Spring into action Slatterns, it's Cheap, Easy and Quick here...

[Anonymousbird]

New thread ladies!! Welcome back.

Bring your lists, bring whatever you want, but remember we love it cheap easy and quick .

Who mentioned Shake n Vac??? Cor, that takes me back, those adverts! I used to love the stuff!!!

Oh, and JKS - the ebay stuff keeps getting up on the bed (naughty ebay stuff) and then I have to take it off again each night. How silly is that.

Anyway

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• Major tidy up DONE (except playroom)
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing DONE
• Ironing DONE
• On line banking DONE
• 24th DONE and 25th Jan ? credit card payments
• Check dehumidifier DONE
• Building project finances
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders
• Collect dog food
• Chickens DONE
• Dog DONE
• Find/buy photo frames DONE
• Check photo printing DONE
• Pay Utilities Warehouse Bill
• Sort stuff to list on Ebay
• Refix with EON ? part done, but need to shop around for a possible ?switch?
• Call Builder re costings
• Feb house budget Started - needs more work
• Babysitter for school quiz night
• Gloves and other warm gear for DD
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Am fretting about unending lists of stuff today.So can't bear to look or post one.
Freaki get better soon.
Love to all

Dave, do please tell me, is this Oven Pride stuff all its cracked up to be? It certainly comes recommended by quite a few... i think I need to invest in some. I am hopeless at cleaning the oven, I always seem to end up covered in all the gunk..!

I'm not hopeless at cleaning the oven...i just don't do it!

But if oven pride is easy i just might start.

Left from Sun:

• laundry; TD on & airer full (big ironing pile...)

Mon:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• DS2 & N to pre-sch DONE
• DS1 (inset day) to friends (she's taking him to a bday party at soft play too, yey!) DONE
• BF course DONE
• home for lunch & tidy up DONE
• chill out afternoon DONE
• pop to friends for play & cuppa & catch up DONE
• tea x 2 & tidy up DONE

• boys bath & bed
• my dinner (prob pizza, out of lots of stuff, waiting for shopping tomorrow)
• some ironing? with tv?
• early night for me

Tues:

• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed
• beds stripped & clean bedding found
• swap bathmats & towels
• DS1 to sch (with fave book)
• charity shop?
• BF group
• home for lunch & tidy up
• SN playgroup (different day as they are filming for a DVD for parents of SN kids, I won't be in it! but DS2 will)
• home (first day of friend collecting DS1 on Tues)
• chill out time
• shopping (4-5) & put away
• tea x 3 (pasta)
• DS2 to bed/DS1 ready
• orchestra (need cash for sitter)

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• charity shop trip
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

I don't clean my oven, ever The last two times it has been done, once was by DH and the other was by an 'oven man' who came to the house and made it completely sparkling.

to Baroque

I am shattered. I spent an hour on my feet cooking and now I can't even get comfy sitting down

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Unload dishwasher - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Hoover and sweep downstairs if needed
Laundry

• 2 loads of baby clothes - 1 dry, 1 drying
• living room cushion covers - once DS has gone to bed
• fold all clean - getting there
• ironing (groan, hoping DH will do this later)
• put away all clean things from airing cupboard - started

Baking/cooking with DS - done Breadmaker on - done Online banking Lunch and tidy kitchen - done Dinner - spag bol - DH dishing up now Clear up DS bath and bed Post DS-to-bed tidy Kitchen clear before bed

ONGOING
Use up things from the freezer - doing
Order a new freezer for the garage (existing one died last week )
Ring midwife about HIP form
Go into dental practice to fill in forms
Buy and hang a mirror in the spare room
Clean living room and dining room carpets - need to chase quotes
Spare bedroom bookcase
Call furniture donation scheme about stuff in garage - have rung, need to check it has the relevant fire label
Polish the silver
Sideboard (this is a mega task) - one cupboard done
Sort and shred old paperwork
Book my car in for service and first MOT (check when it's due)

It is amazing was really easy and not that messy. I have attempted to clean the oven once in the last 5yrs but it was hopeless. The racks you put in the bag, and mine were black (i actually thought they were supposed to be black ) they have come out sparkling silver and absolutely spotless. I am going to do the oven and grill aain in a month or so, as although it has worked really well, i think another go woud just get the last lot of built up crap off. Was less than £4 in Waitrose and i have about 1/4 of a bottle left.

Dave - sounds like it might be worth a shot then (why don't they just make the shelves black then we wouldn't have to worry, lol!)

Not a great night's sleep here yawn.

Left from yesterday:

• some ironing with tv DONE
• early night for me DONE

Tues:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• beds stripped & clean bedding found DONE
• swap bathmats & towels
• DS1 to sch (with fave book) DONE
• charity shop?
• BF group
• home for lunch & tidy up
• SN playgroup (different day as they are filming for a DVD for parents of SN kids, I won't be in it! but DS2 will)
• home (first day of friend collecting DS1 on Tues)
• chill out time
• shopping (4-5) & put away
• tea x 3 (pasta)
• DS2 to bed/DS1 ready
• orchestra (need cash for sitter)

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• charity shop trip
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

Morning ladies.

Chaos truly reigns.

Doesn't someone have that as their MN name?! Well, she's here today, in my life!

Oven pride sounds like the way to go, I suspect our oven could do with it now and it will DEFINITELY need it before the end of our tenancy!

My list will be heinous. May build up to that in a minute.

Quick in from bf group, lunch & then out again to SN group today, bit rushed!

Tues:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• beds stripped & clean bedding found DONE
• swap bathmats & towels
• DS1 to sch (with fave book) DONE
• charity shop DONE
• BF group DONE
• home for lunch & tidy up DONE
• SN playgroup (different day as they are filming for a DVD for parents of SN kids, I won't be in it! but DS2 will)
• home (first day of friend collecting DS1 on Tues)
• chill out time
• shopping (4-5) & put away
• tea x 3 (pasta)
• DS2 to bed/DS1 ready
• orchestra (need cash for sitter)

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• charity shop trip DONE
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

Ok, am feeling brave - I think I may need to approach my listing slightly differently, as it just gets longer and longer and I get rather daunted, so I need to play around with "restyling" it :

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW
• Washing
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing to finish
• On line banking DONE
• Get coal DONE
• Check dehumidifier
• Building project finances
• Building project plans/lists to update
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Chickens
• Dog DONE
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards - sticker charts to set up
• March budget itemise everything
• DC swimming
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

One off things this week/soon:

• Renew library books
• Free songs off itunes with Amex card
• Two presents and birthday cards for DD to take to party
• DS to make birthday card
• Find Maths worksheets for DS and phonics for DD
• Sweep and tidy up front of house and broken bricks
• Sort out pile of newspapers
• Holiday dates with MIL mostly done
• Lighting and radiators on the case ?.
• Call kitchen people to arrange meeting
• Look through MIL's magazines and online for ideas DOING
• Spend DH's Amex points!
• 121 tutorials
• List more eBay
• Set up weather station
• Travel insurance and car hire for holiday
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust
• Think about Olympics tickets
• English Heritage membership to buy

Weekly

• Towels
• Bedding
• Mop Floors
• Meal plan and supermarket order

Monthly

• Kitchen shelves and inside food cupboards
• Windows
• Meter readings/bill checks
• Oven

Washing
Ironing
Hoover DONE
Clean hard floors
Dust DONE
Sort bills and ring dentist DONE
clean bedrooms DONE
clean bathroom
clean kitchen
sort hydrangea DONE
front garden DONE
buy primulas
girlfrom and to nursery
read trade mag DONE
ring mother DONE
bottle damson gin
accountancy work NEXT WEEK

Geting there-anonymousbird, your list is hideous!

Washing DOING
Ironing DONE HALF
Hoover DONE
Clean hard floors DONE
Dust DONE
Sort bills and ring dentist DONE
clean bedrooms DONE
clean bathroom DONE
clean kitchen DONE
sort hydrangea DONE
front garden DONE
buy primulas DONE
girlfrom and to nursery
read trade mag DONE
ring mother DONE
bottle damson gin
accountancy work NEXT WEEK

I think that will do for that list. Another day, another list. Off next door for

Spacehoppa - I know!!! But I wanted to trim down the daily bit, but unfortunately to trim down I needed to start with the full version of everything

Yours is impressively DONE BTW!

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW
• Washing running
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing to finish DONE
• On line banking DONE
• Get coal DONE
• Check dehumidifier
• Building project finances
• Building project plans/lists to update
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Chickens DONE
• Dog DONE
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards - sticker charts to set up
• March budget itemise everything
• DC swimming
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Well I kind of thought it would happen, friend is collecting DS1 on Tues for me (I'll do her DD on a Thurs) and they wanted to come in, I wasn't feeling too sociable, didn't really want an extra 2 DC (she has a younger DD too) creating more mess with toys & even DS1 said 'you're interfering with my tv time' !! i let him have tv anyway, it's his man-in-a-cave-thing like from the Men are from Mars book (only ever read the first chapter!).

Tues:

• swap bathmats & towels
• SN playgroup DONE
• home (first day of friend collecting DS1 on Tues) DONE
• chill out time Doing
• shopping (4-5) Here & put away Some put away

• tea x 3 (pasta)
• DS2 to bed/DS1 ready
• orchestra (need cash for sitter - will have to stop on way home for cash)

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

tentatively wandering in here... ladies may I join?

daily

up shower + dress *done
feed children done
school run done
kitchen floor hoover done
DW empty + load done
washing on done
washing out done
washing away
ironing done done
dog walked
cats done
guineapigs done
dinner for DD done
dinner for DP and I

weekly
wash floors
change bedding
bathrooms
dust and hoover office
sort paper work
tidy away randoms and sort clutter
clear out pigs

long term
car boot catch needs fixing
sort shed
order grass seed
make some thing to hang DD's art work on
shed / fence / decking stain

Onlywantsone - welcome :)

Argh, paying for orchestra in many ways. Let DS2 go to bed at 6.30 last night, only half an hour early & he was begging to go & I need him to go a bit early so I can get to orch roughly on time.
then of course I'm up later than normal.
4.50 he wakes up.

Left from Tues:

• swap bathmats & towels

Wed:

• get up stupidly early DONE
• breakfast
• all dressed
• sch runs
• bath & back to bed
• lunch & tidy up
• Portage Worker (1.30)
• collect DS1
• friend + DS coming to play
• tea & tidy up
• boys bath & bed
• early night

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed
• General tidy, make beds etc
• DC to school
• Fill/Run/Empty DW
• Washing
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing
• On line banking
• Check dehumidifier
• Building project finances
• Building project plans/lists to update
• Collect post from house
• Go see builders
• Chickens
• Dog
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards - sticker charts to set up
• March budget itemise everything
• DS to consultant
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

One off things this week/soon:

• Renew library books
• Free songs off itunes with Amex card
• Two presents and birthday cards for DD to take to party
• DS to make birthday card
• Find Maths worksheets for DS and phonics for DD
• Sweep and tidy up front of house and broken bricks
• Sort out pile of newspapers
• Holiday dates with MIL mostly done
• Lighting and radiators on the case ?.
• Call kitchen people to arrange meeting
• Look through MIL's magazines and online for ideas DOING
• Spend DH's Amex points!
• 121 tutorials
• List more eBay
• Set up weather station
• Travel insurance and car hire for holiday
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust
• Think about Olympics tickets
• English Heritage membership to buy

Mornin' everyone, Office day today. I would like to accomplish:
dh admin
filing
sort office and maybe even windowledge of doom
verification form

But first I have to:
find some energy
get motivated
get warm

put kettle on then

daily

up shower + dress DONE
feed childrenDONE
school runDONE
kitchen floor hooverDONE
DW empty + loadDONE BLOODY THING IS NOT RINSING PROPERLY
washing onDONE
washing out
washing away
ironing done
dog walked
catsDONE
guineapigs
dinner for DD
dinner for DP and I

weekly
wash floors
change bedding
bathrooms
dust and hoover office
sort paper work
tidy away randoms and sort clutter
clear out pigs

long term
car boot catch needs fixing
sort shed
order grass seed
make some thing to hang DD's art work on
shed / fence / decking stain

Morning ladies :)

JKS - ergh at your early start.

OnlyWantsOne - welcome :) Was it your HV thread that I posted on last week? How old is your baby?

I am a knackered, emotional wreck today. Cried trying to put my trousers on because it hurt so much (bloody pelvis ). DS came to help me and gave me a big hug, he was patting me and saying 'it's ok Mummy'. Bless his little heart :)

Very unambitious day today.

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done half
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Make rice crispy cakes with DS
1 load of washing
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Walk to Sainsbury's for a couple of bits
Ring parents before they go away tomorrow
Dinner - sausages. With what??
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

Alibabaandthe40nappies - HV thread about DD's weight? yes was me, she's now 12 weeks :) why??

No particular reason, just thought I recognised your name :) And I am obsessed with tiny babies atm, so impatient to meet mine

when are you due??

sorry if reply seem kurt am feedind dd = 1 hand typing

Hey

Onlywantsone didn't you have a labour thread?

Well, our Trofast is up and looking good! I love ikea

lol yes @ labour thread