Weekly Flylady Thread 6th October 2008

hollyh

Hi all

Hugs to Tia and your Ds.

We've been out in the garden most of the afternoon, it's boiling out there like the middle of summer.

My list is slowly getting crossed off. Ds1 just made me a cup of coffee so i'm having a rest before i go and sort the veg for dinner.

Afternoon
[STRIKE]Wipe table & h chair
[/STRIKE]Prep tea
[STRIKE]Bm
Dishes
[/STRIKE][STRIKE]Tidy &[/STRIKE] Hoover downstairs
Washing wm x 2 / line x 2
[STRIKE]10mG
[/STRIKE]Clean out fireplace
[STRIKE]Collect kindling/wood/coal
[/STRIKE]Lay & light fire
Evening
Wipe H Chair & Table
Dishes
Tidy & Hoover living Room
Washing
HHI
Update spending spreadsheet

Utility Room
Tidy
Wipe sides Hoover
Mop

My M.A.C.A.W challenge this week is..............to do my exercise dvd at least twice
To eat at the table at least twice a day.
Plus to get everything ready the night before.
Extras
1 item ebay
Polish shoes
Phone quote
Book order

greenbee

Sarah - diamonds should be cleaned with GIN!!!

emily_jackson

Hi :hello:

Hope everyone is well. Have been out most of the afternoon so not done much, just grocery shopping and washing up. Hubby has put the washing on. He's registered blind but has a small amount of vision so we marked the dials on the cooker and washing machine so he can still use them. I use washing powder but I buy him liquitabs. He's in ill health but enjoys helping with the housework. He's not feeling well at the moment though so he's not being very tidy.

My main aims for today are to hopefully get the bathroom finished and start cleaning the hall.

By the way, thanks to everyone who suggested cleaning products, you've given me food for thought :T . Might be useful for the newbies

soappie

Greenbee - thank you for the offer of a book or two - I think three will be more than enough for my holiday - I do want to do other things too! I'm dreadful with books - once I start reading one I don't put it down and before you know it a day's gone.

Been out and about doing my chores. It was beautiful in town but I think I'm just that little bit too close to the coast - there's still a little bit of mist lurking

embb

Hi guys :wave:

Back from shopping thank goodness, think I've done too much of it cause I couldn't wait to get home lol....working next Saturday so wont be doing an all day mammoth session at least lol.....got a few bits and have updated the xmas lists accordingly, bought a few bits for the xmas hamper too which pigpen suggested ws it last week?

List update:

[strike]hoover downstairs
hoover upstairs
hang washing out
[/strike]get clothes ready for the coming week
sort dinner money envelope
[strike]load DW
S&S kitchen
take clean washing upstairs[/strike]
start on SA form (still haven't done it )
potter round with a damp cloth in hand cleaning bits & bobs
sort tea
[strike]tidy bathroom (the bottles :eek: )
update xmas pressie lists
[/strike]

Dropping teenie and DD1 at the circus about 4pm (how old are they :rolleyes: ) then GD Jennies coming round then we've got to go over to in-laws to say ta-ra cause they're off on holiday tomorrow morning, then I've got to come back and pick teenies up again, then do the tea then sort the rest of my list out.

Think I'll make a start on the SA form now actually.......this'll be fun :rolleyes:

G&B I'm liking the dress, it's really nice x

SarahShattered

emily_jackson wrote: »

Hi :hello:
My main aims for today are to hopefully get the bathroom finished and start cleaning the hall.

Emily sounds like you've got tons on your plate... take it steady, babysteps as everyone says. Pigpen will start a new list tonight, and will update it daily (thanks in advance piggers) and my suggestion would be to follow the list a day at a time, adding your own bits too.

You've been doing so well, :T it would be a shame to get overwhelmed and cave in, esp if your OH has extra reason to be untidy... my OH needs no additional reasons for messiness :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

SarahShattered

greenbee wrote: »

Sarah - diamonds should be cleaned with GIN!!!

I know it, but me and my gin have a special relationship... it's deep and intense, and involves consumption not cleaning!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

kazwookie

Rest of house now hoovered.
Wm x 2 done

Roast chicken and spuds with veg cooked and eaten

He has cleaned his motorbike after the ride out with the Harley bikes to The Wall yesterday in Stoke, he now sat looking at all the photos he took!!

I have been to work and sort away all the exhibition stuff I brought back, sent out some emails / and invoice!!

Here for a bit longer then off to cut the grass.

I only use a few products for the whole house:-
Washing up liquid
Cif
Bleach
Mr Muscles window cleaner
Oven pride for the oven!
Disenfactant for the kitchen floor
Mr Sheen or similar to polish with
Dusters
and I do a have stardrops but cannot get on with them, but came back from work to find 'him ' using them to clean his motorbike!!!
J clothes
Sponge scoures for washing up stuff that cannot go in the DW.

gunsandbanjos

Thanks guys, tried my dress on with opaque black tights and high shoes. Borrowed my mums lovely 4 inch heels:p Probably wont be able to walk in them. Will dress it down with boots for other occassions probably.

Hope DS is ok Tia, lots of cuddles will help.

Just going to make dinner and put some washing on.

Valli

Stuff wot I use

Mr. Sheen - because most of my furniture can be 'dusted' and 'polished' with it
Dusters - washed at 60deg and ironed :rotfl:
old towels - for mops, floorcloths and I always assign 1 to the toilet - also washed at 60 but NOT ironed I have a long handled mop for the 'whole' floor but need floorcloths for spills etc
Cif equivalent - basin and loo and worktops (curry stains etc)- I keep bathroom bottles upstairs now kids are old enough not to be silly
Morrison bathroom spray - acrylic bath I use this with a bath sponge from Wilkos
Stardrops soln for hob and worktops and carpet spots
Morrisons own stuff like flash liquid for floors - but am a stardrops newbie..
Bleach lots of it - neat down plugholes and loo and kitchen sink which is badly scratched and goes brown if I MENTION tea!
Luckliy I don't have hard water - or I would be driven mad by limescale - hate the stuff

I do buy own brands and find Wilkos cheapest usually for branded stuff but I will buy branded if on offer and therefore cheaper than own brands.

I do keep an air freshener in the bathroom just in case - it usually lasts a long time - and use a room spray in the lounge on occasion. I prefer, however to have windows open as much as possible to let in fresh air.

Oh and Febreze fabric spray to mask cat pi$$ on the rare occasions I find it having cleaned up first.:p

Oh and I put Parozone bleach tablets in the cistern - when I first moved here bleach obviously had never been used - the bath and basin plugholes were really bad - and I have pop up plugs so you could see right in there- watching the black scum layer peeling off under a bleach onslaught was fascinating - it has never built up again though! And when I put the bleach tablets in the cistern every time we flushed at first loads of black scum/mould/slime came through.
It's all clean now!:D

I keep a dettol type antiseptic for when anyone is ill too