My home is a mess

grousescot

My clearing out of my main bookcase continues, albeit slowly. It must be one of the most difficult things to de-clutter for a procrastinator like me - I keep find myself reading bits out of books I haven't seen for years! I have two bags-for-life full of books to be donated to the charity shop. There is also a bin bag half full of clothes to go too but I think I can fill it up before it gets disposed of. I have a disturbing number of pairs of trousers that are too tight. Still to get shot of two other bookcases (yes really) - a folding one that collapsed last weekend and a wall-mounted one which I have never had a use for and I suspect I've had it since I moved in here in 2005. I think someone might have given me it. I don't care what happens to it provided it's gone. Since I can't drive, the next time one of my folks stops by in the car I shall ask that they take them away. That will be a good milestone to reach for me.

grousescot

sonastin wrote: »

Bathroom still not cleaned. I REALLY need to get on and do that. Far too late now but maybe when I get home from work tomorrow. That room really is my nemesis when it comes to keeping on top of the cleaning.

You and me both. I planned to do that tonight but it will have to wait till tomorrow too. Oddly when I finally do it it doesn't really seem to take that long. Don't know why I keep putting it off.

Lavender_Rose

bearcub wrote: »

Afternoon Messies.



Lavender rose, great stuff, and I'd like to think that this thread helped you, but maybe, in your head, you were halfway there, anyway.

Yes absolutely, I have been reading this thread for quite a while and it has really helped me get off my backside and sort my house out (and in many ways sort other stuff out in my life as well):). I suffer from depression and anxiety at times:( and it is when these dreaded feelings return that the house tends to go to pot!

YORKSHIRELASS

Lavender_Rose wrote: »

Hello,

May I join in?

I am slowing beginning to get on top of things. My life was a bit of a mess until recently and that was reflected badly in the house.

Until a couple of months ago I had a stressful job working for a pharmaceutical company. As a full time working mum I found it too much and the house really went to pot!!

Well I was made redundant at the end of last year and I have spent the last couple of months getting on top of the house and garden. It feels GREAT!!!!! I have taken bags of unwanted clutter to the local animal sanctuary and there is still much more to do. I have dusted, hoovered, washed and cleaned. I have also created a monthly household chore list which I am determined to stick to.

I will soon be starting work again as a freelancer, so I NEED to be able to keep the house in a good state for my own peace of mind.

Hi and welcome along! I can relate to this. I took 2 years off when my son became very ill and did all sorts of decluttering and reorganising. Some places have regained their clutter - but still.

I work from home too. My hours are very flexible but I make myself work set hours or I just waste the day starting and stopping and breaking off to hang the washing out or whatever.

I shut myself away from 9 to 12.30 on a work day and ignore any housework until the paid work is done. I am the sort of person who needs a routine I guess.

So today I have cleaned some windows, dusted and hoovered downstairs, done two loads of washing and hung them out in the sunshine, swilled out the kitchen bin with bleach and boiling water and wiped down the kitchen units. I now have a small doggie sitting on my lap trying to stop me typing because he wants to go for a walk! Will have a sandwich and take him out next I think. Roast dinner for tea and I am slow cooking a stew for tomorrow as I will be home late.

Have a good afternoon everyone x

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

Well, LR, whichever way the thread helped, it did, so that's great!

I'm glad to read that your GCH is behaving itself atm, sonastin, and I love the analogy to the old man. :rotfl:

In our previous house, grousescot, we had shelves built into an alcove, so we couldn't bring them with us. Starting again meant that we had to sort out what we (or, just me really, as OH rarely reads a book) really wanted to keep, and bougth a small bookcase. My problem now is that, since taking up family history, I've got very into social history, and most of the relevant books I buy are reference books. My DD1 has two big almost overladen bookcases in her flat, but does offload some books every so often to a second hand book shop. DD2 also loves books, but her bf's family bought her a Kindle, so her special 'precious' books are the only paper ones she keeps. Ironically, she now has a much bigger house than both us and her older sister!

WM load done, March newsletter started :eek:, dried clothes put away, towels changed in bathroom, lounge dusted, if only to remove cat paw prints where the cats shouldn't even have been! Ho hum.

Lavender_Rose

Not feeling quite so enthusiastic today but did manage to: hoover upstairs, plant shallot sets, dust living room, clean mud off conservatory floor and some 'proper work - emails etc'.

The depressing thing is the floors will soon need hoovering again, the mud will reappear etc....hey ho!

I think some chips and beans for dinner are called for and I will watch Lewis that I recorded last night:)

Helping out with school activity tomorrow morning:) so less will be done housework-wise tomorrow..

bearcub

We're all allowed 'off' days occasionally, LR!

alec_eiffel

Just having a quick do in each room, made tonight's tea last night, just about to shove it in the oven then I have to motivate myself to put something nice on and get myself out this evening. We have tickets to a gig at a really nice pub to see someone I really like and all I can think is "but it's windy and raining". Need to get DH to give me a shove when he gets home I think!

Lavender Rose you have inspired me to get the hoovering done, thanks.

jpscloud

Hi messies,

Haven't read back much, hope everyone is ok and a big messy helloooo to anyone joining the thread.

Just popping in to report that I survived the engineer visit and now have TV broadband and phone all working beautifully!

I hadn't really thought through the wiring, and he needed to check out the phone line point in the hallway - there was an embarrassing moment when he was trying to see what he was doing and failing, while I was trying not to put the light on so he couldn't see how bad the carpet was!

I gave in and babbled about needing to shampoo the carpet but he was so nice and said he'd seen much worse. I bet he hadn't really but he was nice enough to say so.

Later we had an unseemly tussle over who got to put the cabling behind the curtains, so I could pin it later when I was happy where everything was going... I didn't want him to see that I hadn't hoovered recently and there were several dust bunnies gamboling about behind there.

But he was such a professional and didn't bat an eyelid... what a nice man. And really good at installing stuff. I am paying two pounds a month more than I was, but have all the youview telly stuff. It's grand!

Been utterly zombified lately, winter blues and usual term time exhaustion combined with the delights of peri-menopause. Lovely.

Last Friday I felt almost suicidal - so depressed. I knew it was hormonal and kept telling myself it would pass - and it did, but it keeps coming back. I hope this doesn't last long or I may have to get myself "seen to" - no, not that you rude people!! I mean HRT or whatever. Then again.... nothing wrong with a good seeing to either!! :rotfl:

bearcub

Morning Messies.

Jps, so good to see you back! Sorry to hear you've been feeling so low - the seemingly endless wet weather and dull days don't help at all, I know. Plus menopausal stuff - oo, horrible (shudders at memory). If you don't start to pick up, do get yourself some help sooner rather than later, won't you? <hugs> Good news about the broadband etc, esepcially as it sounds as if it's cheered you up a bit.

Bright sunny and cold day here, and we're going shopping in town - our once a month visit. Hopefully, will be doing some de-messying later, but I have yet another meeting tonight, so can I be bothered? We'll see.