To hope to just pack and go on holiday?

You will be glad of it on your return. Have a lovely hol.

Sounds like mine Mishap. Jings is right you will be glad when you get back to a lovely tidy house.

Have a fab holiday. With lots and lots of lovely

Yes, just like mine too. I'm always grateful when we return to a tidy house, though. And then it's immediately untidy with suitcases spilling over the living room carpet and piles of mail being sorted on the kitchen worktops
Have a lovely holiday Mishap

Next time, tell him that the deadline is an hour before it really is. Have everything packed into the car for that time, and THEN tell him the truth, and let him clean the house while he waits for the real departure time (and while you sit watching him with a and

There's a flaw there, Elegran - he'd just do the cleaning an hour earlier! But at least there'd be a spare hour to pack the car...

We returned, from holiday on Wednesday, to find the hall light on. DH swore he had not put it on although I know differently. He walked round the house closing every internal door just in case, the result was it was dark in the hall and he couldn't see to exit. I must have crept back in and switched the light on even though I was in the car and belted up before he locked the door

Yes, it's always our fault somehow isn't it?
I think you are lucky Mishap, to have a DH who wants to clean the house.

I wish mine would clean the house before going on holiday. He usually makes even more mess than usual then sits in the car waiting for me to rush round clearing up after him

I wish someone would clean mine for me!

I'm not really a going on holiday person but if it meant that DH would clean the house, I would become a going on holiday person quite gladly.

Yes!

Oh Mishap, my husband does things like that - although I would to some extent welcome with cleaning and tidying the house.

One year we were going to Mauritius. It was a cold, wet November and 2 days before we left he decided to buy a small shed and put it up. This involved mixing and laying concrete for the base, etc. He was out in the cold and rain finishing the whole project off a couple of hours before we left.

Another year, we went to Lanzarote, with my mum, just before Christmas. We got up about 5 in the morning and he decided to write some Christmas cards and hand deliver them on our way to the airport. We missed the flight. Luckily there was one about 2 hours later but, of course, we had to pay again.

Have a lovely time

Wow . I'd be so pleased if my husband did that. It's the other way round with us - our house is never very tidy, but I do like to leave the floors vacuumed and the kitchen lookin reasonable when we go away. I always think it would be dreadful if we didn't come back and someone found it looking a tip. ( very anal, I know) . I also like to come home to clean sheets!

I'm the same Atqui. I always think I would be mortified if anything happened to us on holiday and the house wasn't clean!

Think yourself lucky Mishap In my case DH would probably have decided to do something drastic to the car