The Monday Housework.

I do love the weekend. I always give the house a good clean on a Saturday, get as much of the washing done as I can and make sure everything is in order because I like to have a Sunday off from doing the housework. It's great having a lazy day but not when it comes to Monday morning, the house is a tip again.

I wrote this blog post a couple of months ago when we had had a lot of busy Saturdays and there were a few where I didn't get all of my jobs done and still had my Sunday off which means I have had so much to do on a Monday morning. Ugh! With both Stu and Becky working and me at home it seems wrong to ask them to help more than pick up and put their own stuff away so when we've had a busy weekend my Monday's seem rather manic.

Some jobs I don't mind doing like hanging the washing on the line and tidying the kitchen. What I hate doing it walking around the house finding all of the dirty washing and cleaning the bathroom. We have shelves all around the bathroom which are filled with bottles of things like shampoo, deodorant, shower gel and things like that. They all have to be taken off while I clean and then put back on.

The mountain of clean clothes on the dining room table on a Monday morning always seems daunting but once I've got it all folded and sorted that's another job done. I have stopped putting kids piles of clothes away now, that is now their job which they always complain about and usually the piles end up sitting on their bedroom floors until they want to wear what is in the piles. lol

Music is a must when it comes to doing the housework. Usually I will play one of my playlists off Spotify but on this particular Monday I decided to listen to the radio. I started off with Viking FM a local radio station but got bored of it, I didn't know most of the songs so started to listen to Magic Radio. I did make myself chuckle. Years ago when I was a teen in my dad's car I used to nag at him to put a better radio station on because all the music on Magic Radio was for old people. It turns out I am now an old person. lol

For years I have got out of doing the washing up, it was always the kids jobs but I have taken up the job of washing the pots during the day, especially if the kids have been busy and they have been left from the night before.

I have a stupid fear of washing anything made of glass. It all comes from when I was a teenager, I was doing the washing up and was on with washing a glass when it smashed. I didn't hear it smash as it was in the sink under the water and the first thing I know about it when the water turned red from the big cut on my knuckle. It was a bad cut and I still have the scar to prove it so when it comes to washing the pots there is always that fear in me. 

One Monday when the house was really messy Becky said why don't you do a video and make it into a blog post to motivate you. I did and this is where the idea for this blog post came from. I walked around with my phone on a tripod and recording what I was getting up to. It did make the housework a little more fun but it's not something I can do every week. Is it? lol

What jobs do you hate doing around the house?