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

shazrobo

kids off school, washing on clothes airers needing folding, ironing piled up, no cleaning done since they finished school, and when i apologise to bf and say sorry place is looking untidy, he smiles and says its still cleaner than his place

McFilly

I am bringing this thread back up, it makes me feel sane.LOL

I hate housework with a passion. I find it boring beyond belief and would rather spend my time doing something less depressing such as socialising or on the computer rather than charging around with a duster worrying about dust.

Don't get me wrong I do do the housework but not religiously. I used to make a lot more effort years ago but there's not enough time now with having kids and working etc so I find when I do have spare time I want to enjoy the time and I don't find housework enjoyable.LOL

savingforoz

McFilly wrote: »

I am bringing this thread back up, it makes me feel sane.LOL

I hate housework with a passion. I find it boring beyond belief and would rather spend my time doing something less depressing such as socialising or on the computer rather than charging around with a duster worrying about dust.

Don't get me wrong I do do the housework but not religiously. I used to make a lot more effort years ago but there's not enough time now with having kids and working etc so I find when I do have spare time I want to enjoy the time and I don't find housework enjoyable.LOL

I couldn't agree more. Life is too short to obsess about the tidiness/cleanliness of your house. I was completely turned off housework by my mother - I just wish she'd done more actual mothering and less dusting...

evilmonkey_2

My confessions:

I washed my sheets last weekend and only just remembered they're still in the washing machine. I'm too scared to look.

I ordered pizza from Dominos on Tuesday because I was too tired to cook and got a bogof and I've been eating it all week because I've been too lazy to find space in the freezer for the leftovers.

My kitchen and bathroom are shouting at me demanding to be cleaned before people come round, and I'm procrastinating by sitting in my jammies and watching tv.

My cupboard is full of stuff I crammed into a black bag and hid before people came round last week.

Primrose

We had our downstairs carpets professionally cleaned recently, and oh the dust and dead spiders I found in places where I skimmed round with the vacuum cleaner instead of occasionally moving things out so I could clean behind them. Our house isn't yet the House of Grime, but when the sun's shining and the garden beckons, there are more pleasant things to do than clean and dust. I'm trying to declutter, especially with anything such as photos and ornaments which go on surfaces so that the less stuff there is, the easier it is to clean and dust. But when my OH's around, it's a case of nature abhoring a vacuum and as soon as I clear out out stuff, he collects other bits and pieces, especially paperwork, which seems to breed overnight!

Olliebeak

My bf and I are very untidy - he's a hoarder and I'm a collector , if you get my meaning . I also have lots of hobbies that just happen to have 'things' that go with them. I think between us we have around 400 CD's and 200 DVD's kept in CD Wallets/storage boxes - not forgetting cassette tapes and videos :eek:. We still have photo albums/pictures in frames in 'house moving boxes' from two and a half years ago!

I work from home (my office is IN my home), I am NOT fond of housework and I've got five grandchildren that come and go with their respective parents quite unexpectedly - and we keep a supply of toys for them to play with.

We have throws and fleece blankets on both sofas which need constant straightening, it's customary to find my bf's boots kicked off under the coffee table (often there's two or three pairs under there).

However, I'm absolutely meticulous about my cooker (inside AND top), crockery, cutlery, worktops, food hygiene/preparation, fridge, freezers, toilets/handwashing, bathroom, doorhandles and windows are opened all day every day (downstairs ones are only closed when we go out or to bed). In my opinion those are the things that really matter the most.

But if anybody knocks on my door without me knowing that they're coming, then they can take me as they find me!

Maybe one day, when the grandkids are grown-up and I've retired, perhaps then I can become the domestic goddess that I've always wanted to be - but Lord preserve me from ever having such an obsessively tidy home that I become boring/bored .

In the meantime, I'll dolly-day-dream about a minimalist lifestyle .

kazmeister

OK I confess - again!

This week I have done virtually bog all

Monday DH cooked tea,
Tuesday I cooked (he was going to but I misinterpreted his text and upset hime ),
Wednesday there was only DD and I at home so she got to choose - spag hoops on toast so I let her make it herself
Thursday I only had time after work for a cuppa before going to a meeting at the school. Got home and noone else had cooked tea so I thought why the h3ll should I. Everyone got their own eventually.
Today theres just DD and I again so she has had beans on toast tonight and I'm too lazy to get myself anything more than a mug of tea (although I do have chocolate in the fridge I've just remembered).

Usually I hang out on the flylady thread and although I dont complete the lists I usually try to do something but this week I havent even looked at them. In fact the dishwasher hasnt been emptied since Sunday, there are 4 dishes sat on top of it which DH put there on Tuesday (although the pans were washed up!) the washing up from Wed/Thurs that had collected in the sink he has done today, and the hall and stairs have large balls of dog fluff all the way up them.

I have been setting an alarm across the other side of the bedroom so that I have to get up instead of hitting snooze 4/5 times but end up going downstairs and laying on the sofa after setting another alarm.

Am fed up trying to do it all myself when I work full time, the kids dont help anymore and DH only does something if I ask him or its really desperate.

Will now see if I can persuade DD to make me a cuppa while I watch the old style thing on TV

Dustykitten

Kaz sweetie you know there is more to being a flylady than housework

Sorry you are getting no help from the rest of the family. Enjoy the chocolates.

kazmeister

Thanks Dusty.

So I watched the Old Stylers programme and DD brought me the tea, I still havent had food and I've done nothing else either

kazmeister

Oh dear, as I sit here typing this I am still in my dressing gown. I need to walk the dog, do some shopping and take DD over to friends for a sleepover.

Where's my get up and go