My home is a mess

snookey

Iv been tidying and cleaning the downstairs. Iv done more washing and even gave the back yard a tidy.
Having a day off again from hospital visit as brother and partner are going to visit dad. Its just as well as we have had dicky stomachs and oh has been vomiting so would not been able to go in anyway.
Emm its nice to see someone going that extra mile in patient care and I bet its appreciated.Well done you.
Im hoping to keep on top of the housework as it seems so easy to slip back and get snowballed under.
Mummy 21 I have a oh who keeps crap and was just moaning about a missing bag of wires. I just close my ears and dump stuff. If its getting you down then dump it and let him moan. Our hall has lots of unused coats and shoes and they will be sorted this week. Oh has trainers that smell like death and they will have a wash in the machine.
My jobs for this week are;
clean upstairs floors in bedrooms,
put the moutain of clean washing away,
sort out dd wardrobe,
clear out the unused shoes and coats.

footymadgal

Pat on the back for Emm from me too :A. From visiting my dad on an elderly ward, I've seen some lovely old dears who don't seem to have any family and so I know how much your visit will mean to that person. I also appreciate it when a visitor spends a few minutes chatting to dad when they have come to visit one of their relatives. I try and do the same with other patients too as sometimes, just a few minutes of chat can have a real impact on someone's day.

When the sun is shining it makes me want to wash everything and so yesterday on top of clothes washing, I washed the shower curtain and cleaned the bath. I also put the hall runner in the wash (I've been meaning to do that for a few weeks). It looks so much fresher. Seeing as I'd freshened up the living room on Saturday, I treated myself to a bunch of daffodils on Sunday and they have certainly brightened the room up.

I sympathise with those of you who are having to put up with OH's clutter. I have to admit that most of the clutter in our house is down to me! The main reason is that we are having to sell dad's house as he will be going into a nursing home soon. We have emptied the house of furniture and got rid of it but there's a lot of smaller items that me and my sister are going to try to sell at car boot sales and some of that stuff is in various rooms here. There's also some of my stuff that I'm happy to get rid of but that I want to take to boot sales. Hopefully, over the next few weeks we can start to get rid of some of it. I've also got dad's paperwork in carrier bags that are lurking in various parts of the house that need sorting, shredding or filing.

laurel7172

While I was digging in the garden, I was trying NOT to be aware that the cat was doing terrible things to a baby mouse she'd snatched from under the bird feeder.

With the cats I'd had from kittens, I used to yell, they used to drop their prey and sulk, and I'd try to keep it somewhere safe to recover (if it was going to).

But this cat is altogether more nervous-we're fairly sure she has been hit in the past-so NO yelling, NO manhandling...and, I reasoned, virtually anything I've ever rescued has died anyway, and letting the cat kill it is probably quicker and kinder.

After 20 mins, I wasn't so sure....:( But she finally stopped tossing it through the air, disappeared with it and then...we couldn't find it.

We've all just stripped our beds in case she's keeping it for later...

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kittywight

evening ladies

what a fantastic day its been here! ive had my new cooker, and ive seen my mum and dad, done a spot of cleaning, done the shopping and taken ds down the beach for a ice cream

i have -
hoovered livingroom
tidied livingroom
done a load of washing
my mum did my dishes
done food shopping
got my new cooker
made lemon and poppyseed muffins in my new cooker



so not much, but its been a pretty busy day regardless

ive got my old cooker in my livingroom, so im gonna cover it up with table cloth, ive put it on facebay (kinda like ebay on facebook for isle of wight) to see if anyone can take it for free or wants it for parts/refurbishment ect.

my new cooker is AMAZING!!! so so so so happy, i really have been lost without it.

ds is in school tommorow, so im hoping i can be doing a bit more cleaning, this place looked pretty good earlier but with everything going on its gotten messed up again.

also had a pressie from my parents today, a china tea set and table cloth (that doubles as a picnic blanket) and a recipe folder full of recipes, all hello kitty!! i know its childish but im hello kitty mad! always have been!! its a set from a magazine collection that was out a while ago but was so expensive i could never afford it, mum found the whole lot at a bootsale yesterday and managed to haggle the woman down for it! result

footymadgal

Hello Kitty!

Fabulous photos. Hope we can all have one of those muffins! How nice that you've had a boost with your surprise present, I bet your mum and dad enjoyed hunting the present down for you.

YORKSHIRELASS

MessyMare wrote: »

Hello folks, sorry I haven't been around much. Seem to have retreated into myself somewhat, times are uncertain, you know how it is.

Yeah, thats me too, couldnt have put it better myself. Anyway, hi everyone, too much to catch up on. Oh my niece would go mad for that Hello Kitty tea set KW! And those muffins look sooo good.

We have had a little bit of a windfall, enough to buy a new back door and a bit left over so it means we might be able to finish one of the many DIY projects that are ongoing. Its kind of spurred me on a bit and I have had a big tidy/declutter today. I even pulled out the storage boxes from underneath our bed and hoovered under there. Just about filled the hoover with dust in one go!

My OH is a hoarder too. I dont generally believe in throwing out stuff of his without asking, even if I know he wouldnt miss it but I did put a stack of very old magazines in the recycling today.

Car going in for service and MOT tomorrow which I am very nervous about - money is tight at the moment and I am hoping what I have put by is enough. On the plus side this means a day at home and no excuse not to get cleaning and tidying - providing I also do something productive with DS.

Hugs to everyone having a hard time and hope the sun keeps shining!

footymadgal

[QUOTE=mmummy21;51723451
Any storage we have is taken up by OH storing utter crap.
I don't know where to start! I've been so frustrated with it the past week that I've lost motivation to do ANYTHING and the house is an absolute tip. Add pregnancy, a grumpy toddler, working, no money and it's just awful :-(

What the point in tidying my living room when it still looks a mess cos I have no hoover, the display unit is cluttered with rubbish and CDs.

I give up![/QUOTE]

I do sympathise. I was so behind with cleaning, tidying etc. and so demotivated until recently when I found this thread. When you look at the big picture of what needs doing, yes, it's very offputting. But concentrate on tiny areas at a time and it does start to make a difference. I'm trying not to focus on what still needs doing but give myself a pat on the back for any work that I do.

Can you borrow a hoover from a good friend or family member for a day maybe? You've got some difficult problems so don't be hard on yourself, just do what you can.

Emm-in-a-pickle

mmummy21 - your OH sounds like my DS. His ex had the same problem too. She solved it by sending him back to his mum....now I have the problem!
MessyMare & JPS & yorkshirelass - glad to see you back, I missed you.

Yesterday was rather mixed - I did pop down to visit my old lady, and very glad I did because she was so chuffed I`d remembered. Our conversation was predictably one-sided (I`m used to that) but a nurse there told me she`s moving on very soon, going into a home quite far away to be near to family who are too far to visit her now - so if I`d left my visit till next days off I might have missed her.
When I got home the trouble started...
The downstairs plumbing was `talking` to me. Ominous glugging noises.
Unsavoury smells. I flushed and went round the outside visible drains, saw that this was a broblem not getting better...phoned the Water Board...
to cut a long story short, as I`d better, they came out after dark, when we`d given up expecting them, went next door as well, and found the trouble there - sorted within the half-hour. Phew! I deal with some messy stuff, but I wouldn`t swap jobs with these chaps!!!
Happy belated Birthday Kitty - I`ll think of you every time I see the `Hello Kitty` stuff now!

Adela31

Seriously not looking forward to work today, yesterday was a bit of a cluster wotsit, and I cant see it getting any better! Well will finish sorting the washing!

Emm-in-a-pickle

Adela - hope your work went ok today. I`m in for 3 `longdays` out of next 4 days, so not feeling too bright now. (It`s the getting up early that kills me, I`m generally ok once I`m there!)
Not much de-messying here today. One load in WM, a big shop with DD who had the day off college (inc farm shop), and now meal preps for next few days.
On the plus side, I am certain that I know what day it is today (It IS Tuesday, right?) After shopping with DD that`s quite an achievement!