what household job have you put off fo really far too long and need to do?

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go on what is it?

clean all the hacked off plaster and put it into rubble sacks

wash the dog? you can pay someone to do that too!

Filing, filing, filing - bloody bits of probably important papers strewn all over the house. Also sorting through dd's clothes to see what she's too big for (keep cramming her into much too small clothes ) and doing the mother of all runs to the charity shop.

Get the dead flies out of the bathroom light cover

windows, definitely! and reorganising receipts etc for tax... actually I don't mind paperwork but it's a bit difficult with a 19 month old "helper"

filing bits of paper

Well there are many of them, but probably the most urgent is cleaning out and organising the pantry.

yes, but having the 2 done cost as much as having my hair cut and coloured. So I preffer to wash them myself and pocket the money . I'm tired of so many pofessional dog stylists who send them back with clipped paws.

Washing up from last night!!!

It's nearly 3.30 and i've still not done it - preferring to sit here on MN while DS's watch Thomas the Tank Engine video .

ha - my breakfast things are now in the dishwasher, the washing is in the tumble dryer and teh Sunday papaers in the recycling bag.

Gotta make it look like I've been doing stuff before dh gets home

ha ha iota, my thought exactly, have also emptied dishwasher and am about to do 5 minute tidy round in the lounge "oh darling i've been sooo busy tidying the house today"

lmb - we're so cunning

... if only they knew

sorting out ds's toys for what to sling/charity shop/move upstairs.

He got so many new ones for his birthday,. we have no living room left

Try and turn piles of paper into slightly fewer, slightly smaller piles of paper.
Touch up greying, multicoloured hideous roots - there will probably be a thread shortly entitled "help my hair's gone green/orange".

Hahaha - you lot are so funny - I am super organised and even managed to paint wood on front of house yesterday!!

Good tip though - before DH comes home dust and polich the ahllway - that way he will walk in thinking you have been cleaning all day!! Also having dirt smeared on face will look alluring and like you have been busy!!

Had a friend who used to never ever do dusting but her house used to smell like Mr Sheen - she did it before any guests came and I always thought her house was super clean - until she told me she hadn't dusted in years and made DD do it - DD was 3 by the way!!

LOL twinkie - I'm already an expert at the spray of mr sheen, that smell can go a long way

Twinkie - you are obviously nesting

HA, I am evil dw - have poor sick dh doing the filing LOL - kitchen table covered and he is looking very put upon

well cd, when he's finished, can you send him round here, i've loads of filing to do ...and diy jobs if he's any good at those

Yep Iota I am - was terribly cross with DP that he thought painting around the windows at the back of the house was more important and he wouldn't get the ladder down for me to paint the fascia - if he would have just let me do that and the garage door front of house would have looked great!!

May wash down and paint garage door whenhe at work one day - don't suppose he will even notice - well unless I paint it red or something!!

Spose it's the man hours involved LMB!

Ah, for once in life, up to date after my wonderful but very grumpy father came to stay last week, and did everything from ironing 2 weeks' supply of business shirts, buying annoying groceries like toilet paper stocks and new dishcloths, to sewing nametapes on ds's spare school socks and winter mittens. When I told ds he was leaving, he wanted to know why, so I said it was boring for him when we were both out all day, and ds said, "But he can do all the jobs for you around the house!" He even changed the batteries on all ds's toys which have been out of action for months. My heart belongs to Daddy (well, after ds of course...)!

Have just realised my top tip for looking busy - I leave a big pile of fresh laundy on dh's side of the bed for him to put away (all his laundry BTW)

Oh god, have just seen this thread and was about to add that my long put-off job would be cleaning the oven but have skimmed the responses quickly and have realised that I also need to clean the windows, do a pile of filing and sort out ds1's name tags before he grows out of the school uniform they are meant to be on. And that's only what I have picked up from a quick read! If I look properly it will probably remind me of even more neglected jobs. I must be a complete slob!