November Slatterns/Listmakers - one year on and still taking baby steps.........

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Yes - Slatterns (now Slatterns and Listmakers) is now a year old.

Come and join us if you're a slattern, or simply like making lists for jobs you want to get done each day/week/month.

Never thought 12 months ago that a thread I started to help me get the bare minimum done at home when I was feeling shite would still be going strong 12 months later - even with me frequently AWOL in recent months.

Everyone is welcome, we're a friendly bunch.

Oh dear Wasting

Oh dear WME, not what you need when you are already poorly.

We have really bad condensation here, it's awful. Watch out for any furniture that's against walls, last year our headboard and ds' cot mattress went mouldy. Hopefully next house won't have the same problem. I've not tried leaving the heating in though, mainly because I have all the upstairs windows open all day!

HMHB weather sounds awful, we've just had strong wind here, hung some washing out and although I was scared the washing line was going to fly away the washing was dry 3 hours later-not bad for november!

lol the last 3 messages all start "oh dear"

Lol Clairey
well done on your washing, i get lazy this time of year and it's tumble dryer all the way...

DONE:

• DH up first
• breakfast
• ds1 to pre-sch
• ds2 nap
• all dressed
• check on what birthdays coming up DONE lots!
• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• sort out pile of blankets & pillowcases for charity
• attach new ironing board felt & cover
• order long bathmat & cot book for DS2 online
• bid on wine cooler thingie i want on eBay
• bid on other stuff Doing
• afternoon activity; town for cafe, gift voucher for Nanny for Christmas & puzzle book for me
• ds2 nap
• boys tea
• watch Incredibles
• boys bath & bed

TO DO:

• our dinner, tv & early night

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census
• organise NearlyDone, upload NearlyDone & order photos of boys
• fix my bike (flat tyre)
• sort out security light outside trying
• clean carpets (living room & playroom)
• find new dentist
• try and maybe make mobile out of ITNG pics for DS2 in hosp?
• get some silly socks for Nanny for Christmas (she always wears fun ones)

Oh dear to everybody

my mum came and loved her cake did it like a box of chocolates, feel bad because it was threw together and I am quite capable of better but hey ho

got 2nd coat of paint done

so I'm deciding on wiether I should ice dds friends cake or get stuck into some ironing

have so much to do might start by making one big list again!

Hi all, I know it's very cheeky to ask, but could I join in for the day tomorrow?

DD is having a birthday party on Saturday and I've got a crazy amount to get done...

Welcome ThisTooShallPass not cheeky at all, come on in and don't forget the gin

Plum - any pics? bet your 'thrown together' is still fab. Well done on getting painting done with DC around too!

thistooshallpass of course you can,

but we are an addictive bunch you might stay for longer!!

Hello everyone just a quick post to say hi and hope your all ok.

We are all a snotty mess here two girls with sf and I am really ill now too.

Hopefully we will all better next week til the next bug hits.

Aww thanks! I'll write myself a list then...

I will not be getting addicted, or at least I hope not. I spend far too much time on here already

Help yourselves in the meantime

Wasting - yes north wales. Eeek for you re oil on the floor! Nightmare to clean up. Can imagine your DS paddling it round the house. We have child lock things on the cupboards and DS has got bored of trying to get in them now (thankfully) so we don't have to have them on anymore.

Plum - I bet your 'thrown together' cake was gorgeous. I am quite proud of DS's and I's chocolate fairy cakes from yesterday. Gorgeous tasting anyway.

ThisTooShallPass - it's a slippery slope, join us for one day and you could be here with us forever . I barely do anything but blah on about stuff to the poor slatterns dears on here.

Oh forgot list
Dinner - done
DS/DD to bed - done

Tomorrow
DS to nursery - huzzah
Sort filing
Send stuff to accountant

I'm sure I've forgotten half of the stuff!

Friday
Take DD to nursery
DS nursery 'practice' 9:30 - 11:30
Find/buy tiny nails
Decorations up in living room. Hall?
Make birthday cake
Make apple
Toys?
Mend chairs
Write shopping lists
Press DD's dress
Find and apply shoe polish - DD boots + DP shoes x 2
Buy flowers & string

Cook dinner

Big clean downstairs-
Hoover and wash all floors
Kitchen tiles & cupboard fronts
Top of fridge
Reorganize fridge
General dust and tidy of shelves
Wash long unused glasses
Wash cat-cushion cover
Saturday
Food shopping
Collect tart - 10am ish
Arrivals from 2:30pm?

That was a nice tidy first list Have more stuff already...

Friday
Take DD to nursery
DS nursery 'practice' 9:30 - 11:30
Find/buy tiny nails (for bunting )
Measure length of living room and divide by 5...
Bang said nails in
Decorations up in living room. Hall?
Make birthday cake
Make apple
Toys?
Mend chairs
Write shopping lists
Press DD's dress
Find and apply shoe polish - DD boots + DP shoes x 2
Buy flowers & string

Cook dinner WHAT?

Big clean downstairs-
Hoover and wash all floors
Kitchen tiles & cupboard fronts
Top of fridge
Reorganize fridge
Clean oven front/top/extracor (never buy a stainless steel cooker)
General dust and tidy of shelves
Wash long unused glasses
Wash cat-cushion cover

Saturday
Food shopping
Collect tart - 10am ish
MOVE CAT DISHES OUTSIDE
Arrivals from 2:30pm?

Have I killed the thread ?

I have no idea how I'mgoing to get all this done . I'm tied up until abot 10 in the morning and almost verging on a nervous breakdown from exhaustion already...

Oh well, what doesn't get done doesn't get done. I'm probably the only one who'll notice anyway! List, mark III:

Friday
Take DD to nursery
DS nursery 'practice' 9:30 - 11:30
Find/buy tiny nails (for bunting shock)
Measure length of living room and divide by 5...
Bang said nails in
Decorations up in living room. Hall?
Make birthday cake
Make apple tart
Toys?
Mend chairs
Write shopping lists
Press DD's dress
Find and apply shoe polish - DD boots + DP shoes x 2
Buy flowers & string

Cook dinner WHAT?

Big clean downstairs-
Hoover and wash all floors
Kitchen tiles & cupboard fronts
Top of fridge
Reorganize fridge
Clean oven front/top/extracor (never buy a stainless steel cooker)
General dust and tidy of shelves
Wash long unused glasses
Wash cat-cushion cover
Clean downstairs loo inc. tiles

Saturday
Food shopping
Collect tart - 10am ish
MOVE CAT DISHES OUTSIDE
Arrivals from 2:30pm?

All i will say is NAILS?????

Are you sure you want to bang nails into the wall for a party? blu-tack or something else won't do?
drape decorations from existing things, like any picture hooks?

and no you've haven't killed the thread, think most of us collapse in a heap in the evenings!

lol. I'm also collapsed in a heap. Really shouldn't be though.

Yup nails. Last year I had a hellish day trying to put up the damn bunting (is traditional here). I tried blu tac and drawing pins, even sellotape in the end. Nothing worked. Every time I thought it was up another bit fell down x 1000. Six patches of paintwork were ruined... It really way a saga. In the end DP put some tiny nails in. Hey presto, the bunting stayed up.

I am going to have to put up bunting 4 times a year from now on . So I'm trying to think of discrete but permanent bunting placement system

The nails I mean have a particular name, can't remember it for the life of me though...

I am here too. Have collapsed.

DH suggests dowl nails or tac's as the name for the tiny nails.

ThisToo - Don't worry we will keep an eye on your progress through your massive list. We can also offer encouragement kicks up the bum. Good luck.

I too have collapsed. Though I need to get going again.

To do this evening -

• clean kitchen floor
• wash pots
• wipe sides down
• put nappies in to wash
• empty bathroom bin
• pick up in front room
• take clean washing up
• strip sofa covers off

I've been sat supping Lemsip for an hour and feel a little calmer than I did.

• clean kitchen floor done for today. Think I need a new mop.
• wash pots most burnt on pan soaking
• wipe sides down
• put nappies in to wash done
• empty bathroom bin done
• pick up in front room done
• take clean washing up done
• strip sofa covers off

Getting there.

Wasting you poor thing, what a hideous day! We have all food high enough up that DS can't reach, but we have to be alert to prevent him breaking the crockery! Definitely need to get cupboards locks or something!

ThisToo - welcome Good luck for tomorrow!

I have got sooo much to do tomorrow, I'm slightly alarmed. Must go to bed.

TOMORROW
All up and dressed
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast and tidy kitchen
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Lunch and tidy kitchen
2 loads of washing
Dinner x 3
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Tidy round before bed
Take ADs

Essential jobs
Take bag to charity bin
Pick up parcel before 1pm
Make meal plan for the weekend
Go to Sainsbury's
Tidy spare room - DH
Hoover spare room
Dust spare room
Iron bedding
Make up spare bed
Clean bathroom
Empty living room bin
Finish bannisters
Dust blinds with new gadget

Non-essential
Baking - clementine cake?
Tidy living room bookshelves
Polish silver
Handwashing inc. nappy wraps

Right, home again. I'm actually in the house on my own for the first time in six months (since DS was born) . It was truly bizarre to walk home with no buggy! I can think of so many nicer things to do than work, work, work. Not feeling very motivated

I'm going to have a coffee and try to work out where to start and what I can get away with not doing...

Friday
Take DD to nursery DONE
DS nursery 'practice' 9:30 - 11:30 DONE
Find/buy tiny nails (for bunting shock)
Measure length of living room and divide by 5...
Bang said nails in
Decorations up in living room. Hall?
Make birthday cake
Make apple tart POTENTIALLY ABANDONED
Toys?
Mend chairs
Write shopping lists
Press DD's dress
Find and apply shoe polish - DD boots + DP shoes x 2
Buy flowers & string
WD 40 front door

Cook dinner WHAT?

Big clean downstairs-
Hoover and wash all floors
Kitchen tiles & cupboard fronts
Top of fridge
Reorganize fridge
Clean oven front/top/extracor (never buy a stainless steel cooker)
General dust and tidy of shelves
Wash long unused glasses
Wash cat-cushion cover
Clean downstairs loo inc. tiles

Saturday
Food shopping
Collect tart - 10am ish
MOVE CAT DISHES OUTSIDE
Arrivals from 2:30pm?

'discrete but permanent bunting placement system'

Forgot to take photos of mums cake, but have put pics on of irish dancing cakes, the black and white one was the one I was debating on doing last night, so I am really pleased with it because I got it done really quickly

Right loads to do

Done
dcs to school (dh)
found key to front door for fireplace man to come in (we use back of house)

TO DO
shower me
fireplace coming @11.30 [excited]
tidy kitchen
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
hang up yesterdays washing
mop kitchen floor
IRON
put away any sorted & ironed washing

that will do for now
dd1 is off to a sleepover tonight but all of her friends have said they are not staying over so watch this space

No idea how much of this work is just displacement activity to distract me from the realization that we're going five or six toddlers and two babies in the house. Not to mention all the adults

Friday
Take DD to nursery DONE
DS nursery 'practice' 9:30 - 11:30 DONE
Find/buy tiny nails (for bunting shock)
Measure length of living room and divide by 5...
Bang said nails in
Decorations up in living room. Hall?
Make birthday cake
Make apple tart ?POTENTIALLY ABANDONED?
Toys? TOYS MOST LIKELY TO INDUCE FIGHTING = REMOVED
Mend chairs
Write shopping lists
Press DD's dress
Find and apply shoe polish - DD boots + DP shoes x 2
Buy flowers & string
WD 40 front door DONE

Cook dinner WHAT?

Big clean downstairs-
Hoover and wash all floors
Kitchen tiles & cupboard fronts
Top of fridge
Reorganize fridge
Clean oven front/top/extracor (never buy a stainless steel cooker)
General dust and tidy of shelves
Wash long unused glasses
Wash cat-cushion cover
Clean downstairs loo inc. tiles

Saturday
Food shopping
Collect tart - 10am ish
MOVE CAT DISHES OUTSIDE
Arrivals from 2:30pm? FIL, SIL, DN ETC. COMING AT 1pm

It'll be fine TTSP, honest......

(where are you that bunting is de rigeur for parties?)

Plum - will have a look in a mo.

I love Friday mornings, all to myself

DONE:

• DH up first (again, i must get up tomorrow)
• breakfast
• DS1 to pre-sch
• DH to work
• long bath for me, lovely....
• DS2 nap Doing
• 1 load of washing on

TO DO:

• Load 1 on airer
• Load 2 in
• tidy kitchen post-breakfast + highchair
• catch up on MN/FB, etc. Doing
• PIL arriving
• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• soft play with ds1
• boys tea
• boys to bed
• MIL, DH & me out to quiz night + fish&chips
• make sure FIL has food & tv remote
• try not to drink too much as i did at last quiz

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census
• organise NearlyDone, upload NearlyDone & order photos of boys
• fix my bike (flat tyre)
• sort out security light outside trying
• clean carpets (living room & playroom)
• find new dentist
• maybe make mobile out of ITNG pics for DS2 in hosp?
• get some silly socks for Nanny for Christmas (she always wears fun ones)

Morning all!

Good luck today ThisToo!

Plum, all your cakes are fab!

Ali, I think we'll have to put some cupboard locks on. He'd lost interest in opening them at the old house, but he's obsessed!

• All up, dressed and teeth-brushed etc. done
• Make bed done, tidy upstairs done*, wipe round bathroom
• Breakfast, clear up eating
• laundry - final rinse nappies doing wash sofa covers
• check emails, internet banking etc.
• hoover downstairs
• sort cleaning cupboard
• lunch
• Morrisons and Range
• dinner
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• is kitchen cleared?
• everything ready for the morning - bags packed, clothes laid out, packed lunch made etc. check weather
• cut out nappy liners!