New Challenge? Organisation...

pavlovs_dog

reminds me of a magnet i once saw...

my house was clean yesterday. sorry you missed it

or how about....

you can touch the dust, but please dont write in it

MATH

Flylady too much! She was always a bit splap-dash/happy-go-lucky for my taste. But then I do run milk bottles though the dishwasher before I give them back to milko:D Love the organised home site.

Curry_Queen

pavlovs_dog wrote:

reminds me of a magnet i once saw...

my house was clean yesterday. sorry you missed it

or how about....

you can touch the dust, but please dont write in it

Reckon I qualify for those badges

My living room was all sorted and clean one day last week, until I decided to clear out my son's room, and now I've got boxes of stuff back in the living room cluttering it up :rolleyes:

And don't even ask about MY room :eek:

Think there's around a square foot of clear floor at the door entrance to squeeze in, and you can't see my bed for piles of clothes

Lillibet_2

I seem to spend most of my time organizing, tidying & de-cluttering, ti's in my nature. Trouble is Hubby is completely the opposite so it's a bit of a thankless task in my case!

HOLsale

hello again everyone!

sorry i haven't been on for a bit, i've been really busy and a bit depressed, inland revenue have screwed up and not paid us our wtc and ctc for 4 weeks due to their own mistake :eek: :mad: i've not really been in a mood to talk as you can imagine!

things have settled down now and appear to be on the mend so i thought i'd see how everyone is doing with this challenge?

i've totally cleared out every cupboard, drawer, underbed storage box etc. i've reorganised the whole house and now have half a small room full of stuff to sell or give away :eek:

part of what spurred me on was to find the iron i bought awhile back. i've been given a sewing machine and i'm making patchwork quilts but i really need to press the seams now before i can continue. did i find that iron during my massive cleanout? NO! :mad: oh well, dh bought one tonight from asda for only £4.94 and it's a steam iron. if i find the other one i'll send it to my sil as a housewarming present :rotfl:

anyway, the house is looking messy because i've got stuff in various stages of readiness to be sold at a boot sale and on my new forum (see my signature). whatever i don't sell will be freecycled or given to charity. i am SO looking forward to having this stuff gone!

hope everyone else is doing a great job! :T

HOLsale

SnowyOwl wrote:

I get a really nice glow of satisfaction/house pride after a major blitz on the housework, especially if it has been totally out of control. Unfortunately the mood to go on a blitz is not something I can muster up with any frequency, and half hearted attempts just get abandoned. Oh big sigh! I don't want to end up being on Kim and Aggie's hit list...[/color][/font]

i know what that's like! now if i could only catch up with all the other stuff that needs doing (i think i used deep cleaning the cupboards as an excuse to avoid tedious tasks like cleaning the toilet etc)

HOLsale

nicki wrote:

For those of you who have tried Flylady but found it to be too much I would highly suggest you try http://organizedhome.com , then again as a moderator (UK-Mum) over there I'm biased There are currently 37276 registered members who are just as friendly and supportive as here so if you get a bit lazy there is always someone about to give you a kick up the bottom if you need it LOL

i didn't know you had a forum! i quoted the link for the site at the beginning of this thread, the forms are brilliant :T

moggins

I had to give up when ds got excluded from school as his punishment was to take over the housework for the week. Every task was incomplete and the place looks worse than it did before.

I can't wait for tomorrow when he's back at school, I have so much cleaning and clearing to do that I probably won't be around for a few days.

Holsale, I hope IR have sorted you out now?

HOLsale

i feel for you moggins!

reminds me of dh :rolleyes:

yes IR have sorted us out...temporarily, but i'm not holding my breath :mad:

jaybee

I think it was Quentin Crisp who said once that 'the dust doesn't get any worse after two years'.

I'm testing it out - okay! :rolleyes: