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

Nelski

the interesting thing with this thread now is not who is posting cos they are all sluvenly slobs alike but in fact who is not now posting.............they are the people we should worship and adore - they have no fault - they should be revered:j :j

recovering_spendaholic

DD1 borrowed a shirt from my friend's hubby to go to a fancy dress party, and I washed it the next day and hung it on a hanger on the picture rail in the dining room, ready to iron it when dry. It's still there. It was a Halloween party.

This morning I had to sit in the bathroom while DD2 went out into the street to rummage through the 3 bags of ironing I have in the boot of the car to see if there were any of my knickers in any of them.

M.E.

We were rather silly and gave into daughter's nagging for a new carpet for her bedroom.
We've not seen it since it was laid.
7 years ago!!!!!

ampersand

bobmats_shel wrote: »

Today I found one of my daughters milk cups that i've been missing for 3 weeks, still full of milk.

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No, no - surely full of natural yogurt, v. healthy, therefore not for this Thread?

pigpen

kazmeister wrote: »

pigpen :eek:

I'm horrified, there I am slaving away to play catch up and all the time you're cheating. No wonder your list kept getting shorter the only thing you were cleaning were the lines of writing on it.

I looked up to you and lilme in an effort to get my house respectable and yes we've both seen the photos of each others mess but at least I'm not pretending :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Will read the rest of this thread later

You don't need to look up to me.. I'm only little!!!

*slaps Kaz a high five*

*winks her a naughty wink and goes back to doing nowt!!*

pigpen

ampersand wrote: »

bobmats_shel wrote: »

Today I found one of my daughters milk cups that i've been missing for 3 weeks, still full of milk.

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No, no - surely full of natural yogurt, v. healthy, therefore not for this Thread?

Hot chocolate gets lovely and furry... after 6 months.. and.. I then took the lid off.. ran the cup through the DW and the furry bits that irritatingly were welded on I scraped off with a knife.. whizzed it through the DW again and put it back in the drawer to be used next time!!

weeping_river

OMG. I have just woken up oh with my giggles!:D

Okay, here's mine.

Ironing? Whats that? I have an iron, but surely its supposed to be ornamental

My laudry pile isn't too bad, but I really should be changing the sheets on my bed, but that'll mean replacing them, and I don't have the....anything for that.

My nice new glass coffee table has cheese smears on it from the cheese and crackers we had for lunch

and, oh, we've had maccyd's for breakfast two days running, can we make it three?????? (sausage, egg and cheese bagel, hash brown and a coke....mmmmm, yummy)

ampersand

Don't know if this qualifies, but then much of what is growing here is reaching far back down historic timelines.
After four years in a certain house, the shifting of a wardrobe revealed equivalent years of posted Vegemite fingers, thus immured by a small, quiet rebel.
(and I, good New Zealander - I still hate the stuff).
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.....and am suddenly thinking of Freezer Depths.
Unlabelled(takes away the mystery)indeterminate lumpy bits?
Baldrick's Finest.

donny-gal

Hey you lot - stop beating yourselves up.

Whoever said in-days-by everyone was a domestic goddess, and were naturally tidy???

Your OH's get weekends off, so they should share the workload with you on those days, else you don't get a break. I went back to work after I had DS for a rest! Yes being with kids all day is b. hard work, enjoyable for some, but still b. hard work. I used to struggle when working with a DH who has always done more than his fair share, so we got in a cleaner (yes it was MS, it gave us our lives back) prior to that I could either tidy up and then run out of time for the clean up.

As someone said to Smoky today - kids won't remember whether the house was perfect and ultra clean, they will remember the loves, and the games and the time spent with them!

The house will be tidier when they leave home, quieter, not as good, but tidier, until they come back to visit you!

DG

pigpen

donny-gal wrote: »

As someone said to Smoky today - kids won't remember whether the house was perfect and ultra clean, they will remember the loves, and the games and the time spent with them!

That isn't true.. one of the main things my mother remembers about her childhood is what a pigsty the house was!!! She used to moan on about it when my my gran got old and had to have her house spotless.

I remember my stepmother being a bit stepford when it came to cleaning.. and my grans was always tidy but not too clean. Auntie Paulines was always immaculate though!

Yes.. you remember!

the difference is whether you care or not!! When my lot are older I'll tell them if they wanted the house tidy they should have started by putting away their own stuff!! It is a physical impossibility for one little me to keep on top of the mess of 10 people!.. well 9.. cos I don't make any!