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

Cornishpixie_2

My mother came to stay few years ago over xmas, spent days cleaning even dusty skirting boards, and on arrival said. oh a house that looks lived in!!GRRR!(Is this same said woman who used to shame me into tidying up at home after hard days work, as she sat at home couldn't be bothered?!). Almost as bad as when to impress her I bought xmas dinner from M&S, lovingly prepared to perfection ans she said Well thank you M&S for the lovely meal!!! No wonder I live in Cornwall whilst she lives in Scotland! LOL!!Love her really.

~Chameleon~

Essex-girl wrote: »

I also have washed DS' footie boots in the wm however as they are nikes there is something in them that stinks like cat wee when they are wet -literally stinks the house out.

I am SOOOOOOO glad you posted this as I thought I was going insane!!!! We have now gone through 4 different pairs of Nike boots and astro trainers this season as I thought the cats were peeing on them as the smell was so horrendous!!! :eek:

I even ruined two pairs by washing them and completely covering them in bicarb soda to try get rid of the smell I now make him keep them in the shed outdoors and refuse to take him training or to matches in my car as they stink it out :mad: :rotfl:

Do you reckon we should contact Nike about them?

MissEyre

Thank goodness for this thread-am on holiday at the moment, and was starting to feel bad about having done no laundry for a fortnight, and currently eating microwave pasta for breakfast as there is just no other food in the house...now I know I'm not alone! Haven't washed my hair since Friday and am thinking about buying more clothes to get me through the week x

lil_me

chardonnay wrote: »

i hate people who make you take your shoes off - how rude:rotfl:

I hate people who take their shoes off, we have cream carpets in the hall etc, nothing a carpet cleaner doesn't solve and people think they should take their shoes off, yak, they get told to put them back on, I hate the sight of feet and they smell. I've put a carpet runner down over the carpet to discourage people from exposing their feet.

Quackers

I'm feeling left out.

I haven't got a fruit bowl

Do I need to buy one

Then I could find all my little bits that are always lost but you know where yours are cos they are in the fruit bowl obviously

Clean cars?

Are you telling me that people DO actually clean cars?

Properly clean in and out of them?

People really do do that?

Oooooo, this thread is now confusing me.

There are jobs on this thread that i never have done.

Ever :rotfl:

I shall be finally going home this evening for a night after a week away from home so I think that is a perfect excuse for a take away

Not that I need a reason :rotfl:

pigpen

chardonnay wrote: »

i hate people who make you take your shoes off - how rude:rotfl:

It is when they wipe their shoes on the way OUT of your house you should really worry!! lol

pigpen

Oooh.. cars.. that reminds me.. a few months ago my mother SILVER volvo was so revoltingly filthy the number plate was unreadable.. so of course someone wrote on it.. [EMAIL="w@nk£r"]w@nk£r[/EMAIL] It was there for ooh.. 6-8 months!!!

In the end my cousin washed it off whike he was powerwashing the drive.. and she complained ROFL!!

Someone almost crashed into the back of her as she was parking.. they slammed the brakes on.. leaped out of the car and took a photo of it!!!

Bargain_Rzl

Cornishpixie wrote: »

My mother came to stay few years ago over xmas, spent days cleaning even dusty skirting boards, and on arrival said. oh a house that looks lived in!!GRRR!(Is this same said woman who used to shame me into tidying up at home after hard days work, as she sat at home couldn't be bothered?!).

Ohhhh I know where you're coming from on that one! My mum last saw my flat just after Christmas when she dropped me off home after I had spent a few days at hers. She told me afterwards that she had been "a bit shocked" by the mess! Well, the last time she saw it was when everything was quite tidy because most things were still packed from when I moved in - and a LARGE amount of the clutter is a result of HER downsizing and suddenly presenting me with 6 boxes of my childhood things which I had nowhere to put...

And this is the woman from whom I learnt all my slatternly ways... and on whose behalf I recently had to ask about how to de-gunk a teapot that hadn't been properly cleaned for a YEAR :rolleyes:

chardonnay/lil_me - I'm with you on the shoes-taking-off thing as well. For a while I considered buying a house with my best friend from university, but soon realised that there was no way we could live together. She has a dark blue-grey carpet throughout her flat, but still insists on shoes being taken off It was obviously destined never to work out with my ex, either, as he does the same!

I have laminate flooring and if somebody came in with stiletto heels I'd probably suggest they took them off, but that's more a noise thing than a mess thing.

Discount-Diva_3

My Sister has laminate downstairs and carpet upstairs, so you wonder in with shoes on have a cuppa and a chat, need the loo so shoes off cos she only has a toilet upstairs

Errata

Toay I shall mostly be wandering around the house in the vague hope I come across the bolts I removed from the headboard when I decorated the bedroom 18 months ago.

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