My home is a mess

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

I don't blame you one bit for having a CBA day, Emms. You enjoy it, girl!

Welcome, Wilf! This is a brilliant forum for wannabe de-messiers - want to do better, can do better, but life gets in the way sometimes/often. There are more important things to worry about and/or enjoy, but we encourage each other whatever.

Buffy, welcome back. Inaction's no bad thing, provided it wasn't due to a 'bad thing', if you get my drift. If it was, then I hope all is better now.

Shame about the craft fair etc, jps, but good about the plants.

Interesting to hear about the Kindle from those who have one. Both my DDs love books, and both have large collections (especially DD1 :eek:), but DD2's bf suggested she got herself a Kindle, to save space in their flat. She wasn't interested but, by coincidence , bf's family gave her a Kindle for Christmas, and she wouldn't be without it now. She said she'll always have her paper books (eg Terry Pratchett), but casual reading will definitely be cheaper, save space, and be more convenient when travelling.

No rain here, and we've seen the sun a couple of times, unlike London. Shame the weather hasn't been better there, but it could have been so much worse.

snookey

Messymare I wish my dog would let me cut his claws. He is off to the vets wednesday morning for the chop . Im hoping that he will calm down once his hormones are not jumping about.
Just got back from the shops. Only went for gas and electric and came back with a load of rubbish.
Its cold and raining here. Its weird having scortching hot weather then artic freeze.
Talking about books I love them. I collect old household ones, the oldest is 1868. I love the fact that people over a hundred years ago touched and read them. I dont think a kindle feels the same although it stops trees being chopped down.
Em you enjoy your days off. Dont do too much cleaning as you need the rest.
Well Ill have to have my coffee and do the floors again. Floor in the kitchen is a mixture of dog and cat hairs plus cat paw prints.
Last night the cats were playing with a mouse. I managed to distract them and it ran. They are still looking for it.
Well look after yourselves . Feet up ,book in hand chocs in the other.

bearcub

The trouble with pets, Snookey, is that there's always mess - I find, anyway. The cat spreads litter everywhere - apart from kicking it across the floor, it catches between her toes, and we find ourselves stepping on bits of it in the bedroom. The guinea pigs are about the cleanest, although OH still manages to walk sawdust and straw into the house - don't know how. And, despite the horses being three miles away, we still both manage to walk shavings and hay in. If we gave them all up, we'd have a cleaner house, a lot more money - and feel totally lost without the lot of them!

laurel7172

I had to look up "The Death of Grass", but it's by John Christopher! :j:j:j

I loved the Tripods trilogy so much when I was a teenager. I looked and looked for anything else in the library by John Christopher, but I never found a thing.

I'm afraid I just had to have it. I'll let you know what I think :T

mcculloch29

Isn't it lovely when you find more to read from authors you love? I was late in coming to Discworld (Hogfather was my first) and there's still a couple I haven't read yet. Pterry and Maeve Binchy are my fiction regulars, but I am a non-fiction addict. Particularly social history.

I have filled my huge recycling bin with paper, tin and plastic for three fortnights in a row.
Such satisfaction in thinking how much clutter has gone, but not to landfill.
Still a very messy bedroom as winter clothing is still not away and summer clothing not out - I'm in limbo land, in long-sleeved blouses and light long cardigans and waistcoats, my spring/autumn wear.

I love the re-discovery of summer clothes, there's always something I bought at the end of the season that I put away unworn or virtually new that I have completely forgotten about.

wilf55

morning all

signed up to flylady this morning

today i want to get cracking with a list I posted on there and intend on finishing it today!

other things to list and complete tomorrow

catch you all later! bye for now x

laurel7172

Gives MessyMare a bleary-eyed wave....

Couldn't put it down?

I read it all. Before I went to sleep.

Brilliant. Terrifying.

Maybe I'll moan a bit less about the amount of grassy weeds I need to pull up in the garden today

MessyMare

Haha hi Laurel! I take full responsibility for your lay in/afternoon nap :P Glad someone else found it terrifying too! I think it affected me so much because I could just imagine it happening, our society seems to tally with the quick fix rather than the long lasting ones...

Dog's been sick *everywhere* this morning. Not impressed. Been clearing that up since what seems like the crack of dawn. Must have a blitz in the garden to keep on top of what B has already done, can't afford to let the side down!

fuddle

Ergh, poor messymare's dog - poor messymare!

I won't go on about it as I have posted elsewhere but I have cleaned out my downstairs cupboard Job done and v.happy

laurel7172

Wow.

Decluttering bombshell.

DS and I have just shifted the former dressing-up wardrobe from the former toy room.

We called it the toy room because it was effectively a big cupboard full of racking for boxes of wooden blocks/toy animals/Lego etc. You couldn't really glorify it by calling it a playroom, because there wasn't enough room to play in there.

We've been working on it since last summer, in batches. The big toy sort out in August, then a more ruthless cull and the racking sold in December, then a recent sort out of the dressing-up wardrobe, turning it into a cupboard for the board games that were stacked on the top.

Pretty darn good, I thought, then stepped back and noticed the stained carpet and peeling wallpaper. The latter, of course, was 1980's vinyl that destroyed the walls as it came off.

I'm having it replastered and de-artexed, and the carpet also needs replacing (some of the stains are old enemies-I've thrown everything in my arsenal at them over the years, and they've won). It's exactly the same carpet that was in DD's bedroom-I couldn't get the marks out of that, either.

I was a bit grumpy and questioning my own common sense as I hoovered up the last of the paper scraps this morning-exactly why was I spending so much on a bloody cupboard????

Then the wardrobe came out, and we looked back in and...it's a room!

We're astonished. So astonished that the offspring have agreed that the contents of a chest we keep in there (soft toys they never look at but won't give up) can be crated and lofted, the board games can go in the chest, and the wardrobe can go on Ebay...

Suddenly, a bit (OK, days) of work and a few hundred quid have bought an extension.

Cool