Weekly Flylady Thread 23rd February 2009

fedupandskint

Right I'm in for the HHC to carry on with the spare room.study - a bit late but will carry on!

Back from being pummelled by the physio!

xx_Jo_xx

rosepink1984 wrote: »

I am a bad person. Yet another of those flippin telesales people foned up and said: "Is that Mr.....?" I said: "This is a WOMAN'S VOICE, NOT A MAN'S VOICE!" He said in a very meek voice: "Ok thank you goodbye."

:rotfl: love it!

smiler34

Hi all, just looking for a bit of advice as I don't really know where to start. I have two toddlers (3 and 19 months) and just getting my OH to do the washing up every night to do his bit is a chore in itself. My house is on 3 floors; kitchen in cellar, living room on ground floor and 2 bedrooms and bathroom on 1st floor. I didn't really know where to start so decided to do a list of what needed to be done in the kitchen intending to do it on sunday but there was so much to do think I overfaced myself a bit and now I just don't know where to start. I can't clean through day as such as I look after the kids full time and my daughter doesn't have a nap through day. Could possibly clean after kids are asleep (7.30ish) but this is only time I get to actually sit down! My list for kitchen was;

• Take cleaned and dryed clothes upstairs
• Get some washing and drying done (the pile seems never ending)
• Get rid of old pram
• Get rid of cardboard to recycle (up to Oh cause I don't drive)
• Put all of kids old clothes on freecycle
• Clean out fridge and defrost freezer
• Clean oven
• Sweep and mop kitchen floor

Think that was it allthough no doubt I will come up with something else. ermmm basically...................HELP:eek: :eek:
Oh yeah I am also pregnant and I have a mum and sister who seem to keep their houses looking immaculate without any effort :EasterBun (sorry just had to put that one in cause it's funny!)

xx_Jo_xx

Do both of your little ones need lots of entertaining during the day? Perhaps when she is quiet for 5 minutes playing with her toys etc, you could start doing the jobs 5 minutes at a time.

I can only speak from my own experience and Im sure that lots of the ladies on here with more experience will be able to offer you lots more constructive advice, but I found that if I thought about all the things I actually had to do, I just got overwhelmed! I still dont think about it all!! Only what I have to do that day, or in that half hour - and I shut out everything else.

Dont think about it all. Just think about one thing and find 5 minutes to tackle it, if you dont get it finished, find another 5 minutes and go back to it. Then you will eventually finish that job and cross it off your list!

babysteps as they say!! xx

PS take it easy since your pregnant and knock some sense into OH!!

rosepink1984

Hi Smiler, welcome! Wow, sounds like you have a lot on your plate. I don't have any kids, but I do sympathise with you as I felt like a rabbit caught in the headlights and didn't have a clue where to start until I joined in here.

Just take babysteps, maybe today if you did one thing off your list and then one thing tomorrow...or one thing in morning and one thing afternoon.
When DH takes cardboard for recylcling could you twist his arm into taking the kids old clothes to a charity shop? That way they are out of the house quickly without any stress to you re freecycle. And I know charity shops are really struggling to get donations of clothes and other items because of the recession, so you would be doing a good deed!
I know what you mean about having to force your DH to do things to help. Mine has someone coming at 4 so when he got home at 3 I had everything off the floor and taken the cushions of the sofa to hoover. He agreed to hoover for me, and then got to the sofa and said can you lift the cushions up? I said no, you need to hoover the sofa and hten put the cushions back on and then the floor will be clear. After a suspiciously short time the hoover went off. I came out of bathroom and he was dismantling hoover. I said have you done this bit? He said yes. I said, 'well it's got bits all over it! And can you redo the bathroom as there are bits everywhere? And you need to do the kitchenright up to the edges!' Men! I know I should be grateful he did it, and he did a good job in the end!

xx_Jo_xx

When you are dusting, can she follow you round with a duster, or with her toy hoover etc?? Maybe you would be able to get on with some little bits and pieces with her....

cant think of anything else, sorry x

rach

rosepink1984 wrote: »

I watched doctors, I thought it was a good story line. Which was your friend? Was it Ruth's friend!!

I was only half watching and I don't know who everyone is, she was the one who locked the teenager in the cellar...

Have a phone conference at 4, hoping to wipe round the study at the same time and do some admin bits for work too hehe

Pollybear

Afternoon all

Two loads of washing done, including my bedding.

Wednesday is bedrooms day for me:
Bed stripped, mattress turned and all clean bedding put on, including mattress cover.
Dusted and polished all the bedrooms (as best as I could with the back and little rooms while we're still decorating etc).
Vacuumed all the bedrooms, and the bathroom/toilet floors.
Dusted the tops of the wardrobes, bathroom cabinet, door frames, lights etc.
Dusted living room and computer desk.
Vacuumed right through downstairs.
Made cottage pie for dinner.
Took dog over to the shops and paid the paper bill, got some ibuprofen (for me) and some Vivitonin (for the dog).
I didn't think we were going to make it back but by going very slowly she got home in one piece, very tired though.

DD2 came in for a visit.
Watched Neigbours and Mistresses.

Got the still damp washing in and distributed it round the house.

Off to catch up, hope everyone's OK.


Just had a look at that book list and I've read 47 of them. I didn't enjoy all those 47 but I read them, some of them more than once.

rosepink1984

Oh, just thought too, would your mum/sister take the kids for one afternoon a week so taht you can do a little cleaning and have a bit of me time? I'm sure htey would love to help you. Maybe it could become a regular thing.
I hope you get on ok. Let us all know how you get on.
ETA: Oooh Rach, that was quite a big emotional part! Your friend is a good actress. She was in it yesterday too. She played the mother of a boy who was being cyberbullied and killed himself (in a coma for a while) so lots of emotional scenes for her to play. She also went a bit mad from grief (hence kidnapping teenager who was bullying her son).

Craftyscholar

rosepink1984 wrote: »

I am a bad person. Yet another of those flippin telesales people foned up and said: "Is that Mr.....?" I said: "This is a WOMAN'S VOICE, NOT A MAN'S VOICE!" He said in a very meek voice: "Ok thank you goodbye."

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

My favourite is when they ask for Mrs (mysurname) I say 'why do you want to speak to her?'
They say 'some company I have never heard of'
I say 'Mrs (mysurname) died 20 years ago'

Rotten I know but it is obviously a cold call - they want neither me or my mother and I really object to cold calls.

Oh by the way my number is registered with the telephone people not to receive cold calls.

ETA - I am flying - just did the throw out 100 things :T