My home is a mess

candygirl

craftygranny wrote: »

It's exactly how i feel. i have put 2 lots of washing and 2 lots of drying in and tidied my grandaughters room first thing this morning but thats it.

I really need to move abroad.when the sun's out i'm buzzing:D:D:D

craftygranny

candygirl wrote: »

I really need to move abroad.when the sun's out i'm buzzing:D:D:D

me too i even painted the kitchen a couple of days ago.

Smart thing re the boxes for papers in the loft helen jelly

soupdragon i like the idea of a contemplation day too rather than a cba day which is what i'm having today. It would be less disheartening to call it a contemplation day. :rotfl:


oooh bedshaped i wish you lived nearer to me i would have bought loads from you save you the bother of listing it. I'm always buying loads of craft stuff to make things for my grandaughters school and to raise money for the cochlear implant centre that did my other grandaughters op. I stopped making cards a few years ago then started again a couple of years ago. when i think of all the stuff i got rid of first time round it's heartbreaking.

Taliahmai

Evening all...

Not had a proper chance to catch up yet but i will later

Ive had a proper rubbish day again as my knees are still really hurting, i thinki tis the change in weather, or it certainly doesnt help anyhow. So to be totally honest, i havnt really got anything done today, ust been sat with my feet up. I have however been sat with my notebook and ive gone through all my finances and wrote everything down.....done a meal plan for the next 3 weeks.....sorted all my aplications out for the next course in my studys and planned what i want to do with the bedroomsr...ie changed round and decorated (its all planned on paper now i just need the money lol)

Hope your all having a productive day....i really wish we would hurry up and get this storm were meant to be having tho, the air is awuful!

rigsby1967

I hope evryone who was feeling under the weather or just having a CBA day is feeling better & more motivated:grouphug: (wouldn't that hug be better on a prawn website, it looks well dodgy :rotfl::rotfl:).

I think i may have set myself up for failure for tomorrow thinking i could perhaps finish off the kitchen:whistle:, i will certainly do some more but just not all of it. There is only 3 cupboards left and 2 of them will be really easy & then clean the floor. I got straight home from work and helped DD totally clean the fridge, washed the dishes & cleaned the multi mixer & acti fry so once the 2 easy cupboards have been cleaned i can put them up their out of the way :cool:, i have so much surface room now i don't know what to do with it :A:T

Go messies go .

rigs

soupdragon10

This is catching. Have now progressed a craft project which has been sitting around for weeks. Ordered a paper shredder to deal with the huge pile that needs safe disposal.

Snakes are reeling from the clean up and are a bit shellshocked.

Now off to cook myself something nice and clean the cooker while it cooks.

Have a good evening fellow messies.

Horace

Thanks for the tip about washing powder to clean the oven, I have some Lakeland stuff that I have yet to use.

I have typed up my new business plan and whilst I have been sitting at my desk nearly all day (the plan has been written and re-written and is now ready for the accountant on Tuesday), I have been shoving paper scraps into a bin liner (it will go in normal rubbish as I cannot use the paper recycling bin thanks to the flippin' students:mad:) I have earmarked all my bridal magazines and brochures that I haven't looked at for months for the recycling bin too. I am determined to get the office cleaned up I am getting sick of it and want to shift some furniture about so that my desk is facing the window. During my lunchbreak on the sofa I sorted papers out there too so the pile is going down slowly.

Afraid to say it that the stuff I have got in the kitchen that needs to be recycled will have to go in a black bag and in the bin as I cannot have it hanging around any longer.

I have been lazy I know, I had an eye op in 2009 and wasnt able to do any lifting for quite a while and it was around the same time that b/f (now ex) started messing me about and that all came to a head this January - his mind games made me quite ill and I think that being self employed and starting from zero has been particularly hard because I have had zero support too. Anyway I survived those first two years of business - onwards and upwards and hopefully with a cleaner flat so that I can at least entertain guests:D

You will be pleased, I have just cleaned the area where a computer tower would sit if I had one..I can now see wood LOL. Best chuck the bin bag in the bin and start on another one. Tackling small rooms first rocks.

EstherH

Cerwydwen: did you get your oven done? Just catching up now. Stardrops is good for cleaning the oven if you have any of that.

Sequeena

I didn't do much today but did hoover the 2 living rooms, kitchen, hallway by the back door and the bathroom. I also sorted out some recycling

ceridwen

EstherH wrote: »

Cerwydwen: did you get your oven done? Just catching up now. Stardrops is good for cleaning the oven if you have any of that.

Errrr...nope...not yet:o

Did get that understairs cupboard cleaned through and decluttered - even went so far as to shampoo both my brooms:D.

Went through one set of bookshelves and decluttered (if not cleaned them:() - so about 20 books now waiting to go to a Lets trading event to see if I can sell them for a few more Lets credits.

But - yep...the cooker is still waiting attention.

I dont use Stardrops (in fact havent even seen them in this neck of the woods) and my choice of cleaning materials boils down to:
- Ecover washing-up liquid
- Ecover cream cleaner
- bicarb. of soda
- soda crystals
- vinegar
- lemon juice
- home-made Gloop (ie my detergent - which is cheapie soap, soda crystals and water).

Hence - out of that selection - wondering what the best way to tackle that oven is...

GreyQueen

I have reverted to type and left the kitchen like a bombsite with dishes all over last night. I had a late supper and got sidetracked by dejunking and by the time I surfaced from the paper piles it was too late (IMO) to be crashing dishes about in a flat.

At least, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Currently waiting to see if the parental units are going to drive over this morning with my cold frame and take it and me up to the lottie. It's hanging on the weather; will it rain or won't it? Am more desperate for rain than the cold frame, although it'll be lovely to see the folks. If they come, they'll ring me (the 60 minute warning) and I can rush around like a demented person washing dishes and straightening up.

:o Some of the stuff I found last night dated back to 1988. It's perfectly possibly somebody reading this wasn't even born then......the shame of it........:o:o

On the plus side, I have caught up with the recycling which has to be carted off the premises and taken to the on-street or supermarket collection banks, have rationalised my collection of pre-used envelopes (it's not easy being green ) and have put some stuff aside for family and posted something else on Freecycle.

I must also put aside some time to take the hairdryer I never use to a certain c.s. which accepts small electricals but whose hours clash with my working hours; think I'll have to make a diary date or it'll live in the cupboard forever.

I'm becoming a space queen but Neatfreakdom hasn't yet struck but I guess there's still time.

BB, I am keeping a daily watch on the cutlery drawer; am not convinced that things don't just manifest in there at random and am determined to catch them at it.

Ceridwen re your oven and your cleaning arsenal. What I'd do is make a stiff paste with warm water and soda crystals (very little water IYSWIM) and apply it to the oven. If the grunge is principally on the oven floor, another way it to do it, with the oven warm from cooking, place a dishcloth saturated with hot soapy water on it, idea being to soften and loosen the grunge, bit like soaking a pan, if I'm making sense at this hour of the morning.

Ahem, more tea, nurse!