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

ceridwen

My confession - one of the reasons my place is beginning to resemble a Zen Buddhist monastery is that the plainer and more uncluttered everything is = the less housework there is to do.

Life is too short to do housework - and it still will be even when I retire before forever - as I just plain dont like it - but I still want everything immaculate.

You know you're becoming a bit of a "time and motion" expert on getting a home together when you find yourself thinking "Well - now the cooker point doesnt stick out of the wall any more - I dont have to clean the top of it when I do the kitchen".

ampersand

Essex-girl wrote: »

I have a thing about letting mine & DD's hair pile up in the shower plug - ifykwim - & leaving it for OH to remove - it really turns my stomach.

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[Methinks post 201?]
Could he be taught to spin and knit?
Could his name be changed to Brian?
Is it already?

buxtonrabbitgreen

I haven't got any confessions. But then again, my standards are preety low.

pigpen

kazmeister wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Its Ma Boswell :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

More like Li-lo Lil.. ROFL!!!

ampersand

I wish to simultaneously herald a triumph and blame somebody else...someone here probably.
After 2 weeks of looking, a much-needed Mr T receipt has suddenly surfaced, by a process of natural eruption - FROM THE FRUITYBOWL(well, fruit basket, really.)
I have turned everything upside down for this blasted bit of paper at least 748 times(and that's just today.)
Just now, walking into kitchen, sideways past two big cartons(and that's TRUE)THERE IT IS.
HOW? HOW? HOW?
WHO? WHO? WHO?
ONE OF YOU? YOU? YOU?

comping_cat

I dont seperate my whites and darks - they all go in together!!

I never iron, only do things that really look like they need doing (which isnt often!!)

Sometimes i wash our trainers/ DSs football boots (in the washing machine)rather than clean them off with a cloth.

I havnt cleaned under the kitchen table for over a week!

Upstairs hasnt been dusted for 2 weeks, and the stairs havnt been hoovered for over a week now.

Oh, i havnt cleaned the loo today either, but now ive admitted that, think i might go and do it now (i always feel a dirty cow if i havnt done the loo each day, even if the rest of the house is a pigsty!!!).

Ive never cleaned the inside of my car, and the rain does the outside for me!!!

My fruit bowl has fruit in it - BUT the bread bin has a load of carrier bags, 2 plastic bowls (one with dried pasta in it) 2 screws, the roof of a toy train tunnel and a mickey mouse wine stopper in it - no bread!!!

Bonaventure_babes

Oh dear...im back again with more confessions...

I always throw trainers in the washing machine...i would never clean them by hand:rolleyes:

On top of my microwave, wedged in under a kitchen cupboard is two lunchboxes(washed amazingly) an ugly mug full of reciepts,a very dusty unused teapot and under the teapot is a large roll of reciepts from various supermarkets.:o

There also lurks some pennies plus a coin bag of unused outdated bulgarian currency:eek:

Yuk:rolleyes:

CRANKY40

Thanks to this thread I have now washed my green and furry fruit bowl.

It has had three aging grapefruit, an oldish orange and 2 newish bananas placed back in it. I have left the lucky penny out in case it is a lucky penny, but the cord just fell out of my pj bottoms, so I've put that in there in case it comes in useful. (Don't worry about my pj's, I'm well chubby enough for them to stay up with just the elastic, I have no need for a piece of matching string to keep them up:rotfl: )

Caterina

So glad to see I am not the only one, I could just about say I have done all of the above, would simplify my post.

The house is a mess.

My study-room and workspace is as cluttered as a Brazilian favela, got laundry, old clothes, bags of cement, rubbish, wholefood stocks, books, documents scattered over all the surfaces. It is getting me down but it is so bad I cannot even bear to tackle it.


I get a regular veg. organic box but I am so fed up of root vegetables that
I have been eating out and had takeaways a lot.

I haven't changed my bedlinen for nearly a month (I know, it is disgusting).

Somehow I have slipped so far that I don't know how to catch myself up again!

Could go on but I see a whinge building up rather than a confession, so I shall stop while I am winning (the Biggest Slob award!).

Caterina

lil_me

My fruit bowl contains - a camcorder, 2 cables, a kiwi, a plum and 2 apples...rest of the fruits in the fridge, apart from the banana which is on the kitchen bench as I don't keep them in the same bowl/area as the other fruit

My kitchens clean, I have put all the dry laundry away but my trainers are over >>>> next to the door for me to fall over later. Oh and there is a yoghurt pot, spoon and a glass on the TV cabinet left there deliberately to shout at DS2 about in the morning because a) he was told not to put them on there b) he should have put them away! He's usually quite good but this hols has been slacking! Oh and I am ignoring my partners can collection he's left on the ledge in the sitting room and will nag him tomorrow about it because he's gone to bed and not put them in the bin.

I can't wash my car, I'm too short to reach all of the roof so DP laughs at the 'stripe' down the middle I can't reach, so he can do it! Hence it's filthy, but white now as it's been snowing, just hoping the snow cleans it.