I feel like a domestic goddess!

I got a steam mop from Argos on Sunday. Only £19.99. Half price. Makes washing kitchen floor really easy. No kneeling and getting up, or wringing out floor cloth.

Ooh, I'll have to look at buying H one of those jings

?Nina very subtle.?

For the first time since we moved in 2.5 years ago there is nothing on the stairs. No letters waiting to be posted, no odds and ends that should be picked up and taken upstairs, no books waiting to be taken to the charity shop... It can't last.
Yesterday when out delivering political leaflets, I say lots of were 19th C. letter boxes. Many in need of a coat of paint. I had a strange urge to to whip out the Dura-Glit and spruce them up. Channelling my grandmother.

Using marigolds. I am very late to the party on that one. I largely didnt used to bother but now I do. I feel much more "in the zone" and cleaning larger surfaces seems a lot easier with big gloves[I always buy the bigger ones as small sizes seem very small].

Domestic goddess is something that happens when you are expecting visitors. A swirling dervish on amphetamines is the housework that we do when they turn up unannounced ! ! ! (In my house anyway )

I am a bit overly conscientious about cleaning the house but I rarely do more than dust the skirting boards with the Dyson attachment. The other day I washed all of the skirtings in the house and, yes, I did feel like a domestic goddess and the house looked brilliant. Now I am sorry I did it as I have set myself up to do it again and it tooks ages.

I shouldn't have read this thread late last night, as I saw that Jings had bought a steam mop. So, I googled Argos and had a look, then just had to buy one. Am going out this afternoon to pick it up. Then, look out kitchen floor. . Jings, please don't go buying any more bargains and telling us about them.

I did purge my underwear drawer, but a domestic goddess would have done the same to the wardrobes. Instead I put the clothes on thinner hangers, then i didn't need to decimate them

I've had an ongoing problem with double sided tape! A year ago I stuck it on the windowsill to stop our cat getting tangled up in the blinds. Well today we are getting new blinds and i thought I could peel the unsightly tape off. NO!!! It has been a nightmare. I have been spraying WD40 on, and scraping with a wallpaper scraper. It has taken about 4 hours but at last it's all off. Never again will I use this awful stuff.

I've never had any desire to be a domestic goddess ...as , once the status has been achieved , you have to keep it up ....OR PEOPLE NOTICE AND COMMENT ! So I am a very good tidier-upper , and find that gets me by !

My daughter once described me as 'a stranger to Ajax'. I pointed out that we had moved on to Cif - cheeky madam!

I am halfway through turning out a cupboard. And there can be no worse place to be in the world.

I made quiche last Saturday from scratch and it was very nice. My dd must have thought so, as she had some when she came in from work, and then the rest the next day. TBF she did warn me and I put a chunk in a polybox to take to work.

Cleaned the microwave this morning - but didn't get round to descaling the kettle. We live in such a hard water area (sigh) that it needs doing literally every 2 weeks...right now it looks disgusting!

Just done some dcluttering of clothes for charity shop done a pile of ironing and put away been to supermarket and put away must admit hubby came with me and helped put croceries away cleaned bathroom and loo best of all got hubby to wash kitchen and bathroom floors ?

The only thing that makes me feel even remotely close to being a domestic goddess is making home made soup, especially the one that has become known as "random vegetable".

Auntyflo, I have a Karcher window vac lurking in the garage thanks to jingl singing its praises.

Actually it's brilliant but I have to summon up the energy to get out there and use it!!

Thanks to Jingle I've been out and got the steam cleaner and did the kitchen floor for the 2ND time today. I don't mind though I love cleaning.
I'm taking it to my DD tomorrow and give her kitchen floor a go. That will challenge it, she didn't inherit the clean gene. But it looks as if my DGD has.

merlotgran I don't find my karcher as good as I thought it would be. It is easy to use but still leaves streaks.

The sad thing is that once the house is cleaned, nobody else notices!

Probably because it always looks clean, roses. However if mine looked clean everyone would notice. I keep incanting the "life's too short" mantra.

I made leek and potato soup today with home-made stock [halo]

And I did clean the windows inside last week but the sunshine has shown up the smears and marks (Karcher wasn't charged up).

The oven needs doing though.

inishowen I think DH gets the sticky residue off things with surgical spirit (or something similar)

True Bella it is clean (most of the time) as I like order.