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

aeb_2

Frugal wrote: »

Absolutely brilliant post with the updates Made me :rotfl:

re the cheese - I have recently lost (in 2 separate shopping trips) one pack of Trex, One of lard and One butter :eek::eek::eek::eek:

HOW???

If they are in the car (under the seat height pile of carp in the front passenger side) they are gonna melt once it warms up so I'm gonna have to either clear it out, or sell it on "Sold as Seen" :rotfl::rotfl:

I've not come across this thread before. I read a few posts and they made me laugh (in a nice, sympathetic and knowing way)

When I go to the local nursery the the man loads the compost into what he describes as 'a working boot' as he tries to squeeze it in between various boxes on the way to the charity shop, wellies, kites, plastic bottles in various stages of algae formation, etc.

So there you have it, not untidy but 'a working boot'!

helenhugs

Frugal wrote: »

Does anybody dare to post up pics of their horrors from this thread?

Are you insane? :rotfl: It's one thing admitting it, another to let people see it :o:o:o

Fruball

helenhugs wrote: »

Are you insane? :rotfl: It's one thing admitting it, another to let people see it :o:o:o

Oh go onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn pleeeeeeease.

I will but it won't be until tomorrow...... or errrrrrrrrrrrrr when I find the camera

candygirl

flowerscotland wrote: »

I love this thread :T

It makes me feel normal

My parents hardly ever come to my flat, my Dad has been here once in Jan and before that the November before last and I had to tell him to leave he was moaning that I hadn't hoovered behind my tv :mad:

My freezer has so much ice in it that I was struggling to defrost it, I went away for the weekend and turned it off and left towels on the floor to mop up the drips, I came back and NONE of it had melted :o

I left the door slightly ajar on my little freezer n it's all frozen up, so I might try n defrost it tomoz x:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

melvis

Ooooooh I've just found this thread and I'm in love :j:j

I work full time and every day I wonder how people manage to get everything done and now I've discovered they don't. I've been feeling inadequate all these years :rotfl::rotfl:

my turn ....

Izzy the cocker spaniel turned into a giant dreadlock, on Friday I finally bathed her and trimmed her ... 4 times! On Saturday I trimmed her 2 more times, she's still overgrown and now she's tufty! I filled the Dyson 7 times with fur, I still keep finding tufts of fur on my carpet but I haven't hoovered since Saturday :eek:

Mr Melvis's Father sold his house a few weeks ago, Mr Melvis brought lots of "stuff" home. It's still in piles in the living room and kitchen.

We moved into our house 4 years ago. One of my spare rooms in filled with boxes I've still not unpacked.

I have a chest of drawers full of Avon products I have failed to sell or return.

I have a box full of packets of bulbs somewhere, all of which are more than 3 years old. I have 6 empty pots by the back door and 210 litres of compost in the shed, of a similar age.

I don't own an iron.

Or an ironing board :rotfl::rotfl:

I put my Vax in the understairs cupboard, something snapped off it so it now doesn't work. I've never fixed it and there are still "wee" stains on the bedroom carpet from when Izzy was a puppy. We replaced all the other carpets.

I've never defrosted my freezer :eek:

It's been so long since I started decorating, I no longer know where the paint or brushes are :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

It had been so long since I cleaned the roasting tin that I binned it and bought a new one

I'm sure there's more ......

It's good to share :cool: xx

ampersand

This is one of the finest posts[excluding mine own]that I have read on this Thread over the years.

melvis - I salute you.

As for Frugal/post 1023, may I refer you to an earlier pic of mine[which enlarged the page - NO apologies offered. It was That Year's Fruit Basket Supreme Champion, also scooping Best in Show, or was it only one on show?]
-post 355[2008]
-post 360 helpfully shows small version pic of above
-post 847 [2009], Title Retained:T.

Current specimen for this years's Spring Qualifier[500 days to the London Olympics]is coming on well.
Original fruit basket has been recalled to Pole Vault position, atop microwave. This gives an immediate 2'/60cm height advantage.
tbc[photo and list - closing date 21.42h next Tuesday]
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Interested parties must note - NO tickets are being sold as yet; you have 6 weeks to register interest. This is classed as the star Marquee Spectator Event and is expected to sell out quickly, despite the £1500 price tag.

Mags_cat

melvis wrote: »

We moved into our house 4 years ago. One of my spare rooms in filled with boxes I've still not unpacked.

I had a whole garage like that. I moved here in 2002. Two years ago I just emptied it into my car and binned it all. Four trips to the tip.

It was a heck of a wrench, but to be honest - if it'd been in the garage since 2002 then I didn't need it.

Since I binned it, I haven't missed it.

Whatever it was.

GreyQueen

As mentioned, I had groceries from the Saturday before last (storecupboard items) still unpacked. Did it last night....only 11 days procrastination for 5 minute job.:o

Love this thread; makes me feel so normal. :rotfl:

Fruball

I've got workmen in at the moment.

On Monday when they arrived I apologised for the chaos and said that the house is never normally like this but i've been moving from a larger house to a smaller one... True... 2 years ago :eek:

As they have been all over the house, I (and they) have had to move piles of carp to get at the radiators etc...

The house has got progressively worse since Monday and now it looks like the inside of a skip :eek: I had to confess as it was quite obvious that we live like pigs at the moment. I told him that I am mortified that the house has got so bad and that I was really sorry that he had to move about 1 sq mtre of carp today to get at the rads... He said... "Don't worry... My house is worse... If I walked into a house to do a job, and it looked like mine, i would walk back out again"

Phewwwwwwwwwww

Oh, and he found a phone behind a sofa... I've been looking for it for months

ampersand

FRUGAL - you are here! You are me! This is pretty much my situ atm, but with much damage[horrendous irreplacable losses, masses of antique harberdashery and textiles, long-stored soap, legal docs, bags, shoes, linens, Jaeger silk jacket etc.etc. - entire contents of linen cupboard, in fact, when water came up from somewhere overnight, discovered by me just before 4h Sat a.m.] , broken fixed time appointments etc.etc.etc. Nice young plasterer Ed is presently away buying more stuff he needs, but was told wasn't required, although specified need for same.
Ludicrous bungled <txt this a.m. - as I awaited 2 lots of repair/put-right men, due at 8 sharp. 'Your repair appt for Monday, 21 March . . . .'
NO!!!
Enraged by girl on phone saying 'I think you are a bit confused...'
Don't start me...how DARE this ill-educated, illiterate, inarticulate, innumerate, discourteous, progam-speak biological female clone[could hear her eyes rolling as she upped speaker vol. for others to giggle over in b/g] etc.etc. I asked her, and she agreed she had done so.
Promptly read her the confirming time/date email I had asked for[sadly having personal experience of their track record over past 3 years in particular]to be answered with the most mendacious jabberwockery, meaningless Lib-Dem-type drivel.
Both plumber and plasterer arrive, having been told I'd asked for deferment...rubbish.
I keep my cool, nonetheless, while asking for her name - and I am no rightwinger/whinger, but I do despair.
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I don't even want to say 'sorry' frugal and all others reading here.
Fruitbowl Challenge will be my treat later - vent/rant was triggered by another of your lovely empathetic posts, Frugal :-).
Gloomy fine misty wetness falling, not even drizzle really, more like the Eden Project tropical zone without the gorgeous warmth and light. Must carry on ebay listing.
Happy day to all other diverted Cosers.