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.

JKS - I do my towels etc on the same day as the bedding. Just been on another thread and one skanky person didn't change her bedding for 6 months!

ALFA - things you have already done are the best thing to add to a list . Makes me feel very efficient!

TODAY
Up and dressed - done
DS boobed, changed and dressed - done
Take DS to station for 7:30 train - done
Orange juice and Spatone - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Take chilli out of freezer for dinner - done
Breakfast x 2 - done
Tidy kitchen - done
Fold washing - done
Sort changing bag for today
Tidy DS' room - done
DS nap - he is resisting, argh!
Me shower and make self presentable
Clean mirrors and glass doors
Jolly babies
Lunch and afternoon at friend's house
Pick DH up from the station at some point
Dinner x 3
DS bath and bed
Clear up
Cut DH's hair
Tidy round before bed

Ouch Sparklyalice, (trying not to laugh), hope you are not too bruised

TO DO
Everyone up DONE
Breakfast DONE
Make Lunches DONE
Dcs to school DONE
DD3 to toddler group DONE
Breakfast Dishes DONE
Clean Counters
Hoover Floor
Hoover Hall
Tidy Kitchen/Dining Area
Tidy over Sitting Room
Collect DD3
-DD2s- -Room-
Sort out Clothes
Make Bed
Tidy under bed
Dump Junk
Hoover Room
Wash Floor

Make Lunch
Wash up after it
Collect DDs
Make Dinner
Tidy up after it
Bath DD3

Collapse into bed

well I haven't made it to coffee cup - but I suppose I ought to try and get dressed before my Ocado delivery arrives........it's one thing answering the door to the Asda or Tesco delivery man in your dressing gown and PJ's - another thing totally when it's Ocado

Sounds sore SparklyAlice. You have my sympathy - I just took the dog for a walk and fell over! Went down on hands and knees on a part of the road covered in lose stones. Lost my footing. Have stingy hands and a sore knee.

HMHB - hope you get it all sorted. Any idea how it happened?

always very of any supermarket delivery but esp Ocado!

oh balls - turned up 10 minutes early so I didn't get a chance to get dressed.

Buda - online shopping necessitated by the fact that I can't do a big weekly shop with the DS's in tow (as we don't have a car so I would usually get a taxi back and can't do that with the kids). Ocado - because I got a code for 15% off an order for delivery today or tomorrow (and I was due to do a shop anyhow).

OK Here is my list for this week/month whenever!!!

Get the new carpet fitted into bedroom at the weekend.

The cd pile that I moved from the dining room into the hall to be downloaded needs to be moved on. The downloading is complete now I need a new place out of sight for the CD. Really it should be the charity shop but will probably be the attic for 2 years before the charity shop.

The pile of papers labelled 'not sure what to do withe these' that has grown on the table needs some hard hearted sosrting.

I'm going to get rid of the small little wall cupboards in my hall as they are just crap collectors.

Morning evryone

I have only just got my internet connection cack again, the damm BT van is outside again. I hope I stay connected until after I have typed my mammouth list.

Thanks plum I won't bother creating another profile.

Alice Hope the bums better soon!!

HMHB Thats awful!! It has happen to me before and I felt like my privacy had been invaded. The bank did give us our money back though.

Hi buda and anyone else I haven't mentioned.

Today
Run DW
Run WM
Hang up washing on airer
Wipe round bathroom
Clear the draining board, before it all falls off
Go to the shop
Take DS3 for his MMR
Take DC to library with the books that are 2 weeks overdue

To Do in the next 2 weeks;
Scrub cooker
Clean kitchen tiles
Clean kitchen cupboard frints
Clear and clean cupboard tops
Clean fridge
Sort inside kitchen cupboards
Clean microwave
De-crumb toaster
Bleach bins
Sort cutlery drawer
Sort cleaning cupboard
Clean coffee machine
Clean bathroom tiles
Limescale spray bathroom taps
Sort through bathroom cabinets
Tidy airing cupboard
Sort hall cupboard
Clean bedsteads
Dust/clean doors and frames
Dust windowsills and frames
Clean windows
Clean skirtings
Dust lights and ceilings
Clean picture frames
Dust speakers
Wipe over blinds
Polish mirrors
Clean sofa
Sort through toy boxes
Pull out sofas and clean underneath
Sorts through drawers and wardrobes
Clean fireplace
Starting selling on Ebay

Ooh Ali 6 months that is gross!! Imagine all the dead skin and other yuck lurking!! I must look for that thread!! I guess it's in good houskeeping

Morning!

Alice, ouch!

I could do with sorting an online order, but I've still not got the kitchen sorted properly and I want to defrost the fridge freezer. I'm a daily fixture at Morrison's cos I can't fit that much under the pram.

• DS boobed, changed and dressed done
• breakfast done
• clean sink done
• drink coffee doing
• watch Jeeves and Wooster doing
• wash pots
• Me showered and dressed
• 15 mins tidying upstairs
• clean bathroom
• lunch
• town
• tidy downstairs and hoover
• tea
• DS bath and bed
• chill

TO DO
Everyone up DONE
Breakfast DONE
Make Lunches DONE
Dcs to school DONE
DD3 to toddler group DONE
Breakfast Dishes DONE
Clean Counters
Hoover Floor
Hoover Hall
Tidy Kitchen/Dining Area
Tidy over Sitting Room DONE
Pull out TV stand and clean behind it DONE
Pay Car Tax on line DONE

Collect DD3
-DD2s- -Room-
Sort out Clothes
Make Bed
Tidy under bed
Dump Junk
Hoover Room
Wash Floor

Make Lunch
Wash up after it
Collect DDs
Make Dinner
Tidy up after it
Bath DD3

Collapse into bed

DS's breakfasted DONE
DS 1 and 2 out to school DONE
DS3 dressed DONE
me dressed DONE
sort sink (potato peelings and pan soaking from last night still in it
Empty Dishwasher DONE
Put shopping away when it arrives DONE (DH helped)
Lunch
Ironing
Load of washing
Drying
Dinner
Sort another kitchen worktop (papers 20cm high spread across it EEEK)
Clean and tidy computer desk

I went for a walk with the Lo's we just went round in a big circle looking at leaves then I noticed the pram wheel had a massive dollop of dog poo on it then it started to rain again so I got the girls in and ended up stood in the rain cleaning poo off the wheel.

Buda / Alice hope your both ok.

Waves to everyone .

Me and lo's dressed done
Make beds done
Tidy round
Peel spuds
sort out clean washing and put away
load of washing in done
Pay rent done

Oh poor you Buda, dont know which is worse the pain of falling or the embarassment
of falling over

Welcome upahill

TO DO
Everyone up DONE
Breakfast DONE
Make Lunches DONE
Dcs to school DONE
DD3 to toddler group DONE
Breakfast Dishes DONE
Clean Counters
Hoover Floor
Hoover Hall SWEPT IT
Tidy Kitchen/Dining Area
Tidy over Sitting Room DONE
Pull out TV stand and clean behind it DONE
Pay Car Tax on line DONE

Collect DD3
-DD2s- -Room-
Sort out Clothes
Make Bed
Tidy under bed
Dump Junk
Hoover Room
Wash Floor

Make Lunch
Wash up after it
Collect DDs
Make Dinner
Tidy up after it
Bath DD3

Collapse into bed

Morning - oh its afternoon already
Hope everyone is ok. I am running with bare min mental capacity today so please bear with me. I have read the thread but can't remember what happened...am going a bit mad.

I got approximately 2 hours sleep last night due to trumping baby. She prefers farting to burping.

Sounds like someone swiped our card and got a copy of the back of the card.

It is a bit suspicious as new cards (as the old ones were out of date) were sent only last week.

It could have been a dodgy person at the chinese takeaway we used on Friday as all the purchases made on Saturday/Sunday? Frustrating as you never really know where the fraud came from so can't do much about it.

The fraudsters used our cards to make loads of online purchases until there was no money left! We will get it back though. Apparently its the shops that have to pay it back to the bank because they should be secure enough to stop this happening.

We're going to have to use cheques / our own accounts for a bit. Its going to take so long to get the cards due to the postal strikes.

Today's List
DS up and dressed done
Feed DD done
Breakfast done
DS to nursery DH done
DD Nap - doing
Get showered and dressed - done
Lunch
Tidy up lounge
Dishy on
Washing on
Put DD's new clothes away done
Write thank you cards / get pics of DD printed to send out.
Food shop
Dinner
Bath DD
DD/DS to bed

Post tens machine back

Alice (and Buda!) - thanks for making me smile. Hope the bruising is not too bad .

JKS - if AF has arrived that means its time for a bit of vino this evening to help with pain/stress relief!
Am feeling angry at filofax pen for you - if they only knew how much hassle that pen was to get in the first place .

Always - impeccable timing by delivery man. They must do it on purpose. I have to remind myself to put boob away if feeding DD when someone turns up. Otherwise could be quite embarrassing . They've probably seen it all before though!

Right am going to trough a massive bowl of pasta and see if I feel a bit more with it.

always - don't care about why just jealous as on-line shopping hasn't made it here yet!

cikecaka - no one saw! Thankfully!

Done:

DS out of bed!
DS and neighbour to school
Walk dog
Washing
Unload dishwasher
Email solicitors for quote re house purchase
Chase surveyor
Email school finance dept re bill for school lunches
Text babysitter

To do:
Frontline dog
Load charity stuff into DH's car and deliver
Take recycling
Take down Halloween decs
Do list for surveyor
Text vet
Text dog trainer
Sort WW books and do mealplan for week

Tomorrow/Ongoing:
(This list will be added to!)

Sort rest of charity stuff
Sort books for second hand book stall at school
Tidy clothes on landing
Move DS's lego downstairs
Tidy/clear bookshelves in study
Do Xmas list
Do shopping list for Xmas cakes

HMHB You sound very calm about it all, but then we are very unorganised and if someone swiped all our money in our joint account, we would have no money, well dhs business account but that is obviously for business

Anyway Tuesday is dancing day so abandoning yesterdays list and a small list today

Tesco done
load dishy done
make dd2s cake baking
lunch
sort dinner
load washing machine
ice dd1s cake
try to make bootees for other cake
try to sort some washing

I was less calm when found out we had been totally cleared out. DH was asking if I'd done any shopping online recently. Er no?
Feel better now the bank is on the case and know we will get the money back.

TO DO
Everyone up DONE
Breakfast DONE
Make Lunches DONE
Dcs to school DONE
DD3 to toddler group DONE
Breakfast Dishes DONE
Clean Counters
Hoover Floor
Hoover Hall SWEPT IT
Tidy Kitchen/Dining Area DONE
Tidy over Sitting Room DONE
Pull out TV stand and clean behind it DONE
Pay Car Tax on line DONE

Collect DD3 DONE
-DD2s- -Room-
Sort out Clothes
Make Bed
Tidy under bed
Dump Junk
Hoover Room
Wash Floor

Make Lunch DOING
Wash up after it
Collect DDs
Make Dinner
Tidy up after it
Bath DD3

Collapse into bed

Ali - 6 months?!?! gross.

HMHB - i know!! anyway i found the campest young manager who was almost traumatised by the sight of my dismembered pen & he sorted me out no probs & now i have a shiny new pen

um, shattered today, not enough sleep. Have booked a GP appt for tomorrow as i think i need help with 2 things - my mental state & my hormones (have been sweating profusely and waking myself in the night - think my PCOS may have returned )

Where can i send nanny & ds1 in the rain???

Tues:

• all up DONE & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed AllButDS2
• Dh to work DONE
• strip beds & find clean bedding DONE
• swap over all towels & bathmats (trying to add this to bed changing day so it becomes more regular than it has been)
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• me to town DONE

(town list: SORTED PEN & PUZZLE BOOK. DIDN'T GET TOP)

• me to bf group for chat & cuppa DONE
• collect ds1 from pre-sch DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• ds2 nap
• afternoon? Poss ds1 out with Nanny & me jobs/rest
• tea x 3
• boys to bed (bath if not done Mon)
• me to orch (check cash for sitter)

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
• filing

Me and lo's dressed done
Make beds done
Tidy round done but messy again
Peel spuds done
sort out clean washing and put away
load of washing in done
Pay rent done

It is quite therapeutic doing this list thing and moving things from one section to another (and adding things that I have done that weren't on the list!)

Done:

DS out of bed!
DS and neighbour to school
Walk dog
Washing
Unload dishwasher
Email solicitors for quote re house purchase
Chase surveyor
Email school finance dept re bill for school lunches
Text babysitter
Load charity stuff into DH's car
Put recycling into my car
Text dog trainer
Make hair appointment

To do:
Drop off recycling
Deliver charity stuff
Frontline dog
Take down Halloween decs
Do list for surveyor
Text vet
Sort WW books and do mealplan for week
Ironing

Tomorrow/Ongoing:
(This list will be added to!)

Sort rest of charity stuff
Sort books for second hand book stall at school
Tidy clothes on landing
Move DS's lego downstairs
Tidy/clear bookshelves in study
Do Xmas list
Do shopping list for Xmas cakes

I lost my internet connection again I can't live without it The BT men have gone again and I am online . My nan has just called me though and there is a strange buzzing on the line.

You would think that I would have got loads done but as usual I haven't

buda I am going to make our christmas cake this year for the first time How far in advance do you make yours??

Got to get DS3 ready for his jab. BBL

Have had a 2hr lie-down/nap so hopefully feel human enough to go to orchestra tonight.

Tues:

• all up DONE & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• Dh to work DONE
• strip beds & find clean bedding DONE
• swap over all towels & bathmats DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• me to town DONE
• me to bf group for chat & cuppa DONE
• collect ds1 from pre-sch DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• ds2 nap Doing
• ds1 playing with Nanny Doing
• lie down DONE
• tea x 3
• boys bath - must do! & to bed
• me to orch (check cash for sitter)

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
• filing

Start making it now/soon Rainbow