My house looks like a wreck!

Isn't it just like the elephants, going down to the 'ol watering hole... At least they didn't try to squeeze under the fridge. Would have been lop-sided! LOL ~ Suzi :)

That only happens when they have an ice cream attack, then I um uh I mean they leave plops of melted ice cream all over.

mopping the ceiling???

Yeah I know, sounds really weird. But we get a buildup on the ceiling, I think mostly from hot steamy showers and the regular dust and dirt flying around. After several months you can actualy see it if you look and when I get super angry I mop the cieling. Maybe its the exertion it takes to whip the mop around and then back so I can rinse it.

Sounded messy! Raindrops falling on my head from dirty mopwater is not a pretty picture.

LOL Terre, I use a sponge mop that has the easy push squishing water out thing.LOL

dispatcher1--I love that! With your permission I want to make a sign for my house.

Dravencat--You must still be a young chick. I gave up mad cleaning years ago. Now me and the elephants sit and eat Ice cream together. Guess that is why, except for the trunk, we could pass for twins. LOL


Blessings,
Sandy ^8^

My face in the mirror Isn't wrinkled or drawn. My house isn't dirty. The cobwebs are gone. My garden looks lovely, And so does my lawn. I think I might never Put my glasses back on.

The only time I ever clean my house is when no one comes to visit me. When my house is a wreck (quite often ok ok almost all the time) I get visitors all the time. SO why should I clean house when all that does is keep my friends away.

I have been down for several years now with various health issues and the house got away from me several times but I managed to save up some money each time and found a housekeeper to catch me back up so this time I am hoping to find a housekeeper to catch me up once again but this time I will try to hire her for every other week for a few hours so I can spend more time in my yard. Our yard is still a fixer upper after 5 years here but it is slowly taking shape. Now that I don't have goats escaping our fence I might even get a tree or a shrub to grow up before it is eaten down.

Life is too short to worry about whether or not your house is spotless and with five dogs, two cats, two men, me and a flock of sheep and a horse on this place I will never achieve a spotless house so life is good. Just don't let that skunk into the house please!!!!!!!!!!!!

The dishwasher is one tool I would never be without. I consider it my extra cabinet in the kitchen and it is always filled with dishes whether clean or dirty. Kinda nice to be able to check emails while the dishes are being sanitized.

So if you want to visit me just come on down but remember that it is me and my yard that you are here to see and not the dust bunnies in the bathroom. Those dustbunnies have taken a few months to grow up as nice and plump as they are and we are rather attached to them. :~)

Lani

Hmmmmmmmmm, I wonder why the title of this thread caught my eye! Well, when friends are coming over, I always say, "Oh my, I must go clean garden!"

It's windy and miserable oustside today, but I couldn't clean my house if I wanted to. There's too many things potted up and awaiting nice weather to be planted outside.

Oh well, I could go to town for groceries, but I don't feel like doing that either. Most likely I'll just make another pot of coffee and stay here on DG. :) I'm REAL lazy today.

Joan, I envy your lazy day. I would love to spend time on DG, but I have to steal moments, so I never get to really visit! My house has reached the limit of my dirt tolerance, and I'm pretty liberal in that department. I keep telling my DH we are going to have a dedicated cleaning day, and he agrees, but off he goes on service calls for his oil heaters, and I sit down and continue transplanting... the house does not get cleaned.

I'm not asking for much. I want a clean floor... at least fresh dirt on the floor. I want to look at a flat surface that isn't littered with stuff. I want the house to smell like something besides cigarette smoke, dog hair, and baking soil starter. I want, I want, I want. However, in all reality, tomorrow, I will forgo house cleaning to go outside and rake. All summer, my yard looks so much better than my house. The lawn is mown, the beds weeded. Meanwhile, the house gets dustier and messier. The house plants go dry and brown. You can sure tell my priorities.

I am among family here! This is great. Been telling friends I'm just going to put grow bulbs in the ceiling fan and sow seed in the carpet!

*G* Well today is D-day so to speak I"m going to get off my duff and start (little by little) to "spring" clean I'll start in the kitchen and organize the pantry and fridge today...even if it kills me.

I can't remember what my kitchen table looks like anymore as it always has clothes piled on it from the dryer. I have enough dog hair on the floor to make three people a fur coat and what is that thing used for in my kitchen the one with four burners on top and an oven underneath.

If you come to vist and you don't like the look of my house you can do one of two things, leave or clean it and hey I will even supply the cleaning materials.

But all is not lost I have a great looking yard and my plants look super.

Ohh I wish I could say that...my yard looks a mess and the house isn't much better. If I don't dust soon I'll do nothing but sneeze if I'm inside. My problem is...*sob* I'm a computer junkie...just one keystroke and I'm hooked for the day. I'm also one of those that I run out of steam about 1:00 in the afternoon, so if I don't get it done early it doesn't get done.

You wonderful people have saved me thousands, I'm sure. I have grinned until my face hurts. I was considering "counceling" over my (non)housekeeping habits, but as I have read and read and re-read all these "confessions", I'm almost well. I use to be a "fanatical housekeeper"; that is until I started gardening...........end of story. I love it this way (most of the time) and thankfully I have a special husband who has no complaints about it. He thinks his knees are the dining table. We both love our yard and garden and patio. I'd sure like a full time house and laundry person though. I still have a slight piece of "guilt" left. Thanks a lot for sharing. You're all great. Enjoy your Life!!!!!

We are enjoying life, which is why we aren't cleaning... LOL ~ Suzi :)

Well after moving all my Brugs outside, and cleaning my house they are all back in, we have 30 temp. and snow, so now my house looks normal again, no place to sit and not much room to walk, at least I didn't get them planted so I didn't have to dig them back up, and my daughter is gone for a week so maybe it will warm up again by then and I can get them back outside.



Doris

Yippie! Cleaned and organized the pantry! Now to clean up the mess I made...cleaning *G*

Can we vote araness off the island/forum? She went and cleaned! Isn't that against the rules? She is making the rest of us look bad.

We all "fall off the wagon" sometimes, we just have to give her moral support.... Besides, nobody's perfect. Been looking for Mr. Nobody S. Perfect all my life, never found him... LOL :)

Yup you can see how bad I fell off the wagon with the chandelier thing. SIGH. But I just got loaded down with plants from a visit to another DGer yesterday and the only thing clean for now is the kitchen sink so I can repot, pot up and figure out where to put everything till I can put it outside. Boy am I happy now. : )

*G* well blame it on the company coming...and the fact that since I don't work and I'm a stay at home Mom (child is a DP) I feel sooo guilty if the house is dirty. Since the only "garden" I have is in pots I don't have an excuse for the house not to be clean. Humm I'll have to work on that next planting season.

I have company coming too - but I'm not doing much in the way of house cleaning. I briefly thought about shampooing the carpet - but quickly came to my senses! I'll zap the spots and they'll have to live with it. It's only my brother! DH cleaned out the dishwasher....OMG! - and so I'll be doing some kind of straightening in the kitchen I guess. I think we have countertops - but not sure.

But you see - I've now gotten onto DG and who knows what I'll not accomplish now??? LOL

shampooing the carpet?!?! Naww I'm not going to THAT much trouble...*G* I thought I'd vacuum, mop, dust and clean the bathrooms. UUgh I hate having three bathrooms! The DH thinks that if it's clean and we have three he has to use ALL of them!

Me too... I'm getting good at not accomplishing things here. Gee, before DG, I blamed school, work + kids... now I don't blame anyone. Just came to the realization that a single mother is totally excusable if she'd rather play on the computer - ummm - change that to - learn by discussing things on the computer in her precious few moments of spare time [which didn't have before, so it's not my fault I am addicted to gardening and discussing gardening, is it?!]! ~ Suzi

Well I guess the DH can't complain...he knew when he married me that I was a computer junkie, and it was his idea for me not to work sooo the fact that the house is dirty is all his fault...Hey I kinda like this line of thinking...*G*

araness...yea, blame it on the men! They're the ones that get it all dirty in the first place, right? LOL!

;-)

BTW - haven't done anything since last post - except try to help id some iris.....and surf......see - not accomplishing much at all!

I've cleaned out the pantry and the bookshelf. Haven't tackled the fridge yet cause I'm pretty sure something in it could eat ME...and I'm not a one bite kinda meal.

OH NO!!! Step-mother is coming to visit June 12th! And staying overnight! Now all those things I put off, gotta do... I have lived all over the world, in clean houses, but she didn't come! Well, our fault I guess, we keep inviting her and now she is taking us up on it. That'll teach me! Maybe that's a whole new thread, cleaning up after "Hurricane Family"! LOL Wish me luck at getting the girls 7+19 to cooperate, clean and keep it that way! At least we have some lead time... ~ Suzi :)

Rose? A padlock on the fridge works wonders with teenagers! They will clean to eat! I once pointed out to mine one of the bums standing on the streetcorner with the "Will work for food" sign, and wondered aloud if perhaps HE would run the vacuum for a hamburger. When she responded, "We're having burgers for dinner? Cool!" I replied, "Well, some of us are!"

I've also been known to be in the mood for liver and onions, unless someone figured out how to load the dishwasher.

hhmmm maybe its time to stock up on saurkraut and hot dogs, of course you have to cook the hotdogs in the kraut or it dosnt work as well, LOL, and the thing is I can eat that stuff for lunch and dinner, Id have enough left over for the next day if they didnt get hint, LOL

Works every time! Works on DHs too! They just grumble more.

Well, I read this thread from beginning to end and near bout fell off my chair! Y'all are too funny ... but you sound sooo like me! I have gotten completely hooked on the computer and have decided life is tooo short to spend so much time cleaning all the time. After all ... I HATE HOUSE WORK! *smile* Will stop taking things so serious from now on!

Sitting here late this night, the sand,(on the floor), sifting through my toes. Who needs the beach? Reading these honest posts. (Do you really worry about the MIL?) Mine comes & cleans!
Our house feels so lived in. Plus all the house plants in every corner. Two grandchildren here everyday adds to the excitment. They don't care that a little mess is here or there. (Our granddaughter does get some sweeping done, though. She is 22 months.) By the way she doesn't like dirt, but we are hopefull that will change!
Well, I will now throw my milk glass & cake plate in the dirty dish pile & head to bed. I won't have to worry about cleaning tomarrow, as there are way to many things with higher priority!
Bernie

I have a dirty dish pile every morning, I do try to keep the dishes cleaned up, so everyday after school the DD is told to empty the dishwasher and then I fill it up with the pile in the sink, on the counter, on the stove, over on the table and drag in what Ieft in my bedroom last night, LOL.

On a different subject, went to anothe of DS's baseball games last night, they had a pile of dirt that all the liitle kids were playing in with buckets and shovels, well my 5 year old went to play, I watched her have a blast and then she yelled to me "Mom look what I got for you", she had used one of the buckets to pot me up some plants she dug up, LOL, she potted up grass like they were precious flowers, LOL, I think Im training her right, LOL.
Im a bad mom tho, we got home and all I did was wipe her donw and change her clothes before she passed out again, she was so exhausted, but she'll get a bath this morning and have some play time, thats a good thing too because, after all her splashing when I wipe up the water off the floor its clean enough to last another couple of days, heehee.

LOL...that's way cute. I use to steal flowers from other peoples yards and bring them to my Mom. I'm pretty sure that more than one neighbor probably wanted to smack me, but you look like a bully when you beat up a 5 year old. *G*

Well, just thought I'd drop in to say that it's Friday already, and I usually vacuum and tidy up for the week-end. Instead, I've parked myself here at DG and am having such a nice time ... maybe I should just not worry about the vacuuming ... after all, tonight starts the week-end ... and we'll just mess the place back up! hahahaha

I back slid .
i washed front room Windows . . it been so dark for months thought sun was never go to shine . Surprise Surprise ,it was shining all along
I just was looking through very dirty Windows .
Bad thing beautiful sun light shows up other dirt . DRAT