Unfuck your Christmas

[MrsNouveauRichards]

Here is the link www.unfuckyourhabitat.com/

I am a recent convert to Unfuck Your Habitat, and feel the need of a Grand Christmas Unfuck.

I know there is a MN UFYH thread already going (hello, fellow unfuckers!) But thought I would not be alone in needing to sort my shit out the saturday before christmas.

For those of you new to UFYH, it is like flylady, but less fluffy and blessingy, and more telling you to not be so fucking lazy (oh, and there is an app)

If you are need of procrastination further inspiration, check out their tumblr page - before and after pics!

Marking my place as I feel this is a tidying thread for me. Need to get cracking else the mess will start to take over.

Longterm goal, declutter so keeping clean and tidy is easier.
Short-term goal. Superficial cleaness and tidyness so I can get through Christmas.

Off to do bathroom before work :)

See you later.

Can I join

Today's the last day of work then off for 10 days(thank fuck)!

Today my plan is work
Nip into town with DS!
Go to another part of town to change DH vapour pen
Come home and I need to spring in to action
Tidy all rooms
Change dd bedding
Hang up washing
Clean bathroom and kitchen
Dust everywhere
Hoover and scrub floors
Take out stuff from freezer to defrost
Huge mountain off ironing
Got To tesco for last bits and bobs!

And tomorrow should only be keeping on top of things!

Well that's the plan up to now!

My dining table is also covered!! It's the wrapping station though so surely that's ok?
I have decided to finish the wrapping today so I can reclaim the table and prevent us having to eat any more meals squished in amongst the ribbon and Sellotape! Of course, finishing the wrapping means that I have to finish the Christmas shopping doesn't it? Fuck
I've already done the Christmas food shop this morning and put it away. I've also had a glass of wine as I felt it was justified. Now feeling a bit wobbly and having a sit down with a cuppa!

Can I join? I seriously need to unfuck mine. I had a look at the site and they appear to have seen my dining table and be writing about it so that's the first step. Will be nice for the four of us not to be squashed down one end while the crap sits on most of it!

quick question re the app: is it called unfilth your habitat?!

Have just answered my own question by looking in the website. Such a lazy sod!! Xx

Yes Cataline. I guess profanities not allowed on the app store!

I finished my sewing projects and all the present wrapping yesterday. Also most of the outside jobs. DH made the mince pies with DS. I am still in bed right now, psyching myself up for a day of interminable sorting through clutter.

I had a rule a while back of not buying anything without disposing of a corresponding item or a handful of things of the same or greater size/weight. Seemed to work for a while. The fucking packaging that stuff comes in is a killer though. I find myself keeping boxes 'in case' I give the thing away later and want to package it. I took a full car boot of flattened cardboard wine delivery boxes to the tip a month or so ago.

Ps thank you MrsNouveau.

Downloaded the app and have done my first 20/10.
Washed dishes, unloaded tumble dryer, folded and put away clothes, emptied both bins, put a load of washing on. Phew! Going to need this ten minute break!

I think the iPhone app doesn't allow swearing, thankfully the android app is more than happy with a good fucking :o

I have four kids in my house all playing pokemon battles (loudly) at least they are not arguing I suppose.

UNFUCKED
Everyone up
Beds stripped
One pile of washing away
Everyone fed
Car emptied
Unload/reload dishy

TO UNFUCK
Do horses (going to be hard work with all the kids)
Washload on
Wrap DH's present from the kids
Make some mince pies
Feed children
Cull some books/toys

20/10?

LEM- 20/10 is 20 mins of work and a 10 min break. My kind of ratio

err, i rather think that ratio needs reversing! :)

Just been to m&s food hall then tesco. Its crazy busy! Away for a nap now then this house is getting unfucked so hard it won't know what's hit it. (Mainly cause my mum is coming to clean windows, polish and vacuum for me later- she doesn't want baby to make an early appearance!)

To unfuck in no particular order
Put away last of shopping. Find better hiding place for coke and crisps.
Buy more wrapping paper
Last of gifts wrapped
Set out last of Xmas decs
Finish making secret Santa gift
Pack longer stay hospital bag
Ironing while watching Xmas movie
Sew in ends of baby blanket if carpal tunnel numbness eases
Finish DDs room ( by shoving boxes filled with assorted stuff into eaves, for now. Crisis cleaning there!)
Make cake toppers
Laundry
Declutter bedroom
Set up baby changing area in living room or bathroom??
Pay cc bill

I am wound up so tight I am about ready to explode! I have my friends kids here this morning while she goes to work, a bit of a last minute thing, and while they are nice kids they never shut up. I don't mean just talking, I mean "MrsN I'm hungry/thirsty/tired/bored/can I have this toy out?/can I watch this?/such and such isn't sharing and I had it first" Aaaarrrgggghhhhh!!! Shut up!

So anyway, less than two hour's work has taken me nearly 4 and I am grumpy. [miserable old cow]

So, this afternoon.....

TO UNFUCK
Clear up lunch
More laundry
20/10 book shelf cull/sort out
20/10 whole house pick up/tidy
Back to horses to put them to bed
Feed kids
Bath kids
Clean sheets on beds
Kids to bed early
Friend over - drink wine

Unfuckery has been buggered up a bit by DH developing a dicky tummy. Still, most of the clutter has been moved to the rooms it belongs in, and overall reduced by about a third.

All presents are now in the house, last two deliveries arrived today, but I have run out of wrapping paper and am twitching to go to Tiger and get one more of the type I was using. It Just Wouldn't Do to use the plain gold paper of which I have plenty, because that's for elf/santa presents.

Sympathise with the houseful of kids MrsN, mine are too young to be much use with cleaning etc but were entertaining each other quite sweetly and the older one liked giving me updates on Daddy: "he's still in the toilet having a big poo..."

Have identified where to put the sewing machine 'away', so off to do that now that all three of my lovelies appear to be having a nap.

UNFUCKED:
Three bird roast collected - walked home in gale and got hit on the head with flying cardboard box (not impressed)
living room floor hoovered and washed
a dent made in the mountain of laundry in bedroom (decided on half hour spurt of activity)
table cloth and napkins bought
Parsnips and sprouts bought
Bathroom cleaned

FUCKED:
I forgot the tin foil
Major shop still to be done - although have only to buy potatoes for a sufficient xmas dinner.
Tidy kitchen, wash up few bits

I like this

Christmas Eve Unfuckery

Go to traditional all you can eat breakfast with friends done
Make beds half done
Waitrose done
Last Christmas presents and baking gifts done
Get horses done, and ride
Laundry attack
Make kids beds
Drop last presents, cards etc off to various people
Go to the crib service
Dinner (what are we having?)
Kids early to bed
Mammoth wrapping session with raspberry gin

Phew, Christmas is over! Hope everyone else survived?

Today is the day where I try desperately to find homes for all the new things and eat my own body weight in chocolate biscuits. Oh, and start potty training the boy (yes I know, but he said he wouldn't til Christmas, and now he has to!)

TO UNFUCK
Get up and have coffee (and biscuits)
Feed kids
Try again at the whole getting up thing with caffeine and sugar in my bloodstream
Get dressed
Bribe the boy to sit on the potty with marshmallows
Put laundry on
20/10 round whole house
Horses
Feed friend's cats
Lunch
Laundry
20/10 in kids room
Try harder to engage with my kids, the girl especially
Back to the horses 3ish
Home and dinner (leftover Christmas dinner)
Kids bed
Sort out DS school place URGENT!
Sort out DD ballet exam cheque and post
Long bath

Happy Boxing Day!

Today I must find my kitchen

And find homes for huge amounts of toys we acquired yesterday

My house looks worse than it did before I started the unfucking after one sodding day - how is that fair!

Snap mrs!

So far I have loaded the washing machine and sorted new clothes to go upstairs

I have resorted to two boxes outside the childrens bedroom to put clean and folded clothes in until I can get in and put them away (yes, the room is that bad!)

UNFUCKED
Kids fed
Coffee and biscuits consumed

Next I am going to get dressed and do 10mins in our room and 10mins in the kids room. Back soon

UNFUCKED
20/10 including beds made, bedside table cleared and mass of wires, books etc from side of bed cleared, bedroom mantelpiece tidied and dusted, kids books and random shite almost away.

Next is laundry. The fun just never stops around here.

Can I join in? This morning I have unfucked 2 loads of laundry (well, one load is hung up drying (withit hung up in with each fuckers clothes together for easier putting it away, goddamnit!) and the other is in the dryer drying. I have unfucked the kitchen sink drain, so hopefully I have to unfucked the kitchen floor less often when the fucking dishwasher blows it's load all over the floor. Unfortunately, in order to get 20 minutes peace to unfucked laundry and kitchen sink, I set up 3yo DD with her crafting kit. Must unfucked the craft area (the entire lounge room and end of the kitchen). Oh, I have unfucked my bedroom slightly by removing sheets and washing them. Need DH to help move the bed around before I remake it, oh, and the dryer to finish as I only have one quilt cover.

Unfucking the lounge by dumping kids shit into kids rooms. They can deal with it in my fucking dreams later when they are older than 8, 3, and 29 days