Mess

[poliphilo]

I guess that stink is the emulsion Karl is slapping on our bedroom wall.

No, I've just been to look. It's wallpaper paste.

No it isn't- it'll be the damp-proofing paint he's putting on under the paper.

Whatever it is, it smells like petrol- and we've got to sleep in there tonight.

Like sleeping on the floor of a garage. 

After he finishes the bedroom, he's taking a break. or, rather, we're taking a break. He's going off doing a job somewhere else. "Big bucks" he says.  A break will be good.

What I hate is the mess. Every room is a mess- with the exception of the front living-room- the one room we hardly ever use.

Where does all the mess come from? I've taken several car loads of junk to the tip, I've half filled the loft with unwanted furniture, I've filled the dust-bin week after week, and still it's there: mess- covering the floors, piled up in corners, blocking up the hallway, spread across every surface. 

Remember the door we had propped up on the landing? Yesterday I sawed it in half for ease of disposal.  Now that was fun!

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

it smells like petrol- and we've got to sleep in there tonight

Oo, er... If I were you, I'd sleep elsewhere, even if it meant sleeping on the floor. If that's really not possible, then I hope you can open the windows to ventilate the room.

Re mess: I've been seriously decluttering our house for about four years now and I'm still finding stuff to throw out. Partly I think it's because once you begin to part with stuff, it gets easier and also once the real junk is gone, some of the other stuff begins to look less necessary too.

But isn't it a lovely feeling when you consign a big heap of stuff to the skip or the dump? *g*

Your house will look so good when it's finished and you'll probably find that it seems much more spacious too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good advice.

But the paint is dried now and the window is open so we're going to take the risk.

I love going to the tip. It makes me feel really virtuous.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

But the paint is dried now

Oh, good. If it's stopped smelling, you will be OK. It's just that fumes of that kind give me a sick, dull headache and make me feel queasy. I have never been able to understand how anyone can sniff chemical substances for pleasure.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"I have never been able to understand how anyone can sniff chemical substances for pleasure."

Me neither.

I feel a bit headachey right now, and I'm in a different room. Actually the bedroom smells better than this room does.