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

shazrobo

your not the only 1

sparrer

After reading 'Your favourite OS thread' I looked at some of the ones mentioned there. Oh, tell me Flylady is fiction, please...I don't believe anybody could/would want to do all that housework :eek: ! Fortunately I found this one and immediately felt comfortable :rolleyes: , I've only read a few random pages and it's just like home. If I just say there's a muddy paw print on my cream sofa which has been there since last Tuesday even though the baby wipes are next to my elbow, there's a bag of potatoes which I forgot had been in the boot of my car for three weeks when I asked DS to get me some on Thursday, there are 7 odd sox on the dining room radiator and I can't remember when I last cleaned the windows (well I have nets so you can't really see the glass), am I 'good' enough to join this thread?

ampersand

I would say 'Definitely, YES!' sparrer.

Next- the fruit bowl test.

2?s please - do we read your name as 'person who spars'(clearly successfully, to have become DF) or cockney 'sparrow'?

Who is Bill W?

I ignorant.

Primrose

Definitely 'Yes' sparrer. Life's too short to dust. I confess I do feel phsychologically better when the house is clean and tidy and in my earlier years I made phyself physically ill trying to be the perfect housewife and cope with a full time job. Thankfully age brings common sense to bear and a realisation that life is to complete housework to perfection. I really think that decluttering is part of the solution. The less "stuff" you have around, the less you have to move, dust or worry about. Unfortunately my OH is a born hoarder with a finger in lots of different pies, all of which seem to involve the accumulation of huges collections of papers, files and other general stuff that we'll never achieve the minimalist effect in our house.! And when the sun is shining I always migrate to the garden so housework piles up and waits until a rainy day. . I always used to think it was disgracefully lazy to employ a cleaner unless you were physically disabled and unable to do it yourself, but oh, what I would give for somebody to come in on a regular basis to do physically dirty jobs like scrubbing the encrusted grime off my kitchen floor and cleaning the oven. I think a professional oven-clean is going to be my next birthday present to myself!

Beccatje

sparrer wrote: »

After reading 'Your favourite OS thread' I looked at some of the ones mentioned there. Oh, tell me Flylady is fiction, please...I don't believe anybody could/would want to do all that housework :eek: ! Fortunately I found this one and immediately felt comfortable :rolleyes: , I've only read a few random pages and it's just like home. If I just say there's a muddy paw print on my cream sofa which has been there since last Tuesday even though the baby wipes are next to my elbow, there's a bag of potatoes which I forgot had been in the boot of my car for three weeks when I asked DS to get me some on Thursday, there are 7 odd sox on the dining room radiator and I can't remember when I last cleaned the windows (well I have nets so you can't really see the glass), am I 'good' enough to join this thread?

Well I joined flylady again and it's really quite good. It looks a lot al written down and everything but in reality it takes me a lot less energy than you might think. And it makes me feel SOOOO good to have completed my list.
(even if it's just a tiny list)
I spend about an hour 'working' and than spend the rest of the day feeling brill about it. Instead of how I used to huff all day about everything I should have been doing... that is so exhausting!!

But I'm stil far from perfect! I'm looking at a vase full of flowers now that should have been thrown out days ago. 'But the green wheelie bin is outside at the back of the garden and I just can't be bothered...

:rotfl:

But honestly. the flylady thread is not half as scary as you think. They're a real friendly bunch.

Bargain_Rzl

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

I still have a heap of Christmas decorations in the middle of my living room floor - and if they're still there on Saturday it'll be a month since I took them down.

To be fair the reason they are there is that they were heaped up on one end of my larger sofa until last night when I decided I needed the big sofa clear for lounging on...

Right, so that'll be nearly 2 weeks later and the decs just got put away this afternoon.

And then when I got home this evening - I realised that all my birthday cards from my last birthday are still on display on a shelf in my hallway. There are lots of them because it was my 30th and I had a party. They have been there for so long I had stopped noticing that they were there :eek: Yes, my birthday was SEVEN MONTHS AGO :eek: They are coming down tomorrow

lil_me

BR don't worry, my decorations bag is still at the top of the stairs :rotfl: I can't lift it into the loft on my own as even with my stool I can't reach it and DP has ignored my requests for help so it's still there......

sparrer

ampersand wrote: »

I would say 'Definitely, YES!' sparrer.

Next- the fruit bowl test.

2?s please - do we read your name as 'person who spars'(clearly successfully, to have become DF) or cockney 'sparrow'?

Who is Bill W?

I ignorant.

Thanks ampersand.

In reply, my fruit bowl has a few of last weeks wizened apples, a black banana, some very green, as yet inedible, bananas and the remains of an orange orange net :rolleyes:

It's the Cockney sparrer, after the film 'Sparrers can't Sing' (that dates me!)

Bill W founded an organisation in America in the 1930's, which is now has millions of members world-wide

sparrer

Beccatje wrote: »

Well I joined flylady again and it's really quite good. It looks a lot al written down and everything but in reality it takes me a lot less energy than you might think. And it makes me feel SOOOO good to have completed my list.
(even if it's just a tiny list)
I spend about an hour 'working' and than spend the rest of the day feeling brill about it. Instead of how I used to huff all day about everything I should have been doing... that is so exhausting!!

But I'm stil far from perfect! I'm looking at a vase full of flowers now that should have been thrown out days ago. 'But the green wheelie bin is outside at the back of the garden and I just can't be bothered...

:rotfl:

But honestly. the flylady thread is not half as scary as you think. They're a real friendly bunch.

Beccatje I think you're right, it's a little daunting when read 'in bulk' so to speak. I try to declutter but I'm not very good at it...always feel great when I clear out a drawer or cupboard but it seems as much goes back in as came out :doh: How do I do that?!

I work at home so once the comp is on I get carried away with it - I love my job so much . I try not to turn it on til I've done the domestic bits but I simply have no self-control. My only saving grace is the lounge has to be clean and tidy - not difficult as it's seldom used - and so does the bathroom. It's just the rest of the house that's like Steptoes rag'n'bone yard!

sparrer

Primrose wrote: »

Definitely 'Yes' sparrer. Life's too short to dust. I confess I do feel phsychologically better when the house is clean and tidy and in my earlier years I made phyself physically ill trying to be the perfect housewife and cope with a full time job. Thankfully age brings common sense to bear and a realisation that life is to complete housework to perfection. I really think that decluttering is part of the solution. The less "stuff" you have around, the less you have to move, dust or worry about. Unfortunately my OH is a born hoarder with a finger in lots of different pies, all of which seem to involve the accumulation of huges collections of papers, files and other general stuff that we'll never achieve the minimalist effect in our house.! And when the sun is shining I always migrate to the garden so housework piles up and waits until a rainy day. . I always used to think it was disgracefully lazy to employ a cleaner unless you were physically disabled and unable to do it yourself, but oh, what I would give for somebody to come in on a regular basis to do physically dirty jobs like scrubbing the encrusted grime off my kitchen floor and cleaning the oven. I think a professional oven-clean is going to be my next birthday present to myself!

Ha ha, your house sounds like mine Primrose. DS and I are both involved in various activities which cause us to collect all sorts of equipment that really has no place in the dining room or bedrooms, or in fact anywhere in the house, but there it is, and there it stays..

I too tried to do the perfect little wife thing and used to be in tears when I didn't put a from-scratch meal on the table, the school sox wouldn't stay white for more than two washes, the baby wouldn't sleep so had to be put in the car and driven around the neighbourhood for half an hour which made me late for evening shift in the local hospital,and therefore the dog never got walked. I must have done something right though as DD's home is lovely, and DS has grown into a really nice man . That's what really matters, isn't it? Not how shiny the letter-box is...