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Well at least that has made me tidy up!

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FannyCornforth Tue 13-Sept-22 12:47:56

Keeper1

I think I would need a rocket where the sun doesn’t shine to galvanise me into action grin

Ah Keeper! A kindred soul! ?

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FannyCornforth Tue 13-Sept-22 12:47:11

Oh gawd Maw
Nothing, absolutely nothing!
I am resolutely ungalvanisable, I’m afraid sad

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Keeper1 Tue 13-Sept-22 12:47:05

I think I would need a rocket where the sun doesn’t shine to galvanise me into action grin

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Elizabeth27 Tue 13-Sept-22 12:43:20

Having family to stay would make me clean and tidy the house until it looked like a show home that nobody lived in.

What I liked most is when they cancelled at the last minute, then I got to appreciate it without them being here to mess it up within a day.

That doesn't happen now as I moved to a one-bedroomed cottage, so like toscalily it is when the sun shines through highlighting the dust or I wear my reading glasses upstairs.

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toscalily Tue 13-Sept-22 12:24:30

What galvanises you into action? When the sun shining through the window makes everything look furry smile

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MawtheMerrier Tue 13-Sept-22 11:59:08

I have a cleaner who comes every 4 weeks to “do”the house top to bottom (although with only me and the dog, there are rooms that need little more than a quick hoover or dust or tweaking)
And he (yes, a man) was due today .
Or so I thought.
(You know what’s coming!)
I was away last time he came and it seems at least a month since then, but no, having zoomed round to tidy the en suite, clear the papers and bills off the kitchen table, I realised by 11 o clock……yes, it’s next week.
So having cleared the decks I can sit back now and relax. He also moves heavy things into the garage or loft for me but its not the end of the world that the garden parasol stays out for another week or that the winter clothes bags stay in the loft a bit longer and actually the house is pretty clean as D3, SIL and the tinies popped in on Sunday
The other “event” that guarantees a good tidy up is people coming - and when they cancel, I may be disappointed but I can enjoy my disappointment in immaculate surroundings!
Obviously all you grans live in impeccable conditions -but if not, what galvanises you into action?

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