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.

Thanks guys. It's the lack of sleep that's dragging me down. Power cut last night so had to BF DD in pitch darkness.

I just managed to get DS up, dressed, breakfasted and walked school with DD in tow - do I get a prize?

Today's List
DS up and dressed done
Feed DD done
Vitamins
Breakfast done
DS to school done!
DD Nap -
Get dressed - done
Find baby groups to go to
Lunch
Tidy up lounge
Dishy on
Washing on
Write thank you cards / get pics of DD printed to send out.
Food shop
Dinner
Bath DD
DD/DS to bed

Ring re bilton cott

Haven't read through thread yet but here's my list

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Load of washing in ? DONE
Take dd to preschool ?DONE
Phone about house around the corner ? DONE they want working people only and she didn?t think having a guarantor and own deposit would sway them
Put bins out - DONE
Hang load of washing on line-
Hoover downstairs -
Clean loo-
Go to shop - DONE
Pick up dd -
Lunch ?
Hoover upstairs -
Mop floors -
Yoga ?
Bring in washing, sort and put away -

Cook dinner ?

Norks! Hello.
Will you tell me what your Master Plan is please? Plum has refused to tell me.

Well done HMHB, v impressive

Hope everyone is recovering from their injuries.

WME I got those pants for ds but be careful if the binding gets wet-ds got a really sore red bumpy rash from his.

DD keeps wetting the bed and i'm not keeping p with the washng, also I sold a load of nappies once she stopped wearing them so have bought her some pull ups. I'm really annoyed that she keeps wetting the bed AND that I've had to buy disposables.

Clairey - bad luck with the house

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed 2done
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• text friend re birthday DONE
• text SNHV re hosp date DONE
• ds2 nap Doing
• pop out for wrapping paper DONE
• sort all presents hidden in cupboards DONE, maybe even wrap DONE
• off to doc (11.30) soon
• tidy mine & DH's wardrobe
• sort lots of cheapo old tshirts to recycle
• check birthdays coming up & make cards
• something off other list?
• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• afternoon?
• boys tea & bed
• my dinner
• DH home late (I think)

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

Right feeling stressed everytime I tidy one place another part of the house gets messy I ams eriously thinking about leaving it until an hour before bedtime and then doing it then at least it will be tidy first thing .

HMHB hope you start to feel better soon the first few weeks are really tough.

Buda you are not having a very good week are you!

Wasting do you want a yellow tots bots all in one I bought it for dd a couple of weeks ago but have only used it once.
I will happily send it on if you want I don't want anything for it.

Waves to all other slatterns got to rush and feed L before nursery run.

Tidy up
Me and LO's dressed done
dd luchbox done
Load of washing in done
Nursery run (maybe get L weighed if time)
washing pile
prep tea
school run
make beds done
clean bathroom done

Right I have still done nothing apart from get DS dressed and brush his teeth!! He is now down for a nap and I must get some jobs done while he's asleep.

TODAY
All up and dressed - DS done
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast x 3 - done
Unload dishwasher and tidy kitchen
2 loads of washing
Wipe over loo and basin in bathroom
Cut DH's hair
Clean mirrors and glass doors
Hoover downstairs
Sweep kitchen and hall
Lunch x 3
Mop kitchen floor
Clean inside patio doors
Clean windows in bathroom, our bedroom and DS' room
Dinner x 3 - chilli, didn't have it last night as it hadn't defrosted
Clear up
DS bath and bed
WATCH SPOOKS - YAY!!
Tidy round before bed

Clairey - sometimes you have to do something against your principles for an easier life. DD currently in disposables , weather not up to drying nappies .

I had DS in disposables for two months before last week. I could have lugged a bucket of nappies round to PILs every couple days for six weeks, I could have got him straight back into cloth when we moved and got the new washing machine plumbed in, but in the grander scheme of things, it was better that I used the disps.

I'm a relativist. Sometimes, we need to lie, steal, cheat, use disposables, microwave a ready meal, watch CBeebies (too much ) etc. I aim to do the best I can, which will be different for other people. I know SIL has done many things different to me (nappies, FF, juice, weaning etc.), but she is fab at playing and activities and taking DN places and he is very well-behaved, all the things I struggle with.

Bit philosophical for a Wednesday morning.

The plastic pants weren't too bad Clairey, din't like trying to pull them off with poop on though, I'm used to unpoppering an Airflow.

CWWM - having it tidy for the evening is a very good idea!
I have tons of terries, just not been able to keep up with the wraps for some reason, though thank you very much for the offer.

• make beds done
• DS boobed, changed and dressed done
• Me showered and dressed done
• breakfast done
• fold dry washing done
• wash pots 1st lot
• dry pots done

+ playing lots + MNing lots + philosophizing some

• sorted washing done
• washing - 3 loads
• tidy kitchen
• sweep and clean kitchen floor
• take rubbish and recycling out
• tidy downstairs
• hoover downstairs
• town
• lunch
• tidying in backroom
• tea
• clear kitchen and wash pots
• DS bath and bed
• relax

Gah, I've hardly done anything!

I am shattered! Just spent the morning at stay and play, and as we both walked there and should have walked back, but DD was tired so had to carry a nearly 2st toddler home [deflated emoticon] Should be doing lunch now....

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Everyone dressed done
Empty dishwasher done
Reload dishwasher done
Put washload on done
Dry washing from last night done
Make beds done
Go to stay and play 9-11.30ish done
Lunch next
Dry next load of washing (hang out if still dry and sunny)
Put another washload on
Muck out and ride horses
Cook dinner
Hoover downstairs
DD bed

Having a lazy hour. Off out to get hair done in 10 mins or so.

How do you all keep up with who has posted what? I keep having to go back and forth and back and forth!

Anyway - cleaner is doing PILE of ironing for me! Yay!

Done:

DS up and organised for school
Tidy kitchen and put dishwasher on
Take DS to school
PTA meeting
Deliver charity stuff
Washing - done and hung up to dry
Dishwasher unloaded
Emailed school re DS "under achieving"!

To do:
Arrange to have DH's car fixed!
Arrange to have my car fixed from when I scratched it last May!
Get winters tyres fitted on my car
Walk dog
Supermarket
Frontline dog
Take down Halloween decs
Do list for surveyor
Text vet
Sort WW books and do mealplan for week
Deliver Book Fair books to school
Peel potatoes or buy oven chips for DH for tonight!

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
Buy Xmas presents for orphanage gift collection

Ali - thanks for missing me

HMHB - chill about the nappies and the rest too. Your DD is still sooo small, loads of clothies don't even think about starting their DC in cloth until they are a month or two old.

Newborn days are survival days. Do what you need to do to get through them and nothing more. Just surviving is enough. Repeat after me: This too will pass.

wastingaway - Master Plans OK. Well, there are two (but the second one isn't quite finished yet). The first is a schedule / planing sheet for periodic jobs (six weekly to bi-annually). The second one is a sort of pick and mix / planning sheet for jobs that need to be done monthly or more frequently.

Alice - Blimey! You'd pay a fortune for that sort of work out at a gym

DAILY:
All up and dressed DONE
Breakfast (inc. me) DONE
clear & tidy up breakfast things DONE
Check laundry status? DONE
Wipe round in downstairs loo DONE
Tidy upstairs DONE
Wipe round in bathroom DONE
Lunch DONE
Clear & tidy up lunch things DONE
Cook dinner
Bedtime
Clear table after dinner
Clean/tidy kitchen
Dishwasher on
Clean cooker top
Sweep through sitting room/dining room/kitchen
Tidy away toys
Empty dishwasher
Tidy round before bed

WEDNESDAY:
Washing:
Nappy wash ON DRYING
Load one FOLDED PUT AWAY
Put away 2 x baskets clean laundry
Finish lists for MIL PROGRESSING
Phone about espresso machine fault (Solis)
Change bad linen. DS cot DONE DD cot DONE Crib DONE Our Bed DONE
Hoover and wash floors downstairs
Quick clean & tidy of bedroom surfaces Our room DONE DS's room DD's room
DS doctors appointment 2:30
Mini food shop
Go to Contact Evening at creche
Express for DS DONEx1

ONGOING:
Hand cream is by the sink for a reason...
Weigh self once a month until baby weight is off(ish) DUE ON 5th NOV.
Drink more water
Pluck your eyebrows woman

OTHER STUFF:
Implement Master Plan DOING
Phase 2 Master Plan (pick & mix of monthly/weekly tasks) NEARLY FINISHED
Sew various buttons back on
Get filing back in order MadeAgoodStart
Finish finance/budget sheet DONE
Balance sheet for Holding company
Damn ironing
De-fluff tumble dryer crevices
Toys - organise/cull/swap in sitting room/DD's room/attic STARTeD
Sort/tidy/organise our wardrobe of doom STARTED
Sort/tidy/organise landing cupboard of doom
Sort/tidy/organise DD's draws + built-in cupboard
Sort/organise stationary cupboard
Organise coat rail and shoe explosion
Shelf in laundry area
Clean & tidy attic
Clean attic bathroom

Buda - I tend to fail abysmally TBH. It's much busier than when I was last here so I'll probably get worse

Morning all

Wasting sorry I kept meaning to tell you, but now Norks is here she can tell you herself

Norks glad your back, hope your ok, you have my e-mail if you need a moan chat

Buda [eek] I scraped our car off a bloody big metal euro bin once, 2 days before christmas,
I cried all day then rang dh and he said not to be so silly its only a car,
true but its mine and at the time we couldn't afford the extra 100 on our excess so had to leave it until the FEB to get fixed,
think I was abit post natal at the time too dd2 was only 6 weeks old

HMHB take it easy don't be hard on yourself you've just had a baby!!!!!!

JKS another hug for you, I could cry everytime I think about your ds its such a change in a short time

Right I have practice cake in oven, fingers crossed
going to make lunch
and try and get bootees made for cake
I have made flyers for a night in the school
and its dd2s birthday tomorrow

Waves to everyone else

And if you read back you would see I was very worried about you [bigger motherhen emoticon]

Sticks tongue out at Ali and runs fast

Buda - it's because we all spend so much time on this thread I think. Once you get to know people it seems easier to retain the little details, I find anyway

HMHB - don't sweat about the nappies. More important that you sleep, or cuddle DD and DS, or find 20 mins to get out for some fresh air or sit on the sofa snuggled up with your husband.

Wasting - exactly.

Alice - dear God, I would need a lie down after that I think!

DH has taken DS out with him to get new ink for the printer so that we can finally sort some photos out. So I have 15 mins or so to do things that I can't when DS is underfoot.

TODAY
All up and dressed - all but me
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast x 3 - done
Unload dishwasher and tidy kitchen - done
2 loads of washing
Wipe over loo and basin in bathroom
Cut DH's hair
Clean mirrors and glass doors - done
Hoover downstairs
Sweep kitchen and hall - done
Lunch x 3
Mop kitchen floor - done
Clean inside patio doors - done
Clean windows in bathroom, our bedroom and DS' room - done
De-cobweb ceilings and behind blind/curtain tops
Dinner x 3 - chilli, didn't have it last night as it hadn't defrosted
Clear up
DS bath and bed
WATCH SPOOKS - YAY!!
Tidy round before bed

Aww Plum that's really sweet! Sorry to have worried you!

It has been a truly awful couple of weeks. Unbelievable stress TBH. Another 4 days and I'll be able to talk about it without getting paranoid that people think I'm fishing.

Buda - gah. Sorry. Missed the bit about the car. Will the insurance cover it?

Ignores Plum's tongue and makes room on her nest

CWWM - meant to say. I do not tidy during the day downstairs - at all - unless I need to put the hoover round. I leave it all and then once DS is in bed I can do it really quickly and then it's all tidy to relax in the evening. I only have DS and if I tidied downstairs more then that would be all I would do all day. God knows how you manage with 6!

I think my lists for today are a little ambitious. DS is doing a good job of keeping me from working. Oh well.

CWWM - I think we met on a thread a while ago when we were both pregnant. Your youngest is about the same age as mine isn't she? DS was born at the beginning of June.

If I had 6 children I'd probably not tidy downstairs whilst they were awake. It'd make me feel like the red queen in Alice through the looking glass (you know, running and running to stay still). That said, maybe I'd do it once (as a form of damage limitation), but certainly not more. So, stop it

Hello all. Can I join? I have two months off (whole of Dec & Jan) between finishing a contract at work and starting a Masters degree, and I have so much I want to get done around the house. Unfortunately, I am:

a slattern
a procrastinator
a lazy arse
a maker of useless lists (ie. make loads of lists and end up transferring 9/10 items on last week's list to this week's list... and on and on the cycle goes......grrrr)

My house is disorganised - cupboards stuffed with unsorted clutter, loads of DIY jobs and loads of things we need to get to help organise ourselves. Every single room needs major work. I will have Mon-Wed from beginning of December to attack this, and some time at weekends.

Where do I start????

Hi all. Well sat down in docs office and cried. so that went well.
anyway prescribed some very mild low dose ADs which my head is struggling with but will try and get them and start today.
plus some metformin to try and sort out my hormones as i'm sure they're haywire too - had PC)S before DS1 and think it's back. what fun.

May try and take a flask of tea and some baking to the park. if i get the shopping finished in time.

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed 2done
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• text friend re birthday DONE
• text SNHV re hosp date DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• pop out for wrapping paper DONE
• sort all presents hidden in cupboards DONE, & wrap DONE
• off to doc DONE
• tidy mine & DH's wardrobe
• sort lots of cheapo old tshirts to recycle
• check birthdays coming up & make cards
• something off other list?
• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• online shopping
• afternoon; meet friends at playground with DS1
• boys tea & bed
• my dinner
• DH home late (I think)

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

TBH it's not so much the principles as that I resent having spent far too much money on cloth and then still having to fork out for disposables [tightwad]

Still, it's only one nappy a day and hopefully short term until she sorts out whatever block she has that's causing her to wet the bed.

Am trying not to think about the house too much, if I was a landlord I'd probably say the same re benefits but I like to think I'd realise not everyone on benefits is a lazy scrounger and take their personal circumstances into consideration.

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Load of washing in ? DONE
Take dd to preschool ?DONE
Phone about house around the corner ? DONE they want working people only and she didn?t think having a guarantor and own deposit would sway them
Put bins out - DONE
Hang load of washing on radiators- DONE
Hoover downstairs -
Clean loo-
Go to shop - DONE
Pick up dd - DONE
Lunch ? DONE
Hoover upstairs -
Mop floors -
Yoga ?
Bring in washing, sort and put away -
make bread dough - DONE
Cook dinner ?

Oops cross posted with lots of people there!

JKS well done on talking to doctor and hope the ab's help.

Welcome Steph. If I were you I'd declutter first, easier to do the rest without lots of stuff around

CWWM I don't massively tidy during the day either, just pick up a few bits here and there when it begins to overwhelm me

Hi Steph

I am quite OCD so i would go through each room and write a mammoth list of what needs doing then start to tackle each room in turn - but then get distracted by something else like a book i unearthed for eg! - but at least if it's written down i fee i have to do it eventually.

you could publish the mammoth list on here at the beginning then just do each room in turn?
plus a daily list of little jobs?

right, some cakes baking, and making flask of tea to take

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed 2done
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• text friend re birthday DONE
• text SNHV re hosp date DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• pop out for wrapping paper DONE
• sort all presents hidden in cupboards DONE, & wrap DONE
• off to doc DONE
• tidy mine & DH's wardrobe
• sort lots of cheapo old tshirts to recycle
• check birthdays coming up & make cards
• something off other list?
• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• online shopping DONE
• baking doing
• afternoon; meet friends at playground with DS1
• boys tea & bed
• my dinner
• DH home late (I think)

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