Right. Who else needs to sort out their home for winter/Christmas?

[Draconis]

Mine is a tip currently.
Here's what I need to do over the next few weeks -
Declutter living room, kitchen, bedrooms
Tidy up porch
Paint kitchen and redo grout around the sink (I'm going to do this myself)
Deep clean bathroom and fix some broken things
Fix some lose kitchen tiles
Order new furniture for Kids bedroom and get rid of the old broken stuff.
Clean blinds and windows
Fix a blind that has got stuck
Wow! Feels good to get that down. There's a lot to be getting on with. I've given myself a deadline of end of November.

Anyone else?

Me!Me!
I’m on holiday at the moment , I did my lists before I went away so not spent too much time thinking about cleaning things .

When we get back- summer clothes washed and sorted out to storage (in the attic) or recycle
winter clothes will come out of the attic and sorted. Anything that is “why the Hell did I keep that” will go

Shampoo hall and landing carpet then do the stairs another day
Get out the heavy duty George vacuum instead of wafting about with a rechargeable stick one

Pantry sort out, see what I have and put in groups/date. See what I need for Christmas and clear my Christmas Shelf.
Then have my DS ask “can I eat the After Eights” ? If they’re on the Christmas Shelf then no.

Get everything off the kitchen worktops and clean. I have one of those rechargeable scrubbing brushes . Different heads for bathroom or kitchen

Winter bedding - Dd likes hers on hallowe’en night.

Cutlery drawers sort through

the corner carousel where the pots live but I’ll get DS onto this, save my back

oven cleaning, I can spray inside and leave it overnight and use astonish paste on the door, That’s a sitting on the floor with coffee job

i defrosted the fridge freezer a couple of months back but it’ll need done before Christmas as it’s starting to look iced up again. It’s over 16 yo so I don’t want to antagonise it but need to keep it efficient. The inner door shelves are repaired with clear heavy duty tape as they are so expensive, not worth replacing.

Thanks.

to do this week:

declutter and dust all shelves and book cases.
swap summer/winter clothes

DH painted the downstairs loo so it looks nice
Bathroom needs a clean and the radiator cleaned. It’s got horizontal bars which are a pain , I use a toothbrush and non abrasive paste in the pesky corners where the rust is. Looks nice when it’s done

Me, I've started already as was off work this week, so I've sorted out my wardrobe, massive bag of stuff to go off to the Red Cross, summer stuff has been put away in boxes and winter stuff is in the wardrobe.

I am a teacher and I had materials and papers everywhere, as just not enough time to sort out during term time. That's all done now and put into relevant folders.

House admin is filed.

I have a massive bin bag of paperwork that needs to go in the burny bin once it stops raining.

I've cleared the bookshelf in my bedroom.

Deep cleaned the kitchen and dining room today.

To do:

Deep clean the rest of the house.
Steam clean the sofas, particularly where the dog brushes past them, I noticed today they are in a shocking state.

Sort out the utility room and paint it if I have time.

If it ever stops raining get out into the garden and sort that out - tip run.

Sell loads of stuff that I've uncovered in my clear out that I am obviously never going to use again.

I'm pleased with what I've achieved so far if I can get all the cleaning done and stuff sold that will be great.

I've also got to start lesson planning for the lessons up to Christmas.