Confessions of a very tired old styler. Please join in.

bluebag

An old song comes to mind for me it's called old folks boogie it goes 'your mind makes a promise that your body can't keep' that's me most of the time. I do try though.

We need a thread on housekeeping shortcuts that we all find useful, but it might make me feel all inadequate and guilty.

Iron is a four letter word you know, as is wash and cook. Horrible.

GreyQueen

Now my parents are both retired, Dad has been introduced to the Dark Arts of H*ousekeeping as well as gardening and exterior maintenance.

One of the few things which it has been decided is exclusively "his" chore is the vacuuming. But that has to be done infrequently because it upsets the cats. They have 2 rescue moggies who are much-rehabiltated from their former nervous selves after 5 years of TLC bar they are terrified of the vac and will be traumatised for the rest of they day if it's used.

Mum was ill last autumn and I was visiting and was hoping to catch Dad ironing, because Mum said it was the best laugh she'd had in ages......beggar got going early and finished it whilst I was having breakfast in another room.:rotfl:

lostinrates

GreyQueen wrote: »

upsets the cats.

Ha, ours are well adjusted but spoilt never beem traumatised creatures and we still use them as an excuse. Also, who ever has a cat on their lap is excused ANYTHING...we've been known not to change tv channel on an exhausted weekend evening because a cat is on us AND ontop of the remote.:o:o

I once pointed out to DH that perhaps we should be ore deferencial of the dogs as dog is ''god'' backwards and he retorted that ''only because the cat's allow that spelling''. :rotfl:

cyclingyorkie

Frugal wrote: »

Brilliant thread!!!

OK... Here goes... Frugal's confessions :o:o

Christmas decs are boxed up in living room waiting for someone to put them in the loft for me, along with 3 other boxes that I have just shoved things into that really need sorting and putting away.

Cobwebs a plenty in this house :eek: Can't find my duster!

Can't remember the last time I washed the floors but it wasn't this year :o I have scooched around them by standing and sliding around on a towel having sprayed the floor with dettol spray a couple of times tho

Clean clothes are rarely put away atm but stacked in my room on the floor so its a struggle to find clean stuff in the mornings (mostly because the 3 washing baskets are full so the dirty washing is on the floor too... OMG the SHAME)

There is some scary lamb in the fridge which I didn't get around to cooking

My stairs are a hazzard to climb as there is so much stuff on them 'to be sorted'

You could write your name in the dust under the TV

None of us can wear matching socks anymore because of the chaos and disorder

We have eaten out (cheaply) 3 times in the last week because I can't face unloading the dishwasher and starting the whole cooking, mess, dw process again

But the worst one of all has to be that I still haven't unpacked from my holiday and the suitcase is still on my living room floor... I got back 31 Jan :eek:

I am sooooooooooooooo embarrassed Hope it made someone else feel better or smile though

oh it did! I feel so much better!

Raksha

There's a pile of paperwork on the kitchen table which means I'll soon be eating my dinner from OH's plate. I haven't done any clothes washing since last Monday because we've just decorated the bedroom and OH has piled all his CLEAN clothes on top of the dirty ones, and I am NOT going to sort them out.

Re Ironing, I just don't - the clothes go into the tumble drier (no, wait, this is MS) on the 'easy iron' setting - a warm tumble for 10 mins to loosen the fibres - then hung on the airer. the kids have their own airers in their bedrooms and they deal with their own washing.

orangesmartie

I am 'working from home' today and had planned to do the hoovering/dusting/washing/cleaning and instead have read all fifty pages of this thread and done neither housework nor paid work. And because i'm going to London tomorrow for uni and then going on holiday next week I won't have time to do housework while trying to pack suitcases so it will have to wait until I get back. In April.

I am too ashamed to post my confessions.

Fruball

orangesmartie wrote: »

I am 'working from home' today and had planned to do the hoovering/dusting/washing/cleaning and instead have read all fifty pages of this thread and done neither housework nor paid work. And because i'm going to London tomorrow for uni and then going on holiday next week I won't have time to do housework while trying to pack suitcases so it will have to wait until I get back. In April.

I am too ashamed to post my confessions.

Oh please do.... I posted mine and they were shameful!

GreyQueen

I have shopping still unpacked from last Saturday (6 days!). It's only packets and I am waiting for someone to bring me cardboard boxes to store it in which won't come until tomorrow but still........:o

And many other shortcomings too shameful to mention in public.........:rotfl:

bargainbetty

I bought a clothing rail for the back room, to help me be all organised and sort out my laundry. I haven't opened my cupboards in weeks, because everything has been worn, washed and is on the rail - nothing ever gets put away now.

I had a new kitchen fitted, finished four weeks ago. I have yet to put all the stuff back in the cupboards from the back room. The microwave is in there too. Then again, I'd have to do the four days worth of dishes that are carefully stacked in there before I can bring things through.

I have a feather duster. The spiders laugh at me - it's been stuck under the bookcase for a month.

I have a vacuum that I don't use often. I don't even have a cat to blame that on. I get traumatised by it.

My laundry piles (clean and dirty) are growing. I think the dirty pile actually ate the wicker basket it used to live in some time ago.

My favourite household chore is smashing my head on the wall until I pass out and don't have to do chores.

I'm still happy, and my mates still come over. Good-o.

orangesmartie

Frugal wrote: »

Oh please do.... I posted mine and they were shameful!

Ok you asked for it!

• I am still in my pajamas at 3.30pm
• My cereal and toast dishes are still on the side....from lunch
• Pepsi was my nutritious breakfast
• I have done about an hour's work today. I should have stayed off sick.
• I haven't had a bath/shower since....Wednesday :eek:
• I haven't even washed/wiped my face or teeth today nor brushed my hair.

In my defense I am suffering from a humungous chest infection and just walking to the kitchen makes me wheeze, so i feel justified in being a slob this week. However, I moved into my flat in 2007, it was brand spanking new and:

• the only time i have washed the wooden floors is before I moved the furniture in, just after said floor was fitted (to pick up wood dust).
• I have never washed the kitchen floor (slate tile)
• I have never cleaned the oven
• I have never washed any of my curtains (i don't have nets)
• I have never washed any of the windows. The patio doors have dog-nose marks).
• I haven't changed my bed sheets in two weeks
• I haven't hoovered for...i can't remember when i hoovered.
• My hoover cylinder is full and I can't be bothered to empty it (the bin store is about 10 meters from the back door).
• I've had my microwave since......2005 and I have never cleaned inside it.
• I bought my car in 2008. I have never washed it. Or hoovered it. It looks like a skip on the inside.
• I don't remeber when I last dusted.
• I never iron. Everything is taken out of the tumble 20 minutes early and hung up. If that doesn't solve the creases, it doesn't get worn. Ever.
• I have lots of clothes in my drawers. I never wear any of them, I just recycle the same sets of clothes.
• There are huge hairballs and feathers rolling around my skirting boards. I can't be bothered to pick them up and put them in the bin.
• I ordered a huge pizza for tea on Tuesday and have been eating that for dinner since then because I can't be bothered to cook. (Also no dishes).
• There are framed photos and pictures lined up against various skirting boards, waiting for my dad to come round and hang them on the walls (it need speshul toolz).
• There is a box of pasta in the fridge that I made to take to lunch at work. I can't remember how long its been there but its at least two and a half weeks. I can't throw it out until I take the bin out because it'll stink when i take the lid off the box.

I think that's enough to be getting on with. I do feel guilty but am now too poorly to tackle any of these jobs.