I HATE AIRING CUPBOARDS

5 pages on why you hate airing cupboards?

You slatterns!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Easter.

I remember my brother (aged about 5) rummaging in the airing cupboard, and appearing with a Doctor White's looped behind his ears and across his eyes as a mask.

I remember putting a shop-bought egg in my granny's airing cupboard when I was a child, hoping it would hatch! I wonder what happened to it - I can't remember...

Found a bunch of dehydrated bananas in my airing cupboard a few years ago. Think I put them in there to ripen and forgot them.

I fold my duvet round the bottom sheet and pillow cases. Keeps them together but doesn't keep the airing cupboard tidy - don't know how it gets untidy, it's only me who puts things in it

We had a scare in New Zealand last week, as Smoochy the cat had got himself shut in the attic. He must have been looking for mice up there, and my gd did not notice and shut the door. We were woken up at 5 a.m. by the most terrible mewling and my daughter and gd could not trace the sound at first and were crawling under the house with a flashlight (it is built on piers like most houses there). They finally traced the noise and let him out - he would probably have died if they had not found him, as the attic gets very, very hot once the sun comes up.

Does anybody else think that your style of house influences how fussy you are about housework? My daughter had a very elegant, large Edwardian villa in Yorkshire and it was always immaculate. Now, her house is clean but there are riding boots, hiking boots, baby chicks just out of the incubator in a box in the utility room, sticks which the two dogs bring in from the garden, and various bags of animal feed on the verandah. She is very happy and says she would rather spend her time growing things and riding her horse than doing housework!

Yesterday my neighbour returned home after a 36 hour absence to find that she had accidentally shut her cat in the cool boiler/airing cupboard. He had obviously gone berserk and shredded the entire contents as well as peeing and pooing! I feel guilty because I had been checking on her other cat who is terminally ill, and didn't hear or smell anything untoward!

Only tea - but my flat is very small! I live in one room (living room/kitchen/bedroom/dining) which measures about 12' x 12' - there is another similar sized room with a double bed but I keep that for guests. I like having everything close at hand.

Wow! What have you been taking?

It took me all the morning!

#knackered

I have also vacuumed and dusted my entire house - it took me 10 minutes!

j08 Well done! I'm impressed.

I have dusted and vacuumed the whole of my house today. #needed it

merlotgran still listen to Steeleye span on my iplayer...great,

Spring definitely requires window and glass cleaning. But, why does the sun shine and show up how dirty the windows are between visits from the window cleaner

I think the tradition of the spring clean goes back to the times before washing machines, vacuum cleaners, easycare materials, etc. when heavy Winter curtains would be taken down, washed and put away. People nowadays seem to keep their homes clean all the year round but Spring seems to bring out the need for renewal, clearing out, etc.

Plan to 'spring clean' after Easter, so much to chuck out and so much to clean

Can't remember when I last opened mine¬ shameful!

We are refurbishing the entire house before attempting to let it when we move to New Zealand in May. Consequently, the contents of various rooms are temporarily transferred to somewhere else while those rooms are being painted. I started and have nearly finished restoring my office to more than its former glory after the new carpet was laid on Wednesday. It's usually pretty tidy but I have gone through files and folders and shredded out-of-date and superfluous documents, reordered the books on the bookshelves, having already taken a couple of hundred to a charity shop, and sorted the stationery cupboard. Why have I kept a huge box full of carbon paper – and for how long have I been keeping it? All that now remains is to sort through all the receipts, letters, bank statements, scribbled notes, etc. that arrived during the interim and file those in the appropriate place. In just over a month, of course, it will all be dismantled again for shipping.

This is the second time we have gone through this process in just over three years.

I keep a lot of stuff under the double bed - jig-saws, roller skates and flattened cardboard boxes, as you have to keep them in France if you want to return anything.

I have to be tidy as my entire flat measures 24 sq. metres. I keep a lot of bedding in the long drawer under my bed settee - no airing cupboard, no utility room, just a narrow cupboard to house my vacuum cleaner and broom. My only outside space is the balcony, where I keep my sun lounger with a waterproof cover and large plastic storage crate. There is also a ski locker in a communal room on the ground floor, where I keep my snow shovel, cover for the car, wellingtons,spare petrol can, de-icer - no skis.
Oddly enough, apart from having to keep out-of-season clothes in bin bags in a wardrobe (I have just put my summer clothes back, after my six weeks in the New Zealand summer) I don't find myself short of storage. It is just a matter of being well organised (and having few possession)!

Glad you found it, anyway!

Galen

But think how tidy everything will be!

You were right Ana. Found it in the bottom of the very last cupboard I looked in. (Now got to put umpteen single duvets, blankets, mattress covers and pillows away)

My day is kyboshed.