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FOR ALL YOU ANTHEA TYPES

25 replies

sammibaps · 21/09/2006 11:39

Great tip - put a full set of bed linen, i.e duvet cover, pillow cases, bottom sheet into one of the duvet cover's matching pillowcases - then you don't have to rummage around finding everything - bring it on!

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ginmummy · 21/09/2006 11:41

Or store all the bedding under your mattress, that way it irons itself and you always know where everything is.

southeastastra · 21/09/2006 11:41

do you mean when you wash them?

KTeepee · 21/09/2006 11:56

I already do that sammi [smug icon]!

JackieNo · 21/09/2006 21:47

sammibaps - are you Anthea? That exact tip was on her programme this evening...

Skribble · 21/09/2006 23:31

Is Anthea repeated I missed it?

Gillian76 · 21/09/2006 23:34

Repeats on Sunday I think Skribble

Skribble · 21/09/2006 23:35

Oh goody!

"Anthea speak"

mothersruin · 21/09/2006 23:39

what you mean you don't have all the linen in neat little labled piles in the airing cupboard- or at least colour indexed. pah amateurs!

TinyGang · 21/09/2006 23:41

Matching bed linen??? Garlic Bread????

Skribble · 21/09/2006 23:41

The things I could do if I had an airing cupboard, a utility room and a guest room.

Skribble · 21/09/2006 23:42

Garlic?????

Bread????

mothersruin · 21/09/2006 23:42

lol tinygang

mothersruin · 21/09/2006 23:43

don't know why i called it an airing cupboard- usually call it a hot press

see i'm getting Anthea airs and graces

Skribble · 21/09/2006 23:46

The press, I love that, not what we called it, in our house it was "the cupboard",
"which one"
"the one in the bloody hall"
"eh"
"the one with the tank in and all the old crunchy towels jammed in"

mothersruin · 21/09/2006 23:48

call it what you will anthea would have field day in mine. It looks like the fall of Rome.

mothersruin · 21/09/2006 23:51

ps i like a crunchy towel myself.

TinyGang · 22/09/2006 00:01

Lol at 'crunchy towels'

Why is it members of my family, (ie dh), always want the towel at the bottom of the neat pile in the airing cupboard. It gets yanked out and an avalanche of crap falls out.

mothersruin · 22/09/2006 00:04

Sods Law.
did the same thing today trying to retrieve a sleeping bag for sleepover tomorrow night- complete cascade of crapola followed by the parasol which is 8 feet high falling on my head

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sammibaps · 22/09/2006 11:40

Damn you've rumbled me I am in fact Anthea herself - pout, pout

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JackieNo · 22/09/2006 11:42

Ah, but if you really were her, then you wouldn't need anyone's help to find a lampshade, I'm guessing. Only just now connected the 2 threads.

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sammibaps · 22/09/2006 11:51

Hehe Inspector Jackie

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FluffyCharlotteCorday · 22/09/2006 11:53

Today I turned my mattress and vacuumed it. And changed the sheets.

Wilbur · 22/09/2006 11:57

I did actually fold my towels a la Anthea this morning as we had someone coming to view our flat. Natch viewer has not turned up. Towels look great though. I long for fragrant baskets and little labels but have realised after 20 years of chaos (38 years if you count my mother's own special brand of disastrous housekeeping) it's just not going to happen.

Wilbur · 22/09/2006 11:58

lol at "fall of Rome". I have cupboards like that too.

bossboggle · 22/11/2011 16:23

I've trained all of mine to get the towels from the TOP of the pile - OR ELSE!!! I also have separate baskets for towels, whites etc....Saves hours sorting laundry!!

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