My home is a mess

laurel7172

Well, the socks smell OK now they're dry...:D

Put another dryer load on, mixed up some gyproc and had a go at skimming over the rough bits in my bathroom ceiling-if it's successful I might have a go in the kitchen, but it's waaaaaaaaay too depressing to think about that right now.

On the plus side, I listed some sports equipment on ebay yesterday, which has cleared a shelf in the coat cupboard, which can therefore be filled with a couple of boxes of stuff that seemed to be trying to take up permanent residence in the utility room...and suddenly everything looks a lot tidier. Well, apart from the three bags of cement I've left in there (garage is too damp)... :eek:

I will get there, I will get there, I will..............

Emm-in-a-pickle

Course you will, Laurel! I do admire you doing INSIDE stuff as well as garden stuff - I`m still only thinking about the outside...
Pukkamum, welcome - I did that sort of thing when the kids were small, but adult males are much harder to convince!
Mummyfie - I always use the same excuse (to myself, mostly!) for not having a daily routine - that`s my shift pattern, or rather that it HAS no pattern...
I`ve been at it again since last post ( am blushing again, Bearcub) - washed another rug and Daftie-dogs bed-cushion, and - wait for it, sit down - hoovered hall, stairs and my bedroom (the very hairy places).
Now I know why Henry Hoover has such a sad expression - it`s chronic indigestion!!

kittywight

well hello ladies

how you all doing?

not much cleaning done here, place isnt too bad, the trip switches kept blowing today when i tried to use the oven again.. so had to call the electritian out, thankfully my mum aunty and step dad were here, so i ran out to the shops they looked after ds, it was a council electrician so i assumed id be waiting all day and not have time to get stuff for ds packed lunch, managed it all ok though

electrician came ... its the cooker ... nothing wrong with the switches and fuses, just my oven messing with the electrics

so yeh, i now only have a toasty machine and a micro and a slowcooker to cook on, know it sounds like a lot but im a big hob and oven user,

have checked the freecycle and nothing on there, theres a local auction in a few weeks, so lets hope i can scrape together the money and there is a cooker in the auction.. and that my bid wins

also i threw the health grill out as i assumed that was broken when it flashed .... it mustve been ok ... and the flashing was all down to it being plugged into the same mains as the cooker

so ive thrown away a perfectly good large family size george forman machine

on the plus side, my step dad did a bit of hoovering and my aunty washed up a few plates whilst i popped out, so i cant complain too much

sorry i dont mean to bring sad faces to the thread

hope your all doing well, im off to eat my cheese toasty and go relax in the bath

xxx

bearcub

Evening kitty! What a shame about the cooker. We had one at church that did the same thing, which delayed the pre-Christmas village lunch a bit. I hope you manage to get a replacement soon. How lovely that your family helped out while you were away. :)

footymadgal

Thanks for the "welcomes" everyone. Well, I put out the washing as planned this morning. OH had got it in for me by the time I got home. I worked for 9.5 hours solid at work today with no lunchbreak. It was stressful at times as there was something that I had to get finished but luckily I managed it. After cooking the tea (a pasta dish which was quick and simple) I washed up and prepared OH's sandwiches for his lunch tomorrow. I've also done another half load of washing to be put outside tomorrow. I confess I then watched an hour of rubbish on tv before I started on tackling the letter rack (it was a real effort to get going). I am in the middle of it but forgive me while I take a short computer break.

I need to pop into the supermarket on the way to work tomorrow morning to pick up stir fry for tea plus one or two other things and so I probably will only have time to put out the washing. I've got hospital visiting tomorrow night after tea and so won't have much time to fit in tasks above the necessary. I think I'll just set myself the task of tidying up a drawer. There is one that I can see from here which hasn't shut properly for ages because it is stuffed full! Oh well, back to my paperwork...

sonastin

Still haven't managed to sort my ironing basket. And now OH has found a way to shame me even more - it sits on a chest of drawers which used to be next to an even higher drawer unit so the pile didn't look so tall. Now OH has rearranged the furniture to put the tall unit by the wardrobe and moved a shorter unit next to my ironing basket so it looks like Pisa has lost its main tourist attraction now!

Had a busy evening with other jobs tonight though. Sat and wrote a list at work this morning because I knew there was loads to get done before we go away at weekend. Managed to tick about half of it off so far tonight. OH made some good excuses for procrastinating the rest until wednesday so need to find an excuse for not tidying up tomorrow now!

Emm-in-a-pickle

Morning All!
It`s lovely and sunny here, and feels quite `springy`. I`ve de-cluttered the car and wiped down the dashboard etc, so she feels a bit pampered ready for her MOT this morning. I feel fairly hopeful, don`t think there`s anything major likely to fail, and I do have a very good relationship with this car. Sounds daft, but I got attached from the start with this one, it`s the first car that I`ve never lost in a car park!
I`ll be `grounded` for a bit, so planning a bit of clothes sorting/ washing.
Kitty - sorry to hear the cooker is beyond repair. Have you thought of trying to find a steamer to help tide you over? (carboot or freecycle) as they do save a lot of `hob` cooking as well as pan-washing.
Laters...

strawberry_laces

Morning all. I love threads like this:beer:.

I have just move into my current house a month ago, so we are still fairly upside down. There is 'clutter' eveywhere in the dining room. It's stuff that can't go into the green house apparently:mad:.

We are getting there though.

I am trying to do all my housework this morning before DD goes to preschool so I can have a nap this afternoon before I go to work this evening:D.

So far I have put wash out
put a wash in the machine
Cleaned bathroom
Cleaned downstairs loo
Cleaned Kitchen floor
Stripped master bed

I have yet to hoover downstairs
sort out front door mat , it's looking a bit grim
Order new work trousers
Put 2 baskets of washing away.

I'm giving myself 20 minutes cleaning , I set the cooker alarm to go off, then treat myself to 20 minutes laptop , until it's all done, so far it seems to be working well for me

Emm-in-a-pickle

Welcome Strawberry Laces.
I like this `timer` idea. I bought one a few months ago but haven`t used it yet - I think it`s in the bedroom, under a pile of carp on the desk. I`m now in the middle of trying to have a clothes-sorting session, have cleared a chair in the corner and half the stuff that was on top of the desk. (It`s a flat surface, has its own gravitational pull, you see...) I do sort of time my coffee/computer breaks though, by putting on a 15-minute radio 4 item on I-player at the same time, now catching up on last week`s `book of the week`.
Have done 2 loads in WM (result of clothes sorting) since I left the car for MOT this morning.
Onwards & upwards then....

bearcub

Hello strawberrylaces! You've been very busy, so well done. I remember moving house, and all the work it entails - seems to go on forever.

Never thought of using a timer. The trouble with retirement is that time's generally my own, unless I'm out being 'busy', so tend to drift, and some things that wouldn't actually take long to do, keep being put off until later. Ho hum.