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November Slatterns/Listmakers - one year on and still taking baby steps.........

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Yes - Slatterns (now Slatterns and Listmakers) is now a year old.

Come and join us if you're a slattern, or simply like making lists for jobs you want to get done each day/week/month.

Never thought 12 months ago that a thread I started to help me get the bare minimum done at home when I was feeling shite would still be going strong 12 months later - even with me frequently AWOL in recent months.

Everyone is welcome, we're a friendly bunch.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 21-Nov-09 00:04:33
Off to bed now! Tis 1am in Belgium shock I've got a lot to do in the morning but I think I"ll make it smile

Have moved to paper lists now...

Thanks for letting me crash the tread!
God I cannot believe I am still going hmm. Discovered that to make this cake the clementines need cooking for an hour before you can even start, so they are on now and I'll make the cake in the morning.

Plum that is annoying! Where is DH, could he go and get her?

DONE
All up and dressed
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast and tidy kitchen
Load and run dishwasher
Clean hob
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Unload dishwasher
1 load of washing
DS nap
Make casserole for dinner and some for the freezer
DH finish work Now he can help!!
Make bag to charity bin
Make meal plan for the weekend
Make a shopping list
Go to Sainsbury's
Tidy spare room - DH
Iron bedding
Clean bathroom
Empty living room bin
Empty upstairs bins
Dust blinds with new gadget
Empty kitchen bin
Sweep kitchen floor
Mop kitchen floor
Mirrors and glass
Hoover living room
Shake out cushions and throws
Pick up parcel before 1pm - DH
Tidy living room bookshelves
Hoover spare room
DS bath and bed
Cook clementines for cake
Clear up
Tidy round before bed
Put another load of washing on
Fold clean laundry - 3 loads done

TO DO
Polish silver
Make up spare bed
Take ADs

TOMORROW
Bake clementine cake
Handwashing inc. nappy wraps
Finish bannisters
Dust spare room
of all nights I would love a drink I can't incase dd1 wants to come home from sleepover!
TTSP - you will be fine, what doesn't get done doesn't get done and no-one but you will notice . Have a good day.

I have re-arranged my list so that I can see better what is left. Quite a lot!! Argh. MIL and S-PIL are coming at 12:30 so we do have the morning!

DONE
All up and dressed
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast and tidy kitchen
Load and run dishwasher
Clean hob
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Unload dishwasher
1 load of washing
DS nap
Make casserole for dinner and some for the freezer
DH finish work Now he can help!!
Make bag to charity bin
Make meal plan for the weekend
Make a shopping list
Go to Sainsbury's
Tidy spare room - DH
Iron bedding
Clean bathroom
Empty living room bin
Empty upstairs bins
Dust blinds with new gadget
Empty kitchen bin
Sweep kitchen floor
Mop kitchen floor
Mirrors and glass
Hoover living room
Shake out cushions and throws
Pick up parcel before 1pm - DH
Tidy living room bookshelves

TO DO
Baking - clementine cake
Polish silver
Handwashing inc. nappy wraps
Finish bannisters
Hoover spare room
Dust spare room
Make up spare bed
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Tidy round before bed
Take ADs
Today's List
Up showered and dressed done
Vitamins done
Breakfast done
DS dressed and breakfasted and to nursery done
Feed DD done x2
DD nap doing
Tidy up lounge done
Tidy bedroom
Dishy on
Tidy kitchen
Dishy emptied done
Washing on done
Washing out / dryer on done
Put washing away
Dinner - Pizza! done
DD/DS bath done
DD/DS to bed done - DD not settling sad

Empty bins
Take rubbish out
Recycling

Important
Send info to accountants done - need to post
Certificates for Bilton Cottage
Post more thank you cards done
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 20-Nov-09 19:16:04
JKS wasn't hmm at you BTW!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 20-Nov-09 19:15:19
Ladies. I'm going to have to cut aand run --(-- I may be back --)--. Still loads to do and no time to post. I've found it really helpful to post here. Thank you all!

Tomorrow morning is choc full hmm Am shitting myself TBH. Will be fine though.

Friday
Take DD to nursery DONE
DS nursery 'practice' 9:30 - 11:30 DONE
Find/buy tiny nails (for bunting shock) FOUND
Measure length of living room and divide by 5... INTERVALS OF 144cm
Bang said nails in DONE
Decorations up in living room. STARTED Hall?
*Make birthday cake
Make apple tart ?POTENTIALLY ABANDONED?
Toys? TOYS MOST LIKELY TO INDUCE FIGHTING = REMOVED
*Mend chairs
*Write shopping lists STARTED
*Press DD's dress
*Find and apply shoe polish - DD boots + DP shoes x 2
*Buy flowers & string
WD 40 front door DONE
Quick shop DONE

Cook dinner WHAT? <aggg> PIZZA FOR US + SCRAMBLED EGG FOR DD <lazy>

Big clean downstairs-
*Hoover and wash all floors HOOVERED
Kitchen tiles & cupboard fronts DONE
Top of fridge DONE
*Reorganize fridge
*Clean oven front/top/extractor (never buy a stainless steel cooker) DONE
General dust and tidy of shelves DONE
Wash long unused glasses IN DISHWASHER
Wash cat-cushion cover WASHED DRIED AND REPLACED
Clean downstairs loo inc. tiles DONE
Clean play-pen DONE

DRYER ON - fold washing

Saturday
Clean/tidy DD's room
Hoover stairs and landing
Food shopping
Collect tart - 10am ish
MOVE CAT DISHES OUTSIDE
Arrivals from 2:30pm? FIL, SIL, DN ETC. COMING AT 1pm <Nooooooo>
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 20-Nov-09 17:27:12
Evening all, TTSP hope you get enough done, you've got all morning tomorrow too don't forget - and could always rope In-laws into jobs?

DONE:
- Load 2 on airer
- Load 3 in Tumble Dryer
- soft play with ds1 + tea
- ds2 tea

TO DO:
- Load 4 in
- boys to bed
- MIL, DH & me out to quiz night + fish&chips
- make sure FIL has food & tv remote
- try not to drink too much as i did at last quiz

Sat:
- finish laundry
- Dad's group
- try and finish photos
- out for friend's hen do at the pub
- other stuff i think of tomorrow

Ongoing:
- get photos of family & hang them up
- get on with friend's family tree
- transfer all family trees over to Mac software
- then go through 1911 census
- organise MoreDone, upload DS1Done & order photos of boys
- fix my bike (flat tyre)
- sort out security light outside
- clean carpets (living room & playroom)
- find new dentist
- maybe make mobile out of ITNG pics for DS2 in hosp?
- get some silly socks for Nanny for Christmas (she always wears fun ones)
Hi Wonderif

Plum - eek that doesn't sound good!

TTSP - everything ok?

I have broken the back of my list now, definitely. Need to pop some potatoes in the oven and sort out my hair and then a quick trip to Sainsbury's before we have tea.

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Orange juice and Spatone - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Load and run dishwasher - done
Clean hob - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
2 loads of washing - 1st in
DS nap - doing still!
Make casserole for dinner - done and some for the freezer
DH finish work - - done Now he can help!!
Dinner x 3
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Tidy round before bed
Take ADs

Essential jobs
Take bag to charity bin
Make meal plan for the weekend - done
Make a shopping list - done
Go to Sainsbury's
Tidy spare room - DH
Hoover spare room
Dust spare room
Iron bedding - done
Make up spare bed
Clean bathroom - done
Empty living room bin - done
Empty upstairs bins - done
Finish bannisters
Dust blinds with new gadget - done
Empty kitchen bin - done
Sweep kitchen floor - done
Mop kitchen floor - done
Mirrors and glass - done
Hoover living room - done
Shake out cushions and throws - done*

*Non-essential

Pick up parcel before 1pm - done DH
Baking - clementine cake
Tidy living room bookshelves - done
Polish silver
Handwashing inc. nappy wraps
Welcome Wonderif

TTSP I think you'll just have to stay with us and have cake and ginwink

Ali he said if we light it too soon something about drying out too soon, cast iron cracking and smoke coming out the sides, he said 3/4 days, but that was enough to put me off so will wait until next Friday
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