Bedroom clear out support thread

[alicecrail]

I have just read a couple of different threads where some mumsnetters are struggling with the state of their bedroom. I am also in the same boat.

I think we all put the rest of our families first, but i have decided to sort my bedroom out once and for all! (well, try)

If anyone would like to join me that would be great

Firstly i have stripped the bed, and the sheets are in the washing machine.

Next i am going to get any clothes out that need washing.

Then i am going to put all books except the two DH and i am reading back into the book case.

I will report back when i have done this and see if anyone else is going to join me

I'm just waiting for DD to crash before i start on clothes pile. I am on my 4th load of washing today!

Oh, yes and you were going to tell us your great idea for a new company

Too late lol I have finished lunch now, when I finish this bedroom (or it will never get done)

Just come across this thread after posting my own "my bedroom is digusting" thread!!

I cant really do much today as DH is in there sleeping off a night shift.

I want to gut it once and for all.

Do you think a nicely decorated bedroom will help me take more pride in it?

Our room is the only room int he house we havent decorated since we moved in. I have just recieved a gift of £500 and wondering whether to do up bedroom with it or if it would just be wasted if revert to slob status!

Hello peck I posted on your thread. There was your's and another that decided me to do this as mine was absolutely appalling. Is your bedroom the ones with the 'phallic' wallpaper?

I just cleared out the airing cupboard for the first time in 8 years! Does that count? I now have an enormous number of dust sheets ready for painting the kitchen.

Of course it counts! Well done you

no, not me with the penis paper!!!

oh thank goodness for that - i was it might have been the thread last week when i confessed i couldn't get out of my side of the bed and get to the door because of all the 'stuff' everywhere... even when the children were crying i had to wake up dh and get him to go...

got to go and look for the penis paper thread now...

(you'll be pleased to know that i can now get out of my side btw - it took a while and i have a few boxes left but most of the carnage has gone...)

well done you, anyway. i'm still working through the laundry mountain, but i made dh do the dusting thing... under the bed still remains a mystery, but as i've only got 7 weeks before the packers come i'm going to have to start delving...

Have just looked it up, it was on holyshowofmyself's thread. Very funny!

Oops sorry, I just realised I never came to tell you all about my new business plan

Not that it would make millions or anything...

Anyway, the idea came from something I noticed - I find it much less of a chore to tidy up someone else's house than my own, and it's much less boring (and quicker) to tidy up your own house if you have someone to do it with. Also, it's very easy if you have a baby/toddler/small child to look after, to get sidetracked when tidying by looking after them or playing with them, and when you come back to it you don't want to do it any more.

So... I thought I would find it less daunting to clean up if I had someone who would come round and do it with me, but I don't really have any friends or family I could ask, so I thought you could hire not a cleaner but a cleaning buddy (awful name though, would have to find something better) who would come round and be lovely and help you get everything sorted.

I hope that made sense because it sounds a bit jumbled to me.

That is a very good idea. Probably would just be easier to get Kim and Aggie in though

I know what you mean, because it is very hard to ask a friend or relative round to help because you don't want to admit how much of a slattern you really are

My sister i would ask but she is 40miles away. Perhaps we should put it to the slatterns and see if anyone matches up?

Cleaning Buddies is kind of naff but works iyswim? You could make yourself a fortune!

lol - my friend has been offering to help out for the last 3 months, and i've barricaded all the doors. i'm allowing her in this week as most of the stuff has gone. but i'm going to get her really drunk so that she doesn't remember what it's like lol.

Very good idea