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Why is it that I can procrastinate all day about what housework I should be doing and then at 5pm (when DH knocks off) I hit the panic button and run around like a mad woman trying to make it look like I have actually done something during the day :rofl:
Puhhhleeeease tell me I'm not the only one. Well actually I know there is another 2 members who do it.... so maybe tell us we're not the only ones :lol:
Yes girls, you know who you are ;)
I do it :)
But I actually do it when DH comes home and go into "Oh, can you feed DS, I've had NO time to get anything done today!!" mode.
Then when he's bathing DS (like now for instance) I come and sit on the computer.....what on earth do I do all day???? LOL.
I tend to rush around at about 5pm, picking up toys and tidying up everything so the house is nice and clean when DH comes home as he is a bit of a clean freak. Thing is, if he comes home early for some reason, or I really didn't have time to tidy up, he thinks the state of the house is "out of the ordinary" and i have remind him "no dear, don't freak out, the house alway looks like this during the day, this is normal". So no, you're not the only one.
Who me?!?!? Dunno whatchoo talkin' bout.
i have an alarm set for 2pm to give myself enough time to get the house looking somewhat decent when df gets home!! it goes off most days ;)
:rofl: You just described me!
I do this ALL the time and if im busted so if he comes home early i say that DD was terrible all day couldn't get anything done but he knows that i'm fibbing! :p
Yep. Guilty. If I didn't DH might cotton onto my midday naps...
*handsup* but usually I am just starting the dishes @ 5pm, no time for anything else :hiding:
I do the same thing :rofl:
this is me to a T:
Guilty as charged
The basket trick is the best - Enchanted knows this one ;) Walk around the house with a basket/box and put everything on the floor and on surfaces that isn't meant to be there in the basket. Then put the basket away in the laundry until you have time to clear it. Perfecto.
I often do 2 runs - one for clothes and one for other crap - works a treat! ;)
This is AWESOME!!! From now on, this is how I roll! :) Now to find somewhere to hide the basket when it's full.....:
Wish I could do this. DH is constantly at me as to why I don't rest in the day if both girls asleep at same time when I only get 6 hours at night, well I can't because IF it happens, I lie there all tense because all I can think about something that needs doing. So I spend all day re-cleaning and tidying because after every meal or snack I'm back to square one and no way can I leave dishes on the bench or crumbs on the floor or the entire contents of the toy boxes out, give me another 5 years I'll probably be one of those incessant hand washers. It's really very unsatisfying - I'm sure your way is MUCH more sane.
It is really ace - I also find that doing a floor run is important, if there is NOTHING on the floor that isn't meant to be there the whole house suddenly looks AMAZING!
I hate that feeling of panic when Im out having left the house a mess and DH rings and asks where I am cause he got home early :o
:rofl: If its really bad when he gets home I play the "girls have been terrible today" card :rofl: he has witnessed the bad days so it works for now
your not alone :D
Yep, I do it too :p
Though for me, it's 3:30pm and DH is almost home :p
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Girls girls girls.. :)
We are being smart!!!!
See my reasoning is that if I do massive clean up at say.. 10am.. its just gonna get messy again by the time DH comes home.. so why clean it up more than once?? I do the kitchen sparadocally during the day, washing etc, but the huge toy and crap tidy doesnt happen til late afternoon (I am semi lucky DH gets home at like 6-6:30- sometimes later) then I vacuum and start dinner! The house looks grogeous - on the days i do it!!!
Dh had a few days off last week and he couldnt beleive how quickly the house went from spotless to disaster and actually had a little eye opener to how my day goes! It was nice!!! He now realises that if he does come hom eto a messy disaster zone there is a possibility it was clean at some point during the day, but it just got distroyed again!!!
ggulity here aswell, when 5pm rolls round i start cleaning and tidying up before Dh is home @ 6.30 lol
but today no kids sooo lol
i usually start doing dishes but everything else is still a mess. i am the WORST cleaner/tidier ever...but i am strangely unrepentant!
:rofl: Guilty! But it totally makes sense this way. If I tidy any earlier it is trashed again before DH gets home! That's my reasoning anyway. Although I may have done the same thing pre-kids, LOL.
So I do the washing etc during the day and the dishes but the big toy and floor clean up is right before DH walks in the door. He must think I'm totally awesome, lol.
QUICK!! Clean up time everyone :rofl:
:rofl: Heaven ........thank goodness I did mine early! DH was home at 2 today!!!
Well I've been sick for two days and
DH has been home helping with the kids so he has seen first hand how the chaos ensues!!!
House is a disgrace!
I'm late, I'm late... for a very important date :rofl: Wel maybe, time not date!
Just realised how late it is.... best I get busy and start throwing stuff in cupboards and pray he doesn't open them :o
I think the question should be 'who doesn't do the mad cleaning dash before DH gets home?' :rofl:
:rofl: Yes, it's seeming that way! I didnt realize I had so many unorganized fellow BBers ;)
I often do this, but then finding the time to empty the basket...hmmm, it might take a while ;):
Like many have said, there's no point doing it till later in the day - it just gets messy again. With DH not getting home till at least 7, if I leave the mess till the kids bedtime, it doen't get messy again before DH gets home. My mother, on the other hand, might rock up at 2.30 for a cup of tea, and silently shake her head at the mess ( i unfortunately did not inherit much domestic goddessness from her :lol: )
I do it too. Might invest in some more baskets though.
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