My home is a mess

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

I dont know if I have been on here at all this week, been struggling to combine work with other things going on, never mind any housework!

Fantastic news Gilly, what a relief for you. I can only imagine how good you must feel right now.

Will catch up properly on all your news over the weekend. I have started working from home this week which has gone well but I now have the dilemma of what to do with the massive box of files that I have been sent. I have absolutely nowhere to put them!

Anyway, off to watch a bit of telly. Night all!

Baileys_Babe

gilly1964 wrote: »

Biopsy results are BENIGN

Gilly, fantastic news, I am very happy for you

Emm-in-a-pickle

Morning folks! I`m on another long one today, just the one day though, then off Sunday, a short early Monday and another week leave! Light at end of tunnel! I`m happy to report the bits of kitchen I decluttered & de-grimed are still clear, and I`m still motivated to do more. Nothing but basics yesterday as OH`s `do` was quite long-winded, then a nice social gathering after, then much talking about stuff when we got home. Didn`t get even near any shops, but maybe just as well.
Ellie - you`re right about the fresh start & the clutter. When you pack things away for long enough you realize whether you really need to ever unpack them again! (that`s why I have a caravan of Doom!)
Have a good weekend Messiesxx

alec_eiffel

Not done too much today, Dh has broken up the old sofa and done some tidying in the garden. I have been trying to get my wardrobe to work me for 2 years, we had massive wardrobes in our old house so there was lots of room for everything in the world, here, tine 1960's built in wardrobes. So I was saying to DH that it would be good if I could have something that could be flexible but built into the bottom of the wardrobe for shoes and things to make use of the vertical space. Then it hit me - now we have the new rabbit pen there are loads of NIC panels in the garage. An hour or so later I have a new shoe and accessories rack. Hooray!

Hope everyone's having a nice day, beautiful sunshine here, very busy when we were at the beach earlier. Long may it last!

jpscloud

Gilly sorry for being late but just wanted to say thank heavens, I'm so pleased for you!

Well messies, I have had a productive day cutting up wood for the fire. I have a good stash now that should last several weekends (so I can leave the heating off in the daytime Sat/Sun) and hopefully also for the half term holiday in a few weeks' time.

Haven't done any housework today but I have managed to keep the bedroom tidy, and the boxroom (which is now a walk in wardrobe/storage room). I will hoover round briefly tomorrow and dust a bit as well.

I ache now after all that wood cutting! I split some logs with my hand axe as well, they're only little as my fire is a small chiminea sitting in the fireplace but I managed to get the axe stuck in a knotty one, and can't get it out! I took that as a sign that it was time to call it a day, and will see if it shrinks a bit as it dries out and might release the axe :cool:

Having no woodshed, I've stacked the logs on two garden chairs, with a tarpaulin cover on each. Not a bad solution, as I won't be using the chairs over the winter and the logs are easy to get at.

Hope the shifts go well Emm, hang in there and hope the weather is kind for your week off!

Gillybean103

Great news Gilly, can't imagine how relieved you are.

Not much to tell over here, have kept the house tidy but haven't busted a gut lol

OH has started decorating the kitchen and has started to replace all the sockets with nice brushed steel type ones that look fab, also got a new blind in there which I love.

Apart from that nothing much to report

mcculloch29

Hello again. Somewhat lost my mojo in recent weeks, but got it together more now.
I have a cleaner for 2 hours a week so things look not too bad at all (kitchen and bathroom in particular), but jobs that she doesn't do were building.
My pay has dropped throughout the year and I so hope I can still afford her, I've cut back in other areas to do so.

Sorting out the summer to winter clothes is always a bit of a task for me.
I am trying not to be a hoarder and loads have gone to charity shops and friends but there is still more. It comes back to not having much to wear when I was younger, I'm sure, but neither did many.
I remember many of my school friends in primary school nearly 50 years ago by the clothes they wore nearly every day, and they weren't a uniform.
Carol had a kilt with a pin, Lesley an embroidered cardigan, Helen a thin cotton dress, Michael a Fair Isle jumper in browns, reds and blacks, Willie a dark blue V neck with a grey shirt underneath. They might remember me for a bright yellow sweatshirt style jumper or perhaps a brown cotton dress with orange and yellow squares.

Anyway, plenty of energy today, and a huge amount of paperwork sorted. That's always satisfying...
Son's near empty toiletries binned from bathroom (one dated 2009, one 2006 :eek:) plus a few of mine that are throw-outs. (Proved useless and couldn't be used for anything else.)
A bucket of laundry gloop made too and a bit of paid work done.

Gilly, what wonderful, wonderful news for you.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Morning Messies!
Mcculloch - Hi, nice to hear from you again! I think clothes sorting is an awful job, and quite physically tiring as scrubbing when you think about it. You hold up each garment, open it out to see if it`s marked or damaged, then all the folding and hanging. That`s quite a lot of shoulder & arm work for even a medium-sized pile of clothes...
Yes, I remember some of my classmates 50 years ago in certain clothes.
I also remember woolly jumpers that got holes in the cuffs, and mum cutting the cuffs off, crocheting a bit around the cut edge, then casting on to the crochet line to knit a new cuff onto the things. It wasn`t that we were hard up then either, it was just my mum taking a great pride in being `thrifty`.

Alec E - I`d never heard of NIC panels till the bunny-keepers here mentioned them, but I thought then they sounded Very Useful - if only they were still widely available!

JPS - good idea using the garden chairs - before DD`s OH built our log shelter (from old pallets) we had our logs piled on old pallets to keep them off wet ground, covered with tarp. The trouble we had though was as the logs went down there were small lakes appearing on the surface of the tarp. The logs stayed dry but we got wet feet every time we lifted the tarp to refill the log baskets! Hope you get the axe free soon, we had similar problems when we used to forage & chop our own. Lost a large chisel that way, had to abandon it in a stump at the river bank.

Messy Status report -
Not too bad in LR, a quick Henrying/rug-shaking will do.
Kitchen, still a work in progress, might tackle another drawer later, while cooking.
Upstairs pretty dire, need to do some serious clothes tertris but not till next week so that I can actually finish what I start! (Bracing myself for that!)
Have a nice Sunday all!

Buffythedebtslayer

gilly1964 wrote: »

Got to share this with you, you have all put up with my whinging about pain and not being able to do much

Biopsy results are BENIGN

I am so happy right now, I am crying xx

Fantastic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Buffythedebtslayer

Dear Messies,

I literally do not know what to do.

Normally at this time of year my mum goes to FLorida and I get two months to sort out the house - clean the kitchen, sort cupboards bin food clean out cupboards and sort the garden out. And watch what ever I like on TV but hey that isn't really important.....:)

Anyhow Mum now has an undiagnosed heart condition - more than likely Angina but will have to wait for a proper diagnosis. Maybe a month.........by then it will be too late to get flights etc as the price will go up.....there are probably ways she could go but health insurance is a problem - well the problem.

The up shot of it is I have no break in which to clean up and get on top of things - I wanted to paint the kitchen and the bathroom and put up a new shed.

I just feel so beaten down and trapped. It is a ridiculous reaction, I am worried about Mum obviously but also SICK TO death of living like this. There is stuff everywhere. Plastic boxes all over the place.

the clutter is building and much of it is mine but because of the puppies lots is now Mum's too. THey chew everything and Mum can't watch them all day and isn't really training neither am I to be honest.

my house is mess doesn't even come close to how bad things are.

Currently mum is complaining about the cupboards being full up. Normally she would be away and I would have celared them out but as she keeps buying stuff......................

I need a brick wall.