Walking in a Crepey Wonderland!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

I couldn't see that anyone else had started a new thread, after Stropps carelessly finished the old one without starting a new one, so here you are.

MrsS at ST's on pants!

Yes, she is a true Filth-Packet. (Anyone else remember the Filth-Packets?) As I said, we have not had that extent of revoltingness since, and the shame of DH telling her off seems to have worked.

We need a loft for some of our crap, I think, or to pay for storage while we decide what to do with it.

I got some bargainous bright pink Christy's towels from TK Maxx this afternoon. DD1 got some Superdry bright blue jeans. If any of you are slender of leg, they had Levi's skinnies and jeggings in the Charing Cross branch going cheap; also some 30 and 28 waist Curve jeans (mostly the slight curve ones). DD2 refused to come with us, so didn't get the dark blue Seven jeans they had in her size, or the school bag she needs. If she makes no effort, neither will I, and she can wear too tight or torn jeans this term at school, and can have her sister's old school bag (which is VERY uncool).

Thank you all for your understanding

Yes indeed - the wet weather thing is very hard. Until very recently, DS3 was not using the iPad at all - so I am guiltily grateful that he's gone back to it for now.

My DS1 is appallingly messy. I would also like to see the 10 point plan for tidy rooms although I am pessimistic about the effect on his pit.

Oh 10 point plan pleeeeassseee

Pirate - ds (aside from schlepping round Waitrose in a zebra onesie) has spent the day on his PC...... :)

It would definitely help DD2 who has NO idea where to start..

I think you probably need to go into survival mode for Monday! I myself am resolutely ignoring the fact DD1 doesn't start till late morning and DD2 will still be off...must shunt her off to a friend.

Re Waitrose and the free coffee I did see this and wondered if Stropps had been misbehaving ;)

Is it generally the case that oldest children are the messiest ?

On the evidence of dp's family - no. He is the eldest, but second must untidy - his sister beats him hands down.....

No, round here it's the second-born.

I am messy, but not dirty. I will put things down "for a minute" as I get distracted by something else that needs doing, and then leave it there. I bought new kitchen scales today, the packaging is all over the kitchen, as I decided I was going to make some tea, and that took priority. The new towels are also sitting on the sofa, as I showed them to DH, and there is a bag of shopping in the hall. It will get sorted, in due course. DH has already had a good moan about it all, but as all he has done today is have a nice solitary day, moan about there being no food* in the house, and nap on the sofa, he can shove off.

• No tins of tuna.

I'm with MrsS - I am untidy, but not dirty.....but I am fighting dp's and ds's endless clutter....they both just drop things where they last had them....

In our house DD is the oldest and messiest. DH is oldest and averagely tidy/messy, I am an only and averagely tidy/messy. DS is averagely tidy/messy.

In our house DD is older and messier/DS potentially rather tidy/DH extremely tidy in quite an annoying fashion but does SFA otherwise/me endlessly striving not to be messy.

I found that when we were coming back to the house after DD had had 'gatherings' she found it helpful to get lists from me that said things like 'put all empty bottles into bin bags and REMOVE FROM HOUSE', 'draw curtains', 'towels used to mop up accidents to be placed inside washing machine' (or even washed). it was astonishing the level of detail she found useful and i thought obvious.

BTM - she's in a flat with 10 separate ensuite bedrooms and communal sittingroom/kitchen. I'm REALLY liking what I hear of Sheffield as a university both academically and socially. And Sheffield itself is just great anyway.

Sorry about the caps overload, still recovering from Christmas

addle, that's great that she's in a good place. What do the other flatmates think of her tidiness/lack of?

God yes, our house is sinking. And bits of it (in DD2's room - no wonder she doesn't feel like tidying it) are literally falling off...

Ruby, thumbs up!

Well, dd was unimpressed but slightly amused by the labels I have put on her drawers ("Socks" etc) in her absence and says they can stay temporarily while she gets the hang of this new-fangled system.

I am sorry to have set off crepey house despair....

BD yes, I've been lowering the tone at my local Waitrose, grabbing the free coffee, then filling a trolley with Tesco bags and steering it with my stomach. Hahaha. Must be frightful for all those proper Waitrose types to have to be in the same aisle as a dreadful Tesco pleb.

OPM, my dcs have spent 2 whole weeks either just watching TV or playing on their new Xbox. But they were nice to each other and to me and did their chores when asked to, so I don't care. Ds is not allowed on any electrical tomorrow until he has done his thank you letters, his piano practice and hoovered the stairs, as the holidays are now OVER. I dare say the niceness will also be over.

DS3 did eventually get bored of the iPad and took a break to gallop around in the kitchen and then have tea and his bath. I think the weather is going to be pants again tomorrow though and he really isn't good at indoor play places (the noise is too much for him). It may have to be the sodding Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green again (for only the zillionth time of my parenting years ).

Home Sweet Home!

CV glad you made it back what with the storms and all!!

I have now managed to p*ss off all my fellow inmates of the Inferiority Complex. The Inferiorettes are particularly pissed off at (a) being made to go for a walk this morning - I'd already been for a run, ffs (b) having to do a spot of dusting this afternoon. DP is huffy because I didn't buy any milk chocolate in Aldi (I did buy dark, actually for cooking with ) and because I have as ever stacked the dishwasher the Wrong Way.

That Waitrose article made me laugh - I was in W'rose on NYE briefly, and it was a complete scrum, but with people still being forcedly polite, because, you know, they're Waitrose shoppers and have Standards. So there was a lot of forced grin "scuse me" and "would you mind".

So the 10 point plan. I will paste it below and as I said, it's farking obvious stuff, but clearly not so to me and my family. Now I just have to get slovenly dh on board. I must point out though, that my dcs are a little younger than some of your teens (and I don't yet have the damp towel issue), so you could substitute make-up/toiletries/computer cables etc for things like Sylvanians where necc. I am hoping that after a few months of this, doing our occasional big clear out of too small clothes and tidying cupboards etc will not be such a ridiculous chore.

HOW TO TIDY YOUR ROOM
A TEN POINT PLAN

If you do all ten of these things, your room will be tidy.
Do three of these things (not always the same three!) each night for five minutes before bed and your rooms will remain reasonably tidy and be much easier to clean properly once a week.

1. Put any dirty clothes in your washbasket.
2. Pick up any rubbish and put in your wastepaper bin.
3. Put away any clean clothes that you didn;t put away when you were supposed to.
4. Put all books nicely on your bookshelf, spines out, standing up where they can, in a flat pile for large books.
5. Put Lego / Playmobil / Warhammer / Sylvanians in storage tub / on shelf.
6. Lids on paint pots, pencils/pens in drawer, tidy away craft stuff.
7. Go through everything on your nightstand / in pile next to your bed and tidy. Two books maximum on nightstand.
8. All CDs back in boxes and in neat stack.
9. Put school text books in single stack on desk; put school exercise books/folder in single stack on desk.
10. Take a wrung out damp cloth and wipe desk and shelves. Do at least two shelves each week. AND THEN, IF YOU WANT TO GO TO ELEVEN...
11. HOOVER!

Wilbur - fab and I'm going to adapt for ds....

Here we can't find the school shoes and I can't recall if I binned them or not....,