Guest guest Posted November 4, 2001 Report Share Posted November 4, 2001 I bet I am untidier than you Caro! DH despairs as he is a tidyaholic! So boring - he keeps tidying up my stuff and I can never find anything. Wouldn't be able to find it anyway but it is handy to blame him! His solution is for me to use the spare bedroom as a study and then just keep chucking my " crap " in there to keep the rest of the house tidy. My view is that life is too short to be tidy - and if you are tidy then you need to get out and do something a bit more interesting (sorry if I offend any tidyaholics!!!) Francesca (Messy Cow!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2001 Report Share Posted November 4, 2001 I'm also messy married to a tidyholic. But I'm a funny mixture. I like the room to look tidy, messy rooms really offend me. But cupboards...well...I can't be bothered to tidy up what's out of immediate view. My daughter Tammy literally feels *ill* if everything in her cupboards and drawers (and that includes her childrens') isn't lined up in military precision, colour coded, ironed, and symmetrical. I wish she would extend this to my house when she comes to visit with the kids, where her view seems to be " well mum's such a messy person that it won't matter if my kids trash the place, eat sandwiches all over the floor, etc " . But it's the external that bothers me. I can't bear it when they leave toys all over the floor and sandwich/crisp crumbs drop on my clean carpet. But I freely admit, my cupboards, drawers and shelves are a disgrace. Every now and then DH can't stand it any longer and he goes into one of his tidy up moods. When he's in one of those, everyone, including his secretary, just gets out of the way until it passes; he's impossible. Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2001 Report Share Posted November 5, 2001 Ruthie - I know realise why you wouldn't want to come and see me :-) Karina Mum to Emilia (3) and Sebastian (1) >But it's the external that bothers me. I can't > bear it when they leave toys all over the floor and sandwich/crisp > crumbs drop on my clean carpet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2001 Report Share Posted November 5, 2001 > Ruthie - I know realise why you wouldn't want to come and see me :-) > > Karina > Mum to Emilia (3) and Sebastian (1) No no. I don't mind external mess in other people's houses, it's in my house that I mind! Ruthie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2001 Report Share Posted November 7, 2001 Trisha wrote On a positive note though I spent this morning Father Christmas gift wrapping-they are all done, hidden away and I feel so good about it. Just the rest of the shopping to do and the cards to write and it is not December yet. Trisha Wow you are organised.I have not really started yet and have very little enthusiasm at present as DS2 (19 months) is a nightmare shopping.I may have to do it all on-line. We went 'shopping yesterday and I only managed one gift in 2 hours!!At this rate it will take 12 months (large extended family) Kate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2001 Report Share Posted November 7, 2001 In article <005a01c1677c$39fa5fc0$cc347ad5@oemcomputer>, kate writes >Wow you are organised.I have not really started yet and have very >little enthusiasm at present as DS2 (19 months) is a nightmare >shopping.I may have to do it all on-line. > >We went 'shopping yesterday and I only managed one gift in 2 hours!!At >this rate it will take 12 months (large extended family) > Most of the smallish children we buy for are getting books this year - The Book People (www.thebookpeople.co.uk) had a nice selection of children's hardback picture books with various Christmas themes in their last catalogue, so I have ordered a selection and just need to allocate titles to particular children! Also got a bunch of gifty things from The Body Shop outlet the last time we went to our nearest Outlet Village, which will do for the larger girls on our list. Just need to sort out teenage nephews, but may be reduced to vouchers if we can't think of anything else. Just realised this might sound like we don't put very much thought into buying Christmas presents, but when you have a list of over twenty small and not so small children to buy for, some of whom you hardly ever see, it gets like that! I do sometimes manage slightly more thought - I have been known to sew most of them some years. Dh does this big thing about how nice it is to give people presents, but he doesn't ever actually do anything concrete about sorting it out - he announced the other day that he isn't going anywhere near a shopping centre until after Christmas. Good thing I've sorted most of it out then, isn't it! -- Cath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2001 Report Share Posted November 7, 2001 on 07/11/01 04:27 PM, Cath MacLeod at cath@... wrote: > Dh does this big thing about how nice it is to give people presents this usually causes strife in our house, Gethyn is quite happy to buy vouchers, i always nag about buying presents, but as i got ready to launch into my usual rant he announced that he thought it would be nice if we got presents this year - i must have got through i feel xmas shopping coming on, bought a couple of things over on the auction sites but a trip to town is calling, have to find a non-rugby weekend now ... and looks like our remortgage may be finalised in time for xmas too - trip to ikea then jenni nak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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