Getting started ...

I could easily gave posted that imperfect. As you can see, I'm still on gn and I have loads to do!

I don't bother much with cleaning, but the job I struggle with is cutting the grass. It takes me several days to get around to it.

Well, I have stirred my stumps - publicly outing and shaming myself really does seem to be the way forward ! I am dressed after a fashion - hoping the postie doesn't come today and find me in my embarrassingly holey 'work clothes' AND I have Mr Muscled the oven(other cleaners are available) ... and sent my daughter a picture of me with the box / waering the dreaded blue gloves and a 'Save meeeeee!!'message. Hopefully she will interrupt me soon .

Kittylester, I know you're not on the gin, but when folk put 'gn' that's how I read it. You can see there's no hope for me . I'm still in bed drinking my first cup of tea, but I do have a pile of ironing waiting downstairs, and a carrot cake to make, and some volunteering this afternoon.....

I have a DH who doesn't have an idle bone in his body. I am the complete opposite. Well I have to balance the relationship out.

NanKate LOL!

Two lots of washing done ...
Oven 'muscled' ...
Still hoping my daughter will interrupt me (she messaged last night to say could we have a catch up today?)
It helps if I stand the cleaning materials in full view ... a bit ...

I work best to deadlines so find I am setting them for myself now. I will do x,y,z this morning then I can catch up with Outlander on TV this afternoon. Sad or what

Look what I found (Twitter is my chief procrastinator aid) - and I can use it on this thread!

Have saved the image for future use!

Wow!, I'm impressed that you are up and dressed and cleaning! I'm up, on the settee, dressing tea and still in my pj's.

Oh Katey it's all or nothing with me ...all the biscuits gone and nothing substantially clean yet!

I do make lists of urgent jobs to do, I work hard at it all day, but when I sit down to cross off jobs at the end of the day, nothing I did is actually on the list! Next day I usually give up and go shopping. (Too tired to do any more chores, but not to tired to shop .)

My to do list sometimes motivates me, but then I find myself adding things I've already done just so I can cross something off!

Why do you have to do a major clean Imperfect27? The sky won't fall down if you don't - at least that's what I've discovered and it was a revelation! I just do bits at a time because as sure as eggs is eggs little people will undo all my good work the minute they come in the door. Life's too short I've decided; though that said I would like to get rid of the downstairs carpets which are way past their best. Yesterday I went round with a broom taking down cobwebs and today they've all popped up again. It just ain't worth it - especially when the sun's shining.

I loathe housework and though I'm retired yes, I do have to give myself a kick to get on with it! Each time I sort it out, I promise myself it'll be done weekly so that it won't get really bad, but somehow I find excuses all the time to read, visit friends, go rambling, go shopping, surf the net..... or any other displacement activity I can find.

Just been swimming (my best avoidance tactic!) If I've got Mon-Fri off, I put the cleaning down for Friday because I know I'll do it on a shorter timescale, but then I try to do bits in between the week's activities which makes me feel virtuous and leaves less to do on Friday.

Take a woman as a lover, you'll be surprised at how quickly the housework, cooking, shopping even car cleaning gets done.

I'm just SO grateful for my visitors and overnighters are a double whammy in that I have a deadline for my shame. Advice from my Mother (when she came to terms with how embarrassingly undomesticated I was) was to keep the place tidy and it gives an initial 'impression of clean'. Think she had a degree of accuracy there. Thank heavens she loved me in spite of my inadequacies.

Love yourself Imperfect27 - it's your life and you only get one go at it. As long as you don't create a major health hazard then so what?

Live, girl, just live!

I used to do major cleans but it started to get overwhelming and, like you, I would procrastinate. So now I have started to do what my Mum used to do and have certain days for cleaning rooms, changing the bed etc and it really helps. Giving the kitchen a good clean on Mondays gets one of the worst jobs out of the way, a quick tidy up and vacuum then the rest of the day is free. Since I have done this I find I will start the clean early rather than put it off. I detest ironing so now I iron things on the day they have been washed and dried so the ironing basket doesn't get depressingly full.

Kim19 I always hated housework ,when we were newly married if I saw my in laws car coming up the road I used to put all the dirty dishes in the oven and sparay Pledge polish in the air in the hall and sitting room.MIL always said ...somebody's been busy....lol.It was years later I told her the truth

I do housework as and when the urge takes me. Loos, sinks and worktops have to be clean, but everything else can wait. It seems such a waste of life to me now I am older. It's never ending, but life is. I'd rather read, potter in the garden, see friends, watch a good film or take myself out somewhere. I used to be so houseproud too but my philosophy has changed.

I can clean all day long if visitors are due. That's the motivation I need!

I am thinking about burying the ever growing pile of ironing. Every time I do it (rarely) I find clothes I'd forgotten I have!

I put my trousers on back to front this morning and despite the discomfort, I am already too tired to change them round.

I hate housework and am useless at it now and cooking and laundry and gardening, just keepng it all somehow respectable takes every ounce of energy I have........I also seem to have forgotten a lot of skills I used to have, sewing and cooking have just 'gone'.

I have been possessed by pain and depression for decades, I have no idea how I managed to work before retirment on do vol after.

Pain became my full time job at some point.

I do jobs in the TV ad breaks.....or have to set myself a time by which I will have washed up or washed the floor, currently that time is Christmas 2019..........where did all my energy go?

Thanks for the permission to be my usual sloppy self GNetters . We live in a rented property and it is inspection day later this week so I want to spruce up a bit - nothing too major, but tidy and clean in all the important places . Next week we are away and my DD1 and family and DD2 and new girlfriend are coming to stay in our absence so I also want it to be nice for them. If I tell you that I bought the Mr Muscle (Yes, other oven cleaners are readily available) about 18 months ago ... well, that says it all really. Yes, life is too short and I tend to live it rather than clean most of the time. Still, I think it is quite funny that my DH said 'It will only take you half a day'...

NanKate brilliant! That's just the excuse reasoning I can use when DH is endlessly busy and I'm feeling idle (all the time really ).
No housework today, we are grandson sitting in his own home.