Weekly Flylady Thread 8th September 2008

Dustykitten

My motivation has gone AWOL - I was up for clearing my list today and now I keep sitting down and picking up magazine.

Spendless

pigpen wrote: »

Monday Mucking out - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum through the living room, hall and stairs
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean windows and all glass.. including the tv screen
Pounce upon the piles of coats and shoes and fling the ones that are no longer worn/needed/fit/wearable
Level 3
Wipe and water plants
Put all your hotspots in one pile and work your way through it..
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
Extra Mission: Pick one or more of the following tasks –

1. Filing.. find a pile and file it
2. Wipe down any paintwork that needs it.
3. Binbag dance.. Get a binbag.. fill it and bin it!!!
4. HHI (did someone mention they needed one?)

eek I need this flylady thread more than I realised.:eek: Get up, log on thread, decide to do a daily and put WM on. More difficult than I thought cos the WM is full of wet clothes that need putting in TD (not a prayer of line drying this morning and don't curently own an indoor dryer:o ) BUT TD is full of clothes that need folding/sorting. This will make a 1 min job 10 mins and don't have time- decide to leave till later.

Walk past DW decide that will be full of dishes too and stack dishes up on work-top instead.

Take kids to school, youngest falls over and makes knee bleed, refuses to walk any further, eldest sulks cos I tell him to go to junior playground by self, cos I need to console youngest. Look across at unstressed friend who regularly walks from other end of next village to school, a good 20-30 min walk away and wonder how she manages it when I can't get from our house to the playground - a 2 min walk without mishap.

Come home, drink large mug of coffee and start tasks. I need to de-clutter the floor before hoovering and can't bring myself to hoover before dusting, it's too alien to me, even if you are using a damp microfibre cloth, which I'm not cos I can't find any, or any dusters, or any furniture polish come to that.:cool:

Decide to have an attempt at pulling my sofas away to vac under. OMG:eek: this is normally hubby's job, ponder when it was last done, dump all the contents from under the sofas on the table ready for sorting. Clean windows and wipe skirting boards, no way am I moving them again any time soon, so best clean there now.:p Move hubby's jacket to wardrobe, amazingly that is the only rogue coat we have on the coat rack.

Look at level 3 the only 'plant' we own, a dried display of pine-cones, contemplate throwing it away:D decide to hang on till we've decorated but the list says water/wipe so dip in washing up bowl and hope for best. Go back to table where I dumped under sofa stuff, bin most of it.

Extra mission- look at bedding left from de-cluttering last week. Wonder where the charity bag is that I can put this in for collection tomorrow, can't find it- go and ask neighbour if I can add to hers.

Go back to dishwasher discover it was empty and could have had dishes done by now:rolleyes: fill it, come on here to post update. Next to make myself sandwich and visit my parents this pm, catch you all tomorrow.

xx

Mudbath

Spendless - your post is classic. Sums me up most days as nothing is ever easy. Thanks for making me smile xx

johanne

nearly newbie - (hugs) welcome back.

triker - how horrible. I know how you feel as we had our car blown up by an industrial firework ... wed only left it 2 mins earlier to go into SILs house - hadnt even got our coats off... had to stand and watch it burn till fire brigade came... wed only had it 4 months and got back £500 of the £3k it had cost us (which we still havent paid off yet as its on CC) and havent been able to afford to replace it since and that was nov 5th 2006.. Ended our business too as OH was self employed painter and decorator so we needed the car and all his kit was in it too... they never got them scumbags either... and to this day it still upsets me.. cos we lost everything that day really, and was start of most of our problems

Anyway.... slept in... so no flown yet as just been pottering in my pjs Gonna get DD dressed now too and consider taking her to nannys so i can actually achieve something today :rotfl:

Mariel

I've never read this thread before and I'd like to say THANK YOU!!! A day which was destined to be completely wasted apart from a bit of batch cooking at tea time has not been completely wasted. I've not done all that much by most people's standards but I've hoovered downstairs and halfway up the stairs (as far as it would reach), cleaned the kitchen window which was minging because the cats seem to think the little top window is a door, cleaned the bathroom and dusted everywhere including upstairs - usually a self-dusting area (IMO anyway!).

So yes, thank you!

Dustykitten

Just waiting for the floor to dry so I can get out the door. I need to see what is left.


Monday Mucking out - Dustys plan
meal plan
freeze soup
do something with cooked blackberries
Extra Missions:

1. Take stuff to charity shop doing next hope to get £5 M&S voucher
2. Drop of clothes that are too small for DS at friends doing next
3. Beavers
4. Banks accounts/statements/credit cards
5. wash and put away garden toys as forcast is set dry
6. sow a few seeds
7. freeze tomatoes

Hopefully I can sort the rest of this out when I get back.

vanilla

Update
Been to butchers and post office, cleaned out guinea pig and rabbit, spoke to vet, put washing on line and refilled wm (can nearly see all of the hall floor now).:j

Vet wants Bo down tomorrow morning and he's to get nothing to eat tomorrow morning so i think (hope) they will xray him.

Right now to sort the utility room and put some things in the attic out of the way.

OrkneyStar

Phew, that's me shattered for the day (back being really bad) although not done too badly with cleaning/tasks. Still a couple of things to do but not much really so hoping to rest a bit.
Hugs
OS X
Own list
- get nets for living room (measure windows)
- see if I can get hold of any winter potatoes to plant
- take DS swimming ? [strike]out a walk instead and in garden for a bit[/strike]
- make new home card for FIL
- [strike]clothes away from yesterdays washing- washing on and out[/strike]
- [strike]make soup- started![/strike]
- [strike]nappies on [/strike] [STRIKE]and out[/STRIKE]
- [strike]feed cat and water plants outside[/strike]
-[strike] more meal planning[/strike]
- [strike]kitchen floor hoover/wipe[/strike]
- [strike]high chair thorough clean[/strike]
- check e-mails
- do surveys
- [strike]good wipe over back/front porch and downstairs loo floors[/strike]
Monday Mucking out - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
[strike]Level 1[/strike]- done
[strike]Level 2[/strike]- done except (Pounce up in the piles of coats and shoes and fling the ones that are no longer worn/needed/fit/wearable)
[strike]Level 3- partly done[/strike]
[strike]Wipe and water plants[/strike]
Put all your hotspots in one pile and work your way through it.. (have none at the moment!)
[strike]Vacuum (under) furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself[/strike]
[strike]Extra Mission[/strike]: Pick one or more of the following tasks – choosing number 2- done
1. Filing.. find a pile and file it
2. [strike]Wipe down any paintwork that needs it.[/strike]
3.Binbag dance.. Get a binbag.. fill it and bin it!!!
4. HHI (did someone mention they needed one?)

mumofjusttwo

Triker-sorry to hear about your car. You must be :mad:

MrsV. i have been enjoying the peace. Managed to to NMC (ninety minute challenge) and got so much done

Nickysnackynoo-Welcome back and good luck with UNI.

Spendless-I have days like that. Always annoying when you think oh I will do that quick job and realise it is going to take MUCH longer.

UPDATE

Monday Mucking out - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
[STRIKE]Level 1
Vacuum through the living room, hall and stairs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean windows and all glass.. including the tv screen[/STRIKE]
Pounce upon the piles of coats and shoes and fling the ones that are no longer worn/needed/fit/wearable
Level 3
[STRIKE]Wipe and water plants[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Put all your hotspots in one pile and work your way through it.. [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Filing.. find a pile and file it THIS IS DONE so sort out letterrack[/STRIKE]
Wipe down any paintwork that needs it.
Binbag dance.. Get a binbag.. fill it and bin it!!!
[STRIKE]HHI (did someone mention they needed one?)[/STRIKE]

hollyh

Hi

Since my last post i have

Took a bag of stuff to the charity shop
Took Ds2 to nursery
Got some money bags
Tried to get some money out of bank and found it was almost empty:eek:
Transfered some money from my savings and noticed CCP had taken £29 even though i cancelled it last month:mad: :mad: :mad:
Got my boots reheeled
Baked a chocolate birthday cake
Bought choc chips
Banked toddlers money
Sorted out Toddlers photos


i am now off to get some more done before i have to pick up Ds2.