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Loolah

miss_independent wrote: »

Sounds hard. If I were you I'd buy a slab of Lindt White Chocolate and tub of vanilla ice cream. Sit with choc bar in one hand, spoon in the other. Spoon of ice cream, bite of chocolate. Repeat as necessary. No washing up if you use a plastic spoon.

Love it!!!!

luxor4t

Judi wrote: »

Hubby ran his fingers along the edge of the wall tiles in the kitchen on Friday.... Oh dear.

MrsAtobe wrote: »

Tell him if he's going to do things like that then he may as well go the whole hog and clean them. Trust me, he won't do it again! :rotfl:

Give him his own duster - I wrote my DH's name on one 'ready' for him to dust with. It is still pristine

calicocat

richardw wrote: »

Any summer holiday sand still in the car/suitcases etc?

Or ....foldable portable barbecues with the embers and ash still in from not june gone but the last one.?:p

torbrex

I fell off the wagon this morning
I am going on holiday for a fortnight starting tomorrow and something in my head snapped :eek: I decided that I would rather not come back to a ditry house.
I don't mind living in one but the thought of staying in all those clean lodges and hotel rooms then coming back to my hovel just broke my resolve and I have been cleaning all morning.

Still, if I do it right then that should see me through to at least the new year :T

(there is the question of the oven though :eek:)

Raksha

orangesmartie wrote: »

Sat on the loo yesterday, as you do and i noticed a very thick layer of dust on the top surfaces of the toilet roll holder it has never occurred to me to dust there!

You have a toilet roll holder? You mean it doesn't just sit on the edge of the bath?:eek:

torbrex

Raksha wrote: »

You have a toilet roll holder? You mean it doesn't just sit on the edge of the bath?:eek:

I know things are getting bad if there are 2 cardboard inners on the edge of the bath, that is where I put the empties with every intention of taking them downstairs to the recycle bin.

calicocat

torbrex wrote: »

I fell off the wagon this morning
I am going on holiday for a fortnight starting tomorrow and something in my head snapped :eek: I decided that I would rather not come back to a ditry house.
I don't mind living in one but the thought of staying in all those clean lodges and hotel rooms then coming back to my hovel just broke my resolve and I have been cleaning all morning.

Still, if I do it right then that should see me through to at least the new year :T

(there is the question of the oven though :eek:)

You could throw the oven out and get a new one??

Not very MSE, but an option nonetheless.

gallygirl

wondercollie wrote: »

Anybody know where the mythical "safe place" is?

Put my favourite lippie down somewhere and can't locate it.

"St Anthony, St Anthony, return that which is mine". Works a treat

calicocat wrote: »

Sorry if this has already been said before..........anyone else shoved the xmas tree back in it's box with all the lights and decorations on ?.

Em....... I thought that was classed as 'domestic efficiency' .

I'm a lightweight compared to you lot (not a phrase I use often unless I'm in a room full of sumo wrestlers :rotfl:). I get stressed by an untidy/unclean house but also equally stressed by doing anything about it, so I have a cleaner . 2.5 hours a week and worth every penny - especially as I tidy up before she comes (not because I'm ashamed, she's seen me at my worst, but because I'm not paying her to tidy when she could be cleaning instead).

My biggest success was when she took away a load of DS & Mr GG's shirts to iron (she has one of those scary looking irons) and brought them back and hung in usual place (living room doorway). At tea time I had the ironing board out to hem some trousers with wonderweb, saw Mr GG pull up outside so took one shirt off the hanger and happened to finish that massive pile of ironing just as he walked in :cool:.

Last night I noticed the freezer door was open - water on the floor was a giveaway. Took out something meaty/saucy which was stopping door from closing and shut it. Didn't take opportunity to do the 'tea towel shuffle' on the floor with the melted ice in case it left a big clean mark. It evaporated overnight and you can't tell where it's been :T.

sillyvixen

Raksha wrote: »

You have a toilet roll holder? You mean it doesn't just sit on the edge of the bath?:eek:

my toilet roll has sat on the edge of the sink since feb (when i broke my shoulder and could not reach the paper as it was on my broken side) i have just realised i should put it back on the holder - as each time i use the bathroom i will be getting a free physio exercise!! and each time i 'go' i will be able to drop one exercise movement from my regime:rotfl:.

betony

Oh, you may want to throw me out of the Sloblady club for this, but since I got my new Hoover vacuum a week last Friday, I've used it almost every day. It's such a novelty to see clean carpets after using a carpet sweeper (infrequently) for six months, that I'm rather thrilled that there's no dog or cat hair embedded into the pile

Um, not only that, but I've also been washing all my windows and surrounds. Just done the dining room one, which I've never done before, and we've been in this house for over three years. In my defence, after being together for over four years, we will soon be introducing our respective parents to one another and I'm giving an old-fashioned tea party in our house. Well, it won't be till October, but it's gonna take at least that long for me to get the house respectable enough for two mothers

Please don't think ill of me, though, I'm sure I'll be back to my normal Slob Lady ways before long. I hope you are all merrily living your lives without guilt. As usual :rotfl: