For one day only, just posting my list.......

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I'm doing a house rescue thingy. Came back from holiday four days ago and havnt unpacked or done washing. I spent all day yesterday out of house feeding ds6 lunch and dinner out. Dh came home to leftovers and said something pointed about getting an ironing service. So today is my 'day in' to sort house.

DS up 930 ish and helped himself from fridge for breakfast
DD 4mnths fed at 530, 830, slept with me in bed till 11 am DS on wii.
We have just snacked on absolute rubbish til now. All still in pjs.

Slattern and slummy, I think im a slumtern, not for long.. Right heres my list im working through.

Master bedroom
Tidy
Unpack cases
Dust
Hoover
Air out

Bathroom
Scoop up towels
Clean

DS room
Put toys away
Dust
Hoover
Put away clothes

DD room
Collect washing
Put away clothes
Clean down changing matt.

Landing stairs
Dust
Hoover

That'll do for now.
By the power of pink and white marshmallows shift my big lazy bum.

Honestly......I wish I had a portal power...

Only meeeeeee

I have made lunch.
Baby due a feed
Tidied porch downstairs loo ready for cleaning
Unloaded and reloaded dishwasher
Rebooted laundry
Sorted recycling into box
Tidied master bedroom

Watching moose women on plus1 with coffee, well it'd be rude not to sit with ds.

DH home in 5hours I said I would have meal ready

A fellow list maker

I started tackling the house on Tuesday evening after a holiday then 7 solid days of ill children and ill me. Last night I went to bed with most of the ground floor immaculate except the utility which remains a wasteland Oh the feeling! My list now looks like:

• Tidy suitcases & clothes in our bedroom
• Tidy DD's bedroom and wardrobe (she pulled all her clothes onto the floor last week and I was too ill to pick them up. She's only 2 btw or she'd be doing it herself)
• Wash & put away the rest of the clothes and catch up on the ironing
• Sweep & mop the kitchen & utility room floors
• Tidy all the gardening stuff up in the garage
• Start packing for our next holiday in just under 3 weeks

At some point I will also need to tackle the shower, but we have a septic tank and can't use most chemicals, so that's another story.

Right break over ds has tidied his Lego away, I'm off to inspect.
Dd is fed and studying ds playing in her bumbo, let's see that'll last for 10 minutes.... Oh she is a little Velcro baby at times.

Wonder what's on itv player.....I can take that with me

Right definitely off. Bloody rain, is it worth doing anymore laundry.

Oh hellos desperately waves to never didn't sees you there.

Sympathies for illnesses, it's not just the time your ill n dealing with I'll children, it really knocks you off your routine, as does holiday, despite leaving the house immaculate, and it was a pain having DH off for double bank holiday following holiday, he does help with everything but never feel I can get organised re housework.

Think I read on trinitys thread that people use method for showers its supposed to be free of chemicals but know this is expensive compared to flash.

Oh my, wasn't expecting to have to cope with thoughts of ironing or garages, you are braves.

I think I lurked on Trinity's thread yesterday but I can't find it now. I couldn't think of anything useful to say although I felt for her terribly. Can you link to it?

Oh right here it is, I did feel for her, I have been there and tried todo fly lady, but what I did was actually two weeks of intensive tidying and scrubbing.

Link <a class="break-all" href="//twww.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1487914-OK-WHERE-DO-I-START-yes-I-know-Im-shouting-Im-in-a-pickle-neeeed-to-declutter-despearately" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">trinitys thread

Well I'm feeling v smug here is my update:

Master bedroom
Tidy DONE
Unpack cases DONE and put away
Dust DONE
Hoover DONE
Air out DOING
Some clothes to hang

Bathroom
Scoop up towels DONE out clean ones out inc bath matt
Clean I have scrubbed it v much even done all splash zone walls and skirting
Have put myself new smelly set out to scrub, clean n moisturise later.

DS room
Put toys away DONE
Dust DONE
Hoover DONE
Put away clothes DONE

DD room
Collect washing DONE
Put away clothes I'm leaving this to have a good sort through another day
Clean down changing matt.

Landing stairs
Dust
Hoover

I have fed and changed dd
Hung laundry no 2
Tidied round kitchen
Got ds to take a lot of stuff up stairs some, I will have to go up now and put away paints, towels and wrestlers etc.

I'm beginning to feel organised, but I don't think I'm going to get it all done get to shops and cook a nice meal, I'm going to suggest pizza hut on me, as long as I don't forget the bloomin shirt. Always a bone of contention.

Well done you, and thanks for the link.

I naturally tend towards disorder although, bizarrely, I'm also a bit of a perfectionist. So I have perfectly ordered, colour coded cupboards but an often too lazy to actually put stuff back in them. My saving grace is that I like everything put away and all surfaces clear before I go to bed every night so I keep on top of it. To be perfectly honest I've been shocked by exactly how 'out of hand' the mess got with just one week of no tidying up.

I did have to live in dust and disorder when DH & I undertook a major building project some years back though and, despite not being huge consumers, we did accumulate a surprising amount of clutter due to living pretty much out of boxes. It made me realise that without a fairly robust storage system I'd be pooped. I can really understand how people end up like Trinity and how impossible it must seem to get out of it.

Well I've surpassed myself I'm done look at the bloody time. In short I scrambled about to do downstairs as takeaway due at 8pm. Had that then did kitchen, ironed the shirt, bathed dd then went off to tescos.

It wasn't a pleasant experience. Rain, smokers n nighttime shells stackers they like zombies that grunt at you.

So nevers thanks for joining in, did you get done? I too have perfectionist tendencies but swing widly to kaos n oh feck it at times. Y y, re stop tidying for a few days, I mean why should I it was my bank holiday too. Colour coded boxes sound ahem great.

Yes my favourite thing is why do we have all this stuff, I'm not going to make same mistakes with dd stuff, though can't wait to buy her dolls.

My saving grace is I now at least get things to their own rooms, laundry done once a day so not normally problem, though ironing is.

Right that's me done, I'm out all day tomorrow on playdate which has a nice adult area for coffee then whoopee out with DH for curry n he's paying for everything.

Ironing is always a problem here. I started by instigating an ironing basket and having an ironing night once a week, but with only limited success. Now I assess each item and only stuff that really needs ironing goes in the basket with everything else being hung up and just ironed before wearing if we are going somewhere nice. If it's just being worn around the house/garden it gets worn crumpled! My friend irons underwear though, and has been known to take my ironing basket home with her in frustration.

Well done on getting finished even if you did have to pull a night shift to do it I put the children to bed, got halfway through my sweep of the house then felt that all to familiar sicky feeling. So I spent my evening alternating between bed and vomiting. Yuck. Feeling fragile but otherwise ok this morning but I'm thinking it best not to push myself too much today.

Hmm, I think I'll try to have a time slot designated for ironing. I really need to iron polo shirts for dc's as not hidden under jumper and shirts for DH it's part of our agreed 'roles'

I had a tummy bug last week with nausea and loss of appetite but mainly quite severe diahorrea (sp?) it spoilt first two days of holiday really. I've still had some grumblings this week, I t seems to take a while to get over. Get well soon.

So I'm on second day really, as have tones of laundry, inc separate washes for dd. No cooking today.