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

Sublime_2

I'm glad I've found this thread. Has made me feel much better.

My house needs redecorating (esp where DS decided to squeeze, and spray cod liver capsules, and juice over the not long decorated walls, and new carpet. I've cleaned it numerous times, but its still visible), and can't get in my cupbaords as crammed full of stuff, and my childrens rooms like like they've been burgled.

There feel better now!

budget_babe

I just really wanted to say what a pick me up this thread is.

I haven't laughed so much in a long while

Sorry if I shouldn't, but I lurk on old style and everyone seems to be so orgnaised etc.

I have picked up so many tips and I never throw anything away now, I have had left over mash and spring greens today, which I turned into bubble and squeak.

If a tomato is on the turn its quickly turned into tomato salsa. I shudder at how wasteful I used to be

But thanks to lurking I have discovered a more thrifty way of life.

Thanks to the die hard oldstylers who post so diligently and to everyone one here who has been brave enough to confess :T

Take Care
Budgie x

brighthair

despite doing a full shop today, my tea was a bowl of cereal as I couldn't be bothered
I keep using the same old frying pan, that everything sticks to and burns because I keep forgetting to buy a new one
the pasta bake dish has been "soaking" in the sink for 2 days
my ironing pile is going to fall off the chair if I put anything else on it
My laundry basket is never empty, there's about 10 things I never wear, don't want to wash, and should just bin :rotfl:
My spare room is meant to be my dressing room, instead it's turned into a junk room. I'm selling 100 books on Amazon, and they're all in boxes in there, my clothes go on the bed until I wear them, and god help anyone who wants to stay over
Just read this thread back and a quick update what 3 months later? :rotfl:
the pasta bake dish has gone
the ironing pile is done
Last week I FINALLY binned that stupid frying pan and bought a new one
and the less mentioned about the spare room the better :rotfl:

update what, a year later....
I smashed the pasta bake dish and had to go and have a piece of Pyrex removed from my eye
the ironing pile is back - and in the spare room
I finally binned the laundry basket, and the clothes that were doing nothing
However - the car looks like the inside of a stable, but my stables are cleaner
And I have lost a brand new block of cheese, which is a big mystery. I fear it may be festering in the car............

GreyQueen

Umm, due to being exhausted by a busy weekend digging on the allotment, I still haven't upacked those packets into the cardboard boxes which were fetched on Saturday.

9 days and counting; can I have a putty medal pleeeze?

Mags_cat

brighthair wrote: »

And I have lost a brand new block of cheese, which is a big mystery. I fear it may be festering in the car............

Uh-oh....:eek:

:rotfl:

quintwins

i'm sitting here trying to build up the energy to go clean my diningroom, since we have a 19month old who insist's on feeding himself i realy shud do it everyday but i havnet done it in 6 days, and last time i did it didn't mop the floor

i just foled all my ironing and put it away last night/this morning UNIRONED

i havent hoovered in a week

my kids havent been to school in 10days and it took me an hr to find there uniforms last night and 1 was dirty

we had frozen pizza and chips for tea last night, and chips and sausages in mil the night before, and frozen nuggets and chips the night before that

brighthair

Mags_cat wrote: »

Uh-oh....:eek:

:rotfl:

cheese still remains lost. I actually think now that the little food fairies at work have munched it :mad:

purpleheather2810

brighthair wrote: »

cheese still remains lost. I actually think now that the little food fairies at work have munched it :mad:

That reminds me of the time that I gratefully received a large suitcase from freecycle. I soon realised it had an entire block of cathedral city inside - completely sealed up thankfully, as it was a loooonnnnng way past it's sell-by date! :eek::eek::eek:

orangesmartie

purpleheather2810 wrote: »

That reminds me of the time that I gratefully received a large suitcase from freecycle. I soon realised it had an entire block of cathedral city inside - completely sealed up thankfully, as it was a loooonnnnng way past it's sell-by date! :eek::eek::eek:

who on earth stores cheese in a suitcase???

Pitlanepiglet

Oh dear, I finally got to the bottom of my laundry basket today, to find that the lower layer of "whites" has been there since the start of November! I clearly don't do a delicate white wash very often :rotfl: AND the only reason I did it was that I need the white bra that was lurking at the bottom!

I did run the dustbuster around today as the floor was covered in furballs but I only went around the furniture, piles of rubbish and rugs - still I regard it as a start:D

I don't iron, other than our weekend work shirts that we wear for half the year and mainly I try to get OH to wash those - I've learned that there is no point buying that that needs ironing, it just lives in the washing basket! We're due replacement shirts this week and I'm praying that they are a better fabric and we can get away with drip drying and they'll be wearable!