How am I gona do a days housework in one hour???

[kazzianne]

Help!!! I not only work from home,but am also a mummy and housewife too - but seeing as it has been so nice today I thought "sod it" for a very rare change - and spent entire day in garden.now boyfriend due home in an hour,house is a mess and no dinner ready!!!

[redcrx]

Tell him you thought itd be nice to go out for dinner?

Or say that youre not hungry cos its hot lol

Oh and if hes anything like my bloke he wont notice the dust

[Champagne]

What's he going to do, sack you? Leave it I say. If he can't stand the mess for one day then he can get up and clean it himself. Tell him that you took a 'duvet day'. ;o)

[milly143]

Or just tell him to get over it if it bothers him. You're house being a bit messy for one day won't kill him. Then get him to take you out for dinner. :o)

[loobie]

Kaz,

Tell your boyfriend that you have been playing with the littlun in the garden as it is very rare that we get this weather and it is only lasting a day!! I'm sure he wouldn't want your baby to miss out on a day in the garden!! If he moans about that then simply state that you are not superwoman!!!!

[Champagne]

Lock him out of the house. That way he won't see the mess!

[bug123]

If he complains, tell him he knows where the vacuum and such like lives and treat yourself to a takeaway! How often do we get weather like this? You have to take advantage of it when its here. I had made all sort of plans of things to do today...and nope, nothing has got done (apart from lounging in the garden!) :o)

[kazzianne]

He wouldn't ever complain about the mess - he's not like that - its me -i have this guilt thing when its not tidy 4 when he get in,think it stems from my mother running about like a madwoman before my dad used to get in.

But in gona follow all your advice and leave the mess - and even go further and open a bottle of wine in a bit!! lol

[bug123]

Good for you!! :o)

[raysparx]

Now, listen to uncle ray kazzi, you just tell him I said it was ok for you to take it easy,and as suggested let him take you out for dinner,the housework can wait, must dash gotta get the oven hot & do my ironing & make the bed before the wife gets in. xx

[WendyS]

Get a nice lavender scented air freshener and leave a yellow duster and a tin of furniture polish lying around. He'll think you've been busy cleaning all day.

[kazzianne]

lol Ray! Very funny!!

[kazzianne]

Thats not a bad idea Wendy!

[glenn_99]

Kaz

Since an hour has passed since you first posted this thread, how did you get on?

Let us know.

[mimififi]

shove some potatoes in teh oven for jackets and have with egg mayo and salad or tuna or anything, or make some pea soup and bread if you have a bread maker (pea soup you make with enough frozen peas, a bit of mint a tiny lice of onion. Boil in a load of water with a veg stock cube and whizz when cooked)

Now, look around the kitchen. Pile all the washing up and wipe down surfaces. Put all toys/papers/stuff in a laundry basket and sort it out tomorrow.

Now walk into hallway, get hoover out, hoover as you go moving all debri off floor with your foot into one pile at the end, do this in all the rooms until all debris is in one pile. Put this into a laundry basket and put away tomorrow. Straighten sitting room and wipe away any obvious grime. Tidy shelving at eye level only. Throw some toilet cleaner round the toilets, esp if you have a downstairs one. Put all laundry upset, even dirty varitey and wash it tomorrow.

Now go back into kitchen and do the dishes, turn off the soup or turn it down, and check tats in oven. Finish dishes just as hubby is coming in door. If they are already finished, go and have a shower and put on clean clothes.

Plan tomorrow to write menus for each day for the coming week and shop on saturday. Cook everything saturday afternoon and put it in a freezer. If its nice next week you won't have to worry about cooking.

Assume that I read this in a book/magasine/internet and did not formulate this plan from my own experience of poor home management.

GET OFF THE AB! Although, i should have written that first, but then, how would you have read it?????
Alternatively, tell BF that you were busy doing other tasks such as clearing out cupboards, ironing, washing windows, tidying loft etc and so it is just superficial mess.

If it bothers him that much, he can do it him darn self.

[raysparx]

Blimey mimi,where do you get all that energy from? i'm knackered just reading it!!!!

[kazzianne]

lolol!! God u lot make me laugh!! In a good way!!

Well guys - i sumhow managed 2 rustle up a casserole,left hoover casually placed in lounge,and had a glass of wine poured out on his return,with a nice spray of perfume to help!!

He never noticed the mess at all!! hee hee!!!

[mimififi]

Kazzianne: You way was much better than the pea soup: Though I do love pea soup, you sund far more relaxed than me.

I have no energy, I just move stuff around the house all day in washing baskets, I have about 28 washing baskets all filled with stuff in various cupboards in various rooms in my house. If lloyd Grossman turned up tomorrow and tried to look through my keyhole, he would get poked in the eye by a long thing inappropriately placed and poking throught the holes of a laundry basket hidden in an innappriate cupboard.

I do try with the jolly www.flylady.net but sometimes, frankly, I'd just rather be writing, Or wasting.

Have a nice evening.

[sense4all]

In winter, just before they come through the door, spray a bit of furniture polish on the radiators in your lounge and hall. Works a treat. Allegedly.