My day

Hi all. Had a good day all in all. Managed to do the microwave, the sofas and the bathroom sink. When I took the plug out of the sink, found all sorts of goo and gloop almost blocking it. I put the plug into the dish-washer and poured a kettle of boiling water down the sink to melt the soap scum and clear the drain. Job done!

Part of my day is to make sure I put a load of washing on and hang a load up. This keeps the washing pile down well - its never all done but never unmanageable. I used to have a basement utility room with 4 stairs down to it. There could enough dirty washing down there to not need the stairs to climb into the room!! A wash a day keeps the monster at bay. I wash whites together at 60 degrees and colours at 40. I use fabric softener for whites only cos these include towels and I reckon there is enough within the machine to do both. A friend once told me that it is fab softener that eventually breaks your machine by furring up the tubes. He suggested that every now and then you put the machine through an empty cycle on the hottest temperature.

Zone work in the living-room for Tuesday - now that the suite got hoovered yesterday, the window is due a treat, not the outside - too cold! Just the inside. I use a spray glass cleaner and som kitchen roll. 

Tuesday is bin day since the bin-man comes today. So, grab a bin-bag and go round every bin in the house. I have made sure there is one in every room - cuts down on rubbish left lying around. Empty them all and wash out any that need it. In the kitchen, the weekly task is to go through the fridge and throw out anything empty (yea, who puts empty containers in the fridge?) and anything out of date.

Lastly, I am going to hoover the downstairs hall. If you cant manage all these chores, dont pile them into the next day. Just do what you can - it will still be more than you have been doing!

When I have a few wee spare minutes, I fill up a wash-basket with a pile from the floor of my bed-room (the hot-spot  I am working on at the moment) and sort it into stuff to put away, stuff to give away and stuff that belongs in another room. The  give away goes into a plastic bag and as soon as it is full, it goes straight into the car and down to the charity shop. You should give away anything you haven't used for a year or anything that you don't love.  Time for bed - nite x