Secret 3…every day I do battle with my inner domestic slattern
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I’m a neat, tidy and organised kind of person. My house is nearly always very tidy and clean, and everything is well organised. I spend a lot of time and energy keeping it that way and I’m very house proud. Spick ‘n’ span Spud, that’s what they call me.
Secret 3...every day I go in to batle with my domestic slattern
But no, listeners, wait…spick ‘n’ span Spud has an evil twin sister …Slattern Spud, who really can’t be bothered to tidy up, put away, ready for …another day [any Doodle Do fans out there?]. Slattern Spud just looks at the mess and thinks, “Why bother? It will be messy again in about 5 minutes and there’s only me and the boys here anyway, so I’ll just have a nice sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit instead”
I’ve noticed Slattern Spud has been around quite a lot more since we moved to The Country. I’m beginning to doubt whether I’m genuinely a spick ‘n’ span Spud at all. In Days of Yore my neat freak habits even extended to the workplace. I used to make my team tidy up on a Friday because I couldn’t stand to see the office untidy. ‘Tidy Fridays’, that’s what I called them. ‘Stupid cow’, that’s what they called me…
So here’s a totally candid shot of our playroom today. This was immaculately tidy until I popped upstairs to fetch something. This is what the boys had done in less than 5 minutes. I think I’ll just leave it like that and get MrSpud to tidy it up later. Because I don’t think that a 12 hour day including 4 hours of commuting is any kind of excuse for him not doing domestic chores. I’ll just direct from the sofa.
So, join with me, and set your inner domestic slattern free. She’s screaming to get out.
Loving that ship. Lucky boys!
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