed is damaged due to being wet, then keep it and show him/her. You pay contents for this very reason to called upon it when neccessary.

I've done nothing in terms of housework today, not even unloaded the dishwasher or made a bed, I went shopping with my daughter who's Christmas money was burning a hole in her pocket, she got some really nice clothes at some great prices. I only bought 9 rolls of Christmas paper for next year for £3.00, and some gift tags at 40p for 20 tags. Very good quality ones too, from the house of fraser, I got some reduced make up sets for my DD friends birthdays from the House of Fraser too, a make up palette for £3 each. Bargain.

I'm off to unload the dishwasher and to wrap the stuff I've sold on Ebay, I have 67 items listed and have sold 24 so far, anyone fancy a bit of wrapping:rotfl:

The sales will pay for the holiday cottage I want to rent in the Lake district for a week. Only got another £50 to make in order to pay it in full. I'm amazed at the toot people will buy.

Hugs for those in need, keep safe and keep warm.

Rummer, how's the kitchen floor :rotfl:

merlot123

kittywight

hiya everyone

hope everyone is staying safe with this wind...
seems to have calmed down a little bit here though, although it didnt stop people panic buying, could barely get anything for ds packed lunches when i went into lidls earlier

no major damage done here, as far as im aware... the boats were stopped and a lot of trees fallen down... trees seem to be falling down left right and centre ,

my mum came to see me today, so i had a bit of a mad dash clean this morning ... threw away 5 black bags of rubbish, mostly christmas papers/boxes and i took 2 bags of old toys to the charity shops, also found out that the local charity shop collects, so im gonna get everything bagged up and arange a collection ... thatll take a lot of my clutter away and will help me sort stuff out , declutter for 2012!!!
may take the christmas trimmings down tommorow night or thursday night maybe

hope everyones ok

xxx

Cat501

Done nothing today again Messies - just slept when the wind died down! Street is just littered with broken slates and chimney pots and the pub across the road lost most of its roof. Definitely the worst storm I've seen in terms of damage.

DS's dad in hospital - suffered some kind of haemorrhage this morning - keeping fingers crossed that this year doesn't begin as dreadfully as last year:(

Sceptre

Sympathies to those who are having a tricky time at the moment, one way or another.

I don't know what I'm doing at the moment. I've done five loads of washing today, so have got rid of the washing mountain. :j

But, now I've added another five piles of stuff to my already mahoosive ironing pile. B ugger.

My back room now looks like a chinese laundry. A chinese laundry where the staff have gone on holiday. B ugger B ugger.

I've resorted to making piles for different people and different types of clothing. I'm getting rid of some of this stuff - how many clothes can you have for goodness sake!

The good news is that I did do a bit of dusting in there before this fiasco........:rotfl:

BBTHREE

Evening my newly found messy friends

Just an update on the last couple of days :-

On New Years Day we went out for a meal at my incredibly organised and house proud best friends house. It was an amazing meal and without realising it my mate always (albeit briefly) inspires me to try harder with my house when I go there. She can load the DW, wipe round and tidy up all traces that the kitchen was ever used completely within about 10 mins of meal finishing whereas I just get as far as piling up the dishes and then...erm nothing.. .

She has an awsome skill called cleaning up as you go along, which sadly I will just never ever possess.

Yesterday my hubby and I "de-christmased" the house which took hours and hours, (and predictably I have found 3 xmas things which should have been put back in the loft yesterday - Grrr), and I did naff all else after that.

Today, I was back at work, and came home and had a brief moment of Perfect Housewife disease and I loaded DW, put a load of washing on, wiped round the kitchen, mopped the floor, hoovered and dusted the lounge, and ironed for an hour.

This caused my my DS has tell me that I look tired because I don't normally do this much, and I should just rest now and watch my Take That dvd off Santa, so thats what I am doing now as it would be rude to disapoint him :rotfl:

Yorkshire Lass - Sorry to hear about the insurance stuff, hope its gets sorted.

YORKSHIRELASS

Thanks guys - well the Insurance people cant send anyone out until 17th January - they have been inundated with claims apparently. Need to go out tomorrow and take lots of photos then work out what we can patch up until they come. Have a feeling this is going to be a long drawn out process. If nothing else the shed is going to have a massive clear out which may be a good thing - OH has said we should maybe get a skip!

Luckily the weather is a lot calmer tonight so thats something. Hope everyone else is OK. Messymare I can recommend the helpline at ACAS for good employment law advice.

Need to take the Christmas tree down and tackle the mountain of ironing tomorrow morning. Off for an early night I think!