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I need to clean nag me

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 15:48

Please

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 15:49

GO CLEAN NOW!!!

But I am obsessed

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 15:52

I normally am but we are supposed to be moving, been put off 3 times and we are living in boxes, somehow lost the will to clean along the way and we are dissappearing under filth.

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 15:53

Flash wipes - great things - go now!!

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 15:58

Your good at nagging, I have done one whole bookcase now. unfortunatley no flash wipes just water and soap.

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 16:06

Dh says the same thing

one bookcase is great - how about the mantlepiece next?

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 16:07

OK I have dusted, I need to do bathroom and kitchen and pack 1 box,
I figure if I pack 1 box a day by the time we actually get round to moving they will all be done.
I could just have a coffee first.

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choccypig · 07/02/2008 16:10

Do it now, or your house will end up like mine.

JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 16:11

hmm put the kettle on, and do some kitchen cleaning whilst the kettle boils but then Yes sit down.. I'm not a total witch!!

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 16:16

Choccypig, having not seen your house I can't6 imagine it is worse than mine.
I am going to put the kettle on and do the pots while I wait. Jen you are inspiring.

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choccypig · 07/02/2008 16:25

I trick I read, if it's hard to get started with jobs, say to yourself "I'll just get the hoover out" or I'll just clean the sink. and wow before you know it you are up and away. Doesn't work for me, hence my house being AWFUL. So bad I am scared to invite people round.

Did work for DS reading though. Got him to say "I'll just read one page" and he did a whole chapter

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 16:38

Ok done pots now, I do feel better, dh working late tonight so would like to put my feet up in a clean house when dc gonre to bed.
Next job will be bathroom.
I actually love cleaning it just doesn't really feel like my house anymore. Want to be in new place, although I don't want guy moving in to think we were scrubbers (or not)

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karen999 · 07/02/2008 16:43

Is that you slacking again Cherry?

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 16:49

Hi there Karen, I can't get the fruit shoot ring out of the furniture

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karen999 · 07/02/2008 16:51

I know what you mean. I have spent the whole day trying to hoover up Greggs sausage roll crumbs...in the end I just swept them all up and gave them to dd2 to eat!

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 16:56

I may have missed my window, I .
am now being attacked by crocodile bog monsters dressed as chines ladies.
HELP

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 17:09

Hmm you finished your Kitchen yet Missus???

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 17:38

Kitchen half done, bathroom cleaned (using only bicarbonate of soda)
Lounge and bedroom dusted and kids fed some organic crap.
Yeh,
Just need to finish kitchen and tidy toys up put dc to bed and then its me time in a clean house
Yippee..

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 18:10

Good on ya chick.

How long do you want me to nagg you for...

happy to keep going..

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cherryredretrochick · 07/02/2008 18:14

I certainly know where to look next time I need a good nag, which will probably next time I actually have to do something, I am so lazy until I get started.
You will make someone a lovely mother

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JingleyJen · 08/02/2008 10:03

My boys are loving me already

Bless them I am putting 5p's into a jar to pay for their counselling sessions when they are older!

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cherryredretrochick · 08/02/2008 12:47

counselling wil lbe free by then.
Been out getting muddy all morning safe in the klnowledge that my house is lovely and clean.

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JingleyJen · 08/02/2008 13:50

Don't know where you are in the world but it is the most glorious sunny but cold winters day here and I have had the boys out at the park.

LoveMyGirls · 08/02/2008 13:55

I need to be nagged too, cherry do you mind if i borrow Jen and hijack your thread?

I really really need to clean the bathroom and hoover and mop before i leave the house in less than 1 hour plus i need to do some paperwork which is being picked up about 5ish!

LoveMyGirls · 08/02/2008 13:58

I also need to empty the dishwasher and refill it.............

LoveMyGirls · 08/02/2008 13:59

I'll do that thing where i just do the dishwasher......and see how i go!