Come on you slatterns, get your arses in gear, I stop posting for 2 days and you all start getting lazy................

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didn't see a single bump of a slattersn thread in the 2 days I've lurked. So here we are - a brand new slatterns thread to take us over to the new year (where I think we can safely say that one of our NY Resolution won't be keeping teh house tidy at all times )

I can officialy say that:

Paper lists of things to do are SHIT. They don't work, they don't tell you how well you're doing when you update to say what you've done, they get lost under the stuff still to be sorted, and they don't give you other unrelated banter while you're having a rest from it all

So - with that in mind.

Tonight (and I use the word quite loosely as I've slept the last 2 nights so suspect there will be little sleep to be found tonight) I need to:

• Get my washing done
• Dry it
• Iron it all (it's taking over the dining room!)
• Tidy and hoover the lounge
• Clean kitchen worktops
• Empty kitchen bins
• Put dishwasher on

May add more stuff later as I realise it needs doing.

Making progress, but I need to go to work in 45 minutes.

-Have a shower and get dressed done
-Wash and dry uniform for work done
-Write Christmas thank-you letters done
-Sort out ds's toys into his new toy box done
-Wash dishes done
-Ironing
-Tidy up general clutter done

• Shower DONE
• Dry hair and get dressed DONE
• Get DS's dressed and breakfasted - DONE
• Put some washing on DONE
• Empty dishwasher DONE (thanks boys grin)
• Play the organ at church DONE
• Pop to the shop for a few bits DONE
• Sort kitchen worktops
• Put breadmaker on DONE
• Cook dinner
• Get washing dried started
• Ironing
• Feed boys
• Bath boys
• Get boys in bed
• Tidy lounge/diner
• Reload dishwasher and put it on
• Hoover

well done ladies

Just havin a cup of tea to warm up, so cold out there today!

sweep kitchen floor DONE
sweep bathroom floor DONE
mop kitchen floor DONE
mop bathroom floor DONE
clean cooker HALF DONE
clean microwave HALF DONE
clean fride
reoranise cupboards in kitchen DONE
clean bathroom HALF DONE
hoover bedroom DONE
sweep all wooden floorin
clean all wooden floorin with a cloth and bucket
mirrors DONE
windows DONE
tidy up random christmas shit HALF DONE
bins out DONE
clear out junk in kitchen
declutter dining area table
hoover rug in livin room

DS3 is awake now - so probably won't get an awful ot more done before he goes to bed - he likes to "help" which ((bless him) usually means "undoing" everything I've done

lol at "helping"

sweep kitchen floor DONE
sweep bathroom floor DONE
mop kitchen floor DONE
mop bathroom floor DONE
clean cooker HALF DONE
clean microwave HALF DONE
clean fride
reoranise cupboards in kitchen DONE
clean bathroom HALF DONE
hoover bedroom DONE
sweep all wooden floorin DONE
clean all wooden floorin with a cloth and bucket DONE
mirrors DONE
windows DONE
tidy up random christmas shit DONE
bins out DONE
clear out junk in kitchen
declutter dining area table
hoover rug in livin room DONE

Can't believe I have almost finished my list lol, dont the skirtin boards too Flat smells lovely, have lit some nice candels too. Bliss.

well done - I'm still getting through my clothes getting them dried, dinner is on the stove at the moment, I've also scrubbed my sink - following a horrible couoghing fit where I ended up being sick into the sink because of the coughing - it was already looking rank, so had a good scrub and bleach afterwards

• Shower DONE
• Dry hair and get dressed DONE
• Get DS's dressed and breakfasted - DONE
• Put some washing on DONE
• Empty dishwasher DONE (thanks boys )
• Play the organ at church DONE
• Pop to the shop for a few bits DONE
• Sort kitchen worktops
• Put breadmaker on DONE
• Cook dinner DONE
• Get washing dried started (nearly finished)
• Ironing
• Feed boys DONE
• Bath boys DONE
• Get boys in bed
• Tidy lounge/diner
• Reload dishwasher and put it on
• Hoover

• Shower DONE
• Dry hair and get dressed DONE
• Get DS's dressed and breakfasted - DONE
• Put some washing on DONE
• Empty dishwasher DONE (thanks boys )
• Play the organ at church DONE
• Pop to the shop for a few bits DONE
• Sort kitchen worktops
• Put breadmaker on DONE
• Cook dinner DONE
• Get washing dried DONE!!!!
• Ironing
• Feed boys DONE
• Bath boys DONE
• Get boys in bed DONE
• Tidy lounge/diner
• Reload dishwasher and put it on
• Empty kitchen bins
• Hoover

OK - so the last DS has just taken himself off up to bed.........that means I really need to get on..........

So I did 3 more loads but still have another 2 to do. I don't know how that happened .

I still have clean clothes to put away - a mountain of them.

I have however;

hoovered
bulk cooked
made bread
cleaned kitchen
tidied living room

bump for NCBirdy

I have done................

BUGGER ALL tonight, just going to have a fag, do a 15 minute whizz round in the kitchen, make a coffee and then sleep !!!!

Ok, I am here

Right, tonight I must...

Have quick cig,
Drink quick Coffee,
Make list of things to do..

, am thinking that this may be a bit too slatternly

so that's fine - it's a start - we all have to start somewhere

Tonight I should have (and therefore still need to)

• clear the airer of the dry washing into the airing cupboard
• hang out the washing on the airer that I took out of the machine yesterday
• take out the current load of washing in the machine
• put in the next load of washing

Tomorrow I need to:

• call the plumber AGAIN about the CH which still doesn't bloody well work properly (on upstairs but not downstairs and not up to temp)
• clean out the car
• vacuum and clean and vacuum again the front room carpet - it's minging!

oh there must be more - I can't add the general "tidy the whole house", I can't bear it!

right I'm off to do my 15 minutes.............

How is this for achievement!

Have quick cig, done
Drink quick Coffee, done
Make list of things to do.. done

Ok, now on to the real stuff!

Clear the dressing room
Hoover the garage
Clear the utility
Go through kitchen cupboards
Clean my oven
Sort recycling
Got to the tip (may have to wait till morning for that!)
Tidy sitting room
Clear out car (with a shovel I think )

Argh, it all seems so much!

i might be being a bit dense here, but you don't actually do all this stuff at night do you? I couldn't vacuum at night, it would wake DS and DH up!

ok I'm back,

My dishwasher is now fully loaded (bar one bottle lid - which could be anywhere)

I've cleared and cleaned one worktop (it's the main one we use so useful to be clear lol.

I've emptied my main kitchen bin, and pu the stuff in the recycling/on top of the recycling bin out too.

I've still got more recyclig stuff to go out, but that's in the form of about 5 milk bottles, and severla Dr Pepper bottles on the other worktops .

That's me done for the night, going ot have a coffee and fag then go to bed - yes I'm actually feeling brave enough to try sleeing in my bed tonight - haven't slept in it for ermm, errrm, ermm a loooooooooong time (although did change the sheets recently lol).

Will make some of tomorrows list while I'm having my fag and coffee

thumbwitch - most people do it during the (UK) day time, but we have a couple of slatterns the otherside of the world, and some mad people like me occasionaly hoover at 11pm and later at night .

But generally during the day.........

oh and it's not at all uncommon for something to be posted on Monday's list of stuff to do to still be on the list on the Friday

TW, I do hte quiet/downstairs stuff at night then run the hoover round whilst the dcs get dressed etc in the morning. My hteory is that I have a tidy house at the start of the day - nice idea!

phew, that's ok then!
Ds is much too much of a light sleeper for me to do much moving stuff around when he is in bed. DH, of course, could sleep through a hurricane.

Oooh, get you FAQ! acieving on so many levels tonight! I so hope your sleep problems are eased now, it would be such a freedom for you to be well rested!

Clear the dressing room
Hoover the garage
Clear the utility
Go through kitchen cupboards done
Clean my oven
Sort recycling
Got to the tip (may have to wait till morning for that!)
Tidy sitting room 1/2done
Clear out car (with a shovel I think )

I need to step it up a bit I think!

So are you non-gb then TW or are you another late night lady?

ok tomorrow's list (Monday)

• Get myself dressed
• Get DS's sorted
• Load of washing (possibly - actually probably lol)
• Empty dishwasher
• Pop to Morrisons
• Finishg tidying kitchen worktops
• Take rest of the rubbish out
• Tidy lounge/diner floor
• Clear/Clean dining room table (the DS's are currently piling things in the middle to make space for their table mats to eat their meals
• IRONING (when DS3 has his nap in the afternoon)
• Put clothes away
• Hoover
• Sort dinner
• Boys in bed
• Meeting to plan January (eek!!!) hymns
• Put dishwasher on
• Tidy kitchen floor
• Clean kitchen and bathroom floors

Think that's it for now.......actually some of this list will almost certainly carry over into Tuesday but hey ho I can always live in hope of getting it all done

hey don't sweat it NC - we're slatterns on this thread, things on the list can stay on your daily lists for as long as you want (or can cope with it not being done lol).

You watch and see how often "mop/clean kitchen floor appears on my daily lists" and doesn't get a triumphants DONE next to it .

I have extremely forgiving dark red quarry stone tiles on my kitchen floor, DS3 doesn't go into the kitchen at al (except on bath nights when he runs through to the bathroom) so it goes a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time between cleans