Tidying up

Untidy gene completely dominant here. I tidy the living room mostly for when the family come round. The 1year old DGS tends to find and play with/eat anything he finds that looks interesting. Rest of the house groans with clutter. But if I tidy it I can never find anything! And anyway there is so much else to do, coffee, lunch, cinema. My mother always said when she saw the houses that had been bombed during the war, she wondered about the woman who had just cleaned and polished the furniture, and decided there were better ways to spend your time.

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Dotsmam; that sounds like my house [just exchange the dinghy for a dinosaur].

A friend said to me recently 'I do love your house, there is so much to look at in it!'

My knick-knack cull last summer obviously wasn't as thorough as I thought it was! But people buy you things, don't they, and it seems rude not to display them.

I would love to be a minimalist but I am definitely a maximist! I can't throw anything away-just in case. Who knows when the toaster you replaced because only one side works will be desperately needed? Only problem is that it would take me forever to find it in the loft!! There could be a family living up there amongst the lamps with no shades, shades with no lamps, knitting patterns from the 80s, an inflatable dinghy ......... and I would never know. As for the rest of the house I just don't seem to notice until it has reached the point of embarrassment

They breed.
Like the shoes in our house.

The weird thing about the process is that every now and again a pile of music would surface somewhere that I thought I had tidied. It was as if they were creeping up through the floor!

Except the on the coffee table (at least it won't get spilt all over the music now!)
Although I am sure that you aren't clumsy like me.

No!!

Well done!

(Can you find anything now? )

Well done Mishap

We've done it!!! All the music is now filed away, we can see the top of the coffee table and we are knackered!

I have to be very subtle. Sometimes just to stop him wearing something when we go out together. I threw out a shirt last week that his mother bought him 30 years ago which makes me want to reach for sunglasses and pretend I don't know him - it looks like colourful patchwork! It had lain low for a couple of years, but sadly he found it, so it had to be evicted.

DH never throws out clothes so I have been known to not-so-subtly sabotage ancient threadbare garments [grins evilly]

A new shoe rack arrived today, so all the shoes hurled under the stairs (DBH) are now on racks. He was meant to take them all bar a couple of pairs upstairs, but never did. Every time I suggested buying a rack, he said we didn't need one - for nearly eight years! He has just come home, and said 'What a good idea!'. I was quite surprised to see that there were three pairs of trainers, one of slippers, and eight pairs of shoes and boots. I swear he hasn't worn some of them for years, but he is refusing to throw any out - I think I will gradually work out which ones never get worn. If that sounds callous, he has at least another half dozen pairs up in his wardrobe. He has spare spare spare shoes, he says.

I have just been doing some paperwork and sorting out insurances etc, so all around the pc are papers, mugs, other papers to be sorted, pens, things.
Please come and sort me out grannya!

I iron in the bedroom, but only every couple of weeks or so, and it's usually mainly DBH's shirts. I really hate ironing.

Anything that will need ironing is placed on a hanger, then hung from doorhooks until I am ready for it. DBH has a lot of shirts, I would rather spend one rainy afternoon getting it all over and done with than have to keep warming up the iron every day to get rid of ironing as it occurs. The stuff that sits on the stairs is things that won't crease. I keep a big stash of hangers downstairs to hang things on when wet, so that they don't crease, then bring down hangers from clothes and ironing that are no longer needed up there.

Whatever works for you, I suppose. I have a small room with my wardrobes in it, and a sewing desk and a big chest of drawers that contains fabrics and things. Sometimes there are so many piles of clothes in there, (especially when the family are staying) waiting to be hung up, that I can't get to the wardrobes!

Another one here who irons in my bedroom.
I keep all the public rooms in the house scrupulously tidy all the time and I expect any guests to tidy up after themselves in these rooms too. Drawers and cupboards get an annual sort out and sometimes biannually if they're getting over-full of tat.
Children's things are kept in the bedrooms they use when they stay over and I've just started to encourage them to play with toys in the bedroom rather than the sitting room, but, as at home, they are responsible for tidying away their toys when they've finished playing. If we've done crafty things or baking in the dining room then the little one is given a cloth to 'wash' the table and the older one does the washing up. Still regarded as great fun.
I have a tendency to tidy by taking things to my bedroom to be sorted through when I have time, so often the only fairly untidy room is my own. Now and again I enter into my husband's lair and give it a good 'top to bottom' clean, but am very careful with papers and such to just leave them in an unsorted pile as some things that I would put in the bin turn out to be 'crucial documents', even though they may look like scribble on the backs of envelopes!

We all have to be good at something allie!

I iron in the bedroom too petra.

I'm GOOD at moving stuff from one place to another!

The trouble with me is that I get around to then craft projects, but not the tidying!

Today we have DGD (age 2) for the day while Mum works, so it is a perfect excuse not to tidy.

A roundtoit!

The conservatory is where all the toys get stored here, along with my wool stash and other craft projects which are around twit things.