FLY on FRIDAY - sweep & mop kitchen floor

[batinshoes]

kelly's mission

Oh the joy!!

DH did this the other day so i aint doing again! Will sweep, but then i sweep most days!

After yesterday's pathetic day, I will try harder today - but i am very very very tired - just cant seem to wake up yet!

I swept mine yesterday but am having to do the hall and kitchen every day at the moment because of all the wet leaves being brought in.

Will mop today but I'm going to try and make that the only thing I do as I'm pretty tired too.

I seem to go mad on Mondays/Tuesdays and then really wind down on the cleaning by the weekend

jarm - dont beat yourself up. try and have a relaxing day & weekend and then you'll be more ready to start again next week.

Swept and mopped my kitchen floor on Mon as part of the "blessing" thingy and hoovered it yesterday. Am going to sort through one or two of my cupboards instead as they seriously need de-cluttering. Plus my DD2 is starting nursery this morning for the first time so I will be home alone for the first time in years. Can't quite work out if I'm happy or sad - very sad I think as my baby is growing up

thanks batinshoes - i know exactly how you feel. I need to get the living room tidy by the time the girls go to bed tonight because i want to clean the carpet again - it needs it already! The joys of 2 babies and no dining room = messy carpet!!!

Morning all, today I am just sticking to the everyday stuff as we are away on holiday tomorrow and I will be packing and checking lists all day.

Not sure if anyone still gets the e.mails but there have been a few about how the rest of the family not joining in. My kids are doing well but its all a big mystery to DH, he summed it up by saying "what do you want me to do to help you?", why is anything to do with housework is down to me? why is it to help me?

He thinks he has to put his pants in the wash to help me! Wiping up his own crumbs to give me a hand. FFS help yourself you live here. Sorry I am still feeling like cutting all arms of his suits and shirts. I told him last night that I felt like a glorified nanny and housekeep, mind you I seem to even be lacking the glorification and the wages . Maybe I should send him an invoice for the hours I do.

LOL at Quootiepie's wipe confusion last night - it's all the same thing! If you have an extra sensitive bum, you might use the 'sensitive wipes' but TBH if it's that sensitive you don't want any of those chemicals near it

I still haven't cleaned the kitchen floor so need to do it this morning when DS is asleep. I made gingernuts after playschool yesterday and was surprised to find they were prefect. How often do you actually find a foolproof recipe?

Skribble have you tried writing down all the tasks (inc his 35-40hrs of work), cutting them up and asking him to sort them into two piles of who does what? Sometimes men are utterly clueless about how much you do unless you tell them. He will be amazed because in his book that would give you huge amounts of 'points' and if he had that many he would have stopped, put his feet up and waited for the score to even up.
Then ask him what you think you should both do to even it up - let him come up with the fab idea of moving some more tasks to his pile

BOBS please can I have the perfect ginger nut recipe?

Sigh, I will go and do the floor in a minute, but am lamenting the lack of the super microfibre mop from lakeland, which I have now added to my list for Santa. Being a grown-up is great isn't it??! What other joys will Christmas bring? Some new tights maybe...? a garlic press...? Ho Hum

aaaaargh. my desired new bathroom floor just turned into 4 new tires for my car

Buckets that sounds good in theory but, he would just claim he doesn't have time to do anything else, he does worka lot of hours and I am not even asking im to scrub the bathroom or dust the living room. I just think a grown man should be able to see that he has to clear up after himself, not to give me a hand but because thats what he should do.

Like last night when I went to bed DS was practicly wearing his duvet hsa a scarf, so I untangled him and wiped all the seat off him, DH obviously didn't pull the Duvet down off him when he went up to bed, but DH will claim he did,
then I have to clear a path to DD's bed to tuck her in, DH never lifts any of her stuff or straightens her out.
Then in hour room DH leaves his dirty pants and socks in a pile beside the bed instrad of 2 ft over in the dirty washing pile.
The I trip over his big boots at the bottom of the bed, why not put them in the cupbord or at least out of the way.

He basicly comes in and leaves a trail behind him, perhaps he is worried he will get lost and not be able to find the front door in the morning, so he will follow the trail of phone, Ipod, watch, glasses, clothes, boots, keys, money, cards, paperwork, reciepts etc etc etc etc etc. all over the house until he is back in his van.

It feels like sabotage, I clear a surface and he thinks oh great somewhere else to put my stuff, even the kids are managing to clear their steps and put their clean clothes away.

That would be sweat I had to wipe.

morning!
DP bought an electric radiator, so now have a warm living room. it's been awful having no heating. the washing that's been hanging up for 3 days was still soaking wet. we have no dry towels! fingers crossed, hopefully the boiler will be fixed tomorrow.

Oh I remember the days asleep, we had no central heating in our flat just a coal fire in the living room. FIL helped to fit a gas sort of blowy heater in the bedroom, but I could never get washing dry, even hanging out the back didn't help as it was a dank shady garden with no breeze. My delongi oil filled heater as my best freind and followed me everywhere .

I now have the novelty of central heating and a brezzy back garden, heating sounds a bit dodgy at the moment though, must get it seen to.

skribble, DP has a basket in the living room to dump all his stuff (keys, mobile, wallet, car stereo front ...) and he does use it 90% of the time. DD has a similar basket on the bottom of the stairs to dump her gloves & hat in. in the summer it was her sunhat and sunscreen!

Right, kitchen floor! No point in brushing/mopping it as what you can see is bare floorboards and what you can't see is covered with huge fan-thing and huge de-humidifier drying everything out . Washing machine (the cause of all the trouble) is also in the middle of kitchen so very little of floor on view.
However I have reclaimed something from the madness of the past 2 days and my sink is shiny again

There maybe a silver lining in all this though as we will get new hall flooring (as the leak got that far) and the insurance assessor did say something about 'hall, stairs and landing', now that would really be a result

Will try some serious decluttering in place of kitchen FLYing today,

it's a delonghi oil filled that he bought. tea towels are dry so far.

I'm clambering back on the FLYwagon after a couple of weeks of floundering. Sink is shiny. Have an hour's cleaning planned for this evening - refuse to call it a home blessing - to try to get back on top of things...

Can you give him a designated box in the hall or somewhere to empty his pockets into?
My dh also doesn't clear a path between beds and doors, obviously because it's not him that has to get up in the night to see to the kids. Nothing more painful than treading on lego/duplo. Have mentioned it but think it was probably dismissed as nagging. I think it's all about timing - how something is percieved as nagging one minute or an ego-booosting plea for help another time.
I was thinking about putting the dirty linen basket in the bathroom when we re-do it but as it's just outside our bedroom right now and doesn't get used, I don't think I'll bother.

heh DP went from dumping his dirty clothes on the bedroom floor to dumping them onto a pile in the bedroom to a pile on the landing to taking them downstairs and putting them in the laundry basket in the utility room. next move is getting him to put them in the washing machine and turning it on!

Yippee, kitchen floor

Mine desperately needs doing, and the dog has managed to distribute polystyrine (sp) everywhere from a parcel just delivered, so will be sweeping, vaccing and mopping kitchen and dining room....

Just come back from school harvest festival, so will finish my coffee and get started...

JessaJackOLantern I call it my monday morning home fix.

I have tried giving him places to put stuff, I still have to sort out the corner where a lot of stuff is lurking, like chargers and old phones. Perhaps I will get him a nice anthea basket . I don't want to nag but I dont think I should have to plead for help. I don't want help.

I gave him a box in the bedroom for pocket junk, as he was emptying his pockets there, so he puts some stuff on top of the box. But he also dumps stuff on top of the telly or the desk or the work tops or the table or the toilet cistern or the lamp table or the end table or the floor. Well actually it is normally all of these locations at the same time.

When I cleaned out under the settee I found 3 teatowels, he uses them when putting in his lenses, he always seems to have at least 3 on the go in the bathroom all to dry his hand on once he has rinsed his lenses. Any of you wear lenses? How do you do it? does it involve leaving damp tea towels in your wake?

Skribble I've not read the whole thread, just the last post which was yours. I can understand your dp/dh? using tea towels as he doesn't want fluff on his lenses. I can also understand him wanting a fresh clean one every time. Can you train him a bit more to just have one being used, then it goes in the wash and then he takes a new one? I used to use kitchen towel myself but he might not find it suitable. Lenses can be tricky things to put in, take out, handle and clean so I do sympathise with him but it would be better for you if he could improve the routine so that he doesn't leave damp tea towels in his wake!

I forgot to say that my kitchen floor doesn't need to be done so instead I've sorted out one of the kitchen cupboards. It's huge and holds trillions of tins/pasta/jars etc. I've sorted them into date order (loosely - use by 2007 in one holder thingy, use by 2008 in the other), binned the out of date stuff, cleaned it, etc. It took nearly 2 hours but it only needs to be done on that scale every couple of years.

On Sunday I wanted to watch Countryfile (well, listen and look up occasionally when the gorgeous Ben is on!) so I sorted the tea and coffee cupboard, binning old stuff and putting in date order. I'm afraid to say that I sometimes open the cupboard door just to admire it! I also sorted out the sitting room coffee table of all the old newspapers. I've just got the magazines left to do and that room is almost sorted. I'm getting there, slowly.

Skribble your dh needs a good spanking LOL. Tell him the kids are tidier than he is so why should you tolerate it from a grown up.
Re the contact lenses, seems nuts to me. Wash your hands, dry them on your hand towel and test for yourself if it leaves fluff on your fingers.

Hygiene is all important with contact lenses, though, which is why I used to use a fresh sheet of kitchen towel each time. You can easily get conjunctivitis by not following a strict hygenic process when handling lenses.