Weekly Flylady Thread 19th January 2009

hollyh

Hi,

Since my last post i have

Sorted all Ds2's toys that were downstairs
Took them all apart from 1 box upstairs
Brought Ds2's Kitchen back in the living room on the understanding he doesn't use it to vent his anger on:rolleyes:
Tidied & Hoovered living room
Made lunch
Collected 2 bags of wood, 2 bags of coal & 1 bag of kindling

I'm now going to wash up, put some make up on and go and get the icing sugar.

Extras

• Clear ironing basket
• Ice cakes
• Get icing sugar, bowls & cutlery
• Make pizzas
• Wrap presents
• Party bags
• Wrap pass the parcels
• Find Cd
• Wash dressing gown & slippers
• Pack hospital bag
• [STRIKE]
• Sort toys & take upstairs
• Collect wood coal & kindling
• [/STRIKE]

likklegibbon

Finished HHS (Half Hour Study)- need to get my b*m in gear to get ready for work - best stick some slap on - don't want to scare away the passengers!

:hello: nellis - lurve your avatar

embb

I'm still in the middle of doing littleys room - 3 big bags of rubbish and 1 big bag for charity, made the daft mistake of telling littley what I'd done so far so now she's up there going through the charity bag taking everything out.. I could spit! there's no way on earth she's is keeping it all, her room is bulging with stuff, it's time to be ruthless.

Just having a tab break and a cuppa and I'll get back up there.....:rolleyes:

froddington

I definitely have a cold now :mad: I have washed the bathroom floor but not much else except dozed on the sofa

Tuesday - kitchen

Level Two
Vacuum the floor

Wednesday - spare room

Level Two
Vacuum floor

Extras
HHI while watching some gubbins of the gogglebox

Yellow list for AnWs_:A
Thursday - bathroom

Extras
sort and clean the towel trolley

Friday - FLING - Living room, Hall and stairs

Level Two
Vacuum stairs and floors
Wipe any glass.. and electricals

Level Three
Wash down the front door.. both sides!

Weekend List

Empty and sort the bathroom trolley

My one-a-day (or 7-a-weekend!!) list:
- [strike]pay credit card (last payment - yay!!)[/strike] DONE
- [strike]pay money into mortgage[/strike] DONE
- contact Union
- take compost and book to dad
- take stamps and bags to charity shop
- sort and box up football programmes
- car checks

Flylady_Flower

mOZzy wrote: »

toots it's never too late to follow a new career!
funny enough when i was in school i toyed with becoming an interior designer - only my mum told me i'd be useless at it :eek:
i'd love to study but i have no clue how you all can affort that
did you work on your jumper yesterday?!? - i kind of like knitting but i would never wear anything i've made myself
oh and i remembered what you call that wallpaper - textured ... i think :rolleyes: !
btw, the walls downstairs have this seperater wooden thingy in the middle all the way round. what will i find underneath it? will the 2 wallpapers fit nicely together or will it have covered up mistakes?!?

flower you are a star! pm'ed you back!

Evening classes are not too bad - free (well about £8) if your on JSA or some other benefits (not child allowance, they wouldn't let me get away with that...;) ) In my area I think they worked out about £120 for a years course (you can usually pay in installments too) and you come away with a C&G certificate at the end - a good start and great fun... but the best bit about them is that they give you a taster, you will know whether you have talent or a flair for it at the end and there are loads of people there who don't want to be professional ID's and just want some ideas for their own homes, so don't feel like you would be useless and not worthy (and just ignore anything anyone tells you otherwise - Mum's and toxic friends included!!!)

The woody thing around the middle is a dado, loads of houses have them and they can look quite nice if you do them properly. If you take it off, the wallpapers probably won't meet - they are usually cut up to the wood only... it would be a lot of work to remove them too, and usually leaves holes in the walls where it was screwed/nailed on and if it was glued on, you can remove chunks of plaster when trying to get it off - loads of hassle... I would leave it there, a good way to make it look better is paint it white the same as all the other woodwork, or in the same colour as the wall you are painting, but I would say white is best.

Have PM'd back and will be in touch soon...

Off shopping in a minute, see you soon... x

greenbee

mOZzy wrote: »

toots it's never too late to follow a new career!
funny enough when i was in school i toyed with becoming an interior designer - only my mum told me i'd be useless at it :eek:

Forget that... what does she know

mOZzy wrote: »

i'd love to study but i have no clue how you all can affort that

Have a look for courses at your local college - they're usually pretty reasonable, and quite often have concessions of various kinds. The problem usually is fitting them in... but think of it as an investment in making it easier to sell your house!

mOZzy wrote: »

btw, the walls downstairs have this seperater wooden thingy in the middle all the way round. what will i find underneath it? will the 2 wallpapers fit nicely together or will it have covered up mistakes?!?

Dado rail... I'd get flower's advice on this - it may be easier to leave it on and just paint it the same colour or another neutral to tone in - I've also painted my curtain poles the same colour as the wall to avoid them being a 'feature'!

mOZzy wrote: »

greenbee you hoover at midnight?!?!?

erm... yes... why not?!:o

TAG - congratulations on clearing out the 'scary cupboard' - it sounds like you've just increased the size of you house by one bedroom :rotfl:

kazw - enjoy bicester village - I was there a couple of weeks ago and managed to pick up a skirt for work and a bit of china in Wedgewood's closing down sale. Bicester Avenue is also supposed to be good for household/garden stuff (it has a lakeland!), and I'm planning on nipping in there next weekend as I'm off to a christening a coupld of miles away.

Toots - well done on your list. Maybe you should make your knitting your macaw as it'll take a while, and let us pick some other numbers for smaller tasks so that you still feel you are making progress. And we want a picture of the knitting when its done

Got up and opened ALL the windows as I had fish for supper last night (remind me not to do that again until summer :rolleyes: ), had breakfast, went to Pilates and decided to skip yoga as I have so much to do today and would have spent the class stressing about it...

... came back to find a message from the friend who was coming over this afternoon to say she's ill and won't be coming (and she sounds it), so it's just my brother & his fiancee which makes it a bit easier from the flying point of view (they won't come upstairs for a start )...

Have now hoovered the living room, hall, loo, kitchen & utility, and washed the floor in the kitchen/loo/hall. Stairs are half hoovered. And as I didn't actually get much of upstairs hoovered last night (just the mattress), I'm planning on doing the floors up here then having lunch before working out what needs doing after that!

Pigpen - hope you have a lovely time with your sister & niece

Flylady_Flower

Lady-Liberty wrote: »

Just a brief visit, I have finally got this horrible cold :mad: so have just got up for some more medication, then going back to bed. I am desperatley trying to dose myself up because I have my MRI scan tomorrow & can't afford to be coughing when in the scanning machine, you have to keep very still:eek: so any spare 'positive vibes' that I can shift it by then would be appreciated :A

~~~~~~~~~~~~positive get well vibes on their way for you LadyL - good luck tomorrow!~~~~~~~~~~~~~:A :A

Just a quick one - any of you that have children (born April 1986 - April 2003) should check here to see if you are entitled to anything... MUST BE DONE BEFORE JANUARY 31ST!!!!

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/NEWS/ctc.htm

toottifrootti

Oh its 'orrible here - well half and half:rotfl: - out the front the clouds are blacker as the earl of hell's waistcoat and out the back it sunny and windy!

froddy hope the cold is just a little sniffle and you feel better soon
Kazm you must be feeling well chuffed to get the painting done and you will soon re-roganise the bits and pieces - well done - dont wear yourself out doing the whole list today - remember it all comes around again - what about S&S everywhere and catchup as the rooms appear on the list??? Strangling is not allowed now - hung drawn and quartering much more appropriate!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Rach in case I miss you later - hope you have a lovely early anniversary carry out and enjoy the champers!!! xxxx

lucyhope Hello!!! Wow £60 !!! how could you manage to forget that!! anyway well done on the floordrobe and I will be pm'ing you shortly!!

Nellis Hello to you too!!! - plenty motivation here - will be pm'ing you shortly

I have done all my dailies!!!!
and I have washed the front door inside and out - took longer than I expected - lots of ledges -!!! Anyway thats off pigpen's list and my list so a bonus!!!
And I potted an amaryllis I got for Christmas - it wasnt on my list - perhaps it should have been but anyway its done now!

going to sort out lunch and dig out the knitting.
toots xx

nellis10

PHEW! Out of breath after my HHC with Rach trying to get the last bit in...lol

• Emptied dishwasher and packed it again
• Peeled an entire bag of spuds
• Washed down all kitched surfaces including drawers, cupboards and sink!!
• Microfibred the oven/grill/micro (outside only! )
• Cleared away a basin of crap sitting on the kitchen worktop!
• Cleaned the washing machine and am currently steeping the powder drawer!
• Put the Sunday roast on
• Cleared away the white goods on top of kitchen surface.

Right that's about it for 1/2hr....don't think I missed anything out...amazing what you can do with a timer and a bit of motivation!! Kitchen looks right and dandy now...

rach

another update after my HHC, soup for lunch almost ready. Just need to get DH to do his bits now as that's pretty much all that's outstanding now except cleaning the floors which I really will do this aft (kitchen one has a couple of sticky spots on and really can't wait another week!

Master bedroom & landing
Level One
Strip and wash sheets
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing clean sheets
Level Two
15 minutes floordrobe clearance don't really have a floordrobe but everything is in bin if needs washing
Wash windows
Vacuum floors
clean bedside tables

Kitchen and dining mess - did most of this on Tues but some needs redoing!
Level One
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Wipe and replace small appliances
Level Two
Wipe the front of the units, kickboards and the large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor

Thursday - bathroom and cruddy study!
Level One
Declutter the floors and desk!
Remove all the dirty laundry
Level Two
Mop/vacuum the floors
Polish the bath/shower/loo/basins/keyboard/mouse/monitor etc.. defrag/virus scan/spyware scan the pc while this does
Empty and clean out the bins
Level Three
Wash any curtain/shower curtain/screen/bathmats that needs doing
Shine mirrors and screens and windows
Extras

1. dust and wipe the pc desk
2. straighten the towel cupboard
3. deweb and dust these rooms!

FLING - Living room, Hall and stairs
Level One
Declutter floors and coffee table
Spend half an hour doing something for yourself!
Level Two
Vacuum stairs and floors
Wipe any glass.. and electricals
Wipe sofas

make soup
meal plan
food shop
email pics to solicitor
reshelve books - DH has promised to do this later, in spare room for now
30 mins wiifit
water plants
try & find little miss naughty avatar again! can't find it but i quite like this one after all!
WM - (1) (2) (3)
fold clean washing
put away clean washing
pay car tax
empty all bins