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HELP ME SORT MY HOUSE OUT

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hunnybun1981 · 07/12/2008 20:48

HAVENT BEEN FEELING WELL LATELY and so need my house sorted out

living room
kitchen
dining room
kids bedrooms (one is ok)
main bedroom
bathroom needs

WHERE DO I START?

i have about 5 hours tomorrow where should i start really

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starbear · 07/12/2008 21:14

Hi Hunnybun, Put machines on first you know washing and dish (if you have one)
Then, just put things away first and spend 15 mins in each room using a timer. The plan is to just tidy, not clean. After 45mins give your self a 15 min break. Then pick a room.
I would go kitchen first, Break 15mins then bathroom. Then from bathrooms, bedrooms. Don't tackle any major cupboards or ovens just yet. Unless the oven really needs it.
Then living room. Can the kids do the dining room?
What do you think?
I'm doing bathroom first as I've hardly cooked this week as I was working and DS wnet to aunt's and nan's kitchen still clean.

hunnybun1981 · 07/12/2008 21:26

hi starbear no kids are to young

yes agree need kitchen first and then living room and then bathroom maybe and keep going like that

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hunnybun1981 · 07/12/2008 21:28

dont have a dishwasher wish i did lol

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starbear · 07/12/2008 21:30

I said don't tackle any cupboards to make myself feel good. Have not cleaned a cupboard out for 2-3 years. I've got a particularly sticky (oh! Two cupboards I put Golden syrup into another) One with honey & jam pots (the other see above) not doing them until we have a pest invasion or September when Ds starts school

starbear · 07/12/2008 21:31

Oh save up for one of those. It could save your marriage. It saved ours before we even got married.

hunnybun1981 · 07/12/2008 21:39

lol i have no room in my house and its rented so wont be knowing down any walls for it lol

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starbear · 07/12/2008 21:46

I'm going to clean out our middle room, we don't have a name for it. It's a sort of playroom, corridor, sitting room with no telly, has a piano that we can't play (inherited from DH's gran)Tomorrow as well as that, the following
Bathroom
laundry as always
bedrooms only tidy and make beds
Then DS has gymnastics & we always have a friend of hsi around on Monday.
I'm going to defrost strange food for tomorrow it's got to be eaten but I didn't put labels on anything so it will be a surprise.

hunnybun1981 · 07/12/2008 22:07

i think we all do that with the frozen food lol

here is my lost

up showered
kids up eldest dressed for school
ready for pick up 8.10 am
back home
dishes
feed youngest
get a coffee
make stew
lift washing from various places and put it on to wash lol

will get back after i have done that

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starbear · 08/12/2008 08:49

haven't got my act together yet.
So Once I'm dressed.
breakfast for. DS dress DS
hang washing, put another load on
make beds Clean bathroom
Go to post office and post foreign cards
Oh yes get something out of the freezer
Go to Gymtastics
Clean the middle room

hunnybun1981 · 08/12/2008 11:42

good luck with the list, i am getting there

dishes done
kitchen worktops cleaned
living room toys sorted one for charity shop one for ebay and one of rubbish stuff for the tip!

having a coffee break

then need to finish the rest of living room, dust and mop out

then kitchen floor brush and mop (will look so much better even though still awful lol

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starbear · 08/12/2008 11:50

So far done the laundry, Dishwasher made beds
lots of singing of carols with DS. Will sort out a bit of the middle room while we wait for for friends. I think I promised to help boys make biscuits!!! So that will mean big clean up later. How do parents still go to the playground in the cold! I know I must do it but not looking forward to it

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