The Listmakers World Cup: Slatterns 4 - Areas of Doom 1!

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

Welcome to the new thread everyone

All newbies and lapsed members welcome!

Need a kick up the bum or a shoulder to cry on, this could be the thread for you.

I normally just get a trim too, about 20ish for wash, cut & rough dry, i don't like to stay until totally dry, get bored!

Left from Tues:
-finish ironing & putting away

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• washing hung out DONE
• cat boxes from shed DONE
• get 2 cats into boxes DONE!
• cats to vets for jabs & worming DONE
• home & jobs; Sorting Office DONE
• collect DS1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 short nap DOing

• afternoon; friends round
• boys tea (fish fingers!)
• boys bath & bed
• me out to theatre (Woman In Black) with friends

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors Done3More
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• make my playlist
• clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats) - call Opodo re seats
• put hippo in upstairs toilet cistern
• repot sunflowers
• go through diaries with DH
• PO with sunglasses parcel friend forgot at weekend

CC - we all seem to be getting some of these early wakings, it is this lovely weather!

Rainbow I pay £26.50 for a wash, cut and blowdry. That is at my hairdresser's house though, she has a little salon set up in her conservatory. When I used to go to a salon in town it was over £40.

I am not going to exercise this afternoon, feel all floppy and tired. Going to make a nice pot of tea and sit and watch the tennis while DS is sleeping.

LEFT FROM YESTERDAY
Sort out big cupboard in DS' room

• label duvets and vacuum bag
• find our summer duvet
• find a lighter duvet for spare bed

Take things to dry cleaners

WEDNESDAY
Me and DH up - done
DH to interview - done
Clear grass ready for Green Thumb man and unlock side gate - done
Shower and dressed - dressed
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Wipe over bathroom
Hoover and sweep downstairs if needed
Fold washing - done
DH home - onhisway he thinks it went well, should have a decision by tomorrow, gulp.
Dry cleaners, Sainsbury's and park - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
DS nap - doing
Exercise - maybe later?
Sit down and watch tennis - doing
Lady coming to do pedicure at 5.45pm
Dinner
Clear up
Water plants
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Mirrors and glass doors - upstairsdone
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Insides of kitchen windows

OTHER JOBS
Birthday present for DB - have decided on driving gloves as a tongue-in-cheek present, he has recently bought himself a flash car
Book car in for service
Pay window cleaner
Buy more wrapping paper, cards etc - done
Have big toy clearout
Car tax
Move button on trousers because they are too big
Confirm with friends for Sunday and book tickets for food festival
Purchase remaining birthday presents for DS
Buy brother and bridezilla a wedding present, boo hiss
Buy myself a birthday book

DD fell over coming out of the house, 2 more grazes to add to her collection. Then fell asleep on the way to ballet. I thought we should leave her as she is desperate to catch up on some sleep, but DH thought we should wake her up. So we woke her up but she was quite naughty again. Going to be a late one again tonight. Think i will give her some pasta or something about 5pm, so at least she has eaten. DH just doesn't get it as he doesn't have to spend all day with her.

DONE
Get up
DD up
Get dressed
Have breakfast (kind of)
Clean bathroom and floor
Make beds
Sort washing
Put washload on
Phone preschool (thanks Wasting!)
Load dishy
Wipe kitchen down
Clean hob
Phone garage
Hang washing out
Put next load on (towels)
Get DD dressed
Have a short lie down
DD Ballet
Make chocolate cake for bomb (in oven)

TO DO
Write friend's card and send x2
Feed DD
Horses
Drop car at garage
Tidy sitting room
DD bed
Get Dh to empty dining room
Shower and bed

Helloooooooo!

Aw, Rainbow, that's so cute!

Hope you found some energy CC.

• up, dressed for exercise done
• breakfast, spatone, oj and vitamins done
• coffee + check mail and online banking doing
• Shred done
• shower and dress, wipe round bathroom done
• MIL visiting done
• gardening some
• lunch done
• ? walk/park etc Morrisons
• garden - check for cat poo none, water, feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• tea
• wash pots and tidy kitchen
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed (DH)
• craft

Gardening -

• weed - patio area, flower patch by gate, front yard, borders
• pot up/ grow bags for peppers and tomatoes
• plant more seeds in vegpatch
• spider plant babies - 2 small pots of compost to grow baby plants

Grot -

• oven
• carpet
• defrost freezer
• sofa cover
• clean bird table
• clean hoover

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed, mark dates in Calendar for making Christmas cake etc., somewhere to store Christmas presents done
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• buy external hard-drive
• find a dentist
• pay coins in at bank, next 5 bags
• what?s up with the camera sd card memory?
• rsvp wedding invites
• do Ocado shop with £15 voucher
• set up pedometer (bought circa 2005)

Feeling really stressed about the state of our house at the moment. It literally seems never ending. I can't throw myself into like i used to be able to because i get so bloody knackered. What can i do? Suggestions on a postcard please.....

Alice - can you afford a cleaner for a few months while you are really pg and while you've got a newborn as well as DD? We got one when I was about 20 weeks with DS because my SPD was so bad I couldn't hoover or carry anything, and I think we kept them until DS was about 4 months old. We will definitely do that same again next time.

LEFT FROM YESTERDAY
Sort out big cupboard in DS' room

• label duvets and vacuum bag
• find our summer duvet
• find a lighter duvet for spare bed

Take things to dry cleaners

WEDNESDAY
Me and DH up - done
DH to interview - done
Clear grass ready for Green Thumb man and unlock side gate - done
Shower and dressed - dressed
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Wipe over bathroom
Hoover and sweep downstairs if needed - done
Fold washing - done
DH home - done
Dry cleaners, Sainsbury's and park - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
DS nap - doing
Exercise - maybe later?
Sit down and watch tennis - doing
Empty kitchen and living room bins - done
Tidy downstairs - done
Get chicken into the oven - done
Hang out washing - done
Put Peppa Pig on my laptop so that I can watch the tennis in peace - next
Lady coming to do pedicure at 5.45pm
Dinner
Clear up
Water plants
DS bath and bed
Nappies on to wash
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Mirrors and glass doors - upstairsdone
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Insides of kitchen windows

OTHER JOBS
Birthday present for DB - have decided on driving gloves as a tongue-in-cheek present, he has recently bought himself a flash car
Book car in for service
Pay window cleaner
Buy more wrapping paper, cards etc - done
Have big toy clearout
Car tax
Move button on trousers because they are too big
Confirm with friends for Sunday and book tickets for food festival
Purchase remaining birthday presents for DS
Buy brother and bridezilla a wedding present, boo hiss
Buy myself a birthday book

Er so I didn't exactly manage a list today, or to do much of anything tbh . Been really sleepy all day. Have done all the essentials though and popped in for a chat with wc's nan so feel like I've done something!

Ironing pile is looking at me but really can't face it.

Alice - i agree with the cleaner idea, otherwise trying to make a mental shift about what really matters at the moment. Hard to do i know, but some stuff really doesn't matter when you've got other priorities.
When life calms down a bit (and it does, even with 2!) you can sort pick things back up as you find the energy.

Left from Tues:
-finish ironing & putting away

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• washing hung out DONE
• cat boxes from shed DONE
• get 2 cats into boxes DONE!
• cats to vets for jabs & worming DONE
• home & jobs; Sorting Office DONE
• collect DS1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 short nap DONE
• afternoon; friends round DONE
• boys tea (fish fingers!) DONE
• my tea too DONE

• boys bath & bed
• me out to theatre (Woman In Black) with friends

Thurs:

• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed
• DS1 to pre-sch
• DS2 SALT appt (9.30)
• home and any jobs?
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 short nap
• tennis time?
• friend with DS coming round & staying for tea
• boys tea x 3 (pasta)
• boys to bed
• extra orchestra rehearsal
• DH home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register; Find another one that is taking on NHS patients
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door - Autumn job really
• clean kitchen cupboard doors Done3More
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• make my playlist
• clear my iPhone of music, reload with just my playlist
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats) - call Opodo re seats
• put hippo in upstairs toilet cistern
• repot sunflowers
• go through diaries with DH
• PO with sunglasses parcel friend forgot at weekend

Er no idea alice sorry...when ds was tiny I didn't managed to get anything done, if we were fed real food and I'd done the washing up it was a real accomplishment

If the cleaner isn't an option and your dh is usually open to being helpful then I would suggest just doing the real basics eg up, dressed and fed, washing up and a load of washing as well as clearing up any toddler spillages etc as and when they occur every day and then getting him to do the rest for a few months so on a weekend he can clean the bathroom/kitchen and do the floors for you. Anything else can probably be put off until your ds is a couple of months old. Hard though esp as your dh works irregular hours and has a physical job...

Lovely to hear about all the acheivements of everybodies DCs.
Alice I agree with cleaner idea, if you can affordit/can find one.

Perhaps we should issue everyone with Doom hazard tape and cones. So that areas can be isolated. My office should definately only be entered with protective clothing. Also veg basket needs tackling, and is probably a bio- hazard. [ashamed face]

Hi All

Well dcs are on holidays, and already fighting
dd1 is doing work printed off the computer

Mini hand over hazardous tape, hmm...... actually just tape over front gate and stick a sign in garden enter at own risk

Iam going to get stuck in tonight & tomorrow, then finish wedding figures & start on caravan

Pushes everyone up a little to make room on thread for big list

Alice I think if you feel that way sometimes you can't worry about cost, I made sure I put a wash on everyday and put it in tumble drier and away, bought loads of cleaning wipes put 1 in nearly everyroom and if I was in that room gave it a wipe round, actually come to think of it my house might have looked cleaner

Can't be bothered to copy and paste my list!! And the exercise can take a run and jump for all I care at the momment, I always get like this when AF is on her way.

The hairdressers I have the appointment at charge £31, whereas the hairdressers a mile away charge £26, I think I will go for the £26, then the spare £5 can be for a coffee and a cake salad after

Alice I know exactly what you mean about the housework getting difficult towards the end of pregnancy, I used to get so frustrated. I think you need to decide which things bother you the most when they are not done, and focus on them with plenty of breaks inbetween and stuff the rest, take up every offer of help (wish I'd done this), I like the cleaner idea too.

Right, I'm off to curl up with a good book.

Night, night all

Mini - top tip. Put on rubber gloves. Get large bin bag. Place entire veg basket in bin bag. Place bin bag in bin. Mop down area where veg basket used to stand. Buy new veg basket and veg. Keep an eye on veg at all times to check not becoming bio-hazard.

Am too tired to write list. DD saw health visitor today and she is doing well. Weighs 15 pounds now and is fine on all the charts.

Microlist
Tidy kitchen a bit
Have shower
Have hot beverage
Go to bed early

I am so tired this evening, no motivation to do anything at all.

LEFT FROM YESTERDAY
Sort out big cupboard in DS' room

• label duvets and vacuum bag
• find our summer duvet
• find a lighter duvet for spare bed

Take things to dry cleaners

WEDNESDAY
Me and DH up - done
DH to interview - done
Clear grass ready for Green Thumb man and unlock side gate - done
Shower and dressed - dressed
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Wipe over bathroom
Hoover and sweep downstairs if needed - done
Fold washing - done
DH home - done
Dry cleaners, Sainsbury's and park - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
DS nap - done
Exercise - maybe later?
Sit down and watch tennis - done
Empty kitchen and living room bins - done
Tidy downstairs - done
Get chicken into the oven - done
Hang out washing - done
Put Peppa Pig on my laptop so that I can watch the tennis in peace - done
Lady coming to do pedicure at 5.45pm - done
Dinner - done
Clear up
Water plants
DS bath and bed - done
Nappies on to wash
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Mirrors and glass doors - upstairsdone
Stairs and bannisters - done
Shower screen
Insides of kitchen windows

OTHER JOBS
Birthday present for DB - have decided on driving gloves as a tongue-in-cheek present, he has recently bought himself a flash car
Book car in for service
Pay window cleaner - done
Buy more wrapping paper, cards etc - done
Have big toy clearout
Car tax - trying, the website is down
Move button on trousers because they are too big
Confirm with friends for Sunday and book tickets for food festival
Purchase remaining birthday presents for DS
Buy brother and bridezilla a wedding present, boo hiss
Buy myself a birthday book

Ali - I feel a lot better after a long shower and the use of a few lotions and potions. Am now having a bit of toast and going to watch rubbish on tv. Start again tomorrow.

Morning!

Mini, I used to have v. biohazardous veg when I got a vegbox, hardly ever got used.

Alice, simplifying is key I think. Agree with cleaning wipes.
Keeping the place tidy so that is' easy for DH to do the bulk of the cleaning.
Could you get DD her own apron and duster?
How's your storage? The easier it is to tidy up, the easier it is to clean I think.

• up, dressed for exercise done
• breakfast, spatone, oj and vitamins done
• coffee + check mail and online banking doing
• Shred
• shower and dress, wipe round bathroom
• visit Aunty
• pop to Tesco
• garden - check for cat poo, water, feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• tea
• wash pots and tidy kitchen
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• craft

Gardening -

• weed - patio area done, flower patch by gate done some, front yard, borders
• pot up/ grow bags for peppers and tomatoes
• plant more seeds in vegpatch
• spider plant babies - 2 small pots of compost to grow baby plants

Grot -

• oven
• carpet
• defrost freezer
• sofa cover
• clean bird table
• clean hoover

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed, mark dates in Calendar for making Christmas cake etc.,
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• buy external hard-drive
• find a dentist
• pay coins in at bank, next 5 bags
• what?s up with the camera sd card memory?
• rsvp wedding invites written
• do Ocado shop with £15 voucher
• set up pedometer (bought circa 2005)

Morning

Sorry for moaning yesterday. Feeling brighter today. DH and i did some bigger jobs last night that i put off during the day because i am too hot/difficult with DD's help.

I have always been a morning person, but with not sleeping as well and it being hot, i am finding the mornings hard and the evenings much easier.

One job i hate, and i now find difficult is picking up DD's toys. It is bend and stretch, bend and stretch and i can't do it, so asked DH to tidy sitting room last night while i made his chocolate bomb to take to his friends. I then tidied and swept and mopped the kitchen, which has made a huge difference. So now, my bathroom is tidy and clean, my kitchen is tidy (as much as it ever is!) and clean and my sitting room is tidy.

DONE
Get up
DD up (7am - thank god!)
Breakfast

TO DO
Clear up breakfast stuff
Empty dishy
Make beds
Put washload on
Have spatone
Phone Dr's
Get dressed
Sort out yesterday's clean washing
Tidy dining room
Tidy and sweep hall
Think of picnic ideas for this evening

We are going to ikea tomorrow (apparently the sale starts tomorrow too ) and going to get lots of storage etc. Underbed storage, a storage bench for the hall and new coat hooks, new sofa throws etc.

DONE
Get up
DD up (7am - thank god!)
Breakfast
Clear up breakfast stuff
Empty dishy
Make beds
Put washload on
Have spatone
Sort out yesterday's clean washing

TO DO
Try to catch DD to dress her
Get dressed
Phone children's centre
Tidy dining room
Tidy and sweep hall
Think of picnic ideas for this evening
Make ikea list
Write and send cards x2
Pop to town for picnic stuff

Am away this morning with DCs as DD2 needs to have her blood test done so taking all 4 on the bus at 10 am! Wish me luck, have to buy DS birthday present as he couldnt decide what he wanted

Morning. Ministry of Doom here. Thank you Half for that useful waste elimination analysis. Will give it a go. Must retain basket however, as a friend wove it, she may notice its gone, or probably not, as it is understairs.
Moth count - NIL YEeeSSS! that'll show 'em.
Plum - wedding cake-caravan is one going on top of other?
List
Parkinsons sort
throw away dead flowers - now stinking- one star Doom
osteopath
plan food
pay invoices
posters
database remind self
office - 3 star doom (cat may have peed in there, anyway doom type smell)
Other stuff
etc
kitchen
bathroom
blah blah

CC. good luck with 4 on bus.
List
Parkinsons sort done
throw away dead flowers - now stinking- one star Doom done
osteopath
plan food
pay invoices
do reminders
posters
database remind self
office - 3 star doom (cat may have peed in there, anyway doom type smell)
Other stuff
etc
kitchen
bathroom
blah blah

Morning Back with a list later, need to exercise as I won't get a chance later.
DH is the only person left in the running for that job, he has a final phone interview this morning with an HR person there and then he will know whether he has got it.

Wasting - tell me about Shred, I have read some of the thread and I am scared, everyone seems really slim and fit already before even starting!

Mini - sorry but I Lol'ed at doom-smelling office. Hope it is fixable!

Well I lost count of how many DS3 woke-up last night, this morning I have been in a blur and even took DD into pre-school without brushing my hair

alice Glad you are feeling brighter today, have a good moan sometimes can actually help you to feel better, thats why I do it alot!!

CC Good luck with the bus trip!!

Ali

Breakfast done
Clean kitchen post breakfast - will have to wait
All washed and dressed done
School run done
Wipe round bathroom
Make beds
Online food shopping
Phone my mum
Decide how many duvet sets and sheets we actually need and get rid of the rest
Take DS1 to have passport size pics taken
Sort through they pile of school letters
Ask BT to stop sending paper bills
Exercise - run later
Put guinea pigs out in run
Pick up DD from pre-school
Run DW
Run WM
Hangout washing done
Lunch
Clean kitchen after lunch
Prep veggies for dinner
Defrost cheesecake
Homework time
Dinner
Clean kitchen after dinner
Feed pets
Bedtime story
Bath/wash and put DD1 and DS3 to bed

mini NO, wedding cake 8 figures at top table have 3 and a head done,
last year we bought a tow behind caravan which hasn't been towed anywhere since towing it up the drive, and it needs abit of work done on it before we go anywhere,
we might not even be caravan people and it will be for sale but it still needs the work done.

I read about shred but sounds too hard, but I need to lose weight!

Day 1 of summer holidays, stinking rain & wind

TO DO
dcs showered & dressed
me showered & dressed
hang up wet wash
put on a wash
ring docs for dd1 bloods
wedding cake(maybe not today)

Oh God where to start

KITCHEN
load dishwasher
go through dd1s schoolwork and then bin store safely
declutter areas of doom (4)
brush floor
mop floor
clean windows
2 baskets of Ironing

LIVING ROOM
de-toy
dust
hoover
clean windows

HALL
tidy dd2s kitchen & related toys
de-shoe
de-clutter all the rest of bits that were flung there yesterday
hoover mat
brush & mop floor

MAIN HALL
Hoover
dust

BATHROOM
bleach toilet
clean
mop floor
polish shower

ENSUITE
bleach toilet
clean
mop floor
wipe round shower(dosen't get used)

BEDROOM
change bed
put away pile of clean clothes
dirty clothes in wash
mop floor
windows

DCS ROOMs
(aaaarrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh)
Tidy all toys
mop floors
maybe beds
windows

LOUNGE
Sort remaining clean washing that is stashed in here
Clean out fire
dust
tidy any video games etc
measure windows for curtains
clean windows

Compile a list for dhs week off

Miracle if I get half done today, maybe get egg timer going

eek Ali is this the America job, fingers crossed.