My home is a mess

sandyann63

Bearcub-thanks for your kind words. Am in total sympathy with you over the guinea pig food. I am still finding hundreds and thousands in my kitchen following a baking session with my three year old granddaughter last month! It's amazing where things end up when they spill, isn't it?
Lavender Rose - enjoy your book

rosalie-lavender

sandyann63 wrote: »

Bearcub-thanks for your kind words. Am in total sympathy with you over the guinea pig food. I am still finding hundreds and thousands in my kitchen following a baking session with my three year old granddaughter last month! It's amazing where things end up when they spill, isn't it?
Lavender Rose - enjoy your book

One thing I found pretty early on when I had the children was how far hundreds and thousands roll. I started using the sugar strands instead because I found they made far less mess.

bearcub

I must have used hundreds and thousands when my DDs were little, but I can't remember dropping any. Must have been very lucky! No, I remember, we used sugar strands like you, R-L!

Baileys_Babe

Emm hope your feeling better.

Alec E sounds like you had a very productive day after all

Bearcub well done on the sewing, I usually get my mum to do mine, but this week I darned my very 1st sock, ds clapped when I'd finished, I don't think he knew I could even thread a needle.

We were out for the afternoon and evening so this morning I set my self a realistic list of chores to do before lunch which I achieved plus some other bits. I need to get more focused also I need to add my physio to the list otherwise I go to bed and realise I've forgotten again.

mcculloch29

Hello again fellow Messies,

I've been MIA as I've been more on the hoarders thread.

The mess at Chez Mc29 is a lot less but I still have too much stuff and it needs sorting.
Gradually, books are going, though this is hard, as I love my books.

Many times when we moved around with the Forces, I parted with favourites and as I don't read much fiction, many of my books are useful reference books too.

However with the Net being the Net... Well, time to say goodbye to some more.
A few years ago I got shot of Encyclopaedia Britannica and freed up a lot of shelf space. I can honestly say I haven't missed it. British Heart Foundation hopefully were able to sell it.

It was a 1985 edition and significantly dated, especially with the huge changes in technology, political geography and advances in science since then.

The recycling rubbish collection is tomorrow morning and the bin is only half full... wonder what I can collect before bed?

alec_eiffel

Can you believe I was having a lovely sleep last night then the white rabbit starting thumping and woke me up. I have been awake since 2am. The white rabbit looks very well rested and is full of it this morning. Fun!

Everywhere looks not too bad, I will hoover later on though and I think I'll have a declutter session just in case there's something to get rid of that's escaped my beady eye, there are 2 bags ready to go to the charity shop.

I was just putting the dishes away this morning and noticed a woman with a clip board poking through my recycling bins (it's collection day). She wrote something down then went off to do the same next door. How odd, had I not been so tired I probably would have gone out to see what she was looking for.

Books are hard to get rid, I think we struggled with books more than anything else I think.

bearcub

Morning Messies.

Mc29, hello again! Well, if hoarding is your main 'messy' problem, then that's the thread for you, I guess. I know that letting books go can be hard. Had to do it before we moved, and I've only ever missed one. Although I rarely cook nowadays (OH does all the meals), I did have a wonderful large book on Italian cookery, but it was as much a geography/culture book as a cookery book, and I regret letting it go.

Alec e, sorry to hear that you weren't allowed to sleep. I sometimes have a similar problem with the cats. How odd abou that woman and the bins. Perhaps a call to the council is in order?

YORKSHIRELASS

Oh Emms, sorry to hear you have been so poorly. I always think of you as being sort of invincible!! Take care of yourself.

Strange week. I have worked extra hours and feel really tired, which is pathetic because I dont work anywhere near full time these days. The house is reasonably OK I suppose. Not doing much tomorrow so I will be able to catch up with a few chores.

Off to watch a bit of telly for a while then get some sleep. A lie in tomorrow - yippee!!

sandyann63

Mc29-I am an ex forces brat who married a soldier so all in all spent 36 years moving all over the world every few years. Must say that moving house ensured we had a good clear out regularly. Have been in civvy street six years now and my goodness the clutter soon builds up! I, like you, love my books and find it hard to part with them. In my dream house I would have a library!
Yorkshirelass- hope you enjoyed your lie in this morning.
Hoovered through this morning and changed the bedding. Baked a chocolate cake so hubby will be happy! Glad I put in the work during the week as its so relaxing knowing that the house is clean and tidy 'enough'. Never going to have a show house but it'll do for us!! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend xx

mcculloch29

Hello SandyAnn, I 'did' 16 years of moving around after living in the same house for my first 18 years - I last moved in Dec 1992, so you can imagine what has built up since then!
A bit of an LBM (LightBulbMoment) this morning. I was looking at a newish portable CD -MP3 player that I had put to one side. The casing got badly warped when it was accidentally put on the top of the combi micro, it still plays but has innards exposed and can't really be safe. Why was I hanging on to it?
I have another player unused at the back of a wardrobe, in case the stereo unit packs up - I love my music.
So out it goes, with the plug taken off, of course.

Earlier I used some Sugro to repair the exposed flex wires of my food mixer, which have been bandaged up with leccy tape for goodness knows how many years.

Sugro is incredible stuff - Amazon sent me some as a freebie to review, and it's wonderful. It looks like white blutack, (it comes in a variety of colours) and sets like rubber once cured, but sticks itself. It's waterproof, heat resistant and flexible.

I've used a 5 gramme packet to repair the flex, seal a split in the instep of leather shoes, and to replace the 'cushioning' on the underside of the loo lid. I hope I can find the handle that snapped off the fridge freezer as that is ear-marked.

If you have anything put aside for repair that is proving hard to mend, (and if you are like me, you will...) I do recommend giving Sugro a go.

LBM moment 2 came when I started to clean the ancient plastic plug on the mixer as it was rather grubby - I have several smart, shiny plugs in the drawer removed from various defunct items (see above).

So after 10 minutes extra work, my elderly but still very serviceable Krups hand mixer has a new plug too.