Cheryl, who spends 15 hours a day cleaning.

Sofa_Sogood

tootles wrote:

Oh my God, this thread brought back memories..........

When I had just 2 children and was a stay at home Mum ( went on to have 4 children and a fulltime job) my day was thus......

Get up and see husband off to work, childrens breakfast, wash pots dry and put away.
Upstairs children and self washed and dressed...........Bathroom cleaned, including polishing the toilet seat.........children in sitting room playing. Beds opened to air with windows open.

Washer on did a load every day, preparations for childrens lunch, sittingroom dusted and hoovered whilst children resting, kitchen cleaned, floor washed, downstairs cloakroom cleaned toilet seat polished. Washing hung out to dry. Usually managed to have a cup of coffee. Children up, beds made bedrooms dusted and hoovered.

Lunch...... pots washed dried and put away, preparations for dinner for self and husband, iron any cothes that were dry including nappies and towels..... walk with children to local park.........

Childrens tea......... they watched TV until 6pm, then bath and bed..... bath cleaned. Dinner cooked ready for OH arrival home, after dinner pots washed and dried, put away, kitchen tidied...... managed a couple of hours watching TV before bed, living room tidied before I went to bed, and cups etc from after dinner washed and put away, wash ready for bed (this was in the days before showers) toilet cleaned and bleach put down.......... BED!!!!!

No wonder I was exhausted most of the time.............

I'm exhausted just reading all that tootles :eek:



Is it only me (and Pink;)) that cuts corners?

Jay-Jay_4

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Is it only me (and Pink;)) that cuts corners?

no.... I've cut so many corners I'm circular!


My day...

up, washed, dressed daughter to school, MSE, lunch, MSE, tea, MSE, wine, bed

...and every other thursday I walk around the house while squirting polish into the air.

tootles_2

I should may be add that now the house is lucky if it gets cleaned once a fortnight, there are only the two of us and we are not untidy, just a bit cluttered although I am having to do something about that as it is possible we may be moving into a flat in the near future, I am thinking of having an everything must go sale, in the meantime have just delved in the back of the kitchen cupboards and found an unused coffe grinder and a bulk yogurt maker with two containers, I used to make greek yogurt for DH, ........ guess its going to be an ebay day......I have a 5' pine dresser in the kitchen which also looks like it will have to go, so am trying to get all the glass and china off it into cupboards....... the bottom is full too as are the three drawers in the bottom, oh heavens where has all this stuff come from!!!!!!!!!! years of making my own table linen..........oh gosh...... I just remembered there are two drawers upstairs which are full of table linen as well...........and an airing cupboard full of bed linen and a cupboard full of quilting material and shelves of books..........ohhhhhhhhhhh I think I will have to go and lie down..................

Curry_Queen

tootles wrote:

...ohhhhhhhhhhh I think I will have to go and lie down..................

I think I need a lie down just from reading your posts!! :eek:


Actually, you've just reminded me I have a 6ft welsh dresser that I had to put in storage when I moved into this flat 4 yrs ago, and all it's contents currently sit still packed up in various boxes either under my bed or stacked in the corner of the room


I will get around to de-cluttering properly and listing stuff for sale on ebay one of these days

aliasojo

Curry_Queen wrote:

I will get around to de-cluttering properly and listing stuff for sale on ebay one of these days

Liar liar pants on fire! :rotfl:

You'll do exactly what I do.....talk about it till the cows come home and nothing else!

Sofa_Sogood

Jay-Jay wrote:

no.... I've cut so many corners I'm circular!


My day...

up, washed, dressed daughter to school, MSE, lunch, MSE, tea, MSE, wine, bed

...and every other thursday I walk around the house while squirting polish into the air.

You're not me are you? :eek:

Maybe we need a 'cutting corners' thread?

Sofa_Sogood

tootles wrote:

ohhhhhhhhhhh I think I will have to go and lie down..................

Good girl

And aliasojo? I think I can smell burning too

Curry_Queen

aliasojo wrote:

Liar liar pants on fire! :rotfl:

You'll do exactly what I do.....talk about it till the cows come home and nothing else!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:


One coughing fit later ... almost fell off chair ... and terrified poor cat who has fled for a her life!! :eek:


I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything at the same time!!! :rotfl:


Ok, smartar$e, you seem to know me well




(some of it's only been sitting here a year waiting to be listed )

Sofa_Sogood

Curry_Queen wrote:

(some of it's only been sitting here a year waiting to be listed )

I'd never have believed it C-Q. Never!

aliasojo

Curry_Queen wrote:

Ok, smartar$e, you seem to know me well

I think it's got something to do with the fact that like minded souls seem to seek each other out. :rotfl: