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

lostinrates

Did NO washing up yesterday so about to start a mountain of it. Have a friend coming for coffee and am using bought biscuits..need to wash up and hoover priority over baking!

SDG31000

The problem with posting here is knowing where to start...
I don't iron except for very special occasions. It happens on such a seldom basis that DH threatens to take photos as proof.
My compost bin now only gets the grass cuttings dumped into it and is a soggy mess. I have black thumbs and kill everything I plant, except the ivy that is trifid-like and trying to take over the "garden".
The family is working their way through Mr T's output of hot cross buns as I can't be bothered to make any.
My dining room table gets cleared on Fridays, as we have friends around for dinner every week. The rest of the week it is the dumping ground.
And last, but not least, my fruit bowl could be hiding a lost Inca treasure for all I know, but one thing I know for certain is that it doesn't have any fruit in it.

Fruball

Brilliant thread!!!

OK... Here goes... Frugal's confessions :o:o

Christmas decs are boxed up in living room waiting for someone to put them in the loft for me, along with 3 other boxes that I have just shoved things into that really need sorting and putting away.

Cobwebs a plenty in this house :eek: Can't find my duster!

Can't remember the last time I washed the floors but it wasn't this year :o I have scooched around them by standing and sliding around on a towel having sprayed the floor with dettol spray a couple of times tho

Clean clothes are rarely put away atm but stacked in my room on the floor so its a struggle to find clean stuff in the mornings (mostly because the 3 washing baskets are full so the dirty washing is on the floor too... OMG the SHAME)

There is some scary lamb in the fridge which I didn't get around to cooking

My stairs are a hazzard to climb as there is so much stuff on them 'to be sorted'

You could write your name in the dust under the TV

None of us can wear matching socks anymore because of the chaos and disorder

We have eaten out (cheaply) 3 times in the last week because I can't face unloading the dishwasher and starting the whole cooking, mess, dw process again

But the worst one of all has to be that I still haven't unpacked from my holiday and the suitcase is still on my living room floor... I got back 31 Jan :eek:

I am sooooooooooooooo embarrassed Hope it made someone else feel better or smile though

bertiebots

I have washed my living room floor once....in 5 years!! It does get vaccumed.....I don't own a mop:o. And ..erm i do wipe up the doggy foot prints in the door way:p

My windows really need cleaning outside too ,but have a large collection of spider eggs gathering around the frames and it would be cruel surely!:rotfl:Infact they could do with a clean inside as well as I cant remember when I last did them...
There are many other things I could mention but I think the floor confession is bad enough..:D

squeaky

Hmmm... tired....

I can't do as much as I used to nowadays. To paraphrase an old humorous song "It takes me all day to do what I used to do in an hour"

So priorities change, and some things just get left by the wayside.

I've got an iron, honest but in five years I've probably only ironed fifteen things! My circumstances help - I can't work so I don't have to be ironed and smart for that, and there's no way I'm ironing a t-shirt that I wearing to lounge about the house. In winter, my shirts are hidden behind a jumper, so they're fresh out of luck, and if I'm going out - they're underneath a jacket or coat as well. So, really, it's only in summer when I'm going into town (ever rarer these days) that my outer layer needs showing an iron.

Dealing with limited movement and activity levels brings its own challenges.

So when prepping food I won't do it standing at the kitchen worktop - I'll do it on my trusty coffee table, suitably protected, while sitting on the sofa. I have a couple of small carpets to catch accidents which I rotate regularly. They get a good soak in bio powder in the bath, a bit of "grape treading" and then out they go to dry.

But the big one is "flexible organisation"...

Being organised when house cleaning a given room is fine - but some jobs are physically harder than others; and if it's at the top of the organised list you can run into trouble, or out of energy

So... while I have my organised list, even if the hard job is top of the shop I'll start my day with the highest easier job - just to get my poor old bod moving and the juices flowing without doing myself in or running out of puff.

THEN I'll make a start on the tough job. Again I'll limit myself. A few minutes hard graft and then take a break. As often as not, after the break, I'll do the next easier job before having another break and then cracking ahead once more on the tough job. Repeat 'til done.

That's why I think of it as flexible organisation. Working straight down a job list or routine just isn't practicable at times - so I follow it fairly loosely, but yes, follow it

TV channels with adverts are great! Ideal three minute stints at some job or other, and then fifteen minutes rest while being entertained by the program or film that's on.

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you work out what you can do, and organise it to meet your strengths and avoid overdoing it because you're "not supposed" to do it this way.

I'll bet you're thinking "cobwebs?"

Well yes I have some. But that's not because they aren't a priority - it's because spiders eats lots of other beasties! So it's a feather duster job once the web is clearly lacking a resident.

There's loads more I've learned over the years, but everyone's circumstances are different, so you need to work out the details of coping for yourself.

helenhugs

The boiler broke (again) the other day & we had to have the repair man out. I was mortified by the state of the house. So I hid in the kitchen while hubby dealt with him.
My washing mountain just keeps on growing & I keep promising myself that I WILL get on top of it & clear out the childrens clothes a bit. Only been saying it since Christmas. I did make a start on mine but when a friend called round I found it more fun to go out with her instead!
I have a written list of daily chores, I look at it daily...... It's the thought that counts right
My fruit bowl actually does have fruit in it (and another bowl for some reason)
Itook the children out for a takeaway tonight because I couldn't face washing up yesterdays dishes or making even more to add to it, but I told them it was a treat for being so good!
Oh I do feel bad but a lack of motivation is letting me slowly sink (oh and I still can't see the sink because of yesterdays washing up that still needs doing).

meritaten

I wouldnt DREAM of depriving my OH the pleasure of vacuuming! he adores that job! and he has this little habit of taking the filters out to wash and hiding them to dry them - and if I unknowingly get the hoover out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well you all know what happens then! and he is in love with CIF, so on his days off will get out a bowl of water and spring clean all the UPVC! and apparently I dont know how to clean skirting boards - so thats his territory too! and the meat slicer scares me rigid!!!!!!!!!!! rofl, so he gets to play with that and clean it aftewards! and I cant reach the tops of the cupboards (and it hasnt occured to him yet to wonder why I dont use the little stepladder - after 30odd years!) so he cleans them!

mind you, I have to be vigilant otherwise he would be cleaning the TV screen with all purpose cleaner as he takes the name literally - he once ruined my lovely dining table (mahogany with satin inlay) by washing it with all purpose cleaner on Sundays while I was out with the kids! (he hasnt lived that down yet).

I havent worked out yet how to get him to clean the windows..........without leaving them opaque with wipe marks...........its really puzzling me???????????

nattyt

I love this thread! So here is my confession........i bought some breaded chicken fillets for kids that were reduced to £1.50 (organic mind you!!) as CBA to sort something out tomorrow when my mum is having them! Will put on a plate in fridge and pretend i made them! I put some washing in the drier earlier cos i was too lazy to put it on the line:o ! Sometimes i polish round the stuff instead of under......sometimes i just don't polish at all! then it all gets on top of me and i go on a mad one. Try to follow Flylady and i can do it but some weeks it just doesn't work out! xx

got-it-spend-it

Tonight my toddler and I shared bought mash and bought cauliflower cheese courtesy of M&S. I usually scoff at people who buy mash, but in my defence I have a sprained ankle and a 1 year old to contend with.....

elfen

I polish round things too. There IS an iron in the flat, but the only time is the past 10 months I've lived here that its been out is when my sister stayed and ironed her t-shirts. That's what drying them on the rack is for...all the creases fall out!