i swear to god i'm torching this place!!

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i swear to god i'm torching this place!!
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Tue, 10-05-2004 - 11:45am
that's it, i've had it, i'm burning my house down. when i signed up for this stupid sahm thing no one ever told me i was going to be a glorified maid! my house, which was PERFECTLY CLEAN yesterday, is completely filthy. there's an ENTIRE bag of chips ground into my carpet, dirty dishes all over the table and piling out of the sink, there are dirty clothes every single place except the hamper, someone pissed all over the toilet seat, there is CEREAL in the BATHTUB of all places, i can't even SEE the couch for all the junk piled on it, someone spilled juice in front of the fridge and couldn't be bothered to do anything except STEP IN IT and track it all over the kitchen, there are two EMPTY milk jugs in the fridge, the trash can is overflowing, basicly there is not a clean surface to be found in my entire house.

IT WAS CLEAN YESTERDAY!!!! unless an entire band of gypsies camped here overnight there is simply no excuse for this. i'm so sick of it!! this is how i spend my days?? cleaning so they can get it all filthy again so i can clean it again the next day?? this is such BS!! oh boy, heads are sooooo gonna roll at my house tonight!

and where the heck is a "furious" icon when you need it? this little frowny face is soooo not doing me justice right now!!

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Registered: 05-08-2004
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 12:06pm

I feel for ya! Most of the week is like that around here. You know I decided a few weeks ago that I was tired of killing myself cleaning this house. Now when we do the 5 minute room rescue's I make EVERYONE(even my 2 year old)

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Registered: 11-17-2003
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 6:52pm
How are those Clorox Wipes? My hubby just bought me some today. I haven't had the chance to use them. Do they leave any residue? I know what you mean about the cleaning. We moved from a small 2 bedroom apartment to a very large 7 room- 4 1/2 bath house and I cannot seem to keep it all clean!! UGH!! I am too picky to have a maid come in. I would probably follow her around and tell her how to clean things. I may have to eventually resort to it though because this Momma is getting so tired and I only 1 toddler. I cannot imagine those that have more children. The thing I find is the cat food in the water bowl almost every day!! Poor Cat!! I think I best join up with the Flylady. I won't even go into the Yard!! What a jungle!!

Trish :)

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Tue, 10-05-2004 - 7:28pm
Wow, I know its not suppose to be funny what you wrote, but it sounds like a everyday thing in my home.
I think I stopped trying so hard for it to look perfect. I think I will try harder when they move out.


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Tue, 10-05-2004 - 7:39pm

I love the clorox wipes...I have never had any residue left. I use them after cutting meat, for the bathroom(I have my dh and boys wipe down the toilet before they leave the room). I also use them to clean out the fridge and wipe inside the washer after washing my dh's uniforms for work.


I am really not the kind of person that needs all these different kinds of cleaners but these are one product I can not do without!


I totally recommend flylady! With flylady it is not about perfectionism it is about being organized.


http://www.flylady.net


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Tue, 10-05-2004 - 7:39pm
if by 'they' you mean dh, i can totally get on board with that, lol. i really don't know that i can lower my standards any further without becoming a health code violation though...seriously, there was cereal in the bathtub!!! lol.

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Tue, 10-05-2004 - 7:47pm
well after a good solid screamfest at dh (who was at work, and kept trying to politely interject nonsense like "i'm sorry honey, but we're really busy, can i call you right back?" and "i promise i'll help just as soon as i get home, but my boss is giving me dirty looks and i've got to get off the phone!") and an hour long rant with a sympathetic friend i'm feeling a little better, lol.

i decided (and let dh know) that from now on any of his CRAP that is lying out when i get up in the morning is being immediately bagged up in trash bags and driven to the nearest very deep dumpster, and if he really wants it that bad he can fish it the hell out.

i told the same thing to the kids :D

and if tristan so much as THINKS about taking a snack in the livingroom so help me god i WILL duct tape his sorry little but to the highchair!!!

anyway, thanks for letting me know i'm not alone =D

hey btw, what is this "me time" you speak of? roflol

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Thu, 10-07-2004 - 7:09pm
I was just laughing out loud at your post, cuz that's so my house!! I run a photography business out of my home, so when clients come I have to have the downstairs spotless. So I'll have it completely clean, and by the next day I look around and go "how the heck did it turn into this in one day!!" And when I was just thinking that my 3 year old has actually gotten better about making huge disasters, my 18 months old immediately started doing all the things the 3 year old had stopped. But I just try to tell myself that it will get better, someday! And that as much as the non-stop cleaning and disasters suck, I do have alot of perks not having to work full time, and be a mom. So just try and keep it in perspective, and don't worry if the house isn't spotless! When you have little kids, it's just not worth it.

Tara mommy to Kaden 9/24/01 Jamison 4/26/03 & Baby Boy 2/1/05
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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 11:58am
I am new here, but totally hear what you are saying, so I had to post!! Summer time is especially amazing because the house doesn't even stay clean one day!!! As I move from one room to the next, the one behind me that I just cleaned seems to explode or something!! And it even happens to the stairs!!! How on earth do the stairs go to hell in a handbasket?!?!? It is not someplace anybody spends more than a few seconds traversing!!!! I just tore my sons room apart yesterday..... I checked out the Flylady at another posters advice-- I have some major poundage to report to the flylady. I think my son-- who is 8-- still owns everything he ever has received/bought/brought home from school in his entire life!!!! I have decided that before Christmas I will rip apart eveyone's room and dispose of whatever I see fit..... And if nobody is going to start helping clean then they can join your DH dumpster diving for their belongings!!!
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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 1:50pm
lol about your son, i'm a bit like that myself. i still have the strangest things from years and years ago, mainly b/c i never get around to thowing them away. i'd probably never miss them if i did toss them, but it's so much effort! i tried flylady once and i should probably do it again, but it's so hard to get back on the bandwagon. i probably just need mombeetx to kick me in the butt....:)

welcome to the board btw, i'm sure you'll love it!

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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 9:00pm
O.K. I really do sympathize but I was so glad to hear someone else has this problem. I'm still steaming from last Christmas when I was pretty much incapacitated for the last 3 weeks of a pregnancy, was at home with a 4 YO and DH does as little as possible around the house. Had the kid right before Christmas-2 1/2 week stream of visitors all of whom (no kids) were ready to criticize the house. Yes, it was truly, truly terrible but what the $#@% did they expect? I even had one friend tell me while I was still in the hospital that I should have hired a maid instead of a doula.

Let the anger go, let the anger go...dang I should have kept up yoga. This is when you use that Lamaze breathing-may not do much during labor but is a must for parenthood.

Taleyna

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