Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd June 2009

jackywhizz

Elevenses update
Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!& cruddy study
Level Two
Defrag PC(We need a new tower unit - poor thing spends all its time fanning itself like a lady of a certain age having hot flushes:rolleyes:)
Vacuum the floors, stairs and sofas etc
Wipe any marks off the sofas - clean the keyboard & mouse
Dust and deweb!
Level Three
Sort a shelf.. or bookcase.. or cupboard
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move
Catch up on those important phone calls
[STRIKE]Declutter the pc [/STRIKE]desk & givew it a wipe

Extras

1. [STRIKE]Wash any soft furnishings that are grubby[/STRIKE]
2. Wipe the paintwork over
3. 15 minutes filing
4. Sort through the box/bag you chucked your 'decluttering' into!!!

My Extras [STRIKE]1. phone Kings school re open day[/STRIKE]
2. Phone car insurance re non-receipt of promised letter
3. Phone home insurance ditto
4. Work out WW points value for homemade granola
5. Phone Nige re Fiesta
Selling challenge ~ Monday

1. Photograph 20 things you wish to sell!! (you can do more if you wish!!)
2. Download and install any selling tools you may require.. auctiva/turbolister for example!
3. Upload pics to the computer!

Whole house top to bottom twice a day!!! :eek: She needs to get a life. The sounds like OCD to me.

toochoosey

Glad it's not only me then, the thread had started off with a woman who was sruggling and needed advice, don't think that was what she expected!!!!!
Going to go mop the floors now before work xx

soappie

toochoosey wrote: »

just been reading a thread on Netmums about housework and one lady cleans her whole house, top to bottom twice a day!!!!! including the bathroom and bedrooms, is that excessive or am I totally lazy for a SAHM?

Smacks of OCD to me too!

this_is_it

Thank you so much everyone for all the advice and support it really has helped, feel lots better then i did earlier this morning . Just going to tackle the dishes and get hubbys shirts out of the washer.Managed level 1 and it looks better already just need to find homes for the huge bag of stuff that was cluttering up the every available surface :eek: have put the kids things into their own seperate bags so they can sort their own stuff out. Thanks again everyone .

Mrs_Beatson

toochoosey wrote: »

just been reading a thread on Netmums about housework and one lady cleans her whole house, top to bottom twice a day!!!!! including the bathroom and bedrooms, is that excessive or am I totally lazy for a SAHM?

Oh, and welcome newbies, xx

OCD? or exaggeration? hmmm


Mind you... I clean mine 3 times a day top to bottom including the loft, inbetween working 25 hours a day, I mow front and back lawns daily and prepare delicious homecooked meals from scratch for my 14 children and 12 dogs!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

poorbutrich

Morning all!
Looking forward to another week of flying! Thanks to everyone, particularly Toots and Pigpen for the support.

Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Declutter the floors
Declutter the flat surfaces inc. mantle.. even if you scoop it all into a box to deal with later!
Level Two
Vacuum the floors, stairs and sofas etc
Wipe any marks off the sofas
Dust and deweb!
Level Three
Sort a shelf.. or bookcase.. or cupboard
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move
Catch up on those important phone calls

I'm very excited about the phone calls bit - I think my constant gabbing is something to do with the mess in my house though!

Have a great weekend everyone!

poohbear59

Good morning all!

Well this morning I stayed in bed whilst DH washed up last nights' pans, hung out washing swept kitchen floor and cleaned hob. I thought I was going to have an easy day, and then I logged onto here and it is Living room today!! Never mind, I have a head start on Kitchen day.

So far I have prepared two books for posting (Amazon sale).

Todays list
Check bank balance
Finish photo book for DH
Mop kitchen floor
Pay DSs tuition fees for uni!
List 10 more books on Amazon
Start to clear pine dresser for DD
Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
[STRIKE]Declutter the floors
Declutter the flat surfaces inc. mantle.. even if you scoop it all into a box to deal with later![/STRIKE]
Level Two
Vacuum the floors, stairs and sofas etc
[STRIKE]Wipe any marks off the sofas[/STRIKE] Changed to summer sofa covers!!
Dust and deweb!
Level Three
Sort a shelf.. or bookcase.. or cupboard
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move
Catch up on those important phone calls


Extras

1. [STRIKE]Wash any soft furnishings that are grubby[/STRIKE]
2. Wipe the paintwork over
3. 15 minutes filing
4. Sort through the box/bag you chucked your 'decluttering' into!!!

Selling challenge ~ Monday

1. Photograph 20 things you wish to sell!! (you can do more if you wish!!)
2. Download and install any selling tools you may require.. auctiva/turbolister for example!
3. Upload pics to the computer!

toochoosey

Mrs_Beatson wrote: »

OCD? or exaggeration? hmmm


Mind you... I clean mine 3 times a day top to bottom including the loft, inbetween working 25 hours a day, I mow front and back lawns daily and prepare delicious homecooked meals from scratch for my 14 children and 12 dogs!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Is that all?

gsysezz

Twice a day!!!!!!! I'd settle for twice a month lol

I'll join the HHC - 5 mins late but as they say better late than never.

xx_Jo_xx

Hugs and welcome to the Newbies.......we have all felt like that from time to time and know how you feel. Like some of the others have said, there is lots of support and tips here to help you through xx

ETA - God I dont even do my dishes twice a day - let alone the whole house.