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

bobble_hat

Just found this thread, and I can't stop laughing, want to get myself a cuppa and read all the way through but I haven't got the time.

I focus on the areas that MIL sees as she comments on everything, I don't think she's being mean, she just has nothing else to talk about. This morning as she picked up my daughter so I could [STRIKE]work[/STRIKE] spend the day on MSE, she said 'ooh are you making banana bread' due to the festering bananas on the side.

Nope I'm just a lazy mare who hasn't eaten/thrown them yet! Usually she points out the gasping pot plants which are so desperate for water they are growing aerial roots even though they're not genetically predisposed too.

My DD likes to hide when Nanny is on her way over, I always encourage her to hide in the kitchen because I can't bear the thought of the MIL following her into the rest of the house and seeing the carnage in there.

My cobwebs are starting to look like I've left last year's halloween decs up, our gardening has consisted of spraying the weeds - MIL - "gosh those weeds have gotten really high!" and running the mower over the grass so the puppy doesn't keep getting lost.

We have more take-way's than I care to mention despite having a fridge full of food, which will never get eaten because we're too damn tired to cook it. Our junk room is full of everything that has got in the way in the rest of the house, that door is always closed!

I have managed to Spring clean the dining room, it took me an entire week and this was just so that I could bring my home-office downstairs so I don't have to traipse upstairs and downstairs during the day to manage the puppy. :rotfl: The rest of the house suffered as a result so I've now got all the 'normal' cleaning and tidying to do before Sat as MIL is sitting for us and I can't leave anything out for comment.

I'm so glad to realise I'm normal. I thought when I got married I would turn into this 1950s style domestic goddess like some sort of magical miracle, well I'm just the same except there are 3 of us and a dog to make more mess! I've been feeling so depressed and overwhelmed by it all so this thread has perked me up no end and I haven't stopped giggling.

Thank you all for your fab confessions and wonderful chat. Even though it's all a few years old now, it's given me a sparkle, which will send shadows over the dirt in my house, so I can ignore them for a little bit longer. :beer: :beer:

unclebryn_2

Ohhhh, I so love this thread. I honestly thought I was the only one! Not having any children around anymore I thought house would be so easy to keep immaculate - but I forgot what a lazy mare/procrastinator I can be! I'm sat here now:rotfl:when I'd promised myself the piles and piles of carp and papers on the dining table and kitchen units would be tidied and shredded, and said kitchen then blitzed to within an inch of it's life.
Think I'll just put the kettle on and carry on reading

~Chameleon~

SDG31000 wrote: »

I like to think that my house is clean enough to be healthy and cluttered enough to be comfortable. DH says it's rebellion against my mom who is a neat freak.

^^I like that phrase and I'm going to steal it if I may?

SDG31000

Feel free Chameleon

miss_scrimper_2

Morty_007 wrote: »

Forgive me but...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:...More than a week?? I'm not sure the last time our floor got any more than a whoosh and a wizz by my 3 year old who likes to play with the hoover. He isn't very thorough, but it savesme doing it
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meritaten wrote: »

I wouldnt DREAM of depriving my OH the pleasure of vacuuming! he adores that job! and he has this little habit of taking the filteGrs out to wash and hiding them to dry them - and if I unknowingly get the hoover out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well you all know what happens then! and he is in love with CIF, so on his days off will get out a bowl of water and spring clean all the UPVC! and apparently I dont know how to clean skirting boards - so thats his territory too! and the meat slicer scares me rigid!!!!!!!!!!! rofl, so he gets to play with that and clean it aftewards! and I cant reach the tops of the cupboards (and it hasnt occured to him yet to wonder why I dont use the little stepladder - after 30odd years!) so he cleans them!

mind you, I have to be vigilant otherwise he would be cleaning the TV screen with all purpose cleaner as he takes the name literally - he once ruined my lovely dining table (mahogany with satin inlay) by washing it with all purpose cleaner on Sundays while I was out with the kids! (he hasnt lived that down yet).

I havent worked out yet how to get him to clean the windows..........without leaving them opaque with wipe marks...........its really puzzling me???????????

I know this is an old post but I always clean my windows with a spray and newspaper and never get any smears or marks maybe worth a try

gibson123

Lots of discounted fish in Tesco today, so I decided to make fish pie, using a recipe on this board. Unfortunately it was so delicious I tried a bit, then a portion and it was all gone before tea-time, so sent out for pizza for the rest of the family. Bad OS'er :o:o

meanmarie

I love it!

meritaten

ahh - but what was the 'portion'? I have bought 'family' pies that quite frankly, would leave me and OH wanting more!
and 'ready meals' that wouldnt feed a sparrow!

gibson123

Oh this was a fair sized ceramic lasagne dish full. Would have only needed some vegetables on the side!

tiny_courageous

I do this! Usually with a home made lasagne.