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[surferdog]

Ok I agree with whoever said today's women don't have it all - they are doing it all!

 

Today I have tidied, cleaned and hoovered most of the house and washed the floors. Done two loads of clothes washing plus the dog's beds and the mats. Cleaned the windows, polished the mirrors and done the ironing. Cleaned out and wormed the chickens and walked the dog. Emptied and cleaned all the bins and the composter. Prepared dinner - homemade burgers for OH and pasta for DD and I - done the shopping and picked DD up from work.

 

Tomorrow I will clean the fridge and the utility room, wash the woodwork, do more ironing from today's washing, cook a roast dinner and make a salmon platter for a party we are going to in the evening. Ferry DD in to work and pick her up again (no buses). I also want to clear and clean the greenhouse ready for this year's sowings. I work full-time and have travelled to London for work twice and Portsmouth once last week.

 

OH is working this weekend but was off a couple of days last week. He cleaned out the chicken run and jet washed the eglu (yes I am grateful!), cleaned the bathrooms, messed with his car, finished his book and watched darts.

 

I can't help feeling if it was still the 1950s I could have done all this lot at my leisure while everyone was out of the house and still had time to do some gardening, read a book, etc! What do you think - am I viewing the past through rose-tinted glasses?

 

(And I know most of it is self inflicted but I don't like living in filth and no-one else cares!)

 

Phew!! That feels better! Think I will relax now with well-deserved G&T!

[mad house]

I know exactly what you mean!!

[Lesley]

I couldn't possibly comment! - as I sit here browsing and Carl is cooking dinner

 

I do hate housework though because whatever you do is undone in minutes

[Valkyrie]

Yep, and just when the kitchen sparkles everyone pounces and leaves rubbish everywhere. Then you go upstairs and follow the trail of towels on the landing to find similar scene in there. When everyone went away for a week (DS came home occasionally in that time), it was pure heaven - the whole house in order and so was the garden and the girlies. I don't think anyone knows how to work the hoover, but they sure can manage the cooker and the microwave. They can't manage putting things in the dishwasher or the bins. Ooh another bah humbug moment.

[Rhapsody]

I actually can't complain. My OH does all the ironing and laundry sorting and folding. He can't cook to save his mortal soul so he is the Dishwasher Fairy. And my sons know if they leave plates/wet towels anywhere but the designated places then I will place them in their beds a I've also taught them both to use the washing machine

First rule of business- delegate!!

[Valkyrie]

DD actually tidied her room - and I can see the carpet! DS has been rather active today, emptying his rubbish in the bin outside and even the recycling bin. I didn't even have to ask him to take his washing upstairs - it disappeared as if by magic. Perhaps it is because OH isn't here that things are smoother - oh-oh, the garage door sounds like it wants to go on holiday - it's really groaning!

[surferdog]

Rhapsody - love the idea of putting wet towels in the bed but knowing DD she'd just sleep on top of them

 

My rant made OH sound like a lazy wotsit - he's not at all - just won't think of doing it until he's asked or it's so obvious that even he notices (eg if I'm away for work and the washing's coming down the stairs...)

 

He has however just copped for it. Having come in from work and being told the washing machine was making funny noises he asked if I'd taken it apart to see if anything was stuck in it!!!! No I @*&@*** haven't and I know where something will get stuck soon!!

[Mrs Webmuppet]

Sounds like one of my days off - clean the chooks out, clean the humans out ( or do the housework as its otherwise known), fish tank, hamster...............does anyone notice ...............nope.

 

I've just worked three days and the house looks like someone hurled a grenade through the front door, I've hardly been here so who has made the mess?

[Redwing]

I made the bed up today with 'hotel' white linen and OH drank too much this afternoon and has been sick on the bed

 

To be fair this is only the second time in 14 years he has been seriously hungover

 

Chicken poo I can deal with but this?!

 

Anyone want a 36 year old child?

[Valkyrie]

Nope, I have a 45 year old child, thank you!

 

and I know where something will get stuck soon!!

 

Deja vu - this happened before Christmas with OH - he well and truly killed the machine when it started smoking!

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

This is why we used to live in caves. You never heard of cavework, did you? MUCH more sensible.

 

What is the house but a cave with silly thin see-through bits which let the heat out where some nice, thick, insulating sensible rocky wall bit used to be?

 

And as for laundering bison skin togas - psh! Let's start a facebook group to return to living in caves.

[surferdog]

I made the bed up today with 'hotel' white linen and OH drank too much this afternoon and has been sick on the bed

 

Make him clean it up and sleep in the chicken house. On second thoughts might be a bit unfair on the chickens .....

[Olly]

Hmm. Very occasionally, I think 'I wish I didn't live on my own'.

 

Then I read posts like the above!

[Valkyrie]

Hmmm, velly interesting, Chickyetc!

This is why we used to live in caves. You never heard of cavework, did you? MUCH more sensible.

Nice roaring fire in them, snuggle up on the mammoth-skin beds with the sabre tooth tiger cuddly toy - bliss.

The men can stand guard and then they get eaten first if they don't do their job properly. But then they would sleep all day - nothing changes after all.

[bronze]

This morning I have got the children dressed (nappies etc). vacuumed the kitchen and loaded the dishwasher. DH is in bed still.

Yesterday when I had a minor rant about how I was running around like a headless chicken while he was doing hobby stuff he said its the weekend sit down and relax. We must have a house elf if he thinks things just get done!

[Rhapsody]

I just don't have the Martyr Gene most mothers seem to acquire

[bronze]

Oh believe me my house still looks like a squat. But we do need plates to eat off and the like.

It would never look like other peoples houses as 3 bodies untidy faster than I tidy so I have limits to what I do.

[Ana's flock]

I just don't have the Martyr Gene most mothers seem to acquire

Me neither. Not for housework anyway. I work double full time, one job outside the house (08:30 to 16:30) plus still co-running family business. So I spend weekends doing things like preparing training materials and company accounts (which bores me to tears but someone's got to do it and OH is even technonumptier than me). Plus I teach Spanish some evenings... and I'm a freelance illustrator (which is the job I actually trained to do and that I absolutely adore!).

 

The thing is I loathe housework (apart from cooking and looking after living creatures).

 

We've got a 'house elf' in the form of a lovely French young man au-pair who's just about starting to learn how to hang clothes so as to dry them without getting that awful musty smell you get when they're all crumpled and don't dry for days... he also does the ironing (at a rate of a T-shirt every 20 minutes but it gets eventually done) and cleans the areas that are not taken over by books, paperwork, art materials, animal cages or children's toys (about 25% of the house floor surface).

 

Between him and 'work-from-home' OH they do the dishwasher filling and emptying. I only have to monitor that it actually gets to have a run between the two processes (yes, I've seen unwashed dishes trying to make their way back into the cupboard in one ocassion I must have done the rinsing out really well!)

 

My house contribution is to do the shopping, cooking, child rearing and ensuring all furred, scaled and feathery 'critters' are happy and well.

 

I sound like a fussy 'moo' but the truth is that I am very grateful for the help I get around the house, as I'm sure everyone is, as it would be total chaos if I was to become a 'housewife', I just don't have the necessary genetic make up for it...

[Valkyrie]

Can I borrow your French au pair? Pleeeeeeeaaase?

 

Martyrs do rebel - and when they do, the whole house knows it and everyone lays low so as not to draw the attention of the dreaded dragon woman.

[bronze]

ahhh

him- you're really going for it aren't you

me- well if we want to put our house up for sale!

him- thats in february

me- yes well it takes me a while I'm only getting fatter and more painful and theres a lot to be done (underbreathe seeing as I do it all (decorating/sorting you name it) and theres less than two weeks of jan left) now ** *****

he goes back to doing whatever helicopter thing he was doing

 

 

sorry minor rant hes normally ok I do honestly just believe he doesn't realise all the things that gets done

[KimmyCustard]

I cant complain, OH does LOADS but you can tell where he's been as theres a trail of things left out after he's used them!

 

My cousin is hilarious, she has a proper OCD for housework and has EVERYTHING in its place, all the time. She has 2 kids and doesnt have to go out to work, her OH is big in BT. Her house is beeeyoooutiful and looks like a show home.

 

Her husband cut his toenails whilst in bed and left the little pile of clippings on his bedside table and went to sleep. She was very cross to see that pile when he had left for work the next day.

That night, he gets ready for bed. Enters bathroom and cleans teeth. Has an odd feeling in his mouth and brings out a toothbrush FULL OF HIS OWN TOENAIL CLIPPINGS!! Cousin had carefully placed each clipping on its end in the brushes of his toothbrush whilst he was at work. He wont do that again.....................

 

It still makes me laugh and is a very good dinner party anecdote!

 

Kimmy

x

[chickenlass]

I cant complain, OH does LOADS but you can tell where he's been as theres a trail of things left out after he's used them!

 

My cousin is hilarious, she has a proper OCD for housework and has EVERYTHING in its place, all the time. She has 2 kids and doesnt have to go out to work, her OH is big in BT. Her house is beeeyoooutiful and looks like a show home.

 

Her husband cut his toenails whilst in bed and left the little pile of clippings on his bedside table and went to sleep. She was very cross to see that pile when he had left for work the next day.

That night, he gets ready for bed. Enters bathroom and cleans teeth. Has an odd feeling in his mouth and brings out a toothbrush FULL OF HIS OWN TOENAIL CLIPPINGS!! Cousin had carefully placed each clipping on its end in the brushes of his toothbrush whilst he was at work. He wont do that again.....................

 

It still makes me laugh and is a very good dinner party anecdote!

 

Kimmy

x

 

OMG !! Brilliant

[chickencam]

 

I am pretty lucky because we tend to all muck in together, but I do find if everywhere is spick and span no body notices but if it is not comments are made and should a family member not have their favourite item of clothing available all hell breaks loose. The fact that it has lived in a heap on the floor for the past fortnight and only made it to the wash basket 5 minutes ago is beside the point

[Aunty e]

My OH is pretty good, but does get incredibly huffy if the house is untidy when he comes back from tour. One time he wandered in and said 'Oh is the vacuum cleaner broken?' in a snide tone of voice. It was by the time I finished inserting it where the sun don't shine (this is not true, being pathetic, I cried and then didn't speak to him for two days, but the effect was the same). We mostly share the house work, with appropriate division - anything to do with the car he does, any DIY I do, we share the rest. We have a lodger though who is a slob, and he has a boyfriend who used to stay ALL the time, who was worse. Both of them were prone to dropping things and just leaving them there, bags and shoes everywhere, washing up never done, laundry always left in the machine, carpet in bedroom never hoovered (to the point where I had to treat it for flea infestation), it was just a nightmare. Boyfriend doesn't stay so much anymore (thank goodness) but lodger is still a pig. Thankfully, he has to move out so we can turn his room into a nursery. I'm assuming that babies don't make that much mess

[chickencam]

When they are small, they make little mess in their own right, but they come with enormous amounts of equipment and laundry.

 

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