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Amazing ideas. I would love to know, how expensive it all was.

Lol - sorry, of course I meant some stickers........:) *rofl*

I like cats. If my mother wouldn’t be allergic I would buy myself one or two.
But I hate the cats of my neighbor. Of course those animals are not responsible for her strange behavior. And of course she is ill. She is a hoarder. She was since she was a child, as far I heard from others, that know her, from childhood on. She has family in the village, I think it ´s their term to do something (psychological help etc.).
That woman is rich (daddy pays…) and in the past she had different types of animals in her house. Once it was pigs. A lot of pigs. Not one or two, must have been a dozen. Direct neighbors told us, that it was so smelly, they couldn´t use their porch, they could not even open their windows.
I´ve heard a lot of stories about her and her animal hoarding.
She had once over 100 (!) sheep and other farm animals on meadows around our village and every time veterinary department came, they moved the animals in an overnight rescue campaign. Once or twice the animals were not gone and most of them were so ill, that they needed to be euthanized on the meadow. The veterinarian didn´t wanted to move them, they were suffering from foot-and-mouth disease.
Right now, they have “only” more or less 15 cats and all the other neighbors are frustrated. Nobody can leave something textile on his porch. The cats are peeing on those things and shredding them. I throw away my cushions of my garden furniture. Now I need to buy new ones. Those cats are although peeing on some house walls, and the pooh is everywhere. Everybody has lost fun in having a kitchen garden. Last year there were in one row of salad more than 10 pooh heaps some were buried and when I removed the weeds I digged them out. That was so disgusting, I didn´t wanted to eat my vegetables. 
We tried black pepper, chili powder and we have a motion detected light at the house. We although tried some sprays from the garden center that are for keeping cats away, but all this did not function or not long enough. The cats are coming 24 hours a day, every day. Sitting on the window, reading, I can follow them shiting (sorry, bad word) in my kitchen garden. Once I counted 14 at a time, all in your garden, all were walking straight to my kitchen garden to pooh. I´m not sure which ones belong to the hoarder, but I don´t care. They are in my garden. It´s a 1000m² garden. I can´t chance the complete fence.
Neighbors once catched them and brought them to an animal shelter or just abandoned them a few miles away from our village. But she, the hoarder knows all of her cats and walks around then, searching for them and she goes on other peoples ground, without asking. But people are afraid of her. She once tried to kill the veterinarian, who said, that those sheep and goats have to die.
I wouldn´t kill an animal. Some people say, if those cats are in there kitchen garden, they will throw stones or other things at the cats. Someone asked me, why we are not using poisonous meat traps. But why killing those animals, some of them are really beautiful animals and I´m sure, with another owner, those animals would have a good life.
And all those things with chicken wire, plastic forks, I can´t do this, I´ve little kids. It would be insecure for them too.
The local authority told us, that, as far, as those cats are not ill and bad treaded, they can´t do anything. But now all neighbors know, that its soon time for the kittens to be born and we all fear this moment. Those cats are not sterilized and of course they have no vaccinations. Maybe they are connecting for a class action suit. I will only plant peas in my garden this year.
Last year I planted some marigolds / tagetes, I think, that helped a little.

Laundry everyday - for a one person household to often, for a family with lots of kids or the grandparents living with the family under one roof, makes sense. We are 4 (husband, 2 Kids (4 and 6) and me) and with towels, bed sheets etc. there is enough laundry to have one load every monday till friday and have the weekends off for fun or bigger projects.

I had to laught at the "clean all the windows" task for one day - 20 minutes, thats a joke or not? We have, let´s count, 16 windows in our house, no way that I can clean them in 20minutes or less from inside and outside.

But it makes a lot of sense to me to think about the tasks you have in and around your house that should be done daily, weekly, monthly, every three month, once in a year etc. and to make a To-Do-List and try, if it works.

My mom tells me since years, on saturdays, that she is so tired, she washed 5 loads of laundry and hat to vacuum her rooms (shes living in a 2 bedroom plus living room apartment) and she had to clean the kitchen and tidy up all the things that were lying on tables and other surfaces. And everytime I told her, that it would be much easier for her, if she would just wash one load of laundry after work or maybe before work and vaccum on 2 or 3 days during the week. But maybe she will never change that. :) Not my freetime. I want to have time for my family at the weekends and not to stay in my house and everywhere ist clutter and dirt.

PS: One of the reasons, that we have so much laundry is, that our laundromat is not so big (think it can take 4 or 5kg, bigger ones here in Germany, take up to 7kg) and my kids play outside everyday, in Kindergarten they go to the forest once or twice a week and they are coming home dirty with mud, dark sand, and gras stains and if it´s not that, they can sometimes have toilette accindents and so on.

I bought LED Spot Lamps and they didn´t last longer than normal Spots - money was gone. But my LED Spot made a not so warm light, little blueish.