Things I don't worry about any more
- Thread starter Rishile
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Well this had give me a laugh this afternoon if nothing else. Because I buy all of mums clothes and I want them to be easy to put on/get off I tend to get joggers and sweatshirts and I look at her and think well if this is what it comes down to why bother. 🤷🏼♀️
Can I be one of the super scruffy ones please but be allowed to wear eye pencil? I’ve found that if I take my specs off for a while before doing my eyes I can focus better. Then I put them back on and double check my efforts in the mirror. Then I try and rub off some bits and redo them. I’ve discovered that with a bit of practice I can just about do my brows wearing specs using the top of them as a guide😁
I'd be in the former halfnof the grouping, super scruffy. Putting land drainage in and make up just don't coexist, I've given up, dressed up to the 3s let alone the nines is an ambition I'm yet to fulfil. Still it keeps me busy on the bad days. K
I’m with you totally!
I do the garden when I feel like it, housework when I can’t stand the sight of it anymore and try and let the dryer take care of most of the ironing.
However, I get my nails done when they need it, get my haircut regularly and love to update my wardrobe. I do try and look nice if I am out for lunch with my daughter or meeting a friend for lunch.
I love visiting charity shops and half my wardrobe was bought from there.
I can’t control my situation but I am trying very hard to keep me together and this is the only thing I can do. I wear bright clothes and shoes and don’t care if people think I look a bit outrageous. My daughter is taking me to one of those Best of British 60s and 70s pop music concerts soon and I am going to wear my silver boots (bequeathed by my granddaughter ) and a spectacular jacket that has bright electric blue shiny spots.
This is just my way of thumbing my nose at what has happened, a token of pure defiance to say that I can’t let myself be beaten by this.
You go girl! Hope you have a blast - you'll be singing along with the best of them!
I think there is an inverse law here, that the cleaner my Dad's house is, the worse my flat is.......
I also don't worry about my slight obsession with steam mops. Surely the best thing since sliced bread for cleaning dirty floors.
I also don't worry about my slight obsession with steam mops. Surely the best thing since sliced bread for cleaning dirty floors.
I bought one of those, an expensive little gadget that I thought was going to be a blessing. The trouble is that it didn’t like tiled floors, only flat ones that didn’t have grouting.
I am going to have ombré nails done, pink and silver, totally impractical but what the hell!
Out doing some shopping the other day, wearing a lovely little cotton top, all pinks and oranges Aussie brand and a favourite. A young woman stopped me because she wanted to tell me how exciting it was to see someone wearing a piece that she had designed!
My OH gave up make up etc some while ago when she couldn't co-ordinate her holding stuff, like lipstick, or eyeliner. This was, for her, a huge step, and a great frustration. She felt she was letting herself down.
It's been so long, that I offered daughter and granddaughters (in their 20s) the make up - loads of it accumulated over the years etc - and what they didn't want has been thrown out. Jewellery , mostly kept, but some distributed in the family. Doing that made me feel like I was clearing stuff out, after a death, even though OH still v much here.
Since she has been unable to follow instruction, home visit hairdresser no longer comes. She has to rely on me now for hair washing, drying, cutting, styling etc but I don't do colouring.
Despite what everybody thought of the AS advert, each little step has seemed like a little bit of my OH dying.
As she is bedbound, wearing bed wear day and night, whether in bed or chair, my daughter says I should start going through her clothes. I've done shoes she's never going to wear again, and most of her collection of handbags, I got too sad when looking at her wardrobes and had to stop. There's no hurry.
House work, when necessary. Yes, I change clothes, bedwear, bedcovers regularly, just less often than before. The washing machine is already overworked! In the first lockdown I bought a barber's shaver razor, and I cut my own hair once a month. Yes, I still shave.
When one is a full time carer priorities change.
Just have to KBO
It's been so long, that I offered daughter and granddaughters (in their 20s) the make up - loads of it accumulated over the years etc - and what they didn't want has been thrown out. Jewellery , mostly kept, but some distributed in the family. Doing that made me feel like I was clearing stuff out, after a death, even though OH still v much here.
Since she has been unable to follow instruction, home visit hairdresser no longer comes. She has to rely on me now for hair washing, drying, cutting, styling etc but I don't do colouring.
Despite what everybody thought of the AS advert, each little step has seemed like a little bit of my OH dying.
As she is bedbound, wearing bed wear day and night, whether in bed or chair, my daughter says I should start going through her clothes. I've done shoes she's never going to wear again, and most of her collection of handbags, I got too sad when looking at her wardrobes and had to stop. There's no hurry.
House work, when necessary. Yes, I change clothes, bedwear, bedcovers regularly, just less often than before. The washing machine is already overworked! In the first lockdown I bought a barber's shaver razor, and I cut my own hair once a month. Yes, I still shave.
When one is a full time carer priorities change.
Just have to KBO
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