Weekly Flylady Thread 30th October 2017

Pauper1 · 30 October 2017 at 5:52PM

I'd like to join you if that's okay. I used to follow this thread years ago but then stopped coming on these forums regularly. I desperately need to keep on top of the house! I've spent the entire day tidying and DS has basically looked after himself haha. Poor kid.

Marvellous Monday - Living Room

Level 1

Get a just-damp cloth and wipe remotes, switches and places where sticky fingers linger

Level 2

Dust sills and shelves
Polish anything that needs polishing

Level 3

Wipe windows
Dust lightshades
Check dark corners for cobwebs
Dust skirtings

extras

List of cards needed for November and December.
Check all outside pipes and taps are protected against frost
Put something warming in the slow cooker. Or learn how to use your oven timer so you can come home to hot Jacket potatoes in the oven!
Re-read instructions to a complicated gadget to make sure you're getting the most from your appliances.
Make sure central heating timer is set to GMT (we've just moved into a new house and I have no idea how to do this. I need to figure it out though as the hot water has just come on and it's too early!)
Plan some MAD half hours for this week

I think this'll be where I finish today. Once DS is fed, bathed and in bed I never have any energy for housework. Right, off to make something for tea. See you tomorrow!

atypicalblonde · 30 October 2017 at 6:34PM

Piggers - have a hug and a :coffee: love xx

Almost ready to sign off for the day. Kiddies fed, DW on again, all laundry put away. Fire lit and DH about to take DS to karate.

Might not get online tomorrow (off gallivanting in the day with a pal, and a Halloween party at night) but will at least get the dailies done.

Have lovely evenings all xx

pigpen · 30 October 2017 at 7:05PM

if that's a vodka and lemonade in a mug I'm having it ATB... sometimes these things are just necessary!

Bed time in here.. they are being forcefed sandwiches and banished up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire! Ratbagging nuisances.. need to get Twinkle ready for bed too.. she can be forcefed some slop too.. she has been a nightmare with food lately again.. no wonder she is so tiny she barely eats a thing!

kazwookie · 30 October 2017 at 7:58PM

Dinner done here as well
Clearing up to be done
Dusted around
Sorted more stuff out
listed more on bay

ionafan · 30 October 2017 at 9:25PM

Welcome Pauper1 :wave: Have you tried Googling for the instructions for your central heating timer? Most are available as downloads on the manufacturers' websites nowadays.

(((Hugs))) pigpen. You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends.

I've completed almost all my list - just a bit more triffid hacking to be done tomorrow, as I've realised that DH usually puts the bins out last thing on a Tuesday evening, ready for emptying first thing *Wednesday* morning.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted · 30 October 2017 at 10:21PM

Is there a version of a flying list that can be done by a s*dding moron?

You know, the type of thing that includes schedules for washing up, putting bits of peelings and packets/tins into the bin whilst cooking, rather than leaving them on the side, wiping spills off the countertop before they're welded on, washing the washing up bowl and sink rather than attempting to wash things in a bowl coated in filth, not putting bits of food into the water and then wandering off until it goes soupy three days later and complaining that the sink is blocked/smells funny, putting clothes in the wash, drying them and putting them away, buying food, remembering that most people actually like to eat every day, cleaning up after oneself and not leaving the kitchen an unsanitary mess for five days, etc? And perhaps something about 'if this makes you feel hard done by, get a ****ing job'?

Never mind postponing the wedding. At this rate I'll be bringing forward the bit about being a widow without bothering to get married first.

pigpen · 31 October 2017 at 1:13AM

ionafan wrote: »

(((Hugs))) pigpen. You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends. .

which would be great.. IF I had any friends!! lol

Pauper1 · 31 October 2017 at 8:02AM

I know this is cheating but I did most of today's yesterday, luckily. So this is all I need to do today!

Twinkly Tuesday bathroom

step by step...

flush loo and glug loo cleaner therein
fill sink with hot water, add cleaning liquid or get a bucket
scrub loo bowl including under rim
get a cloth, squeeze out in sink and wipe ALL THE OUTSIDE of the loo, cistern, handle, seat, lid. Rinse cloth. put cloth in washing machine
empty sink.
Get a new cloth.
polish towel rail

MAD half hour - not sure what this will be, see what DS allows to happen. Might sort out The Box of Stuff in the living room.

ionafan thank you, will see if I can find a model name anywhere. It's super old!

Fayolle · 31 October 2017 at 8:10AM

Morning,

I wasn't particularly taken with getting up at 6am this morning, after yet another rubbish night's sleep. I haven't figured out yet what is so thrilling about 3am that I have to be awake every morning to see it!

DD has been called twice already. It's only day 1 back !!

Lots of jobs planned today, including getting DD to the orthodontist later, which will involve a bit of a drive. Note to self - petrol needed into car! The list will hopefully be fitted in between jobs, as the bathroom needs a good clean now that finally there will be no one in all day to use it as soon as it has been freshly swiped.

Yesterday's MAD was spent planting tulip bulbs finally. Job ticked off, so thank you Valli for the reminder. Still thinking about today's...

ionafan · 31 October 2017 at 8:57AM

pigpen wrote: »

which would be great.. IF I had any friends!! lol

Well, you choose to post on this forum, so...

:beer:
(mug of vodka and lemonade if you prefer)

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