Howcome I can declutter several times a week and yet everywhere is still messy ??

[nutcracker]

I don't get where I am going wrong.

I was going to post the very same topic this week - I rarely leave the house without some recycling, or a bag for the charity shop, yet house is overloaded, and we dont shop much I get up at 6.00 everyday, and straighten up first thing, and we go out a lot, yet generally we are in a mess.

Ohh, on the floro from where i'm siting there is ..

My boots, ds's shoes, phone, camera bag, xmas lights box, slippers, 2 balloons, carrier bags, boxes for ds's toys, toy henry, fifi cottage, various bits of paper and hair elastics.

Yeah I might in a mo actually lol.

You don't have anything too tidy!
I daren't show a pic of the kitchen!
Or DD2's bed where i have piled the clothes which need putting away. And if i don't do them they will end up on the floor later!

am feeling so much better about my house now

is this the wrong thread to announce i have an empty ironing basket ??

Camilla

Don't think my ironing basket has ever been empty.

ok, am in the kitchen and can see a blue pencil, a pair of shoes and a bath toy......and an overflowing recycling box

I don't have an ironing basket. I melted the iron on the cooker ring and haven't replaced it yet.

I will go do a bit too.

don;t worry, it is the first time i can remember it happening, and i have a wash on at the mo, so it will be filling up

yesterday MIL took DD out for a bit whilst DS was at school so i could have some time to myself as i was poorly, so ironed. somehow i feel cheated ...

Yep i am off to do a bit too, will report back later.

Looks better now(see pic). And it didn't really take long.
Suppose i should do the washing pile next. My worst job!

Well done.
How long will it stay looking good though

i'm just so tired to tidying everything, leaving the room to go tackle something else then coming back to the same mess I'd just cleaned! drives me BONKERS!

Put some of the washing away! All of DD1 and DD2s.
DS1 and Dsw2 can help with theirs tomorrow. Then its just my few bits to put away.

I really should do the kitchen next!

I have done a bit, living room is now alot tidier. Have stuck the xmas cards up and done the garland thingy for the fireplace.

Was going to vacuum but ds wanted to do it with his toy Henry and got rather annoyed when i suggested that it wasn't real so wouldn't work, so I let him get on with it

have you lot all been tidying up while I've been...erm doing something else??

What happened to 'you are not alone in your slovenliness' and all that? Evaporated I tell you! Yous were all shamming, were't you, go on, admit it!

is anyone else still sitting amidst a heap?

[looks worried and crestfallen]

Started hours ago mate [hic]

here

[passes bottle, roughly in direction of Tmmj but not quite]

[falls over landing on some more ironing]