Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 >> my MIL is the kind of >> sad person (sorry i do really like her actually) who irons everting >> including underpants, socks and teatowels! (let me appologise now to >> everyone else out there that does the same) > >Apology accepted ;o)) No you don't iron pants and socks Lynda (or was it Mum replying to that post?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 > I suddenly thought, hey, maybe I'm the only one who doesn't >clean the skirting boards, perhaps I'm a terrible " housewife " . So, >does anybody else clean their skirting boards....................? > >Lorraine The what? Huh? Why? I sometimes swipe at them with the broom if they look particularly black.... __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 > I suddenly thought, hey, maybe I'm the only one who doesn't >clean the skirting boards, perhaps I'm a terrible " housewife " . So, >does anybody else clean their skirting boards....................? > >Lorraine The what? Huh? Why? I sometimes swipe at them with the broom if they look particularly black.... __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 Well, for those of you who think I'm a saddo for ever having cleaned my skirting boards... 1. I don't any more. I have , who has been with the family for almost 24 yrs as a cleaner, and for the past 8 yrs as my stroke-victim mother's carer as well. I do zero cleaning and even less than zero ironing, but then again I *never* did any ironing. My mother was obsessive about Crimplene (in the '60's) and she was the original Terelene and Cotton Queen. Crimplene is the most foul and ugly fabric ever invented but it *never* creases. She forced me to have an entire wardrobe made out of it as a teenager. I grew up with an aversion to ironing which has never left me. 2. I have always tended to do things by all or nothing principles. eg. I spent the first few years of my marriage never doing any baking cos I didn't have a mixer. Then the first ever Magimix came out, I bought it, and went totally nuts baking everything we ate, including daily bread, cake, biscuits choux pastry, etc. This phase lasted several months. I also went through a cleaning phase when I cleaned the house from top to bottom every single day. This phase didn't last very long. I have recently discovered a fantastic lipstick which really does stay on for almost 24 hours. (We aren't allowed to apply makeup on the Sabbath, so either makeup has to last from Friday evening until Sat night, or we go around on our special day looking like ghosts.) I introduced everyone I know to it, and my teenage daughter recently had a fit when she discovered several of the lipsticks in my drawer, all of the same colour. Maybe this is a throwback to my mother's wartime siege mentality when she had to stockpile things " in case " . Sorry if I seem really sad!! ( Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 Well, for those of you who think I'm a saddo for ever having cleaned my skirting boards... 1. I don't any more. I have , who has been with the family for almost 24 yrs as a cleaner, and for the past 8 yrs as my stroke-victim mother's carer as well. I do zero cleaning and even less than zero ironing, but then again I *never* did any ironing. My mother was obsessive about Crimplene (in the '60's) and she was the original Terelene and Cotton Queen. Crimplene is the most foul and ugly fabric ever invented but it *never* creases. She forced me to have an entire wardrobe made out of it as a teenager. I grew up with an aversion to ironing which has never left me. 2. I have always tended to do things by all or nothing principles. eg. I spent the first few years of my marriage never doing any baking cos I didn't have a mixer. Then the first ever Magimix came out, I bought it, and went totally nuts baking everything we ate, including daily bread, cake, biscuits choux pastry, etc. This phase lasted several months. I also went through a cleaning phase when I cleaned the house from top to bottom every single day. This phase didn't last very long. I have recently discovered a fantastic lipstick which really does stay on for almost 24 hours. (We aren't allowed to apply makeup on the Sabbath, so either makeup has to last from Friday evening until Sat night, or we go around on our special day looking like ghosts.) I introduced everyone I know to it, and my teenage daughter recently had a fit when she discovered several of the lipsticks in my drawer, all of the same colour. Maybe this is a throwback to my mother's wartime siege mentality when she had to stockpile things " in case " . Sorry if I seem really sad!! ( Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 wrote > No you don't iron pants and socks Lynda (or was it Mum replying to that > post?) Socks, no, but pants yes (look nicer in the drawers (sad), and I was once told it's good for keeping worms at bay). And I have finally managed to get a bit of time on the puter without two slightly confused pensioners peering over my shoulder ) Lynda ('s sister, parents staying) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 wrote > No you don't iron pants and socks Lynda (or was it Mum replying to that > post?) Socks, no, but pants yes (look nicer in the drawers (sad), and I was once told it's good for keeping worms at bay). And I have finally managed to get a bit of time on the puter without two slightly confused pensioners peering over my shoulder ) Lynda ('s sister, parents staying) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 >And I have finally managed to get a bit of time on the puter without two >slightly confused pensioners peering over my shoulder ) Oh I know about that one... " go away, my emails are private " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 >And I have finally managed to get a bit of time on the puter without two >slightly confused pensioners peering over my shoulder ) Oh I know about that one... " go away, my emails are private " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 > There was a > really odd-shaped attachment and I asked what it was for. Is it kind of triangular with lots of long 'hairs' or bristles round the edge? If so, I have one on my cleaner and I have to say it is rarely used. A dusting attachment, my mum called it, when she treated me to it (!) when I bought the new vac cleaner. The new cleaner was bought just before we had Steffi, 4.5 years ago and I couldn't believe the amount of dust and fluff that came out of our carpets - practically a full bag from a 2 bed flat! Until then I had been using my grandma's cast off, a hoover about 30 years old. As for skirting boards - I didn't know until Grae's aunt and uncle came to stay with us that they were supposed to be cleaned. His cousin asked me if I was frantically rushing round cleaning skirting boards and tops of doors and I was horrified at the thought. -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 > There was a > really odd-shaped attachment and I asked what it was for. Is it kind of triangular with lots of long 'hairs' or bristles round the edge? If so, I have one on my cleaner and I have to say it is rarely used. A dusting attachment, my mum called it, when she treated me to it (!) when I bought the new vac cleaner. The new cleaner was bought just before we had Steffi, 4.5 years ago and I couldn't believe the amount of dust and fluff that came out of our carpets - practically a full bag from a 2 bed flat! Until then I had been using my grandma's cast off, a hoover about 30 years old. As for skirting boards - I didn't know until Grae's aunt and uncle came to stay with us that they were supposed to be cleaned. His cousin asked me if I was frantically rushing round cleaning skirting boards and tops of doors and I was horrified at the thought. -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 > There was a > really odd-shaped attachment and I asked what it was for. Is it kind of triangular with lots of long 'hairs' or bristles round the edge? If so, I have one on my cleaner and I have to say it is rarely used. A dusting attachment, my mum called it, when she treated me to it (!) when I bought the new vac cleaner. The new cleaner was bought just before we had Steffi, 4.5 years ago and I couldn't believe the amount of dust and fluff that came out of our carpets - practically a full bag from a 2 bed flat! Until then I had been using my grandma's cast off, a hoover about 30 years old. As for skirting boards - I didn't know until Grae's aunt and uncle came to stay with us that they were supposed to be cleaned. His cousin asked me if I was frantically rushing round cleaning skirting boards and tops of doors and I was horrified at the thought. -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 Life is too > short for hoovering the tops of wardrobes and cleaning skirting > boards!! *shudder* - I just don't want to contemplate what sort of dust bunny monsters lurk at the top of our wardrobe! Caroline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 23, 2001 Report Share Posted April 23, 2001 Ruthie I'm ashamed of you, a woman with a room of her own about one hundred years on, and you aren't killing the angel in the house on behalf of your sisters!!! love Caro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2001 Report Share Posted April 24, 2001 Now i am the kind of person who hangs clothes up to dry on hangers so > i don't need to iron them so much, if at all, my MIL is the kind of > sad person (sorry i do really like her actually) who irons everting > including underpants, socks and teatowels! (let me appologise now to > everyone else out there that does the same) i think life is far too > short!!<< You know , I used to iron teatowels, bed linen and muslin cloths the kids used to cuddle. My sister pointed out the error of my ways. Then I got a tumble drier! Iron now sits like an old antique. Occassionally got out for dh's workshirts if they have just too many creases in them. You are dead right, life is way too short! And that is why my house is a complete tip at the moment and I am sitting typing emails! Lorraine Mum to: 10, Natasha 8, 5, ph nearly 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2001 Report Share Posted April 24, 2001 LOL!! Well done Caroline! Ruthie > Ruthie > Thought of you as i spent three days madly cleaning my late aunts house prior to the funeral - including the skirting boards- think I even made reference to Passover preparations. Finally called it a day when I found myself laying a carpet at 1.30am on Easter Sat morning. But I have to say I was really pleased I'd washed all the walls, windows, doors and polished shelves ect when 29 people trooped into the sitting room for the service . > Caroline > Jersey > Having quick fix (mainlining nct coffee!!) > > > > Well, for those of you who think I'm a saddo for ever having cleaned > > my skirting boards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2001 Report Share Posted April 24, 2001 Ruthie Thought of you as i spent three days madly cleaning my late aunts house prior to the funeral - including the skirting boards- think I even made reference to Passover preparations. Finally called it a day when I found myself laying a carpet at 1.30am on Easter Sat morning. But I have to say I was really pleased I'd washed all the walls, windows, doors and polished shelves ect when 29 people trooped into the sitting room for the service . Caroline Jersey Having quick fix (mainlining nct coffee!!) > Well, for those of you who think I'm a saddo for ever having cleaned > my skirting boards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 Do mine once in a blue moon. Usually when I drop something and get close enough to think eeeuck. Then I have a binge and do them all. Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 Mail on this subject is very close to my heart. I have never really experienced the " nesting instinct " except the day before DD1 was born (I cleaned the oven). However, last week I gave my bedroom and bathroom a spring clean and used attachments for the vacuum cleaner that had never been touched before! Even worse, I found them effective! Since then, I have continued to tidy up the house. I am very worried because I am not normally this domestic, and I have got another six weeks to go before baby no 4 is born! Help! Love Mother of (8), Isabel (6), Clare (3) and bump due 6.6.01 (or thereabouts) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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