Help I don't like cleaning

Thanks riverwalk just ordered a couple of these.

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

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

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 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.

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!

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 .

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!

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?

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.

Oh the water thing! When I go anywhere [which isn't very often] I always put loads of water out for the dog [sometimes fill a bucket and put it in the utility room as well] in case I don't come back!

I had this brilliant idea (but don't worry, I'll never carry it through) which was to tackle one room in the house each monthweek and really give it a good going over. I might start with the downstairs loo, but am sceptical whether I will get much further.

I've been doing that for thirty years; it's like the Forth Bridge but, for some reason never looks any cleaner/tidier. It's theneverendingspringclean .

crimson, my son converted the hard disc of my old PC into an external hard disc for my laptop - I got a caddie from Ebay and he fixed it up. A previous hard disc got buried in the garden - just in case...

Can the hard disc be unscrewed and bashed with the lump hammer?

That is the only way to be absolutely certain it is all deleted.

Alexa I feel the same as you. In a way I think housework can be creative. And satisfying.

I couldn't do anything at all though, before my first cup of tea.

I don't like cleaning either - but I like a clean house - lived in, but clean - so I just do it. And I don't like ironing, but I only like cotton and linen clothes, and good quality cotton sheets... so I do it - 'cause nobody else is going to do it for me . Mind you, OH irons all is own shirts now he is retired, bravo.

I've just worked out that if I discount the hall, porch and landing, we have 11 rooms in our house, so if I tackled one a month...I could have December off for Christmas and start again in January. Oh joy!

we have 11 rooms counting the 2 bathrooms 12 if you count the cloakroom, oh dear, I do make sure they have good clean each week, but am getting very lazy housewife, especially since OH RETIRED, he is soooo helfpul!

I certainly don't make sure they have a good clean every week! And as for OH helping.....

Where are you getting all these rooms from? I've only got 9 if you don't count the hall.

I collect them. We need them for DH's collection of rubbish....

Do I need an extension?