My house is minging, I have 90 mins tops to sort in before visitors and I have an hour long school run to do right in them middle. Where do I start?!

[Dannat]

There is crap everywhere you look, on every surface. My friend is coming to visit this evening and I need to get it looking halfway decent. I need to move stuff to other rooms, but they are just as minging. The kitchen is done but the front room and kitchen are all one room. I have to do the bathroom but then what?

I hate being rubbish at housework.

Get off MN!

I 2nd that NNB.

Concentrate on the areas she is likely to go into, close every other door. Put piles of ironing/post/bills etc in a bedroom and shut door.

Do bathroom, do kitchen, hoover lounge, dust lounge. Light nice smelling candle about an hour before she comes and leave to burn. Sorted.

Start in kitchen .

Hide all crap .

Do bathroom .

Hoover.

Light candle .

GET OFF MN.

Flylady crisis cleaning needed here.

Start with the kitchen sink. 15 minutes.

15 mins in the living room picking things up off the floor/coffee tables, newspapers etc. HAve two bags with you a rubbish bag and a belongs somewhere else bag.

Then if back to the kitchen 15 minutes clearing worktops

Break and a cup of tea

15 minutes wiping down bathroom sink, toilet and pick up towels/dirty washing

anothre 15 mins cleaning kitchen

15 mins putting more things away in living room.

Brilliant advice. I did get off MN and in that time, have cleaned the bathroom, just got the floor to do. I'm now going to make myself a cup of tea and do the living room as well as the bathroom floor obv.

DS has just woken for his lunch so that is likely to take a bit of time.

Thanks so far, the kick up the bum I needed!

was going to suggest not answering the door... they leave eventually!!