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As I work myself up into a panic in the week leading up to another visit from my very houseproud mother I wondered if there was such a thing as a houseproud gardener!

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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out

You will always be your child's favorite toy

LOL

On the TV this week [ he made me watch open gardens] someone said that veg gardeners didn't usually care about the aesthetic just about the veg and my OH looked straight at me. He keeps saying he was joking but I'm not so sure.

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Andrea :wavehello

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/

moon trials completed:
tomatoes
[46% increase in crop per seed sown and 10% increase in crop per plant]

currently underway:
calabrese
garlic

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Not in this house! I'm not even garden proud. I just genetically cannot do 'neat' - but I get plenty of veg and I have fun with the indoor hobbies in my house. No-one ever lay on her death bed and said 'I wish I'd done more housework.'

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.vegheaven.blogspot.com

Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

I hate house work BUT I hate the house being in a mess so I do it as regularly as poss so it doesn't take too long and I have more time at the plot. Having said that things have kinda slid over the summer hols so once the kids go back to school next thurs the house is gonna get it, and the lottie!!

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

I do housework when the state of the house annoys me enough. It makes me very grumpy though.

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

The one thing I HATE HATE HATE with a passion is the ironing!
I put it off till the pile is nearly as big as me and then I grumble all the way through it.
My OH boasts that he finds it relaxing, how the hell would he know when he never does it?!
Sigh.
I have a Pisa size tower waiting for me this morning can you tell?
Can feel myself getting grumpy already.....

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

snap

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

I share your pain.

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

I also have a big big big pile of ironing, at the mo its sitting in our bedroom so I see it every night, after tomorrow when daughters friend goes home i can put it back in the spare room out of sight out of mind !!! The house is tidy at the moment mostly because myself and my 12 yr old daughter had a big tidy up as she hates the state it gets in. When her friends are coming she puts everything away and then I cant find anything and bits turn up in the wierdest of places.
The house also needs decorating my OH never finishes a job and as my BIL has retired I am going to ask him to come and help me as I know he is getting under my sister's feet.
My OH does however Irons his own shirts as I refuse to ( ok i do them sometimes ).

i dont do ironing at all, always buy stuff that doesn't need it ...... if its nice i put all the washing on the line, then when dry anything likely to need ironing, put in the dryer for 10 mins on hot, then hang it up, very little creasing left.

I don't see the point in ironing a huge pile, that is going to get put in a drawer, son does his own ironing as and when he needs stuff.

i have a when the ashtray is full use the floor approach to housework, ie when i've broken my toe on something 3 times, i'll get round to moving it

the dishwashers great, i can now hide the dirty pots till it's full,

yup i'm a messy cow

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Tammy you can come to mine anytime you like if you do the house work !!! If anyone comes to my house and they dont like it they know where the door is !!! prehaps thats why not many people visit including my sister she is very houseproud.

Phew, I'm not the only one that clicked "my cleaner does it".

I generally don't mind cleaning (some people say it's because I'm a Virgo?), and I actually quite like ironing - pretty much always done with my iPod plugged into my ears.

I quite like cleaning the kitchen too - there's a certain satisfaction about shiny surfaces. In fact, I used to quite like polishing tarnished silver/chrome as a kid. Used to take great pride in Autosol/Brasso-ing the spokes of my various bikes, and polishing my silver piggy bank.

It's not been the same after therapy.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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i like housework, i feel it is a chore on some days, but i too am a Virgo and need to do it and my greenhouse needs to be clean too LOL !

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Gardening - A labour of love that begins with daybreak and ends with backache!
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It seems to be the garden that causes most of my housework ... I keep trekking grass clippings, leaves & compost into the house.

Apart from Mr Sheds leaving his stuff where it falls, the house is okay. I don't mind my OWN mess

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

I know it's a male point of view here, but I voted for "something that can be done after the gardening" and it was the only vote. Maybe I should change my way of thinking.

What were the Poll questions again? lol

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

I have a book called "Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House" by Cheryl Mendelson. There is a US and a UK version, and apparently ironing is easy if the shirts are taken out and ironed when still slightly damp. There is a whole chapter devoted to dust mites, and she has neat little lists of the minimal things that have to be done daily, weekly, monthly, etc. I try to follow them whenever possible 'cause I get obsessive when I don't follow it and am likely to start 15 jobs at the same time and never finish any of them! If you follow the lists, you get the same effect of having a maid come in once a week to do a broad sweep of the place.

Baby Steps.

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Marigold, I think I've read that one from the library before and it was interesting alright.

I used to be the "I let the cleaner do it" person too, but then I finished college and OH decided I had time enough to clean house again (after the fulltime job, around minding the toddler and feeding OH, and somewhere through getting onto plot and into back garden).

In fairness, OH does his share too. We keep it under control mostly, and he'll often grab the ironing basket on a Sunday afternoon and plonk himself, ironing board, starch and hangers all in front of a movie for a couple of hours and just get it done (and the toddler lets him, whereas she'd be hanging out of me!).

If the weather is fine though, and I see a chance to go to the plot, housework can wait as that can be done in a few mins here and there, after dark or while it rains.

I actually spent yesterday afternoon getting ready the "Holiday Grand Plan" - organising Christmas and doing a thorough deep clean of the entire house in baby steps between now and 2 weeks before Christmas (from another US website) so I hope to clear a lot of the clutter and have lots of little 5 minute jobs on a list for every week from next week.

And as we actually are ahead on the laundry for a change this week (new washing machine and tumble dryer really are working great) - we might actually get some rest time this weekend to enjoy RELAXING in the garden/house (rain due so no point in going to plot cept quickie harvest tomorrow early am).

That really is the best way to counter holiday stress, to get started early. Thanks, I think I'll sign up as well!

Gawd, I wish my tumble dryer worked well. It seems like it has no ventilation and just steams the clothes until they come out as wrinkled as possible!! During the summer, I just leave the dryer off.

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We split everything 50/50 really. I do all laundry, cooking and tidying; DH does cleaning, dusting and anything DIY-ish.

Since being at home and not working, I've actually found myself coming over all 50's housewife. I like the smell of fresh laundry and baking bread around the ol' place!

Obviously, like all right-minded people, I cannot abide ironing, so we split DH's 5 work shirts per week too. I'm sooo slow at it, but each one is perfect! DH thinks I'm really untidy (he's neat neat neat), but was always amazed that my lovely office at work was beautifully neat and organised. I couldn't do my job in chaos!

I wish I was better at doing housework, but I'm frightfully good at ignoring it. My husband isn't really any better. In fact, we try to have people over on a regular basis, as knowing that people are going to come into the house is about the only way we can motivate ourselves to tidy up!