Today I have:

[menthe_reglisse]

• done the final (surely? please!) coat of satinwood in LB's new room - skirting boards, windowsill, architrave, doorframe and door and then cleared up all the decorating stuff - sticky pink stuff to protect the floorboards, masking tape, dust sheets etc.
• tidied PB's bedroom which was just insanely messy
• hoovered upstairs and the stairs throroughly (

Comments

[mefn]

*gold star*

That is pretty damn impressive!

[menthe_reglisse]

Thank you. I will put it on my sticker chart. (I did briefly have a sticker chart - a sticker for each 10 mins of extra tidying up. But, just like my kids, it was insufficiently motivating)

[mefn]

:) My ex and I had a chore-related sticker chart, but it just let to arguments when e.g. the hoovering (worth more stars) was actually quicker than the washing up (which was usually worth fewer stars). Time-based makes more sense!

[barakta]

Lots of things in there, am tired just reading them :)