Weekly Flylady Thread 19th January 2009

Dustykitten

Afternoon,

Manged to hoover the living room, under everything, sofas the lot. DS3 currently playing so can't sort anymore toys at present. I don't mind, he's not great at playing so it's good to see.

Did my birdwatch whilst making lunch and washing up - loads of birds visited so I've uploaded my results. It was lovely to stand and stare out the window.

Just going to have a cuppa then off to the library/recycling and might pop to Lidl - see how I feel when I'm out cause I'm a bit ropey right now - maybe some chocolate will help. Kids have decluttered most of the food in the house!

boddy

Afternoon everyone.

Positive healing vibes for any poorlies and hugs for everyone.

Hi to the newbies.

Have been out all morning so no flying done yet. Just about to put my lunch on as Im starting to get hungry.

Just waiting for the washer to finish and will get that lot on the clothes horse.

Lady-L No coughing vibes coming your way for tomorrow.

pigpen

Triker wrote: »

Anyone any ideas where to put my stockpile of loo rolls?

Clear one of the shelves in the bathroom and stack them on there.. OR.. put them in one of the cupboards on the landing..

and.. is that form done yet??? Do I HAVE to come stand over you and force you to do it?

rach

have cleaned the floors!! Yay, only took 15 mins after all that putting off. I plan to get a mop so it will be easy to do every week. Had a slight disaster though in that when I was doing the bathroom floor I decided to also wipe the ledge that boxes in the pipes as it gets really dusty so easily. Managed to drop the heavy electronic bathroom scales right on my finger. It actually made me cry it hurt do much and DH heard the bang from the study! :eek: Base of my nail has gone black and it's a bit swollen but I don't think its broken. Have also just done the car tax and I don't think DH will get his bits done today but as it's the study where I never really go I don't mind. It's ok in there really, perfectly tidy just needs a dust! Final update of my list:

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

pigpen

Sunday list

Dailies

WM
TD
DW
BM
Laundry folded and away

extras
Assignment write up

Monday - Master bedroom & landing
Level One
Strip and wash sheets
Extras

1. Sort through a box of junk fom the landing

Wednesday - sprog/spare room.. boys room first!
Level One
Strip beds and wash sheets and any other bedding in need!
Clear the floor of gibble
Level Two
Vacuum floor
Level Three
Wipe away sticky marks

Thursday - bathroom and cruddy study!
Level Two
Mop/vacuum the floors

Friday - FLING - Living room, Hall and stairs
Level One
Declutter floors and mantle
Level Two
Wipe sofas
Level Three
Wash down front door.. both sides!

Weekend List -

1. Wash any sticky bedding you've missed
2. HHI

Not going to see my niece today as she has been taken back into hospital as she is fitting.. they are waiting on the results if the lumbar puncture at the moment

mOZzy_2

Flylady_Flower wrote: »

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

'unfortunately' we don't get any benefits - apparently oh earns too well - we still can't afford anything really :rolleyes: [sigh]

thanks about the dado (i should have known that ) - won't rip it off!! although OH was way too eager to start on it :rotfl:

greenbee wrote: »

Forget that... what does she know

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!

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'!


Got up and opened ALL the windows as I had fish for supper last night (remind me not to do that again until summer ), 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!

unfortunatly OH works a silly shift (each week is different on a forthnightly rota iykwim) - so i can't attend any weekly courses; and with the kids being home most of the time it's tricky too. BUT dd has finally started her 12.5 hrs nursery (same hours as ds ) - so i might find something for that?!?
thanks for all the tips!

you DO like hoovering, right?!? :rotfl: - seems like you've got everything under control. sounds like you get everything clean in tidy in no time :T



toots 12 days now sweets/choc :eek:

kazmeister where will you be off to?!

Valli what a [STRIKE]funny[/STRIKE] lovely story

JayJay14

Pigpen I hope hope Tabitha will be Ok - all my thoughts and prayers are with her.

hollyh

Get well soon vibes for baby Tabitha being sent. Massive hugs to you all Pigpen. x

kassey

Pigpen positive vibes for Tabitha

Dustykitten

Pigpen thinking of you and your sis and wishing Tabitha well really really soon