My home is a mess

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Messies! My house wasn`t too bad yesterday...I had taken up the woolly rugs ( launderetted & now hanging outside on the line) swept & mopped LR and kitchen, put the heavy cotton rugs down that I use in summer, and the place looked ok.
Today is a different story - DD gave me a `Herman` cake - it`s a sourdough mix with a 10-day cycle a bit like a chain-letter only you pass on some cake mix and the instructions!! Today I`ve had to divide up the mixture and deliver 3 portions to other folks, bit of a ruch between shifts so the kitchen got slightly trashed. THEN I`ve picked up eldest DGD, and promised we`ll make pizza tonight, so things will get worse before they get better. Livingroom is already showing signs that she`s now in residence! Have decided to go with the flow, and do southern fried chicken (that`s the messiest recipe I know!) to go with the pizza.

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi everyone, I havent been here for ages, hope everyone is OK. I had to go to the third page to find you all.

Have been trying to keep on top of things in the house while the weather has been nice. After the storm damage to our house, fence and shed in January we have finally got a lovely new shed, and the fence is partly repaired.

Last weekend my parents came over to help clear the last of the stuff out of our old shed. We have a huge shed (14ft by 8ft) and it was full of 10 years worth of stuff. We seem to have spent every weekend clearing stuff out, sorting it and making trips to the tip. Now my whole garden is stacked with stuff that has to go back in and I feel completely overwhelmed by it all!!! Hubby promised me that there would be room for some of the camping stuff that we have been keeping in the house but I have my doubts about that.

You know when you are in the middle of doing something like clearing a cupboard and you look at the mess and think I am never going to sort all this out? Hubby looks shattered too, he is working long hours and spending all his spare time trying to rebuild the fence, help me decorate DS2s bedroom and sort stuff out of the shed.

I am hoping and praying the weather is reasonably OK for Easter weekend so we can get away for a few days.

Oh well will pop back and see how everyone is getting on. Its dull and cloudy here but I really should get a load of washing in, the basket seems to have filled itself up overnight!

squeakysue

Thanks for all the welcomes and advice.

Today I have busy times with kids dance and football classes pick ups, I so can't wait pass my driving test! I have a friends daughter for the day too so am going to take the three of them out for a few hours. So when I finally get home I am going to iron OH's work shirts and try to tidy around upstairs, have had a tiring week so look fwd to lounging in front of the tv and an early night! Looking around downstairs I will have to run the Hoover round too, only done it yesterday, bloody kids!

Have a nice Saturday all

Emm-in-a-pickle

Yorkshirelass - welcome back. I`m quite envious of your shed de-cluttering. I have a clutter-packed shed too, plus caravan & spare bedroom. Not only do I have to face any attempt at dealing with these MYSELF, but my DS is positively ANTI any suggestion of de-cluttering or sorting, in case any of HIS stuff gets moved/disturbed, or chucked out!!! (OH isn`t unhelpful really, it`s just that most of the stuff pre-dates his residence here so he feels he`d be `interfering`. )

SqueakySue - keep up with the driving, it really is Life-Changing when you can drive! I was a late learner, but the delight and sense of liberation still haven`t worn off in over 20 years now!!

Messy Status Report - DIRE!! As predicted, the `Herman cake` and the pizzas and SF chicken have left their wake, the kitchen and LR are a bomb-site, and I`m on a late shift today then an early tomorrow, so the thorough clearance that`s needed will just have to wait. The `Herman cake` was ok, but more than one piece is too much. So I shall take the large remainder to work this pm and share it with colleagues over the weekend! (Thankfully it is weekend or I wouldn`t be able to do this, the room it`ll be left in gets used as an office during the week!) To be honest, I`m just so glad that I`ll be able to dispose of it usefully that I barely mind the rest of the mess here!
Have a nice weekend, Messies.
Drags self away from computer to pack unwanted cake...

Adela31

Once upon a time, the OH of Adela went away to work in South Africa. Now the tiddley-peeps were getting not so tiddley, and didnt need to be sleeping in a cot at the end of Adela's bed anymore, so there was only one thing to do, start clearing "The office" to become a bedroom (for the saga of I promise we will move before the babies come/start nursery/start school/ is a long one and shall be told another time).

The wizard if IT was busy fixing a bank, and away for a long time. And to his day believe that the good fairy Adela cleared out his office without binning 17 tonnes of rubbish he had saved for emergencies.

There is probably a moral in this story, then again it may be as pointless as my usual ramblings. But twin-2 is poorly today, so instead of us going out he is having a duvet day, so gives me a chance to do some tidying. Onwards!

(I have Garden envy, since the combi dryer went in a huff I wish i had a line to stick things out on!)

rosie383

Adela31 wrote: »

The wizard if IT was busy fixing a bank, and away for a long time. And to his day believe that the good fairy Adela cleared out his office without binning 17 tonnes of rubbish he had saved for emergency!

Flip, do I wish I could get away with that???? Most of the clutter in my house belongs to dh who is the one who hates clutter. But he only hates our clutter- mine and the kids. He conveniently ignores all the boxes of broken computers (for erm, fixing), the boxes upon boxes of every bloody bit of paper he ever accumulated during many years of studying (in case he needs them!), old flippin bills from 15 years ago (WWHHHYYYYY?).

As for me, I went and had the most amazing back therapy from a lovely lady on Wednesday. So good, that after 4 weeks of pain, I actually forgot last night and lifted my sleeping 5yr old out of my bed in case she wee'd in it. Boy, did I regret that this morning? Thankfully, she taught me how to do deep massage on the trigger points using a 50p tennis ball, instead of another £40 session. She actually uses MSE and was like a breath of fresh air!
Still have to go and tackle (ahem) yesterday's dinner dishes and washing up as I decided to take kids to the park straight after dinner, and decided to ignore the kitchen when I came back! General tidying to do plus dinner for this evening and for DH to take to work tomorrow.
Oh, and was watching TV with the kids last night and just happened to look up at the ceiling...... I swear there must have been an invasion of spiders happily spinning away since I last looked. Where the heck do a whole pile of cobwebs come from all of a sudden?

marywooyeah

hi can I join? my house looks like a bomb hit it then someone burgled it afterwards!

Everytime I sort out the washing I stick all the ironing in the basket then around once a month blitz through it - I stayed up til 1am after hubby had gone to bed stuck a dvd on and did 8 shirts, 6 skirts, 5 tops, 4 pairs of trousers and some various bits, I can get through it relatively quickly and its nice to see all the ironing hanging up as opposed to in the basket!

I do around 2 washes a day, fold them up on the table then put them into piles on the stairs so everytime I go upstairs I put another pile away.

Shampooed the carpet just waiting for it to dry and I use a baby wipe to wipe down the bathroom surfaces and toilet every 2 or 3 days. I only hoover once a week as I work full time, get home at 7pm and by the time I've made dinner and put DS to bed its too late to hoover as it would wake him up. I like hoovering as its instant gratification - you can see the results straightaway!

Its the clutter that bothers me, we just have so much stuff even though I've given countless items to charity and bootsale. What really bothers me is seeing all the wires round the tv, I've been asking my OH for 4 years to sort it and he never does!

YORKSHIRELASS

Mmmm, there seems to a bit of a thread going here today about OHs and their messiness/clutter hoarding.

I think when half of our shed roof took off into next doors garden and we were forced to look - really properly look - in our shed OH was horrified about how much c**p was in there, mostly his and he seems to have had a bit of a change of heart.

Trouble is its not easy is it? We own 7 bikes between 4 of us. 1 needs to just go to the tip, and 2 need ebaying. Hubby said about 6 months ago he would tidy up the 2 that need ebaying so we would get more for them. Of course this never happened. He is so busy with other stuff I feel mean for nagging him.

Oh and I just cant throw stuff of OHs out without asking him. I know other people who do it but it feels wrong - I wouldnt like him to do it to me. So I put stuff to one side for him to sort and then it never happens. Sigh.

Oh well, need to get on. Emm, I could do with some of that cake I think!

rosalie-lavender

Ahh bikes. My DH sold my our three kids' bikes because they were too small and they no longer used them. His bike though, has hung on the wall of the garage for the 22 years we have been together (and goodness knows how long it had already been there) and he refuses to get rid of it. It is a racing bike and he will never in a million years ever ride it again!

Adela31

I would feel bad about throwing stuff out without permission, but even tho this was 6 years ago i still remember finding the bottle of blood.

He had had a nosebleed while on a skiing trip he told me. He filled a bottle (yeah he has epic nosebleeds, not often but when they go they go) then brought it home, put it in the office and there it stayed. I try not to wonder TOO much about the thought process that went on there (after all I let him breed lol) but that got CHUCKED.

32" waist white jeans? Even if he did do a mega slim, a 45 yr old man cant REALLY get away with jeans that were-white-in-the-80s lol.

I am considering re-doing the boys room, as last time it was painted they were still babies, and have since done all the things toddlers do leaving the paintwork a bit patchy in places!