Ugh... housework!

[kirsty b]

I hate housework too!

Manda, for me a dishwasher is not a luxury, its a necessity as the one thing I really hate is washing up. Have been down the plot this morning and have cleaned out the chook house and moved all my strawbs to a nice new weed free bed.
Have taken dogs out too, so now its time for the house to have some attention!
I figure I've got an hour and ten minutes till I have to get LAuren and her friend from school, so if I get off the puter and get my finger out instead, I might get something achieved if I do it quick!
Weirdly, I do like ironing and I'll do that tonight while watching Torchwood.

see you later

[bluemoon]

I LOATHE housework. I think you either inherit the gardening gene or the housework gene and you can't have both anymore than you can have both blonde and brown hair. So, no need to feel guilty guys, anyone on this forum must have got the gardening one, so you can just leave it 'till the pile of dishes reaches the ceiling and then blame your parents.

Love the one about tidying up for an impending visitation from the MIL though - that certainly struck a chord.

[Seahorse]

Lol, that's brilliant bluemoon

Have to admit, the fact that my Mum will be visiting soon has spurred me on a bit. It's not so much that she'll think I'm a trollop, more that if things are untidy, she tends to take it upon herself to 'help'. That would be great, except her idea of tidying up is to throw away anything not nailed down. Seriously, if I leave her alone for any length of time I have to go through the bins afterwards to retrieve all my stuff, lol! (And yes, I have tried asking her not to 'help' quite so enthusiastically!).

On the bright side today, I found an envelope with several packets of seeds in it that I'd forgotten about, made a lady on our local version of freecycle very happy by giving her some embroidery stuff and retrieved last months GYO, which had been eluding me!

[piskieinboots]

do the whole rugs up, sofas out, all surfaces cleared thing

doing a march-out are we!!

For you lovely lucky civvies on here, a march-out is when we are posted and have to clean our Married Quarter (house) prior to handing it back. I have seen grown men (yep, Snowdrop has) strip a cooker down nut by washer by nut and clean away the grease - with a tufbrush and stuff!

Me, I'm done with march-outs now himself is up the ranks - as it were

[Polly Fouracre]

If we are having guests for the weekend(or any time!) I need at least forty-eight hours notice.It's usually steam-cleaning paintwork and emulsioning walls as we have upwards of ten dogs living indoors.
All floors are "piddle-proof" so don't have to worry about them,a quick bleachy wash over once or twice a day does that and the windows open in the morning to let the fresh air in.(So we freeze for a couple of hours,never mind!)
Please don't think my dogs aren't house trained! It's just the occasional puppy or oldie that pee.
Other than that our house is so minilimistic that a swipe round with the vacuum and,if someone is visiting,a pass with the duster suffices.
The garden,though is a picture!!

[Flummery]

No-one ever lay on her deathbed and said 'I wish I'd done more housework.'

I actually do less now I'm retired. I don't like mess - in theory. Problem is, I just don't notice it. My Ma tends towards utterances such as 'I don't know how you can live like this!'

I love to entertain family and friends to a meal - it gives me a deadline!

[Nicos]

I recall talking with a very elderly patient who had been bedridden for years and spent her days and nights in one room in a nursing home, refusing to join the others in the dayroom, and rejecting a tv.
When I asked her what she 'did' with her day, she quite happily told me that she'd 'do' her housework. Took about 3 hrs to dust and vac and move everything back to where it should be. ( all in her memory of course!!)
Then in the afternoon she listened to the radio.

Please will someone shoot me if I start doing virtual housework?????

[piskieinboots]

Please will someone shoot me if I start doing virtual housework?????

yes.......

[Nicos]

You're a real pal piskie!

[piskieinboots]

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[yoanbob]

house work and the gym, tres boring. mind you trhose who have been to our house will tell you how bad it is, rubble everywhere!

[Percy T]

I hate house work and it never never seems to be all done!!!!!

damn it..... but my mum was very very house proud, when she used to come to visit she would run her eye over the whole place and move things around to suit her, she would even check to see the sheets on the bed were tucking in correctly.

have to say have inherited some of her traits but not all,

have to have all tins in cupboard lined up correctly labels front. hangers in wardrobe have to be all the same way. etc

[bubblewrap]

I'm from the Quintin Crisp school of cleaning. The dust gets no deeper after 4 years?

[moggssue]

Housework ... see sue run a mile (and she hasnt done that for a long time!!!). I also love the dishwasher to hide everything in, can just about remember what the hoover looks like, and can always find something far far more important to do with my time. Life is just tooo short .... except of course when MIL is coming to visit

[gardenplot]

Oh housework, can think of better things to do, I’ve got a few days off work now and was going to catch up my house chores but the weather is so nice and sunny after all the rain.
I’m going to spend some time getting my veggie plot ready and do some gardening work and let house chores wait till it rains. so its just a quick tidy round till then.

So glad i sorted my garden and greenhouse out yesterday cos today i had chance to catch up on all my housework did it this morning, the weather is so cold wet and miserable even hail and sleet/snow today so was happy with my choice.