Help I don't like cleaning

Oh Alexa; I've got a loft full of pooters, wires, plugs, adapters, printers etc etc. If you take them to the tip they will be sorted and recycled but I'm always worried about people finding stuff in the pooter even if it has supposedly been wiped out [bank details etc]. Like, as if anyone would want to steal my identity . As for the boxes I spend a lot of time walking round the house; I will stop at a table or cupboard, take something off it, look at it and then put it down somewhere else [usually on the piano]. It then stays there until I repeat the process, this time moving it from the piano back onto the table [ad infinitum]. I can actually see myself doing it and question what the hell I'm up to but to no avail. Miss Havisham rules here; always has and always will. I am beyond help.

Smoluski, I am the same I call it doing the priorities first. Make sure 4 basins fresh water for dogs incase I drop dead, do the dishes and surfaces especial attention to the bits the tall dog puts her paws on. Clean and dry the shower room. All this after I have had my first mug of tea and done my internet stuff.

The sofa is a fine art now. I have it triple covered against the dogs with kingsize dark dyed sheets and king size fleece. From time to tme I empty the dirt off the sofa covers, sweep it off the vinyl floor, and wash the covers. My lovely son often hoovers the stairs for me. I hate hoovering worst of all the chores. I quite like ironing, and I enjoy hanging out the washing in the summer time.

Hello to all. I am newish to Gransnet. House cleaning is interesting because I feel better when the place looks organised plus when I know that the cupboards are emptied of old stuff.

Please advise, what does one do about old electronics especially computers?
They cannot be put in the bin can they?

Crimson try the 3 box trick. Box 1 for the bin, Box 2 for the charity shop, Box 3 to put away.
If you live nearby I will come and talk you through it!

That's almost an idea for a business venture. I need help in the housework/decluttering department but totally resent anyone throwing any of my stuff away; sometimes I feel that I need someone to be a sort of Mary Poppins/Jiminy Cricket to point me in the right direction. My kids would just throw everything away [well, everything except the stuff they leave with me which grows by the year..their houses being minimalist] and there is no way that I would let the S.O. throw anything from my home away or tell me what to chuck out. Not sure about going to a pub at 6 though. More like crashing out on the sofa .

A friend and I dislike housework..when we feel overwhelmed we phone up and ask for a 'Blitz' day. It is easier to sort and tidy someone else's clutter and 'tut' than your own! Once I/she had cleared stuff away we got the mops/vacuums & dusters out and got the cleaning done...easier as we chatted away. When we had little kids at home the rule was that we stopped at 6:00 put the kids to bed (we stayed over!) and then left them in bed with Dad i/c and we went to the pub for supper! Now we go straight to the pub at 6:00!! Happens a couple of times a year!

I used to use a once in while cleaning company to do the corners and under things and they did my left over ironing too. I did a lot of entertaining and was quite happy in the kitchen batch cooking while someone else did the stuff I didn't like. Worked well for me. Can't afford it now so don't buy much that needs ironing and there is rather more dust around. Do miss the cooking though.

Oh Nanado
If it's any comfort, I can lose things in strange places without the excuse of dementia. ( Not that I know of anyway )

I can't stand 'clutter' and MrDog is a great clutter-maker. It drives me bonkers. He never has put things away in the right place just prefers to make piles. He's only in the very early stages of dementia, so is still lucid most of the time, but his latest trick is to put things away in the wrong place! This has made life very confusing interesting over the Christmas holidays as, so far, I've unearthed a potato masher from beneath the Christmas tree and rescued the cork-backed table mats from the dish washer

Thank you Riverwalk! Looks just the job. Have ordered a pack.

Thanks riverwalk just ordered a couple of these.

J0 you need one of these stylus pens - they have a rubber thingy at the tip and are perfect for the Kindle Fire and other touch screens ... very cheap too.

www.amazon.co.uk/HSINI-Universal-Capacitive-Touchscreen-Blackberry/dp/B009CZ42A8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1357202891&sr=1-1

You got it, jingl! Lovely the way they find a word they know to fit a new thing, isn't it?

I'm wishing my Kindle Fire had a "sword" Ariadne. Hate touch screens. Fingerprints! Eugh! Slightly regretting buying it for that reason.

I'm very taken with these 'wipe' things that I've just started buying from the Mill Shop. My house will look a complete tip and I'll be happily cleaning the phone or a keyboard with one of my wipes.

Don't do ironing hang it up if it needs it iron it when it's needed...Hoover when it's needed put things away every day ...slide bum or cuff along shelves...clean sinks .toilet bathroom etc every day or so Hate housework xxxxxx

I think the tumble dryer is the best invention ever. I've never forgiven my ex SIL for persuading my husband not to let me have one [when SHE'd had one for years]. Possibly the most cruel thing that anyone has ever done to me...or anyone in the history of the world....

I don't iron anything. If something's creased I put it in the tumble-dryer for a bit....I don't buy things that look as though they might need ironing!

I usually sit down till that feeling passes, crimson . I put all absolutely 'have to iron' stuff in an old waste paper basket. When it's full (it's not a large basket) I take out the ironing board and do it. The last little lot I did was the other week, when I bought some really heavy curtains from ebay, and they had to be ironed before I put them up, so I did the stuff in the basket, feeling very virtuous as I did it. All that was in the basket were a pair of linen summer trousers and two of my summer blouses......!

I can't remember the last time I used an iron. Oh I can. I bought a valance for the bed and had to iron it because the creases would have annoyed me. Apart from that, nope, can't recall doing any. Although, sometimes I get a bit of an urge to do some [thoughts of an airing cupboard with piles of beautifully ironed things]. But it soon passes.

Am about to call in an ironing service (seriously - it will change my life) to get rid of the ironing mountain which, may I say, is shirts, shirts and more shirts. And a few duvet covers. I loathe and detest it so much; this is where I miss my dear cleaner friend. Tomorrow!

Since THE MOVE (if you are new, GN saw me through it!) and all the decluttering, the house is fine, and I am happy to keep it the way I want it, which is tidy clean and uncluttered. If the GC and DC come to stay, then I don't obsess at all, because their presence is the most important thing.

(BTW, totally irrelevant - see if you can get this. DGS3 (aged 2 and a bit) wanted the "sword" for his little computer tablet thingy. ???) Took DH a while...

Ironing....?

glammanana. Like you I seemed to be able to keep on top of things whilst I was working, except the ironing. I would have my ironing board in the spare bedroom and the clothes waiting to be ironed were in a basket next to it. One day my Mother came to visit and asked if she should put the ironing board down for me, so I said no - I wasn't moving house!

When I finally retired I decided I had to clear the ironing. It took me 4 hours to empty the basket! Since then, once the washing is dry it is in its basket in the kitchen and gets done the same day!

so true crimson gransnet can now be used for a number of differant excuse's.
I found that when I worked full time when DCs where all at home my housework was always up to date,ironing and washing all done and put away everything spick and span,once I retired that reasoning went out of the window I can now do things to-morrow with no guilty feelings,it's just that the "to-morrow" can now stretch for a week or two which ever takes my fancy.

..and I now blame gransnet ....

That's just how I am. For some reason I always started doing any housework after the children went to bed [they thought I was nocturnal] and proper clean ups happened when my ex went away on business. My house was also his neverendingdiyproject and, whenever I did get it clean and tidy he would start drilling or plastering [plaster goes everywhere]. He's now living in another neverendingdiyproject house but, thankfully, not with me . But the S.O. [see other thread/s] sits in the living room surrounded by newspapers and that stops me tidying up [yep; even in other rooms]. Having said that, I am pretty clean when it comes to germy type things. [Having re read this I've realised that I have just, thoughout my life, found neverendingexcuses for not being a domestic goddess .