Weekly Flylady Thread 15th September 2008

Flylady_Flower

HowGreatThouArt wrote: »

ahhhh flylady! i had no idea what that was...d'uh!
Thanks for the responses. I don't have any children as yet just me ,DH and the dog, so i feel really guilty getting myself into a state over what I have to do!!
I'm not naturally a housework fiend, but i find that if i walk into a messy, cluttered room i feel...bleugh, lol! which makes me feel lazy (no idea why)
Today i am going to tidy the study, and file all the bills and paperwork away from the mountains on the desk, and clean the bathroom, and hoover the stairs and the bedrooms. Then i'm going to have a cup of tea and watch 'A touch of Frost' hehe!

Sounds like a plan to me. I love plans and lists so this works brilliant for me - Pigpen is our leader and a hard taskmaster and she adds to the first post on here every evening ready for the next day - you can do as much or as little of it as you want, plus you may have other tasks you need to do too (you'll see peoples lists posted on here plus the extras they want to do...)

So basically you make it suit your own routine - which if you don't yet have one, this is a good place to start!

Everyone on here is friendly (But watch Valli :rotfl: ) only joking, everyone is great and helpful and supportive and once you start you will be hooked - good luck and welcome!

Flylady_Flower

Count me in jjeff - better late than never... going to attack my bedroom... see you at 10.30 anyway...

HowGreatThouArt

I did it!! That was much quicker than i thought!! I also registered on the electoral roll online and I found tickets to a stand-up show in Nov. that i'd forgotten I'd bought! Yay!
now to fill in my budget spreadsheet with payslip details... is it weird that I am finding this fun??

hollyh

Hi

Results of HHC

Morning
Deal with post
Afternoon
Wipe table & h chair
Prep tea
Bm
Dishes
Tidy & Hoover downstairs
Washing
10mG
Evening
Wipe H Chair & Table
Dishes
Tidy & Hoover living Room
Washing
HHI
Update spending spreadsheet

[strike]Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
[/strike]Thursday Throw!- Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 2
[strike]Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..[/strike][strike]
Vacuum & turn mattress before replacing with fresh linen.. [/strike]
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing will do tomorrow
[strike]Clear a hotspot.. or spend 15 minutes clearing one. Ebay pile & landing[/strike][strike]
Extra tasks list, as usual choose one or more
Clean all paintwork on the landing
Clean windows in these rooms
Clear out your trousers/skirts
[/strike]also took summer stuff out & folded ready to be vac packed

Extras
4 items ebay
Put bulbs up
Cut herbs & freeze
Wrap 2 presents & write cards
[strike]menu plan[/strike][strike]
[/strike]Take trousers up
Take stuff to charity shop
Milk bottles recycling
Buy C's present and drop off on way back from party
Bins out & back in 1 in 2 to go
Toddlers
Form
Wash cover of bouncer & put on ebay
Sort through box of clothes ebay good stuff charity rest
Get stuff for sandwich making
make sure camera has batteries
Collect sponsor money

i'm going to try and get rid of some of my extras now i'll be back later.

jjef

jjef wrote: »

My list for today -
Thursday Throw!- Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
[strike]
Check fire alarms are working
Remove and wash bed linen and duvet covers.
Fling open the window and let in the rain sunnyness
[/strike]
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..
Vacuum & turn mattress before replacing with fresh linen..
Air the duvet
15 minutes floordrobe clearance Gonna take more than 15 15mins done
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort through a cupboard and fling everything that is dead
Clear a hotspot.. or spend 15 minutes clearing one.
Extra tasks list, as usual choose one or more

1. [strike]32 fling boogie time, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter [/strike]
2. Clean all paintwork on the landing
3. Clean windows in these rooms
4. Clear out your trousers/skirts

My bits
[strike]
empty WM
empty DW
[/strike]
sort out bank a/c (pay day today:j )
post office post friends pressie
study must finish assignment its due next week but I want rid of it by the weekend.

Okay going to do a HHC 10-10.30 if anyone else is about.

My HHC results Level 1 DONE :T :T

Going to make some soup for lunch now (Orkney Star did you find a receipt for carrot & lentil in the slow cooker I make mine on the hob but in the slow cooker would be useful for when at work) and then do HHS (Hlaf Hour Study)

I will get through this list today....

HowGreatThouArt

just had to clear up puppy-chewed bits of envelope from the landing:rolleyes:.
going for a bath now (it'll be easier to clean when it's warm;)) but will tidy all bottles on the shelf while i'm waiting for it to fill and put dirty laundry in basket.

just had a tres bon idea lol! will bring vanish spray upstairs so i will remember to tackle those stains before i put it in the machine. I always notice the stains whilst I'm ironing.

Flylady_Flower

Thursday Throw!- Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
[strike]Check fire alarms are working[/strike][strike]
Remove and wash bed linen and duvet covers.
Fling open the window and let in the rain sunnyness[/strike]
Level 2
[strike]Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..[/strike]
Vacuum & turn mattress before replacing with fresh linen.. still to do this
[strike]Air the duvet[/strike]
[strike]15 minutes floordrobe clearance [/strike]
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing still need to do this
[strike]Sort through a cupboard and fling everything that is dead[/strike]
Clear a hotspot.. or spend 15 minutes clearing one.Mmm me thinks this is the pile of dvd'd/videos at the end of the bed waiting to be ebayed/freecycled
Extra tasks list, as usual choose one or more
Clean all paintwork on the landing still to do
[strike]Clean windows in these rooms[/strike]
Clear out your trousers/skirts still to do
[strike]Fix wardrobe door[/strike]


I also did these earlier

[strike]32 fling boogie time, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter[/strike] Did this in DS’s wardrobe – a bit more than 32 things thrown I think – including a science experiment on an apple to see what new species he could grow!!!!
My Dailies
[strike]WM[/strike] Bedding in now
[strike]HHI [/strike]Have done one lot, will do another when I watch H&A
[strike]DW[/strike]
[STRIKE] Vacuum hall/stairs/kitchen x 1[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]5 min CHAOS tidy[/STRIKE]
My Extras
[strike]Make Twinks Hobnobs[/strike]
[strike]Fix etca computer[/strike]still more to do that I can’t, so will have to give this to someone a bit better than me…
[strike]Fix DS’s curtain pelmet thing that has fell down[/strike] then put up curtains and pole

So not too bad today, drink that coffee now I think that I was going to have earlier with Penny...

cha97michelle

HowGreatThouArt wrote: »

Hi! 1st post. wondering if you OSers could help. I am a traditional housewife, and making a wonderful safe and comforting home for my family is really important to me. The thing that I have a problem with is structuring my day in order that all jobs get done. Does anybody have a plan to make things go smoothly?

In the 1930s or 1950s did a housewife learn a particular set routine from her mother??? I love learrning about the past and wondered if anybody had any wisdom to share, i.e. do i do my baking in the morning? or is it better to do the washing them? etc.

sorry if this sounds a bit rambling, but i am in my mid 20s and I grew up in care so i have had no useful skills passed down to me!

please help

Hi, I'm sure we all have little things that work for our household based on who we are looking after and what household gadgets we have. I'll try and give you some ideas of what i do to help get 2 under 2's and a DH who works long hours organised.

AM:

• All of us dressed before coming downstairs (clothes laid out night before)
• WM turned on while kettle boils (loaded evening before)
• steriliser run (loaded night before)
• washing hung out if possible
• lunch and dinner components taken out of freezer to defrost

Afternoon:

• wash up breakie and lunch stuff while kids nap
• quick tidy up of toys
• prep any veg or put dinner on high in SC
• run hoover round downstairs after DS has eaten his tea - so about 5ish
• kids bath-time, sort next load of washing if i can

Evening:

• cook proper dinner trying to do leftovers where possible
• kitchen is cleaned/sorted while it cooks
• DH washes up for me
• I hang up washing/do ironing/empty TD
• I do any baking i want to do - if the kids were older i dare say i would get this prepped in the afternoon and then in the oven while dinner cooked
• If i was using the BM, i would get that on to be done for the AM when we wake up.
• lay out clothes for next day, reload WM,

On Fridays i menu plan so we can get the stuff on a weekend shop. Also, we all try to do a room a day on here. I guess that is my daily routine anyway, hope that gives you some ideas and i am sure my fellow flyladies will have more.

Michelle, x

Valli

Cos I'm watching you Howgreat...

No means you have to watch me and stop me being naughty.

I know Toots is away but I have almost at those jokes - LOVED the council one - 5 vans out here at the mo working on someone's house?

What a day! I have pegged out load 1 - all matching pegs natch - missing my mate Tag - busy sorting pegs no doubt.
Have washed out bathroom bin 1 DS bad aim and it sits by the loo!
Kitchen bin now smells SWEEEEEET
Big black bin will too! They are all drying outside in the SUNSHINE!

Dusty - barometer has WHIZZED right round to fair!

Load 2 will be pegged out shortly. I have aso bled radiators, re pressurised system then I didn'tturn that bit off properly and IT KEPT BUILDING UP! Fortunately I spotted it before it blew so I have been busy draining off radiators to get it back. Come on here and you've all been very busy!
Have hoovered through upstairs - ooh not made bed yet - am leaving it to air like a good flylady (honest)
Am about to clean bathroom and kitchen. See you later

Valli

HHC at 11 anybody?