On Monday, we put our house up for sale.
The future is very uncertain.
We're unsure where we'll move to.
But this is the first (of many) obstacles.
And so, with the prospect of viewings and the ridiculous HIP people, the house has been tidy since Monday morning.
(Which is practically a miracle)
But this is the first (of many) obstacles.
And so, with the prospect of viewings and the ridiculous HIP people, the house has been tidy since Monday morning.
(Which is practically a miracle)
(and yes I know it's only Wednesday)
I think I’ve been a bit obsessive compulsive about it all.
Actually I know that I have.
This morning …
Me: Can you all nip round your rooms, check they're ok, before you go to school?
Eldest: How long is this going to go on?
Me: What?
Eldest: This making us tidy our rooms twenty million times a day.
Me: It’s only been since Monday.
Eldest: Yes but how long exactly is it going to go on?
Oh my poor poor children.
The other two kiddies were standing next to him.
It was clearly a joint rebellion, of sorts.
I think that they may be about to go on strike.
So how will I keep the house tidy over the Easter holidays?
Perhaps I should keep the children in a tent in the garden.
Or in a cage.
Or in a cage in a tent in the garden.
Or in a cage.
Or in a cage in a tent in the garden.
Decisions, decisions ...
Update: I will also be putting my husband in the cage with the children.
17 comments:
Ohhh yes, been there, it's a nightmare, that keeping-everything-tidy part of the process. We had an open day which made it a bit easier - we took the kids out all day while hordes of people (well, about 20 anyway) tramped round our clean, tidy house - and got it all over with in one day.
GOOD LUCK. And a tent in the garden is an ace idea!
Lucy - yes last year we tried and then stopped quite quickly. This year, we are moving! They don't seem to do the 'open house' thing here. I am adapting a zen-like approach. What will be, will be ...
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Maybe Simon will buy it for you.
I hear he's being very kind lately:-)
Oh that's so horrible - the pressure to keep the house looking clean and tidy. You're bound to have given me nightmares...
JJx
Lane - or maybe I could go and live with Simon. I do love him, after all ... not that I even have my signed photograph. You'd have thought that would have been easy!!!!! *sigh*
JJ - you can come and live in the tent in my garden, it will help with your nightmares and you can babysit the children while you are there. Solution!
I think I need those 2 scary women to come and clean my house ... the one with the big boobs and fluffy rubber gloves ... ?
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Move to Italy? please please please please? Can't you take photos of tidy house and people buy your house based on the photos? After a couple of weeks you'll be so relaxed about the house viewings you won't care if there is pooh on the carpet or that the children are whining in their cage in a tent in the garden!
Any particular reason for the hubby being kicked out too, or does it just seem like a good idea? :)
Good luck xx
Why not sell the cage and give the house in a grand BOGOF! Then you'll be able to say to eveeryone who arrives who is unfamiliar 'have you come to Bog-Off':0) and twould be easy to keep the cage in some state of order, tidy like - oh that means something else here which would mean a rather smug bit of alright my house but then it changes with subject and gender, ah aint Wenglish grand.
Clean is one thing, tidy another, sweetie. Potential buyers don't give a damn about any mess in your house. It's the house they look at and possibly want, your mess you'll take with when you leave and they know it.
Wise words from one who has moved some twenty times and has bought and sold houses (hers) many times.
When we bought this house (on the spot), one of the bathrooms was a spider graveyard, and the entire house was a holy mess, a REAL mess. I never even really noticed it and fell in love with the house right there and then. When we moved in the dead spiders were gone and the house was clean.
Don't worry, dear one, everything will be fine.
Relax and set the kiddies + your hubs free.
Yellow roses,
deborah
Oh darn :(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/entertainment/newsid_7304000/7304253.stm
Now I kinda...okay, not *like*, but admire him for that :(
Only kinda...
Gaz - I *heart* him so so so much.
Deborah - yellow roses are welcomed here. What will be, will be ... but in real honesty, I kinda like it tidy for a bit. It helps with my head.
D-W - I think that that is a rather wise solution.
b - he was 'fixing things' with his dad and messed up Ben's bedroom! So he is now going in the cage too.
Pacha - photos of the house have been taken. I should perhaps stand at the front door with potential viewers and talk them through the photos. And as for moving to Italy ... I wish. x
Oh no that is traumatic. I'm never moving again. that's why I live in a retirement bungalow x
Helen - perhaps I'll come and live with you then :)
x
Well I hope it's another step on the right path for you.
Which doesn't help much in the meantime, I know.
I do wonder if the kids might get used to this cleaning and tidying and actually start doing it without....no, I'm just being unrealistic now.
But, I wish you the best of luck with all of it x
Trousers - I'm more worried that I'll get used to cleaning and tidying!!! :) ps. How's the tatt? x
The tatt is fine and dandy and is currently giving me much-needed strength and wisdom :)
Oh, and the tatt says hello!
Trousers - showing your tatt is the answer to any performance nerves. The audience will swooooon.
x
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