New Years Lists for procrastinators/slatterns - let there be organisation

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

Welcome old and new slatterns. All welcome for mutual support and kicks up the bum where nec. Just add your list and report back to let us know how you get along.

M&S saga is over, knew they wouldn't really be able to help but it's still annoying. THey don't stock the lamps I bought anymore so they can't replace them. They don't have any lampshades on their own that would suit so can't send me replacements for those. I could return the lamps & shades and get a refund but then I have no lamps and we dithered for so long to get these ones so I'm reluctant to do that.
So I've found some plain cream shades on eBay (new) and have ordered a big one & a little one.
The originals came with brown which we liked but tbh I think they will give more light with cream, so maybe it's a blessing in disguise :)

left from Sun:

• tidy up DS2's boxes of treasures

Mon:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast & all dressed DONE (except DD not dressed yet)
• DH to work/boys to sch DONE
• quiet day just me & DD Doing
• DD nap & me bath DONE
• sort out my clothes, start a 'too big' box (yey!) & take out empty hangers DONE
• clear one shelf & clean it & stuff on it ready for kitchen painting DONE
• lunch me & DD Doing
• have another go cleaning last bits from kitchen shelf & they are v greasy
• round corner to get semi milk & give hangers to dry cleaners DONE
• boys home, reading, check & repack bags
• tea x 4 & tidy up
• DC to bed, early night for me

Ongoing:

• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride; postponing until after service happening this week (maybe they'll clean it?! )
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned (when handyman is in painting the kitchen)
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need some sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• make birthday cards for Feb; 1 Done
• Spring Cleaning: DD clothes - Started; sort through bedding
• lose weight! (From: 66kg; Target: 54kg); Scales said 64.6
• ring M&S about lampshade saga DONE
• book bowling for orchestra social - need new dates; need to email committee
• library to pay fine
• charity shop box full; in car; more added
• book assessment for DS2 for an SN trike; Emailed (not sure he needs it but...)

I can do stones but not lb But prefer kg because it's a bigger number and also most people don't use kg so get fewer people saying annoying stuff like "I haven't weighed that since I was 6"

Got back from weekend away today. Had great time! Have alreayd unpacked and 2nd load is in machine

DD has gone into school for the afternoon as they refused her holiday request so thought it better for her to only have a half day unauthorised. But now have to go out in the sleet to collect her and I'm all cosy on the sofa!

Brr Freak! Cold here but no snow or sleet, DS1 is desperate

I can't do lbs on their own. Saw a prog being advertised about some Americans who were 600lbs+ and their journey through losing weight.
Later on i found my calculator (!) & divided that by 14....42+stone

DD was grumping so I've put her back to bed, hopefully she'll nap until teatime then I can concentrate on the boys. Works today as I don't have to do sch run, otherwise would be tough, she'd have to stay awake.

left from Sun:

• tidy up DS2's boxes of treasures DONE

Mon:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast & all dressed DONE (except DD not dressed yet)
• DH to work/boys to sch DONE
• quiet day just me & DD Doing
• DD nap & me bath DONE
• sort out my clothes, start a 'too big' box (yey!) & take out empty hangers DONE
• clear one shelf & clean it & stuff on it ready for kitchen painting DONE
• lunch me & DD DONE
• have another go cleaning last bits from kitchen shelf & they are v greasy; Some in dw
• round corner to get semi milk & give hangers to dry cleaners DONE

• book next online shop Doing
• boys home, reading, check & repack bags
• tea x 4 & tidy up
• DC to bed, early night for me

Ongoing:

• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride; postponing until after service happening this week (maybe they'll clean it?! )
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned (when handyman is in painting the kitchen)
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need some sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• make birthday cards for Feb; 1 Done
• Spring Cleaning: DD clothes - Started; sort through bedding
• lose weight! (From: 66kg; Target: 54kg); Scales said 64.6
• book bowling for orchestra social; Have emailed committee
• library to pay fine
• charity shop box full; in car; more added
• book assessment for DS2 for an SN trike; Emailed (not sure he needs it but...)
• shorten 2 trousers for DS2

JKS - laura ashley do nice lamp shades but prob too late for you. At least the saga is over.

Today
Work done just about
Quick food shop done
Pick up DC's from CM
Make tea - shepherds pie / fish pie
Clear up
Put kids to bed
and rest

Ongoing List
My filing drawer
Buy new school jumpers for DS
Clean mouldy wall in bedroom - buy mould cleaner
Take in some dry cleaning
Pick up laundry
Book holidays! Easter?
Filing

Random things to buy in sales
Table cloth
Dinner service
Napkin holder

Quick post before I rush off out.
Feeling smug now as I can see my desk, have thrown away loads of old stuff, I can even see the window ledge, and down to 4 smaller piles and I know what in in 'em.
Still a niff of cat pee though.

JKS what a PITA re the lampshades, glad you have found a solution though.
Bugs me no end when places discontinue things. We bought all new bedding from JL about 3 years ago, the style had just been released and a year later when I wanted some more pillowcases they weren't making it anymore. Are there really people that replace this kind of stuff on such a regular basis???

Mini that sounds good progress on the office, well done!

The plumber came and has fixed the valve in the tank that was making the overflow run. Bad news is that the shower pump may need replacing and there are some lose pipes in the loft which are vibrating - there has been a weird noise with the shower for a few weeks so at least we know what it is now! He is coming back later in the week to look at those things but just the pump will be £250+labour if it needs replacing. Ouch ouch.

However DH has 3 more interviews this week

MONDAY
All up and dressed - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Wipe over bathroom - done
Hoover and sweep downstairs - done
Bags and packed lunch - done
DS1 to preschool - done
1 load of washing
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
Pick DS1 up - done
Dinner x 4 - done leftover roast lamb with roasted veg and cabbage, yum
Baths - DH doing
Boys to bed
Tidy downstairs - done
Online banking (pay plumber)
Shred
Kitchen clear before bed

JOBS
Ring plumber - done came and all fixed
Read information from accountant and action anything
Fill in dentist forms

Ali - ouch re plumber. Will be worth it though.

Mini - well done on throwing things out. On the 'organisation thread' one Mnetter said. Get a drawer and only put back what you want to keep / need and then chuck everything else. Rather than the other way around i.e. Open drawer chuck a few bits you don't want. I think it makes for a more ruthless cull.

DS to school on time today - just about!

Today
Empty dishy
Clear dining room
Filing - ugh
Lunch for DD
Pick up Ds from school.

Ongoing List
My filing drawer
Buy new school jumpers for DS
Clean mouldy wall in bedroom - buy mould cleaner
Take in some dry cleaning
Pick up laundry
Book holidays! Easter?
Filing

Random things to buy in sales
Table cloth
Dinner service
Napkin holder

HMHB - that would be very ruthless! What if you chucked something and then needed/wanted it a week later??

MONDAY
All up and dressed - no, slow morning!
Unload dishwasher - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Wipe over bathroom
Hoover and sweep downstairs
Bags and packed lunch
DS1 to preschool
1 load of washing - washing
Breadmaker on
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Pick DS1 up
Dinner x 4 - sausage and potato casserole
Baths
Boys to bed
Tidy downstairs
Shred
Kitchen clear before bed

JOBS
Read information from accountant and action anything
Fill in dentist forms
Speak to solicitor re. will - phonecall at 10.30am.
Online banking

I think you are supposed to keep stuff like that.

Another option is what we have been doing with toys. Put a couple of boxes in loft / woodshed and bring em out when the kids are bored. Bit more tricky with paperwork etc though.

You could always do a 'halfway to bin' box, leave it a couple of months and see if you go back to it for anything. If not, chuck it.
Maybe

Tues:

• breakfast & all dressed DONE
• boys to sch DONE
• shopping arriving & put away DONE
• BF group DONE
• DD nap Doing
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• haircut (finally) (1.30)
• collect DS1, straight to swimming
• boys home, reading, check & repack bags
• tea x 4 & tidy up
• DC bath & bed/ready for bed.me to orchestra

Ongoing:

• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride; postponing until after service happening this week (maybe they'll clean it?! )
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned (when handyman is in painting the kitchen)
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need some sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• make birthday cards for Feb; 1 Done
• Spring Cleaning: DD clothes - Started; sort through bedding
• lose weight! (From: 66kg; Target: 54kg); Scales said 64.6
• book bowling for orchestra social; Have emailed committee
• library to pay fine
• charity shop box full; in car; more added
• book assessment for DS2 for an SN trike; Emailed (not sure he needs it but...)
• shorten 2 trousers for DS2 DONE (not sure how well though)

I have been angling onto stuff for years 'in case' eg. An old music cassette case. Can't find cassette, been missing years. Throw out. ( tape is bound to turn up then)

Angling! What? Hanging, hanging. Stupid text.

Mini - do you still have the means to play a cassette?
I have CD cases like that, too worried to throw them away.

Tues:

• breakfast & all dressed DONE
• boys to sch DONE
• shopping arriving & put away DONE
• BF group DONE
• DD nap Doing
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• haircut (finally) (1.30) DONE (& patch test for dyeing over greys...)
• collect DS1, straight to swimming
• boys home, reading, check & repack bags
• tea x 4 & tidy up
• DC bath & bed/ready for bed.me to orchestra

Ongoing:

• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride; postponing until after service happening this week (maybe they'll clean it?! )
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned (when handyman is in painting the kitchen)
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need some sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• make birthday cards for Feb; 1 Done
• Spring Cleaning: DD clothes - Started; sort through bedding
• lose weight! (From: 66kg; Target: 54kg); Scales said 64.6
• book bowling for orchestra social; Have emailed committee
• library to pay fine
• charity shop box full; in car; more added
• book assessment for DS2 for an SN trike; Emailed (not sure he needs it but...)
• grr, repair/replace curtain rail in playroom, I think I've broken them!

good point JKS. And actually only have one down at my place of work. Brilliant realisation. I have boxes of bloody cassettes, stowed away, and some vinyl even , you mean I could actually bin 'em < goes goggly eyed at the thought>
On another note, re office have found the source of cat wee smell, a couple of folders with plastic pockets on floor under the desk. Bottom edge soaked. Yuk. I need a shower now.

Yuuuuuuuuuuksville.

DH has been away for 4 days now. I am bored.

But but but, think I am channeling your dad HMHB

Do not start storing things in your work place until it becomes like one of those 'life laundry' programmes where you can't move round all the junk i.e. like dads garage.

I have just found the empty cassette case music on u tube so in the bin it's gone. Ha that's better. No storage room at work place anyway. So they have to go. Deep breath.

WELL DONE MINI

I was wondering the other day if we'll ever buy another cd, i mean is there a point? I'm happy with the radio most of the time, I have a playlist on my ipod for the car when i get fed up with the radio. There's always YouTube for the odd song I want to listen to that I don't have. Why buy more stuff at all? Oh and I haven't figured out iTunes at all but I'm not that bothered really.

Tues:

• breakfast & all dressed DONE
• boys to sch DONE
• shopping arriving & put away DONE
• BF group DONE
• DD nap Doing
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• haircut (finally) (1.30) DONE (& patch test for dyeing over greys...)
• collect DS1, straight to swimming DONE
• boys home, reading, check & repack bags DS1 DONE
• tea x 4 & tidy up DONE
• DC bath & bed/ready for bed/me to orchestra

Ongoing:

• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes; Pictures Taken; need to print then get DH to laminate
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned (when handyman is in painting the kitchen); take down this weekend
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need some sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• make birthday cards for Feb; 1 Done
• Spring Cleaning: DD clothes - Started; sort through bedding
• lose weight! (From: 66kg; Target: 54kg); Scales said 64.6
• book bowling for orchestra social; Have emailed committee
• library to pay fine
• charity shop box full; in car; more added
• book assessment for DS2 for an SN trike; Emailed (not sure he needs it but...)
• grr, repair/replace curtain rail in playroom, I think I've broken them!

Hello. Been absent this week - DD has very high temperature and generally pretty bloody poorly so she is (obviously) off school.... And to top it all, we had no power yesterday so our perfect plans to make pizza for lunch and then some rocky road in the afternoon were completely scuppered!!

Grr. So I have a bill for £60 from my electrician and it wasn't even our problem, it was a network problem, but the network didn't get any other reports of outages from any customers and (allegedly) weren't working on the network to cause a power cut so I have no evidence that it was an external issue rather than an internal one. Grrr.

Anyway, at least the sun has come out today, we have power, so we will have pizza and rocky road today instead!

Bin it bin it bin it! My parents are hoarders and I want to get a big skip (or 10) and chuck 3/4 of their house in it

My own house is verging on the dirty today, handprints and pawprints everywhere. And fluff where cats have shredded dd's halo and wand.

But first I need to do next stage of divorce stuff and more coursework. And an online shop before I am forced to serve up the cats for dinner. Although I suppose that would solve a large part of the mess issue...

Hope everyone has had a better day.
Mine has been busy, well sort of.
Went to bed when DD did though couldn't nap properly as blinking cat kept fidgeting as I'd done his worming drops & he was licking them off
Then remembered at the last minute it was an orch concert this afternoon & I was running late.
Then a man came round re SN trikes to assess DS2 & he was here for ages.

Thurs:

• oven being serviced (at some point, we are last on the list)
• DH getting up first & doing sch run I hope
• start laundry
• filing.... Did start today

• other stuff?

Ongoing:

• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes; Pictures Taken; need to print then get DH to laminate
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned (when handyman is in painting the kitchen); take down this weekend
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need some sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• make birthday cards for Feb; 1 Done
• Spring Cleaning: DD clothes - Started; sort through bedding
• lose weight! (From: 66kg; Target: 54kg); Scales said 64.6
• book bowling for orchestra social; Have emailed committee
• library to pay fine & find missing book they phoned about, oops
• charity shop box full; in car; more added
• book assessment for DS2 for an SN trike; DONE (need to speak to sch & arrange OT appt)
• grr, repair/replace curtain rail in playroom, I think I've broken them!

Office now smelling , well almost fresh, dare I say. I will hunt out the rest of the tapes to bin when i get home. I feel almost liberated.
Am now at HMHBs, so have peaceful day until DGCs are home.
Am supposed to be catching up on some admin work whilst here but its gorgeous weather, and b.cold and the sheep are shivering in the field. Have a good day.