Weekly Flylady Thread 13th April 2009

madhouse_keyholder

Hi All, I hope everyone had a Happy Easter

I'm back in this week, even though the kids are on hols :eek:

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room - ALL DONE :T

wendywitch

Didn't do anything yesterday.
Did a boot fair with my mum in the morning and then got bombarded with phone calls from my estranged husband (EH).
I'm still not totally clear what was going on his end but the calls were "slured" and got more and more abusive, so he may have been drunk or stoned I'm unsure.
He even called my mum's mobile and my parents house where MY children and my dad were. My dad is not well, he suffered brain damage and speech problems caused by epilepsy so you can imagine how upsetting it was for them.
I didn't call the police as I have previously as I've found that can cause even more problems, but I told my daughter if he turned up there she was to phone the police straight away.
By the evening I ended up taking the phone off the hook and turning my mobile off. I finally fell asleep with a headache on the sofa.

Well, today is another day and I have lots of catching up to do but I'm feeling as long as my living room and kitchen are ok the washing machine delivery man won't think I'm a tramp when he comes tomorrow

blueberrypie

Flylady_Flower wrote: »

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...

I have looked at MS Money, and for several years I used Quicken, but now I use Moneydance, which is better and friendlier than either of them imho. Not free, but not expensive, and makes all the money-stuff very easy to keep track of :-)

blueberrypie

hex2 wrote: »

Pigpen – A couple of things that help me if I am woken in the night. I try very hard not to think – the minute the old inner dialogue starts then I am stuck awake. To block it I do ‘sleep, sleep, sleep ‘ in my head till I am back in bed.

I try to name something starting with each letter of the alphabet - for example, a vegetable or fruit starting with each letter. Asparagus, broccoli, carrots...and so on. It keeps my mind from whirling with all the other stuff that might keep me awake, but it's so boring that it usually makes me fall asleep quickly LOL

greenbee

Jo - I have some folding crates that I keep in the boot of the car. That way if I haven't taken bags in, I unload into those, which are much easier to cart in and out of the house!

I'm now clean... off to find breakfast (by the sounds of it, my mother is out in the garden with the gardener working out what needs doing)

3tabbycats

Morning everyone
Not often I’m here at this time of day! Forgot to add my 10 declutter items on yesterdays list, so here you go: 3 manky/mouldy plant pots, 3 toilet roll inerds, 2 old newspapers, 1 old tin, and some chicken that’d been in the fridge too long to now be eaten

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
[STRIKE]Deal with the floordrobe
[/STRIKE]Wash the windows
Wipe all the doors and frames upstairs
Level Three
Vacuum floors
[STRIKE]Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers
[/STRIKE]Dust and deweb.. inc bed frame!!


We’ll see how I get on today! So far I’ve thrown away 5 very old pieces of make up and emptied the bathroom bin!

embb

Re: shopping bags, I have a pile in the boot of the car that I always forget to take in with me, but my all time favourite was a big shopping trolley size bag and can I heck find it and I'm not buying another one cause I know it's around here somewhere lol but I could just bung everything in it and get teenie to carry it into the house (it was too heavy for me lol) it was fab! Good idea about taking the trolley to the car - why didn't I think of that-doh! Top tip :T

Right, I've done a few bits...

Terrible Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level Two
Wipe all the doors and frames upstairs
Level Three
Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers

my list:
hoover dining room (sawdust trailed in)
need to gt hoover from OH's first
S&S kitchen
empty DW
reload DW
sort workbag
make beds
sort tea
top-up shop at Morrisons
make shopping list^^
WM
tidy living room
get gas/elec
post letter

Will do the shopping/letter/gas and elec on the way home form work.

rach

made some progress on my personal list...amazed what i've done whilst I would usually be on the train to work! autoglass man is here and should be done in 10 mins apparently. My work email is down, they were working on the server this weekend so i'm assuming it's not back up yet) so I can't do any of that for now.

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Scrub down the fronta of units and large appliances
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Clean oven and hob
Wash windows and sills
Level Three
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge! mouldy beans in the bin!
MY Extras for today

1. Thoroughly clean the cutlery drawer!
2. put all the clean washing away
3. buy cakes for work tomorrow

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 deweb.. inc bed frame!!
travel insurance also ordered EMIS card
Phone caroline
phone Gran
online food shop for next week
buy mop?
job application
package & post next book swap
make Drs appointment
reclaim eyetest fee
order birthday present for mum

gunsandbanjos

Morning everyone, hope you managed some sleep Pigpen, sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture! Surely (ex?) hubby has to share some of the responsibility of looking after the kids so you can get a break? How are you managing to fit studying in? If i was wearing a hat i would take it off to you - i dont know how you fit everything in.

Can't do bedroom just now as hubby is sleeping so will defrost my freezer instead, it is desperately needing done and i've ordered a lot of meat from Waitrose so need to get it emptied and cleaned before it arrives.

I have a rabbit trying to climb my leg:rolleyes: Think she may want fed.

blueberrypie

embb wrote: »

Re: shopping bags, I have a pile in the boot of the car that I always forget to take in with me, but my all time favourite was a big shopping trolley size bag and can I heck find it and I'm not buying another one cause I know it's around here somewhere lol but I could just bung everything in it and get teenie to carry it into the house (it was too heavy for me lol) it was fab!

I have a couple of those that I bought, oh, nearly 20 years ago (oh that's made me feel old...) - I've also more recently bought a couple of Ikea's huge big blue bags - they're dirt-cheap but they're pretty much the same thing. The small Ikea bags are quite useful too - 25p each and they are great for stuff like library books, swimming kits, etc.