My house has got a bit out of control, and I am feeling overwhelmed. Could do with a kick up the bum!

[MrsNouveauRichards]

What with one thing and another, our house has got out of control - summer holidays lack of routine, going on a camping trip (lots of stuff down from the loft) a nearly three year old, also known as the Taz (the tazmanian devil) and kind of giving up caring tbh.

It has been a slow decline since the youngest was born (nearly 3yrs ago) and it has almost reached crisis point. It affects my mood, I find myself losing my temper because I am tripping over stuff all the time.

I have set a day for a trip to the tip (friday) I am in the house all afternoon today waiting on a delivery, I plan on wearing the kids out this morning and then setting them up with a film this afternoon and tackling the house.

But the problem is I don't know where to start, I know one afternoon is not going to fix it, but it will be a good start.

I have no excuse really, no bereavement, no illness, no depression. Just struggling to keep up with two kids and becoming lazy when I have some peace and quiet.

Well in the last few days I've kept kitchen worktopa clear and clean, sink is spotless, done kitchen table, cleaned all the floors, dusted a lot, sorted through approximately 3 million toys and separated them into boxes and taken 7 black bags to the skip,

Oh and my list for today is....

Clean fronts of kitchen cupboards, mop floors again, clean microwave, change beds and hang out washing.

What did you use to clean your oven OP? Mine is disgusting

I am seriously impressed!

I have used oven pride in the past (hahahahaha, makes it sound like I do it all the time! :o ) but this time I used the cheaper copycat Oven magic. Pretty good! Put it on last night. Will need to do again soon to get it cleaner though.

Hit a bit of a post lunch slump, but today I have:

Cleaned oven
Done one washload and hung out
Made lunch and cleaned up
Been to town - dropped a bag full of magazines at the library, got DD's school skirts, got some birthday presents

STILL TO DO
Make salad for tonight
Make cakes
Make pasta bake for DH and kids
Hoover
Do horses
More washing
Kids fed, bathed and early to bed

DONE
Oven
Laundry
Town
Lunch
Salad for tonight
Cakes (in oven)

STILL TO DO
Horses
Water friends plants
Asda - milk, cheese and ham and tealights
Make pasta bake
Put clean sheets on kids beds
Feed kids
Hoover while kids eating
Mop hard floors
Bath and bed for kids
Friends round 7pm

Fairly productive day have

Gutted the boys room culled the toys books and clothes

Did all the work tops (tbh they are a little untidy now)

Washed four loads of washing

Sorted through dd4 clothes

Made dd3 tidy her bedroom

And did a ten minute tidy on the living room

Unfortunatley am working tomorrow will still do a bit though

Continue to battle laundry mountain

Go through all the sock and underwear draws and sort them out
Start to devlutter my bedroom this may take a good few days
Maintain the tidy bedroom and work tops !

That is good going!

I had a bit of tantrum yesterday tea time. So, despite the fact that the house had been tidied really well for the party on Sunday, and the fact we haven't done too much since, yesterday 5.20pm found me ranting and getting stressed over the fact that yet again I was having to rush around at the last minute to make things semi presentable for friends coming over.

That is what I need to change. If friends drop by, then they have to take me as they find me, but if I have invited people over, then it is nice to have them come into a tidy, calm house.

Anyway, we are out visiting family nearly all day today, so won't get much done, but determined to not do nothing.

TO DO
Get up and dressed
Hang washing out
Take bag of clothes to change into at yard
Wrap sis's birthday present
Take pile of dvds for my niece
Take lunch stuff
Eggboxes for grandparents
Make beds
Kids dressed
Go to yard quickly
Leave town at 9.30am
Be back in town from family by just before 4pm
Chiro to see horse at 4pm
Finish doing horses
Get home, put dinner on (what we having?)
Kids bath and bed
Early bed!!

Well done everyone.

We I didn't achieve much yesterday afternoon because the kids wanted to play out the front and go to park and are too little to go themselves.

So done today.....

All up
All breakfasted
ds at school
Not much else!!!

To do...
Clean kitchen cupboard doors
Wipe down all surfaces, handles etc
Put photo frames up on wall x 10
Clean microwave
Mop floors
Clear mantelpiece
Feed ducks with stale bread if not raining
Wash dog

Feeling a bit wiped out today, after a long day yesterday and going to bed with a headache. Not enough water to drink I think.

Main job today is putting away the mountain of clean washing.

Wash mountain is now only about 4 loads high
Just another bash at the work tops
And not much else to report today as had to got to a HR company that was blooming miles away so was up at the crack of dawn didn't get home till 11.30 and am due back in work at 5pm . So today am formulating a plan for tomorrow

Take 4 of the little darlings swimming
Food shopping on way home
Put all the clean laundry away
Attack the back garden
Do a tip run
Clean the bathrooms
Wash down cupboard fronts
And maintain the kids rooms
Devlutter a box of crap from my bedroom

I have another busy day today, but still determined to do some jobs.

Get up and dressed
Make beds
Feed everyone
Laundry
Dishy
Horses
Home - probably soaking wet and desperate for a shower!
Have a shower
Pop into town
Make cookies
Friends boys over for lunch
Go racing this afternoon
Dinner
Kids bath and hair wash
Kids bed
Tidy round

We now have less than two weeks til DD is back at school and DS starts preschool, so I really need to get a bit done in the next week

Get napisan to see if polo shirts look a bit cleaner!
Sew in nametapes
Get ds potty trained (work in progress)

This tip never fails when tackling odious tasks. Find some old music, prerably from happy times and definately up beat. Whack it on LOUD and entertain the kids with your wild dancing and singing whlie you zap through the jobs and take a trip down memory lane. My DD's room was a health hazard, so I dug out an old record player from the loft and a box of singles. We had a ball. She enjoyed hearing the old stuff and I told her tales of way back when as we bopped and blitzed. I was sad to stop.

Ok here we go
Today I have -

Fed 3 dc
Dressed 3 dc & myself
Done all pots
Sterilised bottles
Stripped ds2s wet bed
One wash done and In dryer
Ordered shopping

Need to-
Put away 3 piles washing
Clean pets
Tidy dds room sweep stairs
Sweep kitchen
Mop kitchen

That's my aim before lunch!

Loud music definitely helps!

I'm a bit of an idiot, and thought the kids were at a party 3-5pm today - perfect I thought, that's their dinner sorted, fits in my day perfectly etc.... No, it is 1-3pm (bugger)

Anyway, should be able make everything fit in!

Get dressed
Make beds
Kids dressed
Hang out washing
Make some sandwiches and drinks
Do DD's hair (was desperate for a wash last night but home late)
Help out at riding club (9 -10.30)
Pop by Asda to get present for party
Home to wrap present and get everyone changed
Pick friends up 12.35
Party 1-3pm
Drop friends off
Do horses
Home
Find something for kids dinner
Waitrose delivery 6-8pm

My list yesterday did not go well and most of it still needs doing

Depressing

You win some. You lose some. Don't get depressed, just find a job that you know makes a big difference to you and do it. For me it is putting the washing away, I keep putting it off and then when I do it I wonder why as it takes so little time and makes upstairs look so much tidier.
Good luck :)

Lol washing is my worst enemy

Well I had a burst of energy yesterday and managed to clear, Hoover and polish mine and dds room. Cleaned toilet, sink and bath. Mopped bathroom. Put away all the washing

Think I did quite well

Today I aim to -
De clutter and tidy boys room
Hoover boys room
Have another sweep and mop of bathroom
Sweep stairs
Tidy living room
Hoover living room

Then all is left is the kitchen, which is by far the worst room

Wow, that is impressive!

I find the kitchen the easiest one to do, as it is easy to know where to start - empty and reload dishy, run a sink full of hot water, put non dishy stuff in to soak, put any food away, and you are half way there.

I struggle with the sitting room and dining room, just can never find the motivation to tidy a room for it to immediately get messy again.

Oops, list!

Today is mostly going to be a horse day. It is supposed to be hot for the next two days, so a lot of cleaning needed.

Get up and dressed
Kids dressed
Make beds
Laundry
Dishy
To the yard
Muck out really well and leave beds up
Wash some rugs and hang out to dry
Skip out field
Fly spray the horses
Home for a shower!
Make something for pudding to take to friends house
Go back to the yard to put the clean beds down for the horses, feed etc
Go to friends house for dinner.

Kitchen is my worst As it seems to be where everything gets dumped!

So far I have -
Fed 3 dc
Dressed 3dc
Bathed and dressed me

Off to load the drier

I'm so glad I found this thread in Active this morning. I was feeling exactly the same after returning from a camping trip yesterday. I was so inspired that I emptied the campervan and cleaned it, did three loads of washing and hung it out, cleaned the kitchen, scrubbed the kitchen floor on my hands and knees, mopped the kitchen floor, cleaned the BBQ, hoovered the lounge, cleaned the kitchen cupboards and reorganised the spice cupboard. DH mowed both lawns and put the campervan in the garage. Tomorrow I am going to tackle the rest of the house, now I am relaxing in the garden with a glass of wine

Wow well done you!

Today I've mAnaged -
2 lots of washing - washed dried put away
De cluttered kitchen work tops
Swept kitchen

Kept on top of rooms I blitzed yesterday

Just got in from a walk and am bloody boiling may do some more when i cool down a bit!

Loads to do and I'm being lazy!

At 4pm I will do 10mins in the kitchen.

10 mins done. Excellent way to get me off my arse!

Dishy emptied and reloaded
Washing up bowl emptied, cleaned and filled with hot water
Breakfast bowls into disk (yes, I know!)

Next,
put something on telly for kids
Washload on
Empty draining board
Do washing up
Wipe down sides

10 mins done. Excellent way to get me off my arse!

Dishy emptied and reloaded
Washing up bowl emptied, cleaned and filled with hot water
Breakfast bowls into disk (yes, I know!)

Next,
put something on telly for kids
Washload on
Empty draining board
Do washing up
Wipe down sides