One shitty job a day - mission to get all the crappy tasks done this year

[Shittyyear2025]

I'm an eternal untidy person. I don't see my own clutter. I've tried HARD to find a routine that I can get engaged in, signed up for COUNTLESS get yourself organised apps.

I saw a video yesterday about getting one shitty job a day done. I think I can manage one shitty job a day. So far I cleaned the lounge carpet (over yesterday and today, bad back and heavy furniture) and I've painted a door that's been off it's hinges and propped up against my hall wall for maybe a year.

I reckon one shitty job a day (or for an hour towards it say, after work, longer crap jobs can be done at the weekend) I can do. I can finally finish decorating the kitchen. I can finally finish painting the landing/stairs/hall after the ceiling collapsed in Autumn 2024, I can sort out the front garden one job at a time (hell, I can even get rid of the ironing mountain and charity shop everything I no longer wear for an hour a day).

Anyone want to join me? Or any tips for starting AND STICKING WITH domestic routines?

More sewing for me yesterday - get a large single button that fell off a coat in the winter stitched back on. The coat has been sat out since around Feb, it's now ready to be stored away for the spring/summer and be brought back out...relatively shortly 😀

(I've found I enjoyed the sewing so much I'm thinking of taking it up as a hobby. No idea what's happening to me 😀)

My One Unpleasant Job A Day will have to be something different today though as that's all the needlework done for now...

Also more stuff sold on eBay and Vinted (and I've managed 20 mins on the now clear treadmill every day, not a lot but better than nothing.) Cleaned the kitchen bins (yuk.) I can definitely see a difference in the house now and it's so pleasing.

Yesterday's One Unpleasant Job A Day was cleaning another kitchen drawer, so not too unpleasant at all. It's what my grandmother would have called an 'odds and sods' drawer! All clean and tidy now.

Stuck 2 more of the items that have been sat on my office floor on eBay/Vinted. Only 5 items left in that pile now...

I'm keeping up to the regular domestic admin, it's just the extras (like applying for DS' Disabled Person's Railcard) that I really need to get sorted but just keep putting on the To Be Done On The Twelfth of Never List.

Daft as it may sound I've also done some good thinking recently. I've been wondering about moving things around in the house and worked out what could go where, what could then be moved to go in its place, what is im/practical, why X or Y system would/wouldn't work, what needs replacing etc. It's the sort of stuff that just swirls in my head, and about which I never seem to come to any strategic answers, so it's actually good to have finally worked through it and devised a plan.

The weather has turned here and isn't going to be as good for a few days, much as I have adored the summer I'm almost pleased that I won't have an excuse to go sit in the garden. Hopefully this will mean a few days of consistent achievements before DD and I go away (when it should be good weather again!)

We finally started a job in the garden but greatly underestimated how much bark we needed so its half finished.

DH is simultaneously cleaning in the hall before papering and assembled DS new bed .

We ( DS ,DD and I) all went out shopping / to the gym )

DH is watching rubbish on TV now . (To rest his poor back)
The hall is a s-l-o-w process

So the CofD was cleared, cds and dvds moved in. 5 loads of books to chazza.(oxfam turned me away on the last run) Two more tip runs. Now we have to move stuff out of the bookcses, move them into the dining room fill them up then start stripping the walls. BUT we are getting rid of a huge 60s sideboard table and chairs. I agree with the sideboard as its ugly as fuck, but the table... On ebay and retro resellers the sideboard goes for over 500, but we haven't got time to deal with that. For reasons(dh being a pig headed twat is one) my idea of calling a charity isnt being listened to. But we are miles ahead of last time I posted.

Spent a while with my DS going through some shredding (papers) this young man does not believe in throwing things out .
I am not the tidiest person on earth but I experienced my Mum and her untidy hoarding which got worse to the point of endangerment .
I am quite saddened that DS seems to be exhibiting these traits because it's a bloody awful way to live .
I hated it as a kid because the house was so untidy , couldn;t have friends over . Any requests to "Can Mary come over on Friday" was met with " You;ll have to tidy up" Then the accusations of "You only help tidy when you want something" and being accused of throwing things out . Tidying the kitchen/cooking somehow became 'my job'

Then when she became more infirm the house got more cluttered . I used to go up and help my Dad and we'd recycle things . But it was a battle to get her to part with stuff .

My DS had papers under his bed we went through , and desk drawers . He has a three drawer unit if music sheets .( Didn't touch those today)
I know people think "shut the door on his mess" but I'm going to find Lord Lucan and Shergar in there !