Weekly Flylady Thread 13th April 2009

greenbee

Toots... I have to admit to rearranging stuff so I can get my star, but as it's not my house I really think I deserve it

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Scrub down the frontf of units and large appliances[/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]Wipe and replace small appliances
Clean oven and hob[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
[/STRIKE]Level Three
[STRIKE]Wipe the table and chairs...[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sweep the floor[/STRIKE] (it gets mopped on Wednesday apparently :rolleyes:)
[STRIKE]Clean all the filters and door seals etc
Degunge the fridge![/STRIKE]
Extras

1. Thoroughly clean the cutlery drawer!
2. Wash windows and sills
3. HHI

Terrible Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One
[STRIKE]strip the bedding and get it washed.. air the duvet
Mattress vacuumed turned vacuumed other side and redress bed[/STRIKE] Did all this before I left home to come here
Level Two
Deal with the floordrobe (well, I am living out of my suitcase still )
[STRIKE]Sort books for charity sale[/STRIKE] - 30 so far
Clean bath in my bathroom
Level Three
Wipe hand rails on stairs
Wash floor in spare bathroom
Wash disgustingly filthy glass lampshade in hall outside kitchen...
Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. Binbag for charity
3. Sort out your own shoes and bags.. can any be rehomed?
4. Vacuum floors (not my house... no chance!)

SummerMoon - if you look, you'll see from the siggys that there are a lot of us working on our weight loss at the moment, so you're not alone.

Well done Jo - sounds like you're making progress. Hope your mum isn't too shocked when she gets to you... and that DS recognises his home The reason you never have any carrier bags in the supermarket is obvious... they're all in the bottom of the cupboard! I keep reusable bags in the car, my handbag, everywhere. If I forget them in the supermarket, I just load it straight back into my trolley, then either into bags in the boot of the car or straight in.

Valli - cherry pie sounds good... what time do you want us there

LilySue - I was brought up in Norfolk (I'm ashamed to say I was born in Suffolk, but I try to keep it quiet!) but had to leave for the usual reason... work...

soappie... hex... the flinging challenge seems to be going well! I'm getting a certain amount done here, but as it's my parents house there is a limit to how brutal I can be!

TAG - well done on the ironing. And great decision on the chickens... I'd love chickens, but realistically I don't have room, and I'm not at home enough.

Quillion - good luck with your last day at work

Welcome Mooloo

FFP - I only clean the inside of my windows. I've made an executive decision to outsource the cleaning of the outsides...

Mudbath - good to see you back. Glad you all had a lovely holiday

Dusty - ouch! Poor you. Hope you get better soon.

JillD/Gryfon - we manage to get so much done because we've dealt with the worst and it doesn't ever really get dirty any more. I have no children and I'm out of the house for most of the day... as long as I have an hour for flying, there's not much opportunity for any dirt to be created (mess, yes, as I drop bags, pick up more stuff and run, but dirt... no... you have to do stuff to make dirt!)

Toots... you should be asleep by now... you need your rest... but your light is still on!

broke22

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe worksurfaces[/STRIKE]
Scrub down the frontf of units and large appliances
Level Two
[STRIKE]Wipe and replace small appliances[/STRIKE]
Clean oven and hob
[STRIKE]Wash windows and sills[/STRIKE]
Level Three
[STRIKE]
Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
[/STRIKE]
Degunge the fridge!


Extras
[STRIKE]
sort out clothes into new wardrobe[STRIKE]

[/STRIKE]
wash clothes
[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]
change spare bed
[/STRIKE]

JillD_2

Sorry JillD, I realise it must be really stressful, but I have this lovely picture of this small determined person planning her next move

- yes she is a wily little madam indeed :rolleyes:

TAG - yes the extra hour in the evening defo helps
£55 a week is brill. How are you doing it ?
I have read every feed a family for a tenner tyoe thread going and do my best but sometimes I just get so flipping bored of it, like a couple of weeks ago we went to the dentist which is next to Waitrose so I popped in after and splurged. Then the day before holidays I went to get milk, M&S Simply Food was the closest, I was so tired I couldnt face Asda, and I spent £30 on god knows what in M&S.

Anyway I've had a right shock tonight, we have 3 accounts - Current - all bills, mortgage, food come out of this. We also pay a lump some into our "Big Stuff" account which we use to buffer stuff like TV licence, car insurance, swimming lesson fees etc, and then we have a 3rd account that extra money goes into for contingencies.
The shock is that we put £3k into that last year when we got a lump sum tax credit payment and now its all gone. A load went tonight on a car insurance excess we had to pay and a washing machine bill. The rest had gone on stuff like mortgage arrangement fee (they cashed out cheque but still no mortgage forthcoming I am NOT impressed), private medical bills that BUPa refused to pay after I left work :mad:, DD2's Christening party, having the patio levelled and random stuff like that.
The Big Stuff acount is also down to zero. Thankfully there are no payments for anything due for 2 months so we can build it up again. The current account is at about £40 for the next 10 days.
I've just paid the credit card bill, had to scrape around but its done.
Have got next one to pay but there isnt much in ot, its due on 30th April and hubby gets paid on 20th so we should be ok. We paid for the petrol food etc on our holiday on credit card and that wont be due til 3oth May so that will come out of 2oth May pay. So at least thats all covered. Just need to make sure we STOP SPENDING between now and then.

We never are so close to the bone but its cos of this stupid mortgage hold up, its costing us £400 a month extra than what we would be paying if they sorted the new deal. All cos of the moron that ran up the bad debt in hubby's name. That person's little bit of fraud is costng us over a grand. I AM LIVID. I cant even think of a bad enough word to call him. I hate it.

Anyway sorry for another offload.

tag, what are your tips for saving on the weekly shop. Would love to hear them, no matter how teachy suck eggy they seem :rotfl:

I think I said earlier we are going to Ikea tomorrow. We really cant afford the new stuff but we definitely cant buy it tomorrow, so at least we wont be actually spending a lot. And its a day out. Once we have loked at what we want and know it looks ok we can just order it later in the year when we can afford it. I want to paint the playroom first anyway and hubs is having heart failure at the thought of it LOL He doesnt do DIY

Off to bed at last night night :wave:

pretz_2

oh how i hate bank holidays as i have just logged on completely out of sync looking for the new flyladies looked at this one seen that it had to days worth of lists on didnt scroll no further went back to the main screen looking for the new one which in my head was starting tomorrow lol then realised what the date was and felt so stupid lol, so now i am a day behind and have twice as much to do so wanna say i am defiantely in but ill have to start it all in the morning as somewhere i have lost a day lmao

pigpen

I am so very close to asking hubby to sleep here one night just so I can have a decent night sleep... I am so very very tired all I am doing during the day is loll about and do the bare minimum because I am too tired to do much else.

I am so bad with sleep deprivation.. I can't think straight or summon the energy to do the simplest of things.. lists are hit and miss and one thing at a time.

*wail*

Wonder if I'll be better once the money situation is sorted out.

soappie

Morning all

Big hugs Piggers - sleep deprivation is the worst. If you were closer, I'd come round and keep watch over the kids for you whilst you slept.

Back to work today. It'll probably be a v. quiet week. The boss is out. Had a strange, strange dream last night all about setting up a business and being successful. Has really made me think about a plan B. I shall perhaps work on that idea this week whilst it's quiet

Very strange sunrise this morning - all yellows and pinks. Think we have a dodgy weather day in store.

Will fly and find more things to fling when I get home from work.

Have a lovely day people.

Flylady_Flower

Hex, Toots, and anyone else doing it, I am going to join in the 10 items a day thing - hopefully on EBAY with Toots there (have pinched your MACAW Toots, hope that's OK ) As I really need to start getting rid of stuff...

Valli wrote: »

I have recorded and balanced TWO bank statements - two to go LOL
THAT's a job I puts off until the last minute...one of many
***hangs head in shame***

It's not shameful, but it is hard work - how do you keep track of what you have going in and out? do you use an excel sheet or something?
I use something called Microsoft Money - it's brilliant and lets me plan ahead (you can put in all your bills/credits, including monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc and it inserts them all in automatically for you) I then check online nearly every day to see what has come in/gone out, mark as cleared on Money and this takes me about 2 minutes. then statements at the end of the month take about 1 minute literally and you can use it for all accounts, cards, savings, etc. Also lets me know if a dodgy payment has come out, or more usually, one that I've forgotten . I know it is another Microsoft thingy, but there are loads of other options too I believe (Quicken rings a bell?) so you might be able to get something else if you don't want to get on the MS bandwagon...:rotfl:PM me if you want to know more...

Pigpen - can we have a rest from windows please, mine have never been so clean... (mmm, maybe I shouldn't have said that as she may come up with something worse for us to do...:eek:)

Dusty, hope your hand feels better soon - sounds painful...

pigpen wrote: »

I am so bad with sleep deprivation.. I can't think straight or summon the energy to do the simplest of things.. lists are hit and miss and one thing at a time.

Hugs Pigpen, I hope you manage to get some sleep soon - must be hard whith so much going on in your head too and when you can't catch up during the day either - can anyone pop round to have them while you grab a couple of hours at all? very simplistic answer but all I can think of - have you tried Greenbees epsom salts bath method?

Right, I must move - have been up since 6am - seen hubby off to work again for another 10 days and need to get this place cleaned and back into some sort of order...

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Clean oven and hob
Wash windows and sills
Level Three
Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge!
Extras
[STRIKE]Thoroughly clean the cutlery drawer![/STRIKE] Oooooh, off to a good start, Mr Flower did this yesterday as it was a bit gunky and as DS hadn’t emptied the dishwasher, had hardly any cutlery in so showed it up! It did need it…
Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
Clean all the filters and door seals etc
HHI
Terrible Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One
strip the bedding and get it washed... air the duvet
Mattress vacuumed turned vacuumed other side and redress bed
Level Two
Deal with the floordrobe
Wash the windows
Wipe all the doors and frames upstairs
Level Three
Vacuum floors
Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers
Dust and de-web… inc bed frame!
Extras
Binbag dance
Binbag for charity
Sort out your own shoes and bags... can any be re-homed?
Wipe handrails on stairs
My Macaw this week is…
list to SELL 10 things each day or 50 by the end of the week (hex's challenge)
My Extras
1. MOT the Car before Thursday – missed this, but is now ready for
2. Put items on landing on EBay
3. Make myself a peg bag instead of my current carrier bag…
4. Finish last bit of payment plan
5. File all my paperwork away
6. Paint woodwork in DS’s room
7. Sort out DD’s computer
8. Make a list of what food we have in, Mealplan from that and go shopping for top ups
Business Stuff
1. Enter all invoices for SH
2. Enter all invoices for my business
3. Have a look at stuff we need to do for SH (and my own business)
4. Update bank accounts on QuickBooks
5. Work out floorplans for [STRIKE]guest bedroom[/STRIKE] and lounge
6. Update pricelist to go with new floorplans
7. Check stock and price up waterloo road
8. Sort out proper T&C’s and check them with Lucy
9. Write up profile for senior
10. Get 12 photos ready for senior
11. Get office to send me senior contract
12. Plan my plan of action for coming months
13. Learn more HTML and work on my website
Club Stuff
1. Paint wall in snug area
2. Start painting big hall with others
Projects I want to get done
1. Paint Kitchen walls
2. Fill hole in wall in hallway
3. Plane down table,
4. Sand down chairs,
5. Paint chairs and table legs,
6. Stain/wax top of table

mOZzy_2

morning :hello:
the sunshine does help - i am feeling a bit better today :j
i also had a good long talk to my big sis ystd and she just understands all my problems - not that she can help me with anything but spookily we are so alike (our hubbies sometimes call the wrong names when they see us from the back :rotfl:) - so she's been there done that and can give me good tips!


JillD, Gryfon doing (some of) the lists so quickly it's just a thing of keeping at it all the time. like in the kitchen i always put everything away straight away, try and do the dw asap(ish), wipe after cooking - and then when the 'week' is here is just a case of wiping over it again - i hope that made sense?
and my other rooms i do try to keep them tidy so i just have to clean in the end!
and of course many many weeks of hard cleaning, tidying, decluttering getting there :rolleyes:


Jill i so know what you mean there is never any money in the account! and everywhere you'd like to go it's just blooming expensive!
i've stripped all our bills last year and always look out for good deals to change to! that helped!
and shopping: write a menu plan/shopping list and stick to it!!! use your freezer; do a cupboard challenge
i also don't understand it: dh is earning good money but there is never ever any left
i do hope that fraud of yours will get sorted asap!!! we had a few last year but nothing major luckily! ~~quick sorting out vibes~~ coming your way

if i was in doubt before now i know for certain dd has chickenpox - that poor girl is covered!!!!!! but she's not complaining too much really and just wants to go out - might try our local park later :rolleyes:

i've done our bed and vacuumed upstairs all over the weekend - i'll do the kids beds instead; i've done all the other things too but it won't hurt give it another quick wipe!


Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room DONE
Terrible Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One
Level Two
Wash the windows
Wipe all the doors and frames upstairs
Level Three
Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers
Dust and deweb.. inc bed frame!!


Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. Binbag for charity
3. Sort out your own shoes and bags.. can any be rehomed?
4. Wipe hand rails on stairs

Extras

1. Thoroughly clean the cutlery drawer!
2. Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle

My Extras
fix cartons with clothes for mate (in oh's car)
sort my clothes
sort dh clothes
sort ds's built in cupboard
sort dd's built in cupboard
sort ds clothes cupboard
sort ds drawers
sort dd clothes cupboard
sort dd drawers
under bed spare room
inventory loft
under stairs cupboard
garage
sort ipod library


Dailies
get everyone dressed straightish
wm
td
dw
fold washing
put washing away
dinner
s/s toilets
s/s kitchen
sweep floors
tidy playroom
take iron/b12 tablets

mooomin

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Scrub down the frontf of units and large appliances[/STRIKE]

Terrible Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One
strip the bedding and get it washed.. air the duvet
Mattress vacuumed turned vacuumed other side and redress bed
Level Two
Deal with the floordrobe

Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. Binbag for charity
3. Sort out your own shoes and bags.. can any be rehomed?
4. Wipe hand rails on stairs

Morning all!

Will see how I get on with this list as back to work today :eek:

Quick question (Ideally an answer before I go to work at 8.30!) I have put a lamb shoulder in my new slow cooker with some water, herbs etc. Will medium be an ok setting for this? OH will be home all day so he could turn it off at a certain time if you think this would be better. This is the first time I have used the slow cooker and I don't want to A) ruin dinner burn the house down!

Thanks.

f_f

Flylady_Flower

flying_fresian wrote: »

Quick question (Ideally an answer before I go to work at 8.30!) I have put a lamb shoulder in my new slow cooker with some water, herbs etc. Will medium be an ok setting for this? OH will be home all day so he could turn it off at a certain time if you think this would be better. This is the first time I have used the slow cooker and I don't want to A) ruin dinner burn the house down!

Hi F_F
I always put mine on auto so it turns on and off all day and it is fine, I think medium would be OK too, can't see why not as they are designed for that? Not much help really was it... :rolleyes: sorry.