Hypno's "bursting with energy" diary.......

Seaxwyn

Hypno, I've told you before but you won't listen, so I'll say it in capitals: YOU IRON TOO MUCH.

I swear we iron very few things and we all look presentable! What is in your pile? Why does it need to be ironed? Just put it away like Keeping Motivated said and if you need to iron it before you wear it, do it then.

Works for me! I have a very untidy house but no ironing pile.

pania

C'mon keep plodding!!! baby steps and every little item moved/put away/thrown out/ironed is another step in the right direction...

Surfbabe

mmmmmmmmm .................. know it well - have just made DS sort every single item of clothing out and get rid of all the stuff he never wears and is never liekly to wear. There is an enormous pile now !!!!! so that is going to Bertie Bank at school tomorrow. Of course his wardrobe is still full as we now have all his army gear to store as well

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Karmacat

Hey, thats a *really* good question of Seaxwyn's, Hypno - what's in the pile??? You don't secretly try to iron sheets and pretend thats normal, do you?? You can tell us, we won't tell you off (tho we might laugh, just a little bit, sorry!).

Yorkielass

Good progress on all your tidying and sorting there, I know how hard it can be, we'd let our kitchen get in a right mess event though I'd had a quick clean and tidy on Saturday night, so I got up a bit early and did 30 minutes before going to work this morning, got in a bit late but decided I'd only be fretting about the house all day at work otherwise (out on a free work's night out tonight and then got visitors on Saturday so need to clean up before then and no time to do it tonight).

I'm a bad one for having an ironing pile, and by the time it's sat in a basket for a week it often looks worse than it did when it came off the airer/line so I'm doing my best to do the ironing in little batches.

It'll all be worth the effort and think about all the things you're finding to sell as you go.

hypno06

No I don't iron sheets....nor do I iron flannels, or knickers......the stuff in the ironing basket is stuff that needs ironing - although as YL says, it looks worse after being in the basket than it did when it came off the line (or out of the tumble drier - I really do try and give it a shake and put it away straight off, but it (well, housework in general) is where I am at my most inadequate, and it just doesn't seem to happen how I want it to.

Perhaps the fact that my bedroom is not the haven of calm and tranquility that I yearn for does not help - the wardrobes and drawers need a really good sort - then there would be somewhere for these newly washed clothes to be put when they come straight out of the drier.

So, the weekend's job is now obviously the bedroom........:rolleyes:

Almost at the bottom of one basket of ironing - and the dining table is almost useable.........

Seaxwyn

I'm with you on the bedroom thing. Oh for a haven of calm. I am constantly getting rid of things but still my drawers are still always full and I can't jam anything in.

On ironing, I forgot to mention that the main ironer in our house is now my 10 year old DD. She likes to have ironed school shirts and as I don't iron her shirts, she does. This is not child abuse, I promise! She takes pleasure and pride in ironing her shirts (and I sometimes slip her something of mine to iron too).

taxi73

Well done on what you've done so far...it's a massive job housework...and each job always seems to create another one...that's the most annoying bit.

lucielle

I absolutely hate dusting my bedroom. It takes me all my time to actually find the top to dust it.
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Keeping_Motivated

Staying on the ironing subject (sorry ) but I also found that when I had iron baskets there were things at the bottom I never wore, now I put it away I wear more things as I can actually easily see them.

I do agree though about having room in the drawers etc, I had to have a massive and strict throw out of clothes to make room. If I hadn't worn it in the last 12 mths I had to send it to charity even things I kept for 'sentimental' reasons. BUT all that takes up more time and I appreciate you don't have much of it Hypno.

Another thing I do is delegate to my 2 children, both have a job that is THEIRS its not something I ask them to do now and again it is always their job, their responsibility. Its not much I give them but it helps me, one of them has the job of emptying the dishwasher every time it needs emptying so we can all fill straight away and the other has to sort the dry clothes in individual piles and put on each persons bed. I don't ask them to do anything else except keep on top of their own rooms and always put their dishes straight in the dishwasher. I don't think thats much but it really does help me coz a messy kitchen and clothes everywhere used to really get me down so its made a big difference.

I must admit that having someone to stay would probably help me clear a few other hotspots of mine, mmm maybe I should invite someone to stay actually might sort my piles of paper then! Should have had a 3rd child then delegated paperwork and I'd be sorted

KM x

Edited to say actually I need a 4th child for the bathrooms

No I am definately not at the stage to invite anyone to stay at our house the more I type the more I realise :rolleyes: