Stepford grannies?

Dead right there anno!

What you need as well, Alie is a good old-fashioned mangle!

My washing machine has given up the ghost and I'm delaying getting another, meanwhile washing by hand...my daughter has done the sheets for me.

Oddly, I don't mind, it takes me back to when I was younger, before washing machines! Back to my mum and piles of washing, and further back, to thinking what a load my gggrandmother must have had to do, with a husband in a grimy job!

A nuisance getting it dry though.

I use spray starch in the summer on linen clothes. It stops immediate creases that appear as soon as you put linen on. As for housework, keep it to the minimum.x

My mother surfaces yet again - you have to "get done" before you sit down. I do try to resist her voice but...must just tidy up the newspapers.

Likewise, do not miss housework or enjoy doing it. But I cannot cope with untidiness or clutter.

We once lived in rented accommodation for six months between house moves and the agent said afterwards we were the first tenants he had known who left the house in better condition than we found it DH dealt with the water stains on the dining table because he hated seeing them when we sat down to eat, returning the table top to pristine beauty and I completely cleared and tidied the very overgrown garden. I found the physical work of clearing an overgrown garden in beautiful spring/summer weather with a lovely view over fields very therapeutic after a stressful day at work

I don't go OTT like I do at home but I have to keep the room relatively tidy or I can't settle.

I'm a bit like you Petra. I can't say I miss doing housework at any time but I can't relax if everywhere is dirty and messy - the same applies on holiday. I like to keep the place clean and reasonably tidy. I feel sorry for hotel cleaners who are expected to clear up all sorts of detritis left by dirty, inconsiderate people.

This will probably make some of you pull your hair out: are there any of you who MISS housework when your holiday. I do ( it's the Virgo in me ) I got home last night from Spain and couldn't wait to put the washing machine on this morning. Chamber maids love me as I do it all for them. LOL

I'm enjoying these threads but then I'm a bit ocd and obsessive about germs on the dishcloth and flannels. Now I can nuke them to my hearts content lol.

I glad that I have read these "housewifey" posts as I have found out some tips I didn't know,I am going to make it my business to buy the glass cloth that j08 uses and the one about the clothes airers has made me think about one when I went to the reviews posted by previous purchasers.

Almost the only items I iron are my bedding. This is necessary because I use the old fashioned laundry starch, dissolved in boiling water, diluted with cold, and dunking by hand after machine washing. I am a hot body, so sliding into cold stiff sheets (I use no other cover) is absolute bliss!

There's an ironing spray (not starch) which makes ironing much easier, I use it all the time.

I only find housework interesting when it collides with science - which it does of course - microbiology, chemistry, physics etc And marketing - conning people into buying expensive products like disinfectant wipes (also bad for environment - science again)
Quite happy when my DH got a free brush with his cycling magazine that is perfect for tackling the little bits of biofilm in the bathroom that cloths don't reach (in the crannies) but bored rigid by housework in general.
GN went very quiet and then there was an outbreak of cleaning threads. Very weird entities these forums.

Sock drawer?

I use spray starch on the table cloths I use on high days and holidays. when we use our big dining table. As far as I am concerned doesn't making ironing easier or more difficult.

Why shouldn't we have the occasional domestic thread? Life isn't all deep philosophical discussions - and it is the little mundane problems of life that are the most irritating.

By the way does anyone know where I put the bolts for the demountable tables? We need them for an antiques fair next week. I put them in a safe place and I have checked my knicker drawer and they are not there.........

I found the microwave tip very useful.

I've nuked a hole in my tea towel in the microwave

Someone told me it gives the fabric the appearance of being newer.

If you want clothes that stand up on their own!

Whilst on the subject of ironing does anyone use spray starch and, if so, does it make the ironing easier?

Ironing? what's ironing????

Elegran

I was interested in the thread re heated airing racks (or whatever they're called). I had wondered if they were a good idea and it was useful to get other people's opinions. Sometimes it's helpful to get info about more mundane, practical issues.

I learned something useful. I didn't know you could nuke the germs on your dishcloth in the microwave. I'm a bit OCD and that will save me pounds because I'll stop boiling and bleaching the cloth every time I used it and nuke it instead