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Stonehead wrote:PS I know spammers are a nuisance but I also get tired of having to go back and either space out the letters to get a word in, or completely rewrite sentences to avoid words that are now deemed as offensive. It seems to happen more and more. Mutter, mutter.

I was just thinking the same thing so I will ask the team and hopefully we'll put that p o k e r word back as normal again. Any other words?

You can write poker now!

A couple months ago my house got really messy and unhealthy. I lost entire floors. There were places I had to ballet leap to get over. DD would cry out "stuck!" as she tried to climb over piles half her height. Her out stretched arms and imploring blue eyes begging me to rescue her from the rubble that was up to her hips. Remember the old concrete double tubs? Both sides were filled with unrinsed dishes with a towel over top to hide it. No clean clothes no clean dishes, cooking ware, cutlery, etc. Every surface was cluttered. Things started to smell bad. It was at the point where nobody was invited in the house not even family or my closest friends.

Then the cause of the upheaval passed. I brought 10lt of white vinegar, several packets of baking soda and raided lemons from my tree. War was declared on dirt, filth and clutter!

Now my house is fairly clean and tidy. DD and I can walk from room to room without leaping, climbing or sinking lol. There's still a concete tub full of dishes but I'm getting there. I'm in the process of decluttering especially clothes and toys etc, so I'm going to make a small fortune on trademe (similar to ebay). And one of the best things is I'm not embarrassed to have friends over again.

My land lords are the vestry members of my church and they just leave me too it pretty much but then they never saw my house a couple months ago

I guess as long as there's no mould, bad smells or excessive clutter I think my house is clean enough

Clean and tidy person keeping quiet here...

Actually, I was always a slob - the tidiness is a sign of age and a reaction against living with the slobbiest teenagers in the western hemisphere.

But I agree, Andy - if it was my house I would want my tenants to look after it. So, a weekly clean with the bicarb and vinegar, or I'll send Kim and Agi round!

I would love to do Kim and Aggies job ... well I wouldn.t go as far as using long red fingernails in the loo ... yak ...

should I blush ... no... ours is very clean and tidy even when I feel of the hooks I make the effort... Its all about balence ...do inside and outside then back inside... cough and I have always been the same.

Andy did you steam clean your carpets? I could see if you did. I have a vax upright shampooer and once aweek I use hot water in it and clean the conservatory carpet with it ... it takes a lot of traffic and gets really mucky. Its just the same as vacuming it so I dont need to feel guilty about it. The trouble with steam cleaning is ... your carpets can shrink ... if they have a high wool content.

I dunno why the landlord doesn't have wood or laminate flooring ... nicer and easeir to look after. All the places our lad has rented has had one or the other... just the thing when your young, busy and not into cleaning.

forgot about this thread....... lol my kitchen floor hasn't been washed in over 3 months - well I had a dodgy foot as an excuse. Thank god for tiles that don't show the dirt!

Millymollymandy wrote:forgot about this thread....... lol my kitchen floor hasn't been washed in over 3 months - well I had a dodgy foot as an excuse. Thank god for tiles that don't show the dirt!

I could not cope with that ... you must be one very chilled out lass...

I would have been locked up as a nutter cuss I would have been doing lots of mumbleing and twitching... says the boarderline obssesive/compulsive.

I used to be the same SE, then I had a baby and, after a week in hospital and being bed-ridden for 3 more weeks, I lost control. There's nothing like a near death experiance with a newborn to stop you being so anal.

Now we are more like squatters in a building site and the place hasn't had a good clean for months, I change the bedding every week and try to damp dust once a week, the hoovering gets done when I remember.

E has to live in a playpen because the downstairs of the house is like a bomb site and I can't bear the thought of her crawling on those floors

I dream of clean floors... no....really I do

Millymollymandy wrote:forgot about this thread....... lol my kitchen floor hasn't been washed in over 3 months - well I had a dodgy foot as an excuse. Thank god for tiles that don't show the dirt!

And I don't even have the excuse of a dodgy foot... It's not quite three months, I think. I always invite people round when my house gets too awful, so I'm "forced" to do something about it! I've been wanting to get new tiles in my kitchen for a long time, too; they are horrible light coloured vinyl, breaking up around the corners. I want dark lino - proper lino - or, if I win the lottery, real tiles! Just need to wait now until my house is a bit less damp and mouldy...

I hear you all complain of your landlords. I had one landlord who we're sure was an organised crime boss (not mafia 'cos he wasn't Italian, but you get the idea). We kept the house perfect and even paid for a gardener becuase we were so scared of him. He seemed nice to start off with, but then latter we got the feeling it was a kind of 'I'll be nice to you untill you cross me then I'll cut your ears off and knee cap you' sort of nice. We were so scared we pretended there wasn't any mice when he came to collect the rent each month and just smiled when he wife pinched our cheeks (on the face!) till they hurt.

I've never lived in such a clean and tidy house before or since.

Lol, remembering, we even called him, "sir", "yes sir", "no sir". Oh, where are you now Mr. P? Are you in hiding? Have you become the Godfather? Have you been done in? We'll never know......

hmmm SE spots job oppartunity... cleaners required ...

I do actually like housework ... NOT ironing though

I hate ironing - we have put it on the swear filter on another forum I visit! I also hate cleaning, but I just like a clean house. Having said that, it is quite untidy now, but I have been making pumpkin soup all day!

You are a childminder, aren't you, SE - like me. You have to keep a clean house - parents don't want to leave their precious offspring in some squalid dump!

3 months without cleaning the floor that's the one thing in my house that is always spotless lol. I spot clean the lino when I see something spilt on it and give the whole lot a good wipe once a week. One day I'll have a mop and it'll be so much easier

Totally disgusting this week. Too many jobs, too many feral children, too much mud and snow, too much "ah, sod it"!

My main housekeeping day was disrupted by the weather and our little trek.

Must try harder next week...

Housekeeping? well I shut the door, and that keeps the house in





isn't that enough?