Weekly Flylady Thread 16th February 2009

soappie

Night Emily - sleep well.

And good night to everyone else. I'm off to my pit...

3tabbycats

msgnomey wrote: »

there is a little Icon in the reply to thread bottom row extreme right looks like an s with a line through it [strike]s[/strike]

highlight the text you want to cross out and click on it!!

Ahh! Brilliant, thanks for that, its been really bugging me.

[STRIKE]Lets have a test run[/STRIKE]!

Cool, another incentive to get the lists done...little things keep me happy!

Pitlanepiglet

I'm getting a bit further, tonight I have completely cleaned the bathroom and the separate toilet, I've washed walls (well as far as I could reach!), cleaned tiles, scrubbed the bath/sink/loo etc. and mopped the floors.

The landlady is coming on Wednesday with the agent and whilst I think I can just about bear her seeing all of the mess I can't bear the idea of her seeing our manky bathrooms!

So I've made some progress - I haven't followed any of the lists but I'm hoping to get with the routine next week - I've virtually finished the kitchen and have completely done the bathroom/loo so tomorrow night I'll shift some of the carp from the hallway (so she can get in the door!) and hoover where I can.

Does anyone have good ideas about cleaning carpets that are covered in hair? I'd love to blame the puppy but it isn't her it's me - I moult worse than any dog I've met and when hoovering end up having to detangle to brush all the time. I wondered about getting a fairly stiff brush and using that first? Sorry, I know it's gross!

hollyh

Evening all,

I'm liking tomorrows list my bedroom is disgusting. I'm not going to be in for most of the day so i don't know if i'll get another star but i will try my best.

Ds1 has fallen asleep on the sofa:rolleyes: only because he didn't want to remake his bed. I'd done the duvet cover what more did he want. Has anyone got any tips for lazy kids?

Tomorrows list

Twinkly Tuesday - Master bedroom & Landing
Level One
[STRIKE]Strip bed and wash sheets/duvet cover
[/STRIKE] Did today
Clear the floor of gibble:eek: It may take some time
Level Two
Clear the landing of detritus
Vacuum these floors
Wash the windows (and any curtains/nets the need doing)
Level Three
37 fling boogie!!
Empty upstairs bins
Make sure all the smoke alarms are working and if you have high sleepers you should have alarms in those rooms too.. make appointments with the fire safety people if you don't and they fit really good ones free of charge!!
Extras

1. List 5 things on ebay!
2. Make sure all the school coats/bags etc are washed ready for school on Monday
3. dust away all the webs upstairs!
4. Sort out your airing cupboard! I haven't got one at the moment it was destroyed when putting the new boiler in, i'm waiting for OH to build me another one:rolleyes: . I will put the contents in boxes under my bed for now.

Any children that are off school can be REALLY helpful and clear their bedroom floors and take all their dirty things to the wash basket! And.. don't forget to do your homework for Monday!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Monday - Kitchen and Dining room
Done!:D

I'm so pleased, my kitchen hasn't looked so clean and tidy in ages! I've threatened DH that if his cardboard box of work stuff isnt sorted by Friday then it is going out for the bin men! The cat just uses the box as a scratching post and DH hasn't looked in it since he brought it home months ago! I even cleaned the UPVC door which was a bit grubby, and the paintwork around the interior doors which were also grubby!

Tidying it tomorrow should take no time at all now and looking forward to tackling my bedroom tomorrow..

fernliebee

Star please toots as I am Done!

Finished kitchen and done living room (mostly) as I had a few job's that I was dying to get done :rolleyes: Such as dust the junk shelves! By junk, I mean our lovely collection of ornaments (aka toys ) That took a while, then moved the furniture and swept and mopped underneath because I can't remember the last time that was done. Found the missing piece of one of DD toys though!

Done my dailies:

DW
WM
fold dry washing,
Hang wet washing,
Swish and swipe Kitchen,
Scrub highchair,
Sweep downstairs,
Hoover rugs downstairs.

I used to hoover once a week (ehem...month:D ) but now DD is crawling I've started doing it every day as we're not a shoes off household, however it looks dirtier than when I used to do it less often Ah well I think DD is annoyed that she can no longer find pieces of lunch on the floor to have a nibble on!:D

Phew! Feel like I have done lot's today and my house is looking so much better. For the first time in.......forever I can sit down and relax because I know everything is done. Thank you for the motivation everyone! And the list's Pigpen, and the stars toots! If only I found out years ago that all it took were a few computer generated stars to keep me on the straight and narrow!

LilySue

Feeling a bit wiped out here as I didn't sleep well last night, still got my teeth jaw problems ( which is why I wasn't online much last week, but my lovely, scarily handsome dentist has referred me to the hospital, so I may get some help with this soon )

Soo here's my list with a few things done on it:


Monday - Kitchen and Dining room
Level One
[strike]Clear and wipe work surfaces[/strike]
[strike]Empty and wash out bins[/strike]
Level Two
Clear out the fridge and make note of what needs using sharpish
[strike]Sweep and mop floors
Clear and wipe table.. add a clean cloth if necessary![/strike]
Level Three
Clean the oven and hob
Wipe all the cupboard fronts, kickboards and large appliance
Wipe and replace all the small appliances
Extras

1. HHI
2. Wash windows
3. Clean any light fittings/shades
4. Binbag dance!

Twinkly Tuesday - Master bedroom & Landing
Level One
Strip bed and wash sheets/duvet cover
[strike]Clear the floor of gibble[/strike]
Level Two
[strike]Clear the landing of detritus[/strike]
[STRIKE]Vacuum these floors[/STRIKE]
Wash the windows (and any curatins/nets the need doing)
Level Three
37 fling boogie!!
[strike]Empty upstairs bins
[/strike]Make sure all the smoke alarms are working and if you have high sleepers you should have alarms in those rooms too.. make appointments with the fire safety people if you don't and they fit really good ones free of charge!!
Extras

1. List 5 things on ebay!
2. Make sure all the school coats/bags etc are washed ready for school on Monday
3. [strike]dust away all the webs upstairs![/strike]
4. Sort out your airing cupboard!

Any children that are off school can be REALLY helpful and clear their bedroom floors and take all their dirty things to the wash basket! And.. don't forget to do your homework for Monday!

Changed my MACAW: 15 minutes violin practice a day....


Toots: Hope you feel better soon, I'd feel wobbly if I sent out as many e-mails in day as you do!

domino_sue

Sorry you don't feel too good toots - must be giving out all them stars that's done it.

Well . PLEASE can I have one - finished for today :T and have also ironed for 1 hour and then decluttered stuff from some drawers into a binbag for charity shop - this means that instead of piling the newly ironed stuff on top of useless stuff and it all needing ironed again - I have some space !!!!

Wonders will never cease .

Just gonna look now at tomorrows list and then go to bed.

Valli

soappie wrote: »

I snuck out to Maplin's yesterday afternoon and have one on their special offers. It's innoculously monitoring the kettle at the moment. Once the other occupants of the houshold get used to it being there it will be surreptitously moved

And Fly-flo - you think just like me - inspect the Dyson for lint

you devious thing...:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

Valli

Pitlanepiglet - I have wool carpets that get hair stuck to them - mine and DDs and I use a dampened scrubbing brush and get down on my hands and knees and hand brush - even my really good vacuum can't pull all the stuff off them - and they are in all the bedrooms and hall, stairs and landing...
carpets are on 'the list' but way down... -it'd need a ship the size of the QE2 to come in to get all my 'list' things done:o:rolleyes:
more receipts logged and discarded:T
I am pulling things out of that bag and dealing with them PROPERLY

awful about that little girl in Cornwall...how very very sad