Help - I can't do the slob thing anymore.

[moomoo]

Yeah I agree. I'm naturally pretty untidy but I also don't like mess. I have had to become a lot tidier (and more organised generally) since I've had the foal because he'd get lost under a pile of crap otherwise Now I do all that ^^^ (except the hoovering - that's once a week because I hate doing it ).

I have to hoover every day because of the dog. I mop the floors most days as well.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I used to smoke loads of weed and it never once made me want to tidy anything.

One of the reasons I quit the weed was because it would give me the urge to alphabetically order eveything in my cutlery drawer. It made me want to tidy to the point it drove me mad!

 

[quimcunx]

I was going to ask if you'd been shamed into doing some cleaning! Do you still want help, spangles?

 

[upinsmoke]

I have only read the opening post and i'm itching to get my marigolds out and offer my services!

My rule to keeping a tidy house is clean as you go! don't wait until its that bad its a dreaded job that you put of.
You make a drink/food tidy up after yourself, wipe surfaces down etc, put dirty cups / plates in the sink after use then when the sink is full wash them.
When you do your big clean up then make sure that everything has a place, when you have used it return to its place before you get something else out, then like a miracle everything stays tidy and cleaning is so much easier...less fun though

 

[spanglechick]

I was going to ask if you'd been shamed into doing some cleaning! Do you still want help, spangles?

i'll put it on hold for the time being - still managing to keep up the good intentions, and doing something small every evening when i get home (today, putting up all the mirrors and pictures that have been leaning against stuff since we moved in). Plus washing up every day *faints*.

however, if we slip back into our old ways, I may take you up on it.. thanks, hon - you were a star!

 

[oddworld]

I cant live in mess it makes me feel a bit mental , well more mental than I already am , makes me depressed.

Surely a bit together would get it done in no time.

 

[Kanda]

I've been to Spangles house and can say I didn't notice anything, wtf you on about??

 

[Looby]

Inspired by this thread I have been sorting out my bedroom which has been a tip for weeks. I've had to do it a bit each day because my hand is really painful but I've sorted all my clothes out, tidied my bags, thrown some bags away eek , sorted all my make up and jewellery, done loads of washing and tomorrow will sort out all the stupid bits I never know what to do with.
I've found bags and shoes I'd forgotten I had it's been great.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Our flat is like something from 'Life of Grime' or 'How Clean is Your House'.

I'm sitting up cos my body clock is all out of whack, and listening to mice ploughing their way through the crap behind the sofa and monkeygrinder's desk. We haven't ever seen evidence of mice eating the food in the kitchen, cos there's so much crap left around that they don't need to hunt it down.

The living room is strewn with newspapers, important bits of post, junk mail and clothes and stuff. There's a box of reading books that has been there since i left my old work last summer, and another box of sundry crap which got left after unpacking various boxes when we moved here over a year ago. On top of that is a huge telly (long story) and an empty cardboard box and coats and cycling stuff and a boardgame and all kinds of shit. There are piles of dishes and takeaway cartons on the floor and bookshelves.

Every inch of the kitchen surfaces are covered with empty recyclables and dirty dishes.

the bathroom is full of used clothes and has loads of dust in all the corners.

The bedroom looks like an explosion in a jumble sale - with strategically placed boxes of paperwork from last summer's exam marking job.

there are about ten galsses and beakers in there, full of mouldering dregs of drinks.

I'm writing this to shame myself.

But i've always been like this. How the fuck do I change? Monkeygrinder is the same. We just don't see the mess until it becomes a really huge job that seems depressing to do. Actually, grinder was tidier in his house share - but his room was this bad.

I swear at the moment it would be a three-day full time job. And who wants to spend three days doing that shit? I should, I know. And it would just get awful again.

We keep saying "well, if we do [manageable unit of time] every [regular interval], we can get it looking ok" but we always give up once there's a manageable number of clean plates or the recycling has been put out.

Not sure what i want from urban here. a personality transplant?

We're messy, too. We don't like the mess, but just can't seem to do the right thing and keep it clean. Sure, we're busy with work, etc, but that's just excuses. I'm sure it's a personality flaw.

So, we talked about it the other day, and decided how we're going to change.

We're going to hire someone to do the cleaning for us.

 

[spanglechick]

I've been to Spangles house and can say I didn't notice anything, wtf you on about??

This is one of the reasons why you are my mate. You are just as stig-like as I am.

 

[feyr]

so long as you do a bit every day, it should be a huge task i'm quite messy but have to be clean because i have an immune disorder and i have no desire to pick up bugs i could avoid thank you very much. my daily cleaning routine is- washing up, disinfect surfaces in kitchen, make beds, move general clutter. weekly i hoover,change bedding,disinfect bedroom surfaces, childrens toys and do the bathroom. i have a small plastic storage box in each room which i can put misplaced clutter in, ie if i find a book in the kitchen, i put it in box, toy in the bathroom, put i in the box. then before i go to bed, i go round putting everything in its right place.

having said that, i cant be arsed today and the dishes have been soaking since 9am and i'm still in my pjs

 

[spanglechick]

why do people make the bed?

 

[quimcunx]

why do people make the bed?

No. I. Dea.


I only make it if I want a level surface to dump things on to sort them out..

Or if I've got guests. Or if I've just changed the linen.

 

[Looby]

why do people make the bed?

Because they want a nice tidy bed to get into or because they wriggle all night and the sheet has come off. Isn't it just a case of shaking the duvet out and plumping the pillows?

 

[zenie]

why do people make the bed?

Feels so much nicer to get into an aired and made bed then in one which is all scrunched up and sweaty from the previous night.

 

[quimcunx]

Feels so much nicer to get into an aired and made bed then in one which is all scrunched up and sweaty from the previous night.

But mine has been airing alllllllll day.


To make my bed I have to move all the stuff off of it. Anyone who wants me to be tidier needs to find me a boyfriend, so I don't use half of my bed as a storage cupboard.....

 

[zenie]

But mine has been airing alllllllll day.


To make my bed I have to move all the stuff off of it. Anyone who wants me to be tidier needs to find me a boyfriend, so I don't use half of my bed as a storage cupboard.....

How is it being aired when there's stuff on it?

How can you have half your bed with stuff on it and sleep?!

 

[feyr]

why do people make the bed?

because its the focal point of the room. if the bed is nicely made and looks neat, it draws the eye away from the clutter that lives around the side of the room

and it feels nicer

 

[baldrick]

To make my bed I have to move all the stuff off of it. Anyone who wants me to be tidier needs to find me a boyfriend, so I don't use half of my bed as a storage cupboard.....

you sound like my old housemate.

she used to sleep in the half of the bed that wasn't covered in washing, files, hair dryers, books etc.

you need to buy more storage

 

[spanglechick]

Feels so much nicer to get into an aired and made bed then in one which is all scrunched up and sweaty from the previous night.

Noooo - if you make the bed, how does the bottom sheet get aired? Tis covered up with the duvet!

If you leave the duvet where it sits when you cast it off your body to get out of bed, then some of the bottom sheet, and some of the underside of the duvet will, indeed, be airing.

Your logic is faulty, miss zee

 

[zenie]

Noooo - if you make the bed, how does the bottom sheet get aired? Tis covered up with the duvet!

If you leave the duvet where it sits when you cast it off your body to get out of bed, then some of the bottom sheet, and some of the underside of the duvet will, indeed, be airing.

Your logic is faulty, miss zee

I drag the duvet down and fold it over the end of the bed, then make it up when I get in from work. I'm hardly a domestic goddess it just makes the bed feel so much nicer

so backacha

 

[spanglechick]

I drag the duvet down and fold it over the end of the bed, then make it up when I get in from work. I'm hardly a domestic goddess it just makes the bed feel so much nicer

so backacha

ok - take your point. But i spend those extra seconds in bed, myself.

 

[quimcunx]

How is it being aired when there's stuff on it?

How can you have half your bed with stuff on it and sleep?!

By being little. That said, I get to sleep better on the sofa.