Where to post this ad?

Gillyx

Lotus-eater wrote: »

It may make you very good friends What have you got that he hasn't seen before anyway

I live with my OH and I don't want him washing my clothes, he doesn't separate anything, and before I moved in, his white tshirts were a nasty shade of grey! :rotfl:

Tiddlywinks

GlasweJen wrote: »

I do have a flat mate but he's an unrelated male and were not that close, getting him to help with laundry would be too much.

How about getting one of those mesh bags, stick your unmentionables in there and then ask your flatmate to shove them in for you - he won't see or feel anything that will alarm him that way .

I spent a long time recently recovering from shoulder surgery on the back of two other hand surgeries and was really shocked by how much I couldn't do and used to take for granted. Given a bit of time I did find lots of workarounds - rather than carrying unbreakable things I would stick them in a pillowcase and drag them - if you've got shiny floors then dragging becomes much easier.

Also, can you borrow something on wheels to help out? The Red Cross do loan medical equipment and may be able to help with something wheelie to assist?

Lotus-eater

Gillyx wrote: »

I live with my OH and I don't want him washing my clothes, he doesn't separate anything, and before I moved in, his white tshirts were a nasty shade of grey! :rotfl:

Well obviously you have to be on hand to supervise, I mean who would trust a man to do the washing by himself :eek:

Gillyx

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Well obviously you have to be on hand to supervise, I mean who would trust a man to do the washing by himself :eek:

If we let that happen, we'd all be down to the last pair of knickers in the drawer...

BitterAndTwisted

GlasweJen have you considered putting an ad in the local newsagents' window? If someone living in my street needed this sort of help I'd gladly do it for free.

onlyroz

Regarding the collections, is there anywhere outside you could leave the washing to be collected at a time of their convenience? Then you'd just have to ask your flatmate to carry the bag outside once a week.

GlasweJen

I live in a close so I could leave it at the door to be retrieved, that's not a worry.

I'm actually coming home in a wheelchair (knew the flat with the lift was a good idea ) so that plus being bruised from here to there means there's not much house stuff I can do at the moment.

I never tried the iron lady so I'll give her a shot.

Thanks for all your suggestions so far.

MrsAtobe

Jen, one of my local hospitals does a laundry service, perhaps one of yours does as well?

Glad to hear you'll be home soon.

Nicki

If you can afford it, and maybe your flatmate can contribute, I'd be inclined to get someone in for 3 hours a week to clean and do your laundry. It would probably end up cheaper than a laundry service to be honest. They could even hang the stuff on airers for you, rather than having to invest in a tumble drier even on hire, as you might well be able to take things off dry one at a time, even if not up to hanging them up wet? I am sure there are other things you will want doing that you won't be up to for a while too, such as clean sheets on the bed, a good vacuum around, etc. Would you be entitled to direct payments given how ill you have been, as these can be used for this kind of thing.

As for where, newsagent, word of mouth, or get someone from an agency in your local telephone book