Weekly Flylady Thread 9th February 2009

rach

greenbee - send me a cake over here, might make me feel better! I think I saw someone make red velvet cake on tv a while ago.

I must be ill - have just sat and snoozes/watched tv all evening, have only just turned the laptop back on, very unlike me! DH made me a cup of tea a while ago, watched Definitely, Maybe earlier - nice chick flick and then escape to the country! Have to decide whether to go to work tomorrow or take another day off sick, guess i'll see how i feel in the morning, don't want to be off just for the sake of it....saying that i only had 2 days sick in the whole of last year so they know i'm not the kind to take the p*ss

Good to see everyone is getting lots done, stars seem to be very motivating! Pigpen has college on a wed (i think).

I can fill you in on messy church, but i'll let Miss A as I am sure she will enjoy it!

SummerMoon

:T :A :j TOOTS:beer: :money: :T :rotfl: :cool:
I finished my list!!!!:A :T

metrochick15

My list for today is as follows:

Wednesday - Master messroom and landing
Level One
[strike]
Strip the sheets/duvet cover wash them and replace..
Vacuum and turn mattress and dust bed frame and rest of bedroom,also vacuumed bedroom and landing
[/strike]Level Two
[strike]15 minutes floordrobe clearance[/strike]Already done last night by DH
wash windows will do them in the morning when I can see what i'm doing
[strike]declutter floor on landing[/strike]
Level Three
[strike]
15 minutes filing!!
Empty bins in the upstairs of the house!
wash paintwork on the landing.. don't forget sockets and switches.. make su re they are not turned on first!
[/strike]Extras

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1. [strike]
   
2. Go to Argos to buy pressie for party DS1 going to on Sat.
3. Go to Asda top up shop
4. Bank money
5. [/strike]

1. Polish any mirrors upstairs
2. [strike]Take DS's swimming lesson after school
   
3. Make bread in Bm[/strike]

I have also 1xwm and hung clean washing on airer
put dw on - now needs emptying
and also cleaned all the lampshades in bedroom - fabric type ones I used one of those sticky fluff remover rollers as suggested by someone on this thread.
Thanks to whoever that was! The uplighter is pleated so I used the vaccum nozzle and that seemed to get rid of any accumulated dust.

DH is very impressed - he is slightly obsessive when it comes to having a tidy house!

toottifrootti

welldone metrochick - looks like you will have your star in the morning! hope OH rewards you on staurday!!! LOL!

got you summermoon!

have you found it G&T?

I try to update as I come across the completed lists but it is quite possible that I will miss one if I get distracted! by one of mudbath's silly messages!!!
toots xx

metrochick15

Am going to go and do some knitting now that DS's are in bed and DH has been fed. Am making cardi for MIL's birthday which is two weeks on sunday. Hopefully I will get it done in time!! Other complication is that my sister is getting married the day before birthday so it needs to be done with time to spare!

mOZzy_2

evening :hello:


boddy what's that meeting and greeting about?!

carlsberggal your cunning plan paid off - pretending to be scared to go on the thread and do lots of homework instead!!! :T

rosepink it sounds like you do need a break! have fun at your mums house!!! just not too much

mudbath did anything exciting happen for you today??!? and don't you BOO me ~~slappingyourchocolatecoveredfingers~~

and hex? what was the outcome of your haircut??



didn't do much of the actual list today - it's always tricky to work upstairs when OH needs to sleep :cool:

but i attempted some breadrolls (dough in the bm) - first attempt :T - OH loves them!!!

AND i made some twinks hobnobs mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :j (another first! - but not last :rotfl: )


then i took the kids to a friends house to play with her kids. they get on so well and all 4 of them played so nicely for 2 hours!!!!

meanwhile i [STRIKE]kicked[/STRIKE] asked OH to replace the cracked toilet (we've got the new one delivered 2 weeks ago but were a bit scared of demolishing the old one, with smells and everything. and it looked like it was cemented in?!?! ) - BUT it came out really easy!!! and when i came back it was all done - just needs to dry now and then we have a nice new shiny toilet

froddington

Evening! Late home again :rolleyes: Tonight I have wiped the oven and hob and checked the smoke alarms. Am too tired to do any more - will be playing catch up at the weekend!! Off to read the thread now ..............

Monday - Kitchen

Level Two
Vacuum floor

Level Three
Wash windows

Extras
HHI

Tuesday - Living room, hall and stairs!

Level One
Clear and wipe surfaces
Polish all the glass things

Level Two
declutter and vacuum the floors!
Wash windows
Vacuum under furniture you can move..

Level Three
De-web and de-fluff the room

Wednesday - Master messroom and landing

Level One
Strip the sheets / duvet cover wash them and replace..
Vacuum and turn mattress

Level Two
wash windows

Level Three
15 minutes filing!!
wash paintwork on the landing.. [strike]don't forget sockets[/strike] and switches.. make sure they are not turned on first! NO SOCKETS ON LANDING!!

Extras
Run WM through a clean cycle
Polish mirror upstairs
Wipe all the door knobs/handles

My one-a-day (or 7-a-weekend!!) list
- [strike]post PlayTrade parcel x 2[/strike] DONE
- sort box of books
- sort top drawer of filing cabinet
- update 10 IEPs ONE DONE
- make doc appt
- make curry
- make hair appt

Mudbath

Quick question for any dog owners or those with knowledge - this week stripes has suddenly decided that sticks are fab to chew up. If I go near her she runs off and thinks it's a fab game! She's obviously eating some of the shredded stick as she has woodchip poop! Isn't this dangerous? What can I do? She comes back to me at all times unless she has found a stick! HELP!!

melliec

Toots
Rach
Mudbath
Hellsbells
Thankyou all for the words of encouragement, hells bells, I will check that website in a while.
Actually, my evening has been quite productive! Made chilli con carni (meat one and veggie one!) and cornflake tart, washed up, 4 loads of washing today too and then tackled the bedroom again!
Wednesday - Master messroom and landing
Level One
Strip the sheets/duvet cover wash them and replace.. [STRIKE](done all the cot bedding)[/STRIKE]
Vacuum and turn mattress and dust bed frame
Level Two
[STRIKE]15 minutes floordrobe clearance[/STRIKE]
wash windows
[STRIKE]declutter floor on landing[/STRIKE](Did re-clutter as well, with things I need for tomorrow..charity shop/rubbish bags)
Level Three
[STRIKE]15 minutes filing!!
Empty bins in the upstairs of the house!
wash paintwork on the landing.. don't forget sockets and switches.. make su re they are not turned on first![/STRIKE]
Extras[STRIKE]Run WM's/DW's etc through a clean cycle
Polish any mirrors upstairs
Wipe all the door knobs/handles
Check all smoke alarms are working as they should be!!
[/STRIKE]

Pitlanepiglet

I'm still here and still cleaning the cooker and the kitchen! Only two more sessions I reckon and the bloody horrible glass door front will be clean! I am then officially NOT using the bleeding oven again before moving day on 13th March :rotfl: Maybe this is the excuse I've been looking for to buy a Remoska - I wonder if I might find enough money down the back of the sofa when I finally get to the living room! :rotfl:

On the steam cleaner front I have one of these http://www.domotec.uk.com/steam_cleaners/simac_vaporsimac/10054_p.html I ordered a cheaper model (£111) which isn't now on their website but it was out of stock and they sent me the more expensive one at the same price - what a result!!

I did loads of research and found really mixed reviews about the cheaper models, their steam output was lower and lots of them have a very small water holder so you have to fill up all of the time. A lot of the designs (like the Karcher) are pressurised so that you can't fill the tank whilst the machine is hot - you have to wait for it to cool down, fill it up and then wait for it to reheat.

I knew I had a huuuuuggggeeee amount of cleaning to do in a short time and came to the conclusion that I didn't have time to waste getting it wrong and ending up with something that wasn't up to the job. So I went for something that was a bit more expensive.

Mine is fab and it's cleaned the really nasty cooker, it's especially good at getting into all those little nooks and crannies that you can't get to, like the stupid bits of trim around the edge of cookers, fridges, WM etc. Our kitchen is really greasy (years of neglect )and I was really struggling to get through the grease but the steam cleaner cuts right through it.

Someone earlier mentioned steam cleaning clothes - do you have an iron attachment or do you just use one of the other nozzles? My wool mix coat is smelling a bit doggie and I wonder whether a steam would help but I don't have the iron attachment?