Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd February 2009

JayJay14

sexymouse wrote: »

How do you all do it if you don't have a frostfree freezer?

Big old roasting tin and lots of towels - also have it on a tiled floor which takes kindly to water:D

Have today so far done one load in the WM and OH has done all the ironing, cooked off a big pan of mince, onions, grated carrot and such and turned it into 3 meals of chilli for the freezer, two lasagnes (also for the freezer) and spag bol for tonight.

Last nights left over chicken has been stripped and there are two more meals - not decided what yet - and the bones are in the SC for soup.

Not much flying done in the decluttering sense but satisfying non the less.

Just had a sausage sarnie for lunch and now having coffee - next task find the dyson:rotfl:

hex2

sexymouse wrote: »

Phew!! I've just spent nearly 2 hours defrosting the freezer, mopping up the floor and making a freezer inventory. There's got to be an easier way of defrosting a freezer surely? I spent ages scraping the ice off at first, then got the hairdryer out and tried to melt it all off, but then I ended up with a huge puddle all over the floor.

How do you all do it if you don't have a frostfree freezer?

I use the steamer thingy we got for taking the old wallpaper off. Didn't take too long, no scraping. Soaked it up with towels.

Just tripped over a smal boy and managed to walk into andfall over an ankle height wooden bar (building works, dont ask :rolleyes: ) and have twisted my ankle and my knee. Sat here with a bag of peas on it but looks like it is going to be a great set of bruises. Doesn't bode well for getting anything else done this weekend. Does someone want to make me a cup of tea?

froddington

Right, I did a HHC without really knowing it! Washed my hair then cleaned the toilet, sink and bath, washed the window and cleaned the mirror and wiped down a wall of tiles, paintwork and radiator! Phew!

dannyem - Welcome (to the madhouse!!) Toots will no doubt send you a welcome PM soon. We give a good illusion of being organised don't we ?

Monday - Living room, hall and stairs!

Level Two
declutter and vacuum the floors!

Level Three
De-web and de-fluff the room

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining room

Level Two
Vacuum floor

Wednesday - Beast Pits and Spare Ooms!

Level One
vacuum off the dustmites and turn the mattress!

Level Two
[strike]Clear the floors of gibble!! [/strike]and vacuum them

Extras
Binbag dance!
Wipe the paintwork.. doors, skirting,
IF you can.. move the bed and vacuum underneath!

Thursday - Master Mess-room.. & landing

Level One
Strip bedding and wash it
Vacuum mattress and redress!

Level Two
Wash the window

Level Three
Vacuum floors
Dust the room

Extras
HHI

Friday -fun and frolics..

Level Two
Wash bath mats

Level Three
Wipe out any cupboards and check what needs restocking

My one-a-day (or 7-a-weekend!!) list
- sort box of books
- sort top drawer of filing cabinet
- [strike]put up new light pulls[/strike] DONE
- [strike]post letters[/strike] DONE
- [strike]cross stitch cards x 2[/strike] DONE
- [strike]make stronganoff[/strike] DONE
- car checks

greenbee

rach - if you're not feeling 100% then don't try to do too much

Oddjob - how come you've got nothing to do. Have you.... :eek: FINISHED THE LAUNDRY???:eek:

sexymouse - I usually defrost my freezer when it's a bit warmer . I make sure I have frozen as many ice packs as I can get my hands on, and put everything into cold bags with them, or wrap it in newspaper and then like JayJay put a roasting tin in the bottom and a couple of rolled up towels by the door. And then I go away and ignore it for as long as possible . I do check and empty out the tin every so often, and if it needs speeding up I put a bowl of hot water in there. I don't try to chip the ice off as you risk damaging it. In this weather I suppose you could have left the food in a bag/box outside and it would probably be OK for a day or two!

I walked into the village and did my shopping.... lots more people in the shop than normal :rolleyes: . The slush has frozen, and the pavements are very slippery, although they are clearer in the centre of the village where there are more people walking on them and there's more traffic. The road through the village is currently clear but the surface is damp (so presumably a risk of ice later?). My road has frozen slush all over it. In some cases its packed down into sheets of ice, in other places there are ridges of ice with clear tracks in between.

I cleared the frozen snow off my car, but haven't been able to face the drive. On inspection, there's about 4-5 metres to clear, and it's about 4 inches deep... Its icy at the bottom where people have been reversing/walking along the pavement... I'm really not sure what to do about tonight. It depends partly on whether I can clear the drive and get out OK (it's down a slope) and partly on what the A339 is going to be like, but I'm not sure how I can find that out!

OddjobKIA

greenbee wrote: »

Oddjob - how come you've got nothing to do. Have you.... :eek: FINISHED THE LAUNDRY???:eek:

that dosen't count in our house as its as constant as breathing is.....

Ive got plenty to do its just if I close my eyes i can't see the mess....

infact i think i might just of stumbled onto an idea......

Dark glasses....gaffer tape.....long stick....white paint...

volia not a bit of mess to be seen anywhere

rach

greenbee wrote: »

rach - if you're not feeling 100% then don't try to do too much

was just coming to that conclusion myself! tempted to go back to bed, feel a bit sickly and hot as well as a headache, hope i'm not coming down with something. Think I'll have a shower first as that should help! DH will probably do the hoovering too which will take care of a lot of the list in one go.

AnW'sMum

Back from swimming, I have left a note with for the teacher to see if they think it is worthwhile moving W to a Sat morning at the same time as Miss A but in the little pool. At the mo there are only 4 kids in that lesson, all a similar age so I think it would help him concentrate more plus the teacher is a man who seems to be tougher with them (not sure W would aprreciate this!). The added bonus would be that I only have to trek down to the pool once a week and we would get our Wednesday evenings back.... for now :rotfl:

kazwookie

dannyem hi and welcome, organised are we?? :rotfl: we like to give that impression! just start with small jobs of page one first and build up to the large jobs when you feel ready, toots will pm you in a bit.

Toots if you lived near me, I would come round and give you a hand but looking at the flyladies map (is that what it is called?) you seem to be mileeeeeeeeeeeees away

No one seems to live near me, maybe you are all trying to tell me some thing.

Been to mrt's, but they are queing in their cars to get into the car park which is full, so came home again. I'll go again later tonight.

Cats have had lunch!
I've decluttered some chocolate
OH is on a biking forum, laughing at the jokes! most of them not suitable to this site if you get my drift.

Off to sort washing round to TD

toottifrootti

dannyem hello and welcome to fred - i have sent you a message which i hope will help!!!
hex awh you silly person! hope the peas work and its not too bad - arnica as well is good! hugs for the pain!
thanks for the kind thought kazw - to be fair my house will not be much better until some of the DIY jobs get doen and I get rid of the clutter - which I have to do to pay for the DIY jobs!!! would like to think I could get the bathroom and the kitchen finished this year - thats the first target!

so far today I have
hung out the washing
2nd load in WM
loaded brekkie stuff in DW
sorted out the fridge
put away rest of last nights shopping
filled up toilet roll basket
put out the rubbish
wrapped a birthday present
written a letter to go with present
emptied clothes airer into ironing basket

off I go again!!
toots xx

Dustykitten

jjef wrote: »

Pigpen where is the weekend list when I need one.

More to the point where is Pigpen? Hope you're all ok.

Afternoon all.

Done most of my dalies
stripped our bed
baked a cake
been to the corner shop
reload wm - which did not wash last night as silly me had not put the whole filter back after cleaning it.

I've got an hour until we set off for DS3 party so a cuppa, some chocolate and find my list.