The Modern Housewife

Well the cat pee Christmas tree saga continues. After days of sitting next to the said Christmas tree and thinking "I am sure I can smell a whoof of cat pee, stupid freakin Christmas tree (add more expletives here)". I decided I had to do something about it or I was going to throw the tree in the rubbish bin, which in itself would be difficult considering the size of the tree vs the size of our rubbish bin. So on a beautiful sunny Monday afternoon my daughter and I got a giant bin of soapy, disinfected, lavender smelling hot water and started to submerge the separate chunks of Christmas tree in it. Shaking it around trying to rid that evil tree of its stinky odour. Now this took approximately an hour to do, due to the tree being made up of approximately 50 branches. I then laid the branches out on the concrete patio to dry. Later submerging the Christmas decorations, I know what you are thinking, "really could those pretty glittery decorations sourced directly from t

I would like to formally thank the neighbours cats for giving me another smell to associate with Christmas. I can now add the lovely aroma of cat pee to the smell of pine, candles, roast turkey and copious amounts of chocolate. We had an issue a while ago where the neighbours giant fat tom cat was getting into our garage and peeing on EVERYTHING. Now we keep the cat door locked and our only remaining cat left stays inside, so the cat pee has stopped. Alas I pulled out the Christmas tree this morning (I know I am a month early but bribing my daughter to forget a present I brought in her company yesterday) anyway the Christmas tree and decorations STINK. Nothing like a cat pee Christmas tree, tis the season after all. I have sprayed it with Oust, sprinkled it in Baking Soda (quite clever as it looks like snow) and now have it sitting outside in the wind trying to rid id of that horrible smell. In desperation and after googling it I then sprayed the entire tree with vinegar and water,

OK I have been missing in action, lost to the blogging world. My brilliant thoughts have been rattling around in my head all alone (laughs). My ability to stick to things has faltered yet again, although my house is at this current moment clean and tidy. There have been multiple times where I have taken the recycling out to the curb in my PJ's. A few times where the clean washing was piled up so high on the bed that it was just about easier to sleep in the spare room. I have failed to put makeup on and have managed to find some manky old track pants to wear around home.  But if nothing else the kids and I have been having fun, creating cardboard cars, making playdough and playing in the park. I hereby state that I will no longer let my thoughts rattle around in my head all alone and forlorn........... I will try and force others to read them as well. Good night and happy blogging.