Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd June 2009

toochoosey

Right, does anyone know where my purse is, cause I can't bloomin find it and I'm skint!!!

hex2

toochoosey - love the basket, I would have been thrilled to bits with one of those.

Carlsberggal - Happy Birthday!

Deep cleaned the kitchen yesterday so am moving on to the dining room today. Removing everything and only putting back what actually belongs in here. The lists are great but I have got into the habit of just doing what is on the list rather than what actually needs doing.

Don't tell anyone but it looks like I actually have tomorrow free so I think I am going to have some selfish but needed 'me' time. Need to buy some clothes that fit before the school holidays start in a fortnight. Or I could tidy the play room so that it is cleared of tat before school finishes? Decisions, decisions.

Anyone for a 4.30-5.00 HHC

Sunnygirl_2

Happy Birthday Carlsberggal! Hope you have a great day.

Not done any flying today. Been over at my mums and the car had its MOT. DD2 is still at my mums and I've popped back to get DD1 from school and get my work things together then we're over there for tea and I'll go straight to work from there and DH will bring the girls home for bed.

Toochoosey....love the baby gift, it looks great.

Well done on your first day's flying kdean.

Off to sort out my work things out and get to my mums.

Will see you all tomorrow.

ETA: YAY! My smilie worked!!! (First time I'm put in a non MSE smilie). Thanks Natty for explaining how to the other day.

ETA (for the second time) Suppose I'd better post my list...can cross of a couple of things.

Thursday Scrub-a-dub ~ bathroom/loo and cruddy study!
Level One
Declutter the clutter!
throw out 100 things from the house!
Level Two
Wash/vacuum floors
Clean the baths/basins/bogs
Wash the bath mats, shower curtains and toilet hats!
Level Three
Wash and polish all the mirrors!!
scrub down the tiles

Will throw 100 pieces of useless paper away tomorrow.

Penelope_Penguin

Magnificent Monday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One - done :j
[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 - done :j
[STRIKE]Vacuum the floors, stairs and sofas etc
Wipe any marks off the sofas
Dust and deweb!
[/STRIKE]Level Three
Sort a shelf.. or bookcase.. or cupboard
[STRIKE]Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move
[/STRIKE]Catch up on those important phone calls

Extras

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

Terrible Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One - done :j
[STRIKE]strip the bedding and get it washed.. air the duvet
Mattress vacuumed turned vacuumed other side and redress bed
[/STRIKE]Level Two
Deal with the floordrobe
[STRIKE]tidy the underbed stash of junk and miscellaneous gibble!! Rehome those dust mammoths!!
Wipe all the doors and frames upstairs
[/STRIKE]Level Three
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors
[/STRIKE]Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers
Dust and deweb.. inc bed frame!!

Wonderful Wednesday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One - done :j
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
[/STRIKE]Level Two
[STRIKE]Wipe and replace small appliances
Clean oven and hob[/STRIKE]
Clean WM/DW/TD filters and door seals and detergent drawers!
Level Three
[STRIKE]Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
[/STRIKE]Degunge the fridge!

Extras

1. Thoroughly clean a cupboard or the drawers!
2. Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
3. Clean all the filters and door seals etc
4. Wipe the inside of the unit doors

Thursday Scrub-a-dub ~ bathroom/loo and cruddy study!
Level One - done :j
[STRIKE]Declutter the clutter!
throw out 100 things from the house!
[/STRIKE]Level Two
[STRIKE]Wash/vacuum floors
Clean the baths/basins/bogs etc and the keyboard and mouse!
Wash the bath mats, shower curtains and toilet hats!
[/STRIKE]
Back-up computer and e-mail account
Level Three
Declutter the email inbox and delete some useless links from your favourites
[STRIKE]Wash and polish all the mirrors!!
scrub down the tiles[/STRIKE]

Extras

1. Empty all the bins AFTER 15 minutes filing/shredding!
2. Polish any fire surrounds/radiators in these rooms
3. Clear a shelf/cupboard wipe everything before replacing neatly
4. Do a five minute job you have been putting off forever.. like changing a lightbulb or moving a hotspot...

Selling challenge ~ Thursday - loads of things sorted for Freecycle :j They're listed and I just need to allocate them to posters :j

1. [STRIKE]List 5 items for sale/rehoming! [/STRIKE]
2. [STRIKE]Make sure the items are clean and ready to post[/STRIKE]
3. Find another item that can be freecycled!! (saves listing and posting time)

Mum_on_a_mission_2

OK - so it seems I have bees in the bedroom!

Pest man coming tomorrow to smoke them out - guess that means tonight I have to gut my room so its a) presentable and b)clear enough for them to work!

Moam

fedupandskint

Happy Birthday Carlsbergal and have a lovely hot sunny birthday!

Thank you to everyone's kind words regarding the bereavement counselling, it seems to have helped you all a great deal which has made me feel more positive about it. It is 3yrs shortly since dad died suddenly.

Just got back from Cost*o with a new iron (don't own one, well do now!) at a bargain price (£11 cheaper than when offer at Arg*s :j) Off to get a new ironing board tomorrow seen a nice one in Sainsbugs at a good price.

Also some croissants to freeze, a tray of nice looking oranges, a load of garlic, massive tub of mango chutney which has lasted me approx 6mths and some coffee filter pots. Plus the car oil for the oil change also at a bargain price when compared to Halfo*ds.

Had to reign myself in and not buy massive bags of crisps, sweets and choccie and treated myself to a piece of pizza instead

Spent quite a lot but about half on the iron and oil which had to buy anyway but a nice trip out plus it was cracking flags out there!

Just about to bring the crispy washing in from the line now!

Choccybix

Ok, so may have cheated earlier on the 100 fling thingy, but have just picked up 119 items off DDs bedroom floor and its all gone in a black bag and a recycling bag. :T
Easier to do than I imagined! :rotfl:

As everyone keeps saying, baby steps....

Chox

phizzimum

hi everyone :hello:

got up this morning (not as early as I should have done admittedly) went to turn on laptop to see what today's tasks were and horror :eek: no computer!

It's been a bit poorly recently and DH had taken it to be looked at.

So I looked around the house and tried to think what needed doing... I scrubbed the sink (flylady style) including sorting out the drainer and all the plastic bits and bobs that don't really have a home and just stay there. The drainer was shamefully grotty and there were rust spots that had marked the sink - any tip for removing these? tried stardrops and it made it shiny but still rust spots.

Later I did a 37 fling - so that's put me a third of the way to the 100. Lots of the clutter came from the bathroom/loo so I'm not doing too badly on that either. Will catch up properly tomorrow....Did HHI but was very slow as it's so hot. Tomorrow will sort out the ironing pile as I think a lot of things the girls will have grown out of by now!

rosepink1984

Hello, since my last post I've watered all of my sisters plants. She has a veg plot, a greenhouse, and lots of seedlings and small plants that she will sell to her customers, so all of that needed watering. The flower borders will just have to lump it. It was completely exhausting! What a workout! I came in feeling sick and with jelly legs and had to go lie down! DH helped me for the last bit. I caught the sun tho on my face so I'm now nice and red!

Caught up as far as p.15

Welcome ChoccyBix, nice name BTW!

Hugs Toots and Lady Liberty

Triker what a rude woman in the charity shop, I definitely would not go and donate there again

SSL how did your BF get on at the interview?

Well done with the weight loss Hex and Thifty! I’ve been very naughty – I got a cheesecake for dessert last night, only intending to have one slice but none of my friends wanted dessert, so I’ve got the whole blooming thing to eat! I’ve had two slices today already! Doing lots of walking, but even so I doubt I will have lost any weight this week. Very annoying. Tempted to throw the rest away actually
Hex, Have you thought of shopping online? I buy all my clothes online as I hate shopping

Hugs Huston, glad you got the present Ebay problem sorted, very annoying when that sort of thing happens. Your DD sounds very sweet. I’m sure the seller will be able to get their money back from the courier company

Mrs Dawn, sounds like you had a great time in London, was the Lion King good?

Pigpen, what a lovely picture of DS1, GF and Jacob

Well done Rach for freeing up time and working harder so you might finish work a day early, and well done even more for not doing your boss’s work

Hugs Flybabybunting hope that DS2’s teeth all come through soon and that he feels better

Well done Princess Jane for paying off so much of your OD’s

FFP, an after eight cornetto??? That sounds great! I must look for them

Hugs Molly, glad you had a good weekend. Don’t overdo it tho

Natty well done with the veg planting. My sister has a huge veg plot and it looks great! How wonderful to grow your own food

hex2

Rosepink - re the cheesecake, I made lemon tart for our visitor at the weekend and binned the rest. I just knew I would eat it otherwise. I finally seem to be learning some self discipline about food .

I have removed lots of toys from the DR and done the few bits that needed ironing. Struggling with motivation.