A little bit Hyacinth

Nile

I didn't know where to post this thread, so the board guide may think it needs moving.

We can all think of someone who has Hyacinth Bucket tendencies, can't we?


Make a neat job of painting your house number on your dustbin(s) by using a stencil (outline the numbers/letters with a black felt pen) and fill in with gloss paint using a childs thin paint brush.

Keep your floor/carpets spotless even when workmen are in the house. They'll often refuse to remove their footwear (on the doorstep:D ) for safety reasons. So, visit your local safety/maintenance/workwear shop and buy a pack of overshoes. Did you know that you can buy a pack of 100 blue disposable overshoes for less than £3?

Anyone else got any Hyacinth tips?;)

ET03

Nile wrote:

Make a neat job of painting your house number on your dustbin(s) by using a stencil (outline the numbers/letters with a black felt pen) and fill in with gloss paint using a childs thin paint brush.

sounds like you've got experience

moggins

No matter what state the rest of my house is in, the living room always has to be spotless

And if anyone offers to help in the kitchen, I refuse politely saying I can manage thank you, even if I'm running round like a headless chicken, just so they don't have to go through the playroom.

MrsMW

I painted flowers and leaves on our wheelie bin. Gives the neighbours something to talk about. lol.
I'm obsessed with cleaning the bathroom, I have to put new soap and best towels out if anyone is visiting.

MATH

I don't know anyone who could possibly be described as a bit Hyacinth:rolleyes: But as I was saying to the vicar at one of my Candlelight buffet 'n' mingles "take your eye off the ball and standards will slip and before you know it the Close is knee deep in chavs and all the wheelie bins are burburry check":eek: (mine is mock verdigris. I don't need to stencil the house number on it as we have the family crest emblazoned on the front...naturally;)

Nile

Don't throw away the plastic cover that your remote control is packaged in.......keep your remote control covered to keep sticky fingers and food from clogging up the buttons. Then, when you have important visitors (remove the cover temporarily) they can all marvel at your clean equipment.:D

Jay-Jay_4

Mt sister has the cleanest glass coffee tables on this planet. She has two children, as do I, and if any of them go in the general direction of them she winces and shouts "don't touch the table" to which the children all jump and looked scared.

We all tippee toe around them

Chipps

We once had a neighbour who was so obsessed about the cleanliness of his car, we have seen him cleaning it at 1am. My dad gave him a lift one day, when he found him walking along a country lane, he was going to the ford dealer about 7 miles away. Why walking? Well, there was something wrong with the mud flaps on his car so he was returning them, and if he had driven it might have got dirty.

Ticklemouse

I keep all the boxes my crystal, china, ornaments etc come in. I have large boxes full of smaller boxes in my attic, ready for when we move or decorate etc so that I can pack everything neatly away. Mr TM wants to bin everything like that (yet he's the hoarder) but as I've moved house 6 times since I was an adult, I think it's very sensible. That's not too Hyacinth surely?

Where we used to live, one of our neighbours painted everything she could - the housebriks red so she could paint the mortar white and the garage and shed had each
been completely covered in lovely (not) climbing flowers!! Pity she couldn't paint

Also, one doesn't have a wheely bin at Chez Mouse as we find the staff are so accommodating, they take the rubbish away with them at the end of the day, thus leaving extra room in the garden for our al fresco candlelit soirees. Canapes anyones?

Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

I keep all the boxes my crystal, china, ornaments etc come in. I have large boxes full of smaller boxes in my attic, ready for when we move or decorate etc so that I can pack everything neatly away. Mr TM wants to bin everything like that (yet he's the hoarder) but as I've moved house 6 times since I was an adult, I think it's very sensible. That's not too Hyacinth surely?

You been copying my bad habits again sis :rotfl:

Ticklemouse

Thought of another one. My ex-MIL was very very house-proud and so you never entered via the front door, always the back. You had to take your shoes off in the kitchen and leave them on the shoe rack by the door. And once when I went to stay, before the suitcases went upstairs, they were inspected so as not to transfer any dirt. They were a new set of luggage too

You weren't allowed to curl up on the sofa or put your feet up as they thought it made the room look untidy!

It may have been a clean house with carpets that looked like new, not 17 years old, but no-one could ever relax there.