Help I don't like cleaning

DH has got several sheds. And I've got one. That must account for it.

Only if your DH accumulates as much 'stuff' as mine does....sigh...
I'd love to downsize, but he won't hear of it and anyway houses aren't selling round here.

We have two garages and a shed. Our cars are parked in the drive because there's no room for them because of his rubbish spare parts/bits of old engine/tools etc.

We've got an old caravan.

Any advances?

We've got one of those too, at the bottom of the drive. Guess what it's full of?

he he he

I never cleaned our caravan out after the very last holiday we had in it. So it's full of dust and mud as well as junk.

Yes, I've got an old caravan covered in green mould and two barns full of junk

I have an empty loft..perhaps i should rent out space in it..like those funne storage places!

funny !!!

You have an empty loft, nanaej???

Dust if you Must.

Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better,
to paint a picture or write a letter,
bake a cake or plant a seed,
ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
with rivers to swim and mountains to climb,
music to hear and books to read,
friends to cherish and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go - and go you must -
You, yourself, will make more dust!

My sentiments entirely, mrsmopp! I don't think anyone will lie on their deathbed and say, *Oh, I do wish I'd washed the kitchen floor more often...instead of reading a book, sitting in the sunshine listening to the birds singing."

Here lies an old woman who always was tired.
She lived in a house where help was not hired.
Her last words on earth were 'Dear friends I am going,
where washing ain't done, nor sweeping nor sewing.
But everything there will fit in with my wishes,
for where they don't eat there's no washing up dishes.
Don't mourne for me now, don't mourne for me never.
I'm going to do nothing, for ever and ever.
My epitaph! [apologies if I've written this before but haven't got time to read through the whole thread again ].

When I was still speaking to my mother, or to be more accurate, when she was still speaking to me, I did point out that "She Ironed Her Tea Towels" was not much of an epithaph.

Someone I know irons socks. She also gets annoyed if leaves blow into her garden......I think leaves are lovely !

Actually, thinking about it when I was young, we had a neighbour who took the laces out of the shoes every week and washed and ironed them!

Also my Aunt got through umpteen lots of curtain track because she would insist on wiping it over with neat bleach once a week, plus she had a day for dusting the tops of the wardrobes, and would insist on her husband hoovering the beams in the garage every week!

(She too had a thing about leaves, planted a honeysuckle and went ballistic when it "moulted")

I love that poem mrsmopp .

My late mother used to iron tea towels and underwear. I trust she gave up this activity as she got older and more unwell, though I never did ask her. I only iron what really needs ironing and as I mostly wear leggings and tunic tops nowadays I don't have much ironing accumulating on a weekly basis anyway. However, I have a rather large backlog from way back that I am not making much headway over . Perhaps it's because I know that a lot of things in there won't fit me anymore and I can't face the misery this will create .

I only iron my enormous double damask table cloth and that is only when the family meet for a meal- it does look lovely when I've finished though.

My MIL ironed everything and I think her DD my SIL is even worse she irons a quilt cover then puts it on the bed and then irons it on the bed!

She needs to get out more.

I used to iron absolutely everything, even dusters. DH does the ironing now and he does exactly the same and no I did not tell him to.
I have been known to iron sheets after I have fitted them on the bed, it is a wonderful feeling getting into a pristine bed.

In favour of ironing: it does disinfect stuff like dish towels and pillos cases. I'd rather stay in a B and B where they hot iron pillow cases for instance. Apologies if I started any B and B neuroses. I guess that if we all went to sleep all the time on the bare ticking we would survive the dust mites and bacteria. Sorry! there I go again. I boil the dish towels in an old pot but seldom iron them.

I iron as little as possible, which could account for why I tend to walk around looking like a crumpled paper bag most of the time.

gilly if you hate ironing I have a brilliant tip for you--what I do is when they come out of the washing machine I fold them and let them sit for about 10 minutes then put them on the line or washing horse and they need much less ironing,, and most of the time no ironing at all, except if its frilly or something....