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October Slatterns/Listmakers - clearing cobwebs and scary spiders, join us!

942 replies

HalfMumHalfBiscuit · 06/10/2009 16:12

My first thread .

OP posts:
scaryclaireyboo · 16/10/2009 16:00

Tidy
Wipe out fridge and microwave - DONE
Hoover
Mop floors
Wash up - DONE
Wipe round kitchen - DONE
Change bedclothes - DONE
Clean bathroom -
Wash nappies-

NorktasticNinja · 16/10/2009 16:14

TODAY:
Empty dishwasher (when it's finished) DONE
Nappy wash DRYING
Dry, fold and put away wet washing DONE
Try and get some sleep FAILED
Collect DD from nursery
Shopping list + meal plan STARTED...

DAILY:
All up and dressed DONE
Breakfast (inc. me) DONE
clear & tidy up breakfast things DONE
Tidy upstairs DONE
Check laundry status DONE
Make beds DONE
Lunch DONE
Clear & tidy up lunch thing DONE
Cook dinner
DC in bed
Clear table after dinner
Clean/tidy kitchen
Clean cooker top
Sweep through sitting room/dining room/kitchen
Tidy away toys
EMPTY THE DISHWASHER BEFORE YOU GO TO BED, FOR ONCE, SLATTERN!
Tidy round before bed

TOMORROW:
Food shopping
Visit BF and her brand-new baby boy
Take BF bras to M

ONGOING:
Hand cream is by the sink for a reason... USED x 1
Weigh self once a month until baby weight is off(ish) DUE ON 5th NOV.
Drink more water
Don't be so damn grumpy with DP in the mornings DONE

OTHER STUFF:
Sew various buttons back on
Start getting filing back in order
Work on finance/budget sheet
Get next size baby clothes from attic DONE
DS' clothes - add next size remove too small stuff
Damn ironing
Organise & tidy attic/office/spare room
Clean attic bathroom
Clean laundry area
De-fluff tumble dryer crevices
Toys - organise/cull/swap in sitting room/DD's room/attic
Sort/tidy/organise our wardrobe of doom STARTED
Sort/tidy/organise landing cupboard of doom
Sort/tidy/organise last bit of DD's wardrobe + draws + built-in cupboard WARDROBE DONE
Sort out bottom shelf of dining room cupboard DONE
Master Plan for monthly/weekly tasks
Reinstate repatriation basket DONE
Sort/organise stationary cupboard

PlumBumMum · 16/10/2009 16:44

Any news?????

PlumBumMum · 16/10/2009 16:44

just noticed these

NorktasticNinja · 16/10/2009 16:45

Wow Plum, that's stunning Do I take it you made it? WOW!

Sorry about the growing lists . I've explained before, but still...

DAILY:
One thing from 'other stuff' list DONE x 3
All up and dressed DONE
Breakfast (inc. me) DONE
clear & tidy up breakfast things DONE
Tidy upstairs DONE
Wipe round in bathroom DONE
Wipe round in downstairs loo DONE
Check laundry status DONE
Make beds DONE
Lunch DONE
Clear & tidy up lunch things DONE
Cook dinner
DC in bed
Clear table after dinner
Clean/tidy kitchen
Clean cooker top
Sweep through sitting room/dining room/kitchen
Tidy away toys
EMPTY THE DISHWASHER BEFORE YOU GO TO BED, FOR ONCE, SLATTERN!
Tidy round before bed

TODAY:
Empty dishwasher (when it's finished) DONE
Nappy wash DRYING
Dry, fold and put away wet washing DONE
Try and get some sleep FAILED
Collect DD from nursery
Shopping list + meal plan STARTED...

TOMORROW:
Food shopping
Visit BF and her brand-new baby boy
Take BF bras to M

ONGOING:
Hand cream is by the sink for a reason... USED x 1
Weigh self once a month until baby weight is off(ish) DUE ON 5th NOV.
Drink more water
Don't be so damn grumpy with DP in the mornings DONE

OTHER STUFF:
Sew various buttons back on
Start getting filing back in order
Work on finance/budget sheet
Get next size baby clothes from attic DONE
DS' clothes - add next size remove too small stuff
Damn ironing
Organise & tidy attic/office/spare room
Clean attic bathroom
Clean laundry area
De-fluff tumble dryer crevices
Toys - organise/cull/swap in sitting room/DD's room/attic
Sort/tidy/organise our wardrobe of doom STARTED
Sort/tidy/organise landing cupboard of doom
Sort/tidy/organise last bit of DD's wardrobe + draws + built-in cupboard WARDROBE DONE
Sort out bottom shelf of dining room cupboard DONE
Master Plan for monthly/weekly tasks
Reinstate repatriation basket DONE
Sort/organise stationary cupboard

NorktasticNinja · 16/10/2009 16:46

Me too What happened to your pumpkin bum?

PlumBumMum · 16/10/2009 16:47

Yeap want to put another one on but can't seem to get mn to work for me

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 18:04

CC shifts the one cheek of her bum that is on the chair because PBM has most of the seat . Just checking in to see is there any news.

Abandoning lists at the min

Going to set phone for 15mins to see what I can get done

Starting with the hall

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 18:24

Got sitting room cleaned, was watching a report on Stephen Gately so stayed in there

JustBeBuffy · 16/10/2009 18:27

yey

Fri:

  • me up first DONE
  • breakfast DONE
  • tidy kitchen DONE
  • scrub highchair & table & sides DONE
  • dw Emptied&Reloaded
  • DH put rubbish out DONE
  • ds1 to pre-sch & Dh to work DONE
  • ds2 nap DONE
  • quiet morning for me hopefully DONE
  • laundry DelicatesHungUp TDOn
  • make a birthday card DONE
  • collect ds1 DONE
  • lunch & tidy up DONE
  • friends + pre-schoolers round for afternoon DONE
  • tidy up chaos Started
  • boys tea (+1 friend) DONE
  • walk round block DONE
  • boys to bed soon
  • DH & I out (sitter confirmed) to a quiz & dinner night

Sat:

  • use drain unblocker in shower

Ongoing:

  • get photos of family & hang them up
  • get on with friend's family tree GotFileOut
  • transfer all family trees over to Mac software
  • then go through 1911 census
  • organise (Started), upload & order photos of boys
  • fix my bike (flat tyre)
  • sort out security light outside trying
  • return borrowed highchair (In car)
  • get rid of bag of stuff to charity shop/freecycle/bin it?GaveSomeAwayToday
  • 1 picture frame for nice photo of DS1
  • DLA form for DS2
  • get drain unblocker for shower DONE
  • buy 'haircatcher' for shower DoingOnlineLakeland
  • make list for hospital visits Doing
FlameHasReachedDueDate · 16/10/2009 18:28
PlumBumMum · 16/10/2009 18:28

Forgot profile dosen't stay with namechange

LRB978 · 16/10/2009 18:33

Okay, have all but given in for today.

If I don't make it back on before, I will be back next Friday . Planning fairly busy weekend, although want to get the upstairs sorted, and by the time I have been to work, collected ds from school and helped him complete his homework I am generally exhausted Mon-Thurs (plus have a paed appt for ds Wed pm )

Hope everyone has a good evening/night/weekend/week (delete as appropriate)

DONE
DS dressed and at school.
Me dressed.
Phoned daycare.
Tidied hall, stairs, landing.
Collected all dirty clothes together (I think, am sure I will find more as I tidy rooms properly)
Four loads of washing.
Phoned and checked radiator is on list for today.
Three lots of washing up. (Can now see most of my kitchen sides }
Put away three lot of washing up.
Tidied up dining room floor.
Oven on to cook breakfast food.
Eaten breakfast something.
Had a bath
Put clean clothes away.
Harpic-ed both toilets.
Collected ds
Sorted snack for ds
Help ds with homework (lots of writing )
Iron ds ninja kit
Fed ds tea (is eating now)

STILL TO DO
Take ds to Ninjas
Do remainder of washing up (think about two more to go)
Tidy living room. started
Hoover through downstairs (hall/living room)
Wait for man to come and repair leaky radiator. (Will be here between 2 and 5) Still Waiting
The upstairs
Clean hob
Clean oven
Clear kitchen table
Sort mountan of paperwork
Excavate sides of cooker and clean.
Wipe down kitchen sides
Mop kitchen floor
Finish emptying washing basket (maybe 2 more loads, then bedding)

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 18:48

Right hall done . Now to tackle the disaster zone that is the kitchen

NorktasticNinja · 16/10/2009 19:24

DAILY:
One thing from 'other stuff' list DONE x 3
All up and dressed DONE
Breakfast (inc. me) DONE
clear & tidy up breakfast things DONE
Tidy upstairs DONE
Wipe round in bathroom DONE
Wipe round in downstairs loo DONE
Check laundry status DONE
Make beds DONE
Lunch DONE
Clear & tidy up lunch things DONE
Cook dinner DONE
DC in bed DD IN. DS is fighting it but he'll be off soon, I hope.
Clear table after dinner DONE
Clean/tidy kitchen DONE
Dishwasher on NOT FULL
Clean cooker top DONE
Sweep through sitting room/dining room/kitchen DONE
Tidy away toys DONE
EMPTY THE DISHWASHER BEFORE YOU GO TO BED, FOR ONCE, SLATTERN!
Tidy round before bed

TODAY:
Empty dishwasher (when it's finished) DONE
Nappy wash DRYING
Dry, fold and put away wet washing DONE
Try and get some sleep FAILED
Collect DD from nursery DONE
Shopping list + meal plan ALMOST FINISHED...

TOMORROW:
Food shopping
Visit BF and her brand-new baby boy
Take BF bras to M
Fold and put away nappies

ONGOING:
Hand cream is by the sink for a reason... USED x 1
Weigh self once a month until baby weight is off(ish) DUE ON 5th NOV.
Drink more water FAILED
Don't be so damn grumpy with DP in the mornings DONE

OTHER STUFF:
Sew various buttons back on
Start getting filing back in order
Work on finance/budget sheet
Get next size baby clothes from attic DONE
DS' clothes - add next size remove too small stuff
Damn ironing
Organise & tidy attic/office/spare room
Clean attic bathroom
Clean laundry area
De-fluff tumble dryer crevices
Toys - organise/cull/swap in sitting room/DD's room/attic
Sort/tidy/organise our wardrobe of doom STARTED
Sort/tidy/organise landing cupboard of doom
Sort/tidy/organise last bit of DD's wardrobe + draws + built-in cupboard WARDROBE DONE
Sort out bottom shelf of dining room cupboard DONE
Master Plan for monthly/weekly tasks
Reinstate repatriation basket DONE
Sort/organise stationary cupboard
Wash 'George' & 'Ava'

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 19:28

Todays dishes done

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 19:58

Kitchen area done, counters cleaned and floor swept

PlumBumMum · 16/10/2009 20:15

CC I'm babysitting, just changed her into her babygro and gave her a bottle [sigh]

FlameHasReachedDueDate · 16/10/2009 20:16

I have wine.

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 20:54

at baby and babygro PBM! Love the name change Flame, wine sounds lovely

PlumBumMum · 16/10/2009 22:29

Oh Flame you remind me of me with ds, both dh and I were so fed up at end we had a drink and thought oh shit this will be the night,

cikecaka · 16/10/2009 22:44

I am heading to bed, just sorted out my cafe on facebook. Kept DD3 awake til 9, so fingers crossed she sleeps tonight

dizzimama · 16/10/2009 23:12

I'm feeling very embarrassed and inadequate about my short list, especially next to Nork's....

By the way, Plum - the cake looks absolutely deelish.

Here's my list

Everyone up and dressed done
Breakfast x 3 done
Washing in oops
dd2 lunch and nap done
Me lunch done
Cup of tea & relax before school run done
Finish ironing while dd1 's watching tv after school done
Make dinner - pasta done
Me and dd1 dinner done
Watch some recorded tv with dd1 (family fortunes and x factor- can't usually watch it on sat as dh hates x factor, but he's going out tonight- hooray!) done
dd2 dinner done
dds bed done
Put a load of washing in (forecast looks good for tomorrow) done
Do some sewing done
Early night ish

TO DO

Clean oven
Clean microwave
Sort out baby clothes

JustBeBuffy · 17/10/2009 07:39

Flame - hope the wine helped?

CC - did she sleep????

Norks - i have to ask, who/what are George & Ava?

PlumBumMum · 17/10/2009 09:08

Morning
I had a lovely night last night strange having a baby in the house, although BIL & SIL were quickly back to get her and had dessert at our house,
don't know how SIL is going to go back to work

JKS dads playgroup thats good we have nothing like that here

I started a thread to show off my cake feel free to bump it, put another pic on

TO DO
everyone showered
go collect dd1s spare glasses
pick up some groceries
maybe meet my mum
Brush & mop kitchen floor again
tidy kitchen
clean surfaces
hang out 2nd wash from yesterday
put away clean washing
strip beds
get uniform wash on
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
hoover hall again
damp dust living room
tidy living room
hoover living room again

that will do for now

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