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

CRANKY40

meritaten wrote: »

I love cats and ones which are multi functional are my favourites! where does one purchase Half Burmese Half Korat cats? do they clean curtain tops by instinct or do you have to train them? Can you get them in Dusty Gray so you dont have to brush them after they have cleaned your curtains? do they do floors too?

You don't want one. It's so badly behaved we call it the Borat. It's chewed the ends off 3 slats of my wooden blinds that are only available in IKEA for the size of kitchen window I have. Oh and we no longer have any house plants or buy cut flowers. Cats think they are evil and must be destroyed. The Borat climbs anything....doors, curtains, bookcases...and when it gets as far up as possible it still looks up to check for anything higher. It is all black with one white whisker - the whisker of doom. It's half sister is grey (she's a Korat) but she wouldn't do anything so unlady like as climb curtains. Besides she's far too lazy!

meritaten

CRANKY40 wrote: »

You don't want one. It's so badly behaved we call it the Borat. It's chewed the ends off 3 slats of my wooden blinds that are only available in IKEA for the size of kitchen window I have. Oh and we no longer have any house plants or buy cut flowers. Cats think they are evil and must be destroyed. The Borat climbs anything....doors, curtains, bookcases...and when it gets as far up as possible it still looks up to check for anything higher. It is all black with one white whisker - the whisker of doom. It's half sister is grey (she's a Korat) but she wouldn't do anything so unlady like as climb curtains. Besides she's far too lazy!

:eek: hmmmmm I like a challenge!

May be worth it if it dusts bookcases too!:rotfl:

Feel for you - I had a dog who enjoyed indoor gardening so much I had to give away ALL my houseplants!

charlies-aunt

Found my spiritual home on here

I work full time, have a family and pets and find it absolutely impossible to get on top of the housework - but TBH I don't care - life is for living, not a competition for who has got the tidiest/cleanest home

I had a serious health scare a couple of years ago - it really made me reassess my priorities & made me realise how precious every day is....too precious to spend time dusting and polishing

Plenty of time for housework when I'm too old for anything else

ampersand

joeck68 wrote: »

Just discovered this thread and have spent the last hour howling with laughter at your posts - can I join in?

I don't have too much to offer at the moment, though the house is really untidy, but I just keep stuffing things into cupboards and telling DD not to open them....

However, I am busy trying to write an essay for my OU course, and my DH has been away for 3 days, so no-one has done any washing up......earlier, I needed to fill the kettle, but couldn't get to the tap, so I've piled all the dirty plates, dishes, cups etc into a large plastic bucket and put it on the back yard to wait for his return. (I did see my cat giving them a lick as she went past, so that's taking care of the worst of it )

Does this count - is it good enough for me to join you (she asks anxiously!)

xxJo

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Just to set your mind at rest joeck68 - ABSOLUTELY:T.
A suggestion for bonus points and a good Family Challenge:
See who can conceal the odd bit of fruit in a cupboard AND get shut it again before landslide.
Points will be awarded and what do points mean?
....[ISIHAC fans chorus]
' Points mean....PRIZES!'

ampersand

joeck68 wrote: »

is it possible to give yourself a hernia through laughing too long and hard? because if it is, I have one. I'm off to lie down now, sod the washing, the laughing has worn me out.

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Hernias are not the only fruit.

Mrs Veg Plot, should you not deed poll yourself ? - perhaps Ms Fruit Bowl, for purps of this Thread only?
I do not feel you can reach your fullest potential named as you are.

ampersand

lostinrates wrote: »

LOL this sounds a bit like my house. The saving grace is since we moved the cats don't climb in through the bedroom widow, but rather the bathroom window....its lovely not having emergency bedding changes when a muddy cat has jumped in...sometimes with prey...onto your bed :mad:

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What does she think of the change?

[Come to think of it, I suppose I'm one in this country.]

lostinrates

ampersand wrote: »

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What does she think of the change?

[Come to think of it, I suppose I'm one in this country.]

whoops! typos are better if they are unintentionally funny though.:o

ampersand

Hope you took no offence, lir, loved it and my typos are appalling. Flying fingers syndrome[as just evidenced by 'flying gingers'...but saw it, just:-). V. likely they were fleeing overcrowded fruit bowl]

Must Masterchef now -

CRANKY40

Frugal's kitchen looks normal to me too. A kitchen with no "stuff" around just leaves me feeling bewildered and uneasy.

lostinrates

CRANKY40 wrote: »

Frugal's kitchen looks normal to me too. .

Looks clean and tidy to me. Mine only gets the table cleared once a week when flylady demands it....clutter is drawn there like a moth to a flame. When my kitchen looks ...well, normal....I'm horrified to walk people through it. But I cook from scratch always,have no dishwasher and only turn hot water on when needed, and only then do the washing up.