My home is a mess

Buffythedebtslayer

Had a bit of an AHA moment this morning. I live with my Mum and over the last few days she has been in hospital (for tests)and is unable to do housework type stuff. She is home.

I have got up to let the dogs out and tidy up, put the dishwasher on etc. In the process I have been emptying the bins, cleaning the kitchen and I have found it really easy. I have even managed to do some decluttering and reorganising.

Mum is of course not happy but I have realised that she only EVER wants things done her way when she wants them done (that is why the puppies get up so early.) I am really pleased with the results of my few days in charge. I can even see an end to the clutter. Mum is actually the one who wants to keep everything whereas I am just trying to live in a tiny space.

hope every one has a lovely weekend

xxxx


P.s in fact Mum has just now come down stairs and moaned about having two cups to put in the dishwasher which is on. oh and I have pulled the blinds up too high. I was having since a nice morning as well.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Sonastin - in case there`s further delay getting your tumbly drier into use, and further carpy weather - I gave up on clothes airers way back, they do give a fusty smell if wet clothes are too close together. I just hang stuff on hangers in every doorway upstairs, and they seem to dry quite fast and smelling ok.
Buffy, cheer up lass, you do seem to be getting somewhere...if you`re able to keep it up it might eventually be appreciated!
Well done all Messies who are slogging on, and HUGS ((())) to all who aren`t , for whatever reason....
TODAY...
I dropped OH at work 10am, went to farm shop (LOVELY veggies & real bread they get from our village baker at some ungodly hour in the morning) got home, put shopping away & started roasting some veg for a bolognese later, had a serious chat with DS (rather than a row, which is something) then...
accessed small chest freezer in spare room (at last!!) and have almost emptied it of ancient frozen remains. Found some good stuff, but most of the stuff underneath has become unrecognisable, let alone inedible.
Off to skips now, also another bag of clothes to go (Sally Army skip) and a load of old magazines.
Drags self off to skip...

jpscloud

Sonastin, I actually can't put my clean sheets away because the entire boxroom floor is the laundry basket! I worry about tripping over and becoming trapped in it forever. So as they were folded up on the shelf above the radiator where I dried them last week... I decided to use them!

I am gradually pulling out bits of things to wash from the laundry heap today, getting through a couple of loads. I did a sweep of the charity shops this morning and found a lovely scatter rug in warm desert colours (lacking proper carpets upstairs, I need good scatter rugs) so that has gone in the machine first today.

Emm you're doing a great job! Send me some of your motivation please!

sonastin

Managed to get to the bottom of the laundry basket today :j
Put a load on last night because forecast said the morning would be dry. Hung that out first thing (still in my jammies!) and got another load washed and out before lunch. load 1 brought in 99% dry, went into tumbly drier for a 10 minute air just to make sure it was dry. Load 3 still in machine and load 2 80% dry by the time the rain set in so load 2 went into tumbly drier for half an hour and load 3 went on the airer with combo of fan and dehumidifier to try and stave off smell. Might even get bedding washed tomorrow if I'm really lucky

Also managed to clean the mould off the blinds in the bedroom and treat the walls around the window with industrial strength fungicide so bedroom looks considerably less grotty now :T. (The house sat empty for 2 years before we moved in and so the mould took over completely. We've not had central heating installed yet so the battle against the fuzzy walls is an ongoing one! Hopefully we'll have heating in the next couple of months (and warmer weather!) so I won't have to spend next winter fungiciding my walls :rotfl:)

Might even clean the rest of the bedroom tomorrow if I can persuade OH to put his clothes away

snookey

Feel so much better about my clutter now. Speaking with next door and she said her spare room is used for clutter as is her cellar. Its funny but youalways think its just you who is a clutterbug.
Cleaned up this afternoon,mopped floors,dishes ,did washing and cleaned the bathroom.
DD is going with her dad and grandad to see the giants in town celebrating the Titanics 100 years.

laurel7172

Sigh...another day spent being faffed around by tutoring clients. Should have had four clients, ended up doing two-and one of them late. I've stopped doing Sundays-seriously tempted to announce I don't do weekends at all. I dread to think what my hourly rate is when all the wasted time is taken into consideration.

*However*, I've had an idea. My hourly rate is pretty much the same as that of the cleaner who put a card through the door the other day. I was desperate enough to be tempted...but I thought....if I'm willing to go out for that much money (less after tax), then would I be willing to earn it at home? Perhaps if I put the money for a couple of hours' cleaning a week into a treat fund then I wouldn't resent doing it so much.

I give it a week :rotfl:

Between cancellations I've managed a trip to the tip, and I've framed my embroidery ready for the next time I see my parents. :T .I also wrote a list of jobs for this weekend, which is looking distinctly ambitious at this point, but it was a page and a half long, and I have crossed off about a quarter of them. I just can't remember what they are.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Hi Messies, I do hope you`re all having a decent day so far.
Laurel, I have this theory about tutoring clients, based on my poor do at maths and my mum`s desperation to get me through `O`Level many years ago (I did eventually get it on the re-sit, by which time we`d all given up hope and effort, I`m still sure it was a marking error that passed me!)...IF they had any real commitment to learning the stuff in the first place, would they NEED the extra tutoring? That could maybe explain why you`re getting faffed around so much. (Not that I`m in any position to criticise others for avoidant behaviour patterns, or my house wouldn`t have got this bad!)
What subject do you do, by the way?

Snookey - glad your neighbour is human too! That`s why this forum is so helpful, it`s the `you are not alone` thing!!

Sonastin & JPS - I`ve been at the laundry effort as well. Washed 3 fleece blankets this morning since dropping OH off at work - thankfully they dry pretty quickly, as it`s too wet to put them outside & they`re all hanging in upstairs doorways now!
I`ve refilled the birdfeeders, scooped the dog-poo, and next on my agenda is shaking LR rugs outside - JPS, washable rugs are SO good, so NECESSARY if you have a Daftie-dog like mine who could moult for the Olympics!
Then I`m going for a shower & taking the rest of the day off! OH finishes at 2 today, so we`re going to the pub - may be the last chance we`ll get for a while now, I`m back to work Tuesday and our shifts won`t coincide for a Sunday afterrnoon for the foreseeable future.

jpscloud

Hi messies, I've had a reasonably good day - did the essential wash loads plus a couple extra. Still no dent in the dreadful mess upstairs but I did manage to hoover the bedroom at least.

Emm, no doggies here but there's daftie cat and me and we seem to manage to mess up the rugs between us! My main rag-rugs upstairs are too big for the machine (nearly room size) but they come up well in the bath. I use smaller rugs for high traffic areas and find that really helpful.

Hope all messies have had a good weekend. Kitty I'm dying to know how your interview went!

laurel7172

I think you might be right, Em. However, I'm coaching Year 6 children in danger of failing their SATs, and it's the parents who mess me about...:(

Also dying to know how you got on, Kitty!!

I hurt. Ow . And I still didn't finish the list. I did manage most of the first page. But as it included cutting five tree stumps down to ground level, I think four done before the rain set in is pretty good. Hence the ow...too much time with a bow saw. If I could get the alligator around the back of these they'd be done already...

I could have predicted I'd garden rather than clean, but I did come in and do the kitchen floor (is it that time of year already?:rotfl:). Oh dear-I had to scrub the worst bits and empty the bucket before I dared "start" .

Anyway, I'm still not ready to take garden photographs (it's looking really manky where the glyphosate is taking its time), but one for you, jps:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/Arianesw/P1130315.jpg

An Aldi morello after a couple of years

And my finished embroidery. One major UFO (unfinished object) down, ummm...at least two to go.

http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/Arianesw/?action=view&current=P1130310.jpg

rosalie-lavender

I think the housework was worth leaving to finish that picture Laurel. It is lovely.