One House/Garden Home Improvement a Day Challenge

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Does anyone want to join?

I seem to get bogged down in the day to day grind of keeping the house running and never have time to do the stuff I want to do.

I have so many projects I want to get done... from small (washing curtains!) to large- renovating the kitchen/conservatory and the back garden into a patio.

I thought if I made it an imperative to do something each day, by the time one year is up this place will be transformed.

My place... mid-terrace Victorian. 3 Dcs. 3 dogs 2 cats. Total chaos.

Today I:

1. bought from the local charity shop 5 little cut glass tiny vases of varying heights and put roses in them and bundled them together 'artfully' on the mantelpiece.

1. strung fairy lights up our bannister.

Okay- it's two things. :)

Tomorrow I plan to repot some plants before winter.

Anyone want to join the 365 day challenge?

Not at home today but we've been to visit a town in our search for a place to move to, so i consider that a "housekeeping type" accomplishment.

Enjoy your lamb and mulled wine Wellies

Sorry about your mum phlebas

Sorry to hear about your mum.

I have still not been near the toys! Bedroom is tidy though and most of the clean clothes are put away so that's something well until the pile reappears by tomorrow night. Never realised how irritating washing and drying for five people would be!

Sorted well DH sorted , I watched the waste area which is covered in old leaves and rubbishy plants , some nice terracotta pots found and placed ready for me to wash and plant with bulbs ( when I remember to buy the things ! )

Washing caught up with and all drying now

Then DH went fishing and I lit the fire and DD and me watched films all afternoon ( pitch perfect and hairspray )

Spent hours and hours working outside on the raised vegetable beds project, plus other outside stuff. I ache, but not horribly.
I did dig up a 1946 penny, no doubt dropped by someone years ago digging their vegetable garden. Of course, that was when a penny was worth something.......

Put the ice packs away in their new home, after they were evicted from the freezer that's going to my son.

( BTW that flurry of posts from me, around 11.30 this morning? That was procrastination, that was. From someone who felt less than keen about forking over a seemingly endless piece of ground. I just kept finding things I had to say.).

Hope you enjoyed your well deserved mulled wine Wellies & thanks for the flowers.

Well done mumof3 sounds like a challenging task!

Mostly been catching up on washing/generally cleaning. DH fixed the toilet while I took DS out to run errands, new bins have replaced the old ones and the old ones are with the rest of the stuff to go to the tip. DH has confessed last years Christmas tree is still in the garage waiting to be disposed of!

Can't sleep so here I am.

NameoftheRose - DH would love me to be more into the garden. We started some raised veg beds two years ago. They are now totally overgrown with weeds again. We have done other stuff but there seems so much to do. We have half an acre and I'm finding it a real chore. DH enjoys it but hasn't had much time.

Didnt achieve much more on Saturday. Yesterday I washed my new dishes and found homes for them. And spent the afternoon building a Lego space shuttle. Which doesn't sound very Operation 365 but means I have cleared half my dining table. We started the space shuttle months ago. There is another large Lego project the other end of the table so tomorrow I will pack that away as we won't be finishing it before Xmas and I need th table.

Not sure what to do today. I need to sell a wine cabinet and get rid of a carpet on free cycle. And sort out our 'little house'. Th little house was a carport when we bought the house and we had it made into a sort of room. Th Hungarian removal men called it th 'kisci has' which is Hungarian for little house so th name stuck. It's not a shed nor a garage so little house works! We are buying a treadmill and I need to clear space for it and clean and tidy in there so might do that today whle DH is here to help a bit.

Thnk I'll try and get back to sleep now.

Good morning- hope you got some sleep Cider. Hope your mum gets better very soon phlebas.

Day 18 Operation365.

I have general chores again today. But also want to get stuck into some paperwork and filing. That will mean we get our dining table back! Other than that I plan to contact an upholstery cleaner...... the sofas have not been done for years and with 3 dogs.... ugh.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Didn't get back to sleep but DH took DS to school and I went back to be and did sleep then for an hour or so. Feeling very lazy now! Need to sort kitchen and washing etc and then finish packing the Lego away.

DS is teething and very clingy, all I've managed to do is some general housework and sort out some clothes/toys for the charity shop.

Operation 365 is great.
It's routine housework that's a total shitter IMO.
I am tempted to try a cleaner again.

Making a list. It's largely about de cluttering.

But I really really need to sort out a bathroom blind. I could do with some help here actually. I want to just get a roller or Venetian blind and pop it up myself. dH is fussy (new thread please) and so we've reached a stalemate because I disagree with spending a fortune on made to measure and he reckons anything else is crap.
So where can I buy a blind that I can put up myself without wrecking the plasterwork beyond repair.
Advice please.

Yesterday I reduced us to one fruit bowl, secreting the second one neatly into a cupboard. Does that count?
I also threw out a crappy pot of herbs.

That certainly counts Amanda!

I am afraid I do not know about blinds at all so cannot help there. Our curtains are all pretty ancient but DH is quite sentimental about them so we have never replaced them!! (Our DCs have the curtains HE had when he was little..... also perhaps another thread!). I recently went to Dunelm Mill and they had lots of lovely fresh looking curtains... but other than that I have no advice, sorry.

Up early to keep going on paperwork...... did not get much done yesterday in the end. I have committed myself to getting up earlier every day so I can have 40 minutes or so on it before everyone else wakes up. Otherwise my only aim today is to roll up the garden hoses and put them away for winter.

Day 19 of Operation365.

Oh, and I contacted an upholstery cleaner yesterday by e-mail (he is a friend) but no response yet. :)

Wellies you are working sooooo hard.

Garden hose needs retracting here. DH has left it trailing over the garden and the foxes have chewed the end. He really is the untidyest individual I have known.
I feel he sabotages my attempts to organise and tidy tbh. Like with the blinds. He is also a bit of a hoarder. There are several cat flaps in the utility room and I desperately want to chuck them all out, but nooooooo!

Amanda. :)

Garden hose done now. It was pretty tangled. My DH is a total hoarder too..... we have tins of food in our cupboard that he refuses to let me chuck, where the Best before date is 1998. That was another thing I have started to do....... throw out old manky stuff in the freezer...... he is working away a bit so I am saying to him 'Oh, I am really getting through the freezer' and I am letting him think I am eating it..... FFS, we have frozen purees from when my youngest was weaning (some 3 years ago!) that he says 'Oh that will be fine for soups'. Well I'm not eating it!

Well done on the garden hose. Everyone is up now so no progress will be made with anything.

ds2 started puking on Sunday night - they've all had it now.

18/365 (yesterday) - mended a lampshade (with carpet tape - it will do for now), washed & dried more vomit soaked bedding & towels. Painted a picture for the kitchen - would like to do more of that & less laundry.

Don't know what I'll do today.

phlebas if you get any time to yourself today I think you should be making a cup of something lovely and putting your feet up.

Place marking

Just a quick bookmark to rtft and so I can find it on app later on.

I'll join and start tomorrow if that's ok?

We're a family of four (me, dp and two dd's) and a few fishes in a 3bed mid terrace pit house that's seen better days.

Right, I have now rtft and have a plan for tomorrow....

1, pop into butcher to ask for boxes
2, clear one side of kitchen worktops
3, clear out cupboards under the worktops and clean them

I am also off to town for a shiny new mop, bucket and sweeping brush and some exciting new floor cleaner of some kind because I had to hand scrub the kitchen floor on Sunday it was that minging ....hopefully shiny new cleaning implements will spur me on to keep on top of it this time

Hi all. Still here but nothing achieved today. Had PTA meeting at school this morning followed by hair appointment. Did a bit if shopping and came home. MIL phoned and then it was time to get DS from school.

Oh - I did take my handheld dyson apart and wash the filter and brush as it's n working very well. I suppose that could count!

Yesterday I did finish the Lego so I now have a clear dining table.

Tomorrow I'm finishing my desk which I started two weeks ago.

The dyson clean definitely counts Cider.
I am so happy I organised all the paperwork in the study. I can see the desk again now, there was none of its surface visible. Any post now gets immediately, and perhaps obsessively, dealt with.

Yesterday I dug the garden for two hours and twenty minutes, in two goes. My muscles are toning up like no other exercise has achieved. I also cleared all the leaves from the drive and put them in compost bin. I re-homed a quantity of guttering fittings and charity shopped a pair of DD2's hiking boots.* Also cleared out 2 carrier bags full of DD3's groceries from kitchen cupboard. (When will it fecking end....).

Today I gave the gardening a break. I delivered the bags of foodstuffs to DD3, together with a couple of her mugs and 2 jugs I'd promised her. I also cleaned out 2 kitchen cupboards and re-organised them. With DD3's stuff gone I had somewhere to put the nest of cake tins which used to live on top of the nearly gone fridge. Cake tins had been on work top for a couple of weeks while I wondered where to put them.

Found a pack of 2 years out-of-date suet in cupboard. Obviously it's been a long time since I made dumplings.

• Hiking boots were bought for DD2 many years ago. OH inexplicably thought if he bought them DD2 would suddenly want to come on hikes with us. She had shown no sign any inclination to do so before. "What do you think the chances are?" He asked me, honestly expecting me to agree with him.

"Absolutely zero". I replied, which, interestingly is also the answer to the question " How many hikes did DD2 go on."

Bagged up some baby clothes (sorting clothes is never- ending here) for charity shop.
Not much
Today I need to reorganise toys and put some in the loft. But it's a huge task. I just don't know which ones to leave out. I've accepted that our lounge (yes, I say "lounge" is now a playroom, but ATM it's too crowded to be meaningful. DS is with cm today so if dd naps I might get some of that sorted.
Need to talk to builder about guttering.

nameoftherose good going.

Day 20 Operation365.

Morning everyone and welcome newcomers!!

I have 3.5 hours today to myself, with no Dcs. So I plan to power on through with the admin and filing and to bag and charity shop some baby clothes. 4 years ago someone gave me baby clothes on the understanding I gave them back.......... I have texted, e-mailed and left voiuce messages countless times over the years but have heard nothing. In that time she has also moved house and I do not know where she lives! (She was a sort of friend of a friend but they have lost touch too). So I think after 4 years it is okay to charity shop them? If she comes back to me ever I will offer to buy her new stuff. I have been resisting charity shopping them but the last time I called is about 6 months ago when I thought I saw her in town and telephoned again and left a voice message. Nothing.