Help I don't like cleaning

If you don't like housework, I recommend living in a very old house. I bought my daughters thatched cottages, 250 years old, next door to each other. They had such tiny windows, you couldn't see the cobwebs, but they really seemed natural in such old houses. Then they moved to shiny new houses and found they looked horrible if they let them get too messy.

I bought a poster for DS2's bedroom door - a picture of a pig with the caption: 'it's my sty and I like it'. Couldn't have been more appropriate.

Did she see the funny side or have a Godzilla moment? lol

I think the remark he made might have been on the lines of 'like mother like son'. He turned into a reasonably well organised adult with the help of a good woman whom I also love dearly.

Strange isn't it?
Both my children were very untidy when they lived here. Now they have their own homes which are very neat and tidy......and I'm still living in a tip!!
Hmm I think that says something about me??

I like to tell myself I'm more organised than I was and the house is kept tidier than it used to be but DH has a thing about cobwebs and is always pointing them out to be. However much I try I can't get that bothered about them, as long as they're little ones up in the corners and trailing across the room a la Miss Havisham I can't see that they matter.

pattieb - I too discovered it wasn't the kids who made the house untidy - I can only blame a messy husband now.
I am not my mother's daughter & was traumatised by the sound of the Hoover at the crack of dawn. My kids always asked if grandma was coming if I got the vacuum out. When she did come, I used to spray polish round the front door so she'd think I'd been cleaning. I do a big clean before people come at Xmas but always end up with allergies & sinusitis. I employed a cleaner for a major clean in the summer before a family do but she spent so long reorganising shoes & cleaning materials (umpteen bottles of good intentions) she only got two rooms really clean and I still ended up doing the rest & getting allergic rhinitis. I'm too apologetic to 'direct staff' & I feel as guilty about it as my own lack of cleaning!

Hi,

I think you just teach your hubby to make clean your house. A clean house looks very attractive weather it is 2BK. The guest always come and in their mind there is question that their house would be clean as compare to our house. So it should be clean.

Regards,

I had a cleaner in a previous life when I was disabled for a while. It didn't really work though as she refused to clean the childrens rooms as they were too messy (I had similar rules to Vampirequeen) and I had to spend a lot of time struggling to tidy the rest of the house before she came. I find that cleaning is the easy bit, it's finding homes for all the 'stuff' is the problem. Newspapers and books in particular.

I stopped buying newspapers for that very reason. OH would insist on keeping them so that he could go through them properly when he had time, which meant a huge pile would build up and eventually have to be disposed of in the recycling bag, which would then weigh a ton! He can read them online if he really wants to - but I don't think he ever has...

I just read your post out to DH Daisy. He muttered something about teaching me to clean the car! As if he has to do that every day!

MEN!!!!!!!!!

Hi I know what you mean when you say you dont like cleaning--I don't mind it too much because it feels soo nice when its all done but it can become over whelming sometimes and my trick when that happens is I change my attitude and thinking which is--I am entering this room that needs cleaning I am starting from the left hand side of the room and working my way around it and when I get fed up of it I shall stop....and it works every time..The worse thing for me is when I make loads of effort to clean up and it is not respected ie someone comes in and messes it up ha ha!!

Oh yes, DH uses that line a lot too if I happen to wonder, accidentally out loud, why it always seems to be me who does the cooking and cleaning. He says things like "I'll let you service the boiler then, shall I?" which he does once a year if he gets round to it!

just posted on this foram but when submitted it had lines going through it have no idea what that is about--I am new so perhaps I have done something wrong

In answer to Ana Well its all to do with our up bringing this is what we were shown My sons are in their twenties and they have a very different take on things and to be fair my husband does housework a swell, he particularly hates it when there are dishes in the sink that need doing and so he will do that but hey we all have our good and bad I'll bet your husband was a good provider

CHEELU is your other name Fly Lady? fly lady

Oh dear...."You deserve to live in a home that hugs you!"
I think mine would rather trip me up....

I don't mind cleaning itself. I just have so many more interesting things to do.

I concentrate on hygiene - kitchen worktops and cloths, bathroom - loo and hand washing, personal - the rest is irrelevant to me.

I don't iron because I buy non-iron things and hang them up as they come out of the washing machine. If it's something very special, I'll iron it.

I don't clean windows very often - no point.

Mess? Everywhere. Toys, books, magazines, washing on the clothes horse, muddy footprints in the kitchen, shopping on the worktop, post on the table, washing up here, there and everywhere. Discarded shoes, socks, juice beakers, school bags and biscuit crumbs - heaven knows what's under the sofa.

But I've plenty of time to read stories, play monsters, go to the park or help with homework. Happy family.

If I lived near I would do it for you. I love housework and clearing out " stuff" as I call it.
And I do have a life. I have a Motohome that goes to Spain every winter and a 50ft boat.

50 foot boat? Wonderful. Sail or motor?

CHEELU I think your use of -- confused matters. If you use them before and after a phrase or word it crosses them through! See below for other ways your text can be changed.
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This thread has motivated me to have a good sort out before Christmas, so today I've filled some confidential waste bags with every surplus document and piece of paper I no longer need. It took me 3 hours, and now all I have left are the utilities, insurances, guarantees, car docs etc that I need to keep, which fit into one large box and a filing wallet. There isn't a thing left from work or studies, other than my qualifications. You have no idea how liberating it feels! The bags will be collected and shredded in a few days, rather than me doing it over the course of weeks.

Tomorrow morning, I'm dropping off lots of bric-a-brac for the doggy charity car boot sale, and all of a sudden I find my house is tidied. Didn't hurt at all. I recommend it.