Weekly Flylady Thread 5th January 2009

toochoosey

have moved the car to outside the house now, so going to finish my cuppa and go clean the inside(might not get outside the house again!!!)

boddy

Have had a good sort out of the wardrobe. So thats a bag ready to go to the charity shop.

Have been rooting through mums paper work as I needed some info for her insurance company. On the form they want to know where she lived in 1970. I narrowed it down to 2 placed both of which were pulled down years ago. She was a bit of a wanderer. Found her marriage certifacate and as luck has it the two addresses are on there. Just need her birth certificate now.

Going to have a cuppa now help yourselves.:coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:

Johanne good luck vibes for OH on Monday

Calsberggal Welcome.

Greenbee Hope you have managed to sort the frozen pipe.

Ssl Thanks. They are bluebells which I love. Reminds me of being a child and walking through the Bluebell Woods.

soappie

Afternoon all

Just a quick in and out (fnarh fnarh) hugs to those who need them....

carlsberggal

Good luck with the car cleaning, must be one of the worst jobs especially on a freezing day like today. I'm making a list this afternoon of things I;m definately going to do tomorrow, goes like this:

1. Strip bed as soon as we get up and put in washer
2. Dust bedroom and hoover as it's 2 weeks now since it's last done
3. Get to supermarket for when it opens
4. Get veg done for tea after putting shopping away instead waiting till last minute
5. Make up bed
6. Try to get 19 year old DD1 to get up out of her pit before it's tea time!

Not bad for a start, what do you all think?

rach

Wishy-Washy Wednesday
Level One
Declutter the living room , hallway and stairs
Clear and tidy the coffee table
Level Two
Vacuum the cleared floors and up the stairs.. under furniture if you can move it safely!
Sort through coats and shoes and bag
Wipe and water neglected plants
Level Three
Check smoke alarms.. change any batteries that need doing
Wipe the paintwork - DH doing this on thurs before flat inspection on Fri
Dust the flat surfaces
Extras

1. Make an appointment for some ME-time.. go get your hair done, half an hour shopping, coffee with a friend..
2. Clean out your handbag!.. and/or college/work bag

Thursday - Master bedsty & landing
Level One
Strip the bedsheets and wash them!
15 minutes floordrobe clearance well, only took 5 mins :A
Level Two
Vacuum the floor you can see in the bedroom and on the landing!
Fill a binbag with stuff you no longer need and get rid!
15 minutes filing stuff put on desk for DH who does all this stuff!
Level Three
HH doing something that NEEDS doing..study, ironing, exercise.. GO!
Empty any bins and take any laundry to the wash basket

sweep kitchen floor
clean laundry away
wm - towels
S&S bathroom
food shop
post voucher to friend
report recycling prob
empty bins
transfer money to sis
transfer expenses reimbursement back to my account
blitz worktop & find homes for 2 big tubs
list cds on amazon

valli - well done for keeping trying with the girl. those v strict churches can have a strange effect on people.Unfortunately vulnerable people are often drawn towards them (spoken as someone with a lot of positive church experience)

zls - the sore hands is what puts me off stardrops, though I do use it. I tend to only use in a spray bottle with a cloth now, though DH uses in water on the floors.

rosepink - good on you, you've done loads so far. Just try a small bit every day so that you can achieve it. you really will notice the difference but it doesn't happen overnight.

liberty9515 hope the kitch thing goes well, use it as an opportunity to fling anything surplus!

mudbath - take it easy girl, it's better in the long run! It probably feels longer than it is because of the hols in the way

Dustykitten wrote: »

ok you might want to think about this before starting a family :rotfl: :rotfl:

lol i thought that as I typed it! I know it's different then but for now i like it tidy!!

lil_me - good luck with the conservatory - hope you're ok, pm if you need to

froddy - thoughts and prayers for the girl.

greenbee - don't think i ever said happy birthday! BCP services are generally early in the morning. DH and I intend to try and go to church more this year and he fancies early morning trad services too. I am intending to do more exercise too, hoping the wiifit i think i'm getting tomorrow will help! Have a fab time with your friend.

valli - am jealous, enjoy the hike!

pf - good luck with the job apps.

gryfon - big hugs

tilli - take it easy on that toe. ouch

carlsberggal - i have learned now and always make the packed lunches the night before or they don't get done - try and do it early evening or I CBA!

No soappie yet this morning?

Right, I should move and shower then make the soup for lunch (a gordon ramsay yummy minestrone, we had it last week too)

embb

Welcome Carlsberggal :hello:

Went back to bed after I last posted and didn't get up till 11.15, since which I've made a brew, blown my nose twice, coughed up gunk, had a convo with OH via text, waited for it to warm up outside (like they promised) in the hope I wouldn't have to defrost the car before work (it worked yay) filled my bag to take round to OH's for a shower, brought the hoover in from the car and stuffed the xmas tree in it....good job I don't have to drive far cause I can't see out the back window lol.

Found my list pages back :eek: you chatterboxes

Kitchen
empty DW
reload DW
clean benches/cupboard front/white goods etc etc
hoover & mop floor.

living room.
wash furniture/tv stuff/window
clean settees and finish off with leather wipes - for sparkle
hoover floor and underneath furniture
clean paintwork
mop floor

hall/stairs/landing
quick tidy
hoover
wash paintwork

cloakroom toilet
wash from top to bottom

bathroom
quick S&S
quick tidy

WM
TD
Got work later on too.
take xmas tree to xmas tree recycling drop off place
empty maiden/fold/take upstairs
[STRIKE]get hoover out the car
[/STRIKE]locate birthday card
buy flowers for said birthday person

SSL He sub-contracts at Nissan he doesn't work for them specifically, tho it's where he works physically IYKWIM it's probably why they got to hear of it first, he's 25.

Thanks Vanilla x

Off to work now, so, toodle pip lovelies x

carlsberggal

Boddy thanks for the welcome. What a good idea to sort out wardrobe, I've put on a stone so loads of clothes don't fit and if they do I think 'what on earth possessed you to buy that?!' Doubt I'll ever lose the weight, though am quite happy apart from tummy, but hey ho in my 40's and had three kids. Partner loves me warts and all and have only put on the weight cos I'm settled and happy. Good luck boddy with searching for birth certificate. If you know where she was born you could contact registry office and get another

SarahShattered

Engineer has been and gone. Comet are sh*te I hate them so very very much.

The washing machine is duff, so now we have to go to the store to arrange a new one to be delivered.
Why can't we do this over the phone like we were told.... ?
Why haven't the store phoned me back like they were supposed to ? and
Why haven't customer services phoned me back to check that the store had phoned me back like they were supposed to?

:mad: honestly... you wouldn't think it was actually their fault would you???? grrrrr :mad:

vivw_2

Afraid this week I haven't been able to follow pigpen's lists so am going to try again on Monday .
For now I'm going to write my own,
Today and tomorrow's list [am going to take it slowly as I have quite a lot of chest pain at the moment - have a bad cold and am coughing quite a lot so I think I have strained a muscle]

Finish washing up
Dry up and put away
One load of washing in machine
Tumble bits on the airer
Straighten livingroom
Straighten study
Vacuum downstairs
Wash bedding
Put clean bedding on bed
Clean ensuite
Vaccum upstairs
Dust downstairs
Dust upstairs
Watch DVD of how to put up our new awning
Another load of washing
Tumble lots of the washing

There's more but I'll see what I can get done first

boddy

Carlsberggal. Its not a big problem as I can get a copy of her birth certificate at a nearby town.

Like most women I think, I have big clothes and smaller clothes in the wardrobe lol. Mind I have been ruthless with stuff I know I wont wear again.