Weekly Flylady Thread 12th January 2009

NKJAL

I'd tried this board a few months ago but it was a disaster and I just couldn't do it. I was told I had sever clinical depression in October and I was pushing myself to hard.

Anyway I feel a lot better now and I feel it could be time to join in. I have been doing much more around the house and Its looking OK but I could do with the extra push.

Hears my list for to day

Monday - living room/hall/stairs
Level One
Declutter the living room , hallway and stairs
Clear and tidy the mantle
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
Sort through the drawer or cupboard that you stuff junk in!
Level Three
Check smoke alarms.. change any batteries that need doing
Sort the understair cupboard/mess
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. Wash the windows in these rooms
3. wipe all the stairs edges/spindles/handrails etc up the stairs
4. Wash any soft furnishings that are in need!

Take DS to pediatric appointment
Take DS to beavers
Make tea
S & S bathroom
S&S kitchen

That should be enough to keep me going today.

greenbee

HomeSpun wrote: »

I just dampened a clean sponge and wiped a corner of my stardrops-ed oven door and it's now clear with lots of brown flecky textured spots

Well done! That's the worst of it done then...

mumoffour77

Back to school today:(
well only for a little while!!
maybe 2 hours tops!
wm on again, td and kids beds made......just!!

kassey

Monday - living room/hall/stairs
Level One
[STRIKE]Declutter the living room , hallway and stairs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clear and tidy the mantle[/STRIKE]
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
Sort through the drawer or cupboard that you stuff junk in!
Level Three
[STRIKE]Check smoke alarms.. change any batteries that need doing[/STRIKE]
Sort the understair cupboard/mess
[STRIKE]Dust the flat surfaces[/STRIKE]
Extras

1. Make an appointment for some ME-time.. go get your hair done, half an hour shopping, coffee with a friend..
2. Wash the windows in these rooms
3. wipe all the stairs edges/spindles/handrails etc up the stairs
4. Wash any soft furnishings that are in need!

mOZzy_2

toottifrootti wrote: »

Thanks pigpen I'm in - I must do better this week so please keep an eye on me everybody!
toots xx

my beedy eye is on'ya lass


Happy Birthday heather!!!!

ThereCan congrats on your 'first lot of work' - here's to many more to come :T

gtx start with baby steps - trust us! if you do too much too soon you'll give up again. starting slowly it will grow and stick with you!

welcome back sexymouse - stupid computers! i hope it's solved now for you!
and i am sure there will be many more hhc's to come - my OH loves toad in a hole: mind sharing the recipe?!

milliejo wrote: »

as I've always loved cleaning shoes

can't have you miss your favourite job - need any more shoes?!


question re soda crystals: how do you store them?! mine's a big hard lump in the bag now :sad:

indigostar wrote: »

where do you get soda crystals?
also, any idea on which shops sell stardrops currently?

took me a while to find it. soda crystals i found in tescos but where the 'special' cleaning stuff is like handwash and whiteners (it's a greenish bag). stardrops i only found in a local 'savers'.




Monday, Living Room, Hall & Stairs
Level One
Declutter living room,[STRIKE] hall[/STRIKE] & stairs
[STRIKE]Clear & tidy the mantle[/STRIKE] dont' have one
Level Two
Mop floors, up the stairs & under furniture
[STRIKE]Sort coats , shoes & bags[/STRIKE]
Sort junk drawer or cupboard
Level Three
Check smoke alarm
[STRIKE]Sort understairs cupboard [/STRIKE]
Dust

Extras
1. Me time might book getting my hair cut
2. Windows
3. Wipe stair bits
4. Wash soft furnishings


i did my hall a month ago; gave lots of jackets and shoes to the charity shop (been in there for years and neve touched so we don't need it!) - the rest is in boxes now - nice

OS was staying up last night (he'll be working the next 2 nights) and before i went to bed i kind of hinted that should he get bored there is a full d/w ... and i come into the kitchen to an .... empty d/w!!! :eek: - baby steps :T


i make it a point now not to just grab some sweets and stuff my mouth with them but take only a certain amount in a bowl to keep a lid on it! yesterday evening i got some biscuits and a wafer bar. i've put the wafer bar back into the cupboard :j


my filing is still uptodate! just putting away as it comes in :T



so, first i'll weight myself and then i'll have some breakfast!
and d/w is ready to be filled

beemuzed

Morning All! I'm back in again this week. Wish I could say house really looked better for having my full attention over the past two weeks (but of course it hasn't - so it doesn't!). Anyhow, quick whizz round for the next hour or so. Need to try to get the small bedroom habitable rather than the storage room this week, so all extra efforts will be diverted there. Have fun!

Tilli-Tot

Ooh scary... I just hit refreshed and landed in the weightloss thread... must be an omen ( i was stuffing my face with toast and marmalade at the time)

Anyway.. babysteps
Monday - living room/hall/stairs
Level One
Declutter the living room , hallway and stairs
Clear and tidy the mantle
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
Sort through the drawer or cupboard that you stuff junk in!
Level Three
Check smoke alarms.. change any batteries that need doing
Sort the understair cupboard/mess
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. Wash the windows in these rooms
3. wipe all the stairs edges/spindles/handrails etc up the stairs
4. Wash any soft furnishings that are in need!
5. Clean cooker- all removables are in the DW, the other surfaces sprayed with something I found lurking under thr sink.. I must remember to try some stardrops and get some more soda crystals
   

mOZzy_2

just checked on my 'body-decluttering' and i've lost 1.2kg (=2.6lbs) - in 5 days :j:T


next i'll have to start dinner (bolognese in the SC) or it won't be ready for when OH leaves for work at 4.20

Justamum

greenbee wrote: »

Homespun - I don't use stardrops, but I can tell you that it took me a couple of months to get my oven clean. I just took a layer or two of dirt off each week! I gave it another blitz at NY with soda crystals to cut through the grease, and put the big baking sheet, grill pans and roasting pans that live in it through the DW, as well as scrubbing the shelves. The only bit I haven't done really thoroughly is the little bottom oven, as its too fiddly (although I have taken the grill out and cleaned it! If you do it little and often it'll get clean and stay clean

I read a tip on one of the threads on here ages ago to use ammonia to clean the oven. Just put half a cup of ammonia in the cold oven, leave overnight, and the next day the muck should wipe off quite easily (be careful of the fumes when you open up the oven - eye-watering! I did this when we moved in here when the oven was minging, and it came up all shiny. The racks can be put in a black bin bag, pour in the ammonia (about half a cup) tie up and leave overnight.

Now my oven stays nice and clean now - it doesn't get very dirty because we are vegetarian so don't have nasty fat splatting all over the inside of the oven.

toochoosey

good morning all, dont know where i left my list but i think its just polishing and hoovering for me today, will do that after my toast and cuppa, then its shower, clean car, pick up mother from work.
DD not in school as she has some more spots!!!just what i (dont )need!!

hop you are well not going to chat, announcement on page 1 duly noticed!
(have you had a row, pigpen?)