Christmas Flylady Thread 21st December 2009

kazmeister

Havent caught up on the last few pages as have been busy - heaven knows how I would have managed if I'd een at work the last few weeks!

Returned items to Mr T this afternoon and bought the last few bits, we now have enought food to last us at least being snowed in for a few days (but that isnt going to happen living in the middle of town :rotfl:)

Roast Beef dinner all cooked and munched and leftovers plus spare chicken I couldnt get into the freezer has been cooked up as well to use this week.

Had my half hour sitting down eating my tea and opening my cards from you lovely ladies. Thanks you all so much, specially liked the card designed by Master Bishop and the one made by zoe, both very artistic.

Will update list in a min, DD and I have been decorating the other 2 trees, one for the landing which she has free rein on and the other for the middle room which I'm doing, but the tree is sh1te so I might venture out and get another tomorrow if I have time.

Talking of which all the plans for work and meeting friend have gone to pot and they want to meet at work Wed but friend cant make it and wants to meet tomorrow which means making almost the same journey 2 days in a row :mad: plus since clearing the yard and the car we have had nearly another inch of snow and it hasnt stopped yet. Thats 7 inches of the white stuff since Thursday. I hope in a way it continues because then I can say sorry not bringing the car out with the roads like that. Only thing I feel guilty about is DD bought flowers to give to my friend tomorrow bless her. Will see what the morning brings.

Listy

Monday Mayhem..

1. Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping! nearly done
2. [STRIKE]S&S the kitchen[/STRIKE] DONE
3. S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
4. [STRIKE]Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast! Only needs a wipe thanks to a really good clean recently[/STRIKE] DONE
5. Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..? That'll be me, me and er me
6. Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them... I have a couple of flylady ecards to do so will do this as an alternative as I have not forgotten anyone
7. [STRIKE]Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself[/STRIKE]... OPENED ALL MY CARDS
8. [STRIKE]Dust round the whole downstairs [/STRIKE] DONE
9. [STRIKE]do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs will do the middle room so another tree can go up[/STRIKE] CLEARED APART FROM STUFF THAT NEEDS TO GO TO THE SHED

Monday - DH days

Tuesday - DH days
[STRIKE]Possible delivery coming (DH's present)[/STRIKE] here today
Go over to work for 10am and to meet friend
Take work Christmas cards
Take friends renewal letter
Take friends kiddies presents
Take Secret Santa pressie
Take £12 for Emma for birthday club
Take wedding album as friend not seen pics yetThis might all get moved to Wed :rolleyes:
1230 meet other friend at local hotel
Take wedding pics and DC's card
evening - Little bro possibly coming over
Have bro's cards and presents ready

Wednesday - DH nights
DD and DH to go xmas shopping
[STRIKE]I know there is something else as well[/STRIKE] There wasnt but there is now - going over to work weather permitting as I am not doing a 30 mile round trip if I dont have to

Thursday - DH nights
Little bro coming if didnt come Tues
Go and visit Luscious with DD when DH goes to work

Also need to fit in

• hand deliver cards
• finish wrapping (only a couple of bits to do)
• Get coal
• Put other trees up - nearly done
• [STRIKE]Pay credit cards bills - may need to go and pay cash in for one of them as need to set up as new payee and they have to phone you which didnt work last time I tried done online for minimum - will work out the extras when finances updated[/STRIKE]
• Update finances :rolleyes: pay extra on cards once sorted.
• Pay cash into bank

Had a surprise when DH came in from work as he gave me a wad of cash to help with Christmas - ah bless him

Right thats it for now. See you all tomorrow x

kazmeister

pigpen wrote: »

Just what we needed just before christmas.. Becky was a nail technician/beautytherapist who worked at the place my mother has her nails done.. my mother was the first person she did eyebrow waxing and eyelash tinting on...

Very very sad. hugs to both their families and their friends

funfairprincess

I'm still awake I just can't sleep. So I thought I would see what [STRIKE]torture [/STRIKE]jobs that we have to do today.

Funfairs list of daily dreads
(not in any sort of order!)
If all else fails




Monday Mayhem..

1. Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially! It is Bank Holiday on Monday so some shops are not open.. the big supermarkets are.
2. Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
3. Have we located stockings? :rotfl:
4. S&S the kitchen
5. S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
6. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
7. Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? MeWho is stuffing the bird etc..? The butcher
8. Catch up on the laundry .. ironing is tomorrows job! Started today:T
9. Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
10. Dust round the whole downstairs
11. do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

1. Children... quick.. tidy your rooms you don't want Santa thinking you don't look after your stuff.. he might not leave any presents!
2. Iron yesterdays wash mountain
3. Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
4. Mop the kitchen floor!
5. Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good!
6. get out any special christmas crockery and make sur eit is all clean and nice to use.. placemats etc too!
7. Prepare a list for that last second shopping
8. Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!
9. [STRIKE]Have a skim through the TV guide and decide what you want to watch.. it saves missing bits of stuff if you know what is on and when!! Don't forget to make time for Queenie! [/STRIKE]
10. Toy boxes can be banished upstairs!
11. Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up
12. Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike
13. WRAP WRAP WRAP!
14. Make a note of when the binmen are coming!!!
15. Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!

Jassa wrote: »

Best Christmas Present Ever has just been confirmed - WE ARE DEBT FREE!!! No loans. no credit cards, no store cards, no overdraft! Direct debits covered for next month (and that's before this month's pay goes in). Tiny mortgage we have left is covered by ISAs - MSE says not to pay it off yet as the interest rate is super low. Can't believe it - what a relief! Fairly frugal Christmas planned but don't think anyone will really notice.

Thanks to you all on this thread for your money saving ideas and special thanks to those on 'Achieve Something in 12 Weeks' thread. Thanks to Martin for giving us the know how on how to do this both new style and old style.

Need a celebratory drink - I'm all tearful.

Jx

Hope you had that drink you deserve it.

mumofjusttwo wrote: »

Pigpen did OH's mum sign his card differently to yours. Sign his love mum and yours love XXXX. My mum always used to find it difficult giving a card to my XH(before we were married) and signing it mum as to her she wasn't his mum. DOs that make sense?
right of tio bed soon as i am tired

Totally know what you mean OH's mum always sent us a card for both of us and signed it from mum and dad. I always sent them 2, 1 to mum and dad and 1 from me. Not that I don't like them just they aren't my mum and dad IYSWIM.


Pigpen hope you are feeling a bit better now. So sorry about your sad news.

ETA Toots please slow down honey and that list is far, far too big, sort it now or else Mrs !!!!!!!!!!!!

Triker

pigpen wrote: »

Just what we needed just before christmas.. Becky was a nail technician/beautytherapist who worked at the place my mother has her nails done.. my mother was the first person she did eyebrow waxing and eyelash tinting on...

OH travelled that way yesterday coming back from the party in York that I didn't go to because of the bad weather. He got back around 11am white as a sheet due to the terrible driving conditions, he said he nearly lost control on a few occasions and had to keep stopping to clear the screen, window washes were frozen. My OH is not usually rattled by anything so driving conditions must have been horrific.

My heartfelt condolences go out to this young couple, saw it on the news earlier and sat and cried at the tragedy of it all, so very sad.

Piggers, would love to meet up.x

Jassa, well done on your debt free status, best feeling in the world and you can't get a greater present.

So sorted pressies into seperate bags.

Thrown 3 bin bags of rubbish away.

Half tidied the kitchen.

Found loads more stuff to ebay.

Feel so sorry for all those people whose travel arrangements have been disrupted or stranded.

Having watched the weather, I think I'm not going to venture out too much, well as much as I can avoid.

Oh btw our new telly is broken, all the pixels have gone wierd, like a waterfall pattern....:eek: so thats going back tomorrow.

Piggers have you thought of a bungalow, that way you could only fall over rather than fall down stairs...;)

[Deleted User]

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

Iron yesterdays wash mountainDone
Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!Done
Mop the kitchen floor!Done
Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good!Done
get out any special christmas crockery and make sur eit is all clean and nice to use.. placemats etc too!Done
Prepare a list for that last second shopping
Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!Done
Have a skim through the TV guide and decide what you want to watch.. it saves missing bits of stuff if you know what is on and when!! Don't forget to make time for Queenie!Done

Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening upDone
Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlikeDone
WRAP WRAP WRAP!Done
Make a note of when the binmen are coming!!!Done
Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!Done

TUESDAY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Things look so much better, hope I can join in tomorrow
Cheers
Jennie

Penelope_Penguin

Monday Mayhem..

1. Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
2. Have we located stockings?
3. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
4. Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..?
5. Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them...
6. Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too.
7. do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

1. Children... quick.. tidy your rooms you don't want Santa thinking you don't look after your stuff.. he might not leave any presents!
2. Iron yesterdays wash mountain
3. [STRIKE]Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
   
4. Mop the kitchen floor!
5. [/STRIKE]Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good!
6. get out any special christmas crockery and make sur eit is all clean and nice to use.. placemats etc too!
7. Prepare a list for that last second shopping
8. Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!
9. [STRIKE]Have a skim through the TV guide and decide what you want to watch.. it saves missing bits of stuff if you know what is on and when!! Don't forget to make time for Queenie!
10. Toy boxes can be banished upstairs!
11. Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up
12. Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike [/STRIKE]
13. WRAP WRAP WRAP!
14. Make a note of when the binmen are coming!!! - it's today; need to put the bin out :j
15. Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!

• clear dining room
• order new camera
• empty freezer
• sew button onto DS's school trews
• make and freeze pigs in blankets
• return library books
• order Bero book
• wax coffee table
• tie-dye my t-shirt purple
• dye my hair chestnut
• make sure I don't confuse the two jobs above :rolleyes:
• pay credit card
• internet banking
• set up Scouts DD (e-mail to County)

Ishtar

Morning all
Hope every one is coping OK with the snow/ice/freezing fog (well, that is if you have any!). My cousin has been stranded overnight in Reading and his wife if very worried about him - the battery on his phone died at 7pm yesterday evening and she's heard nothing more from him. Hopefully we'll hear later....

Have managed to get through quite a bit of yesterday's list - with OH's help - he finished work at 5pm yesterday, got the hoover out, went up in the loft, and helped to sort the remaining presents....

Here's what I did yesterday:

1. [STRIKE]Make sure you have all the shopping you need to take you through to next week.. milk and bread especially! It is Bank Holiday on Monday so some shops are not open.. the big supermarkets are.[/STRIKE] Small shop planned for tomorrow (at 6am :eek:) for the last bits and pieces
2. [STRIKE]Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping![/STRIKE] All done bar OH's - he's only got a couple of things that'll take about half an hour. He's had his big present (treadmill).
3. [STRIKE]Have we located stockings?[/STRIKE]
4. S&S the kitchen
5. S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
6. [STRIKE]Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast![/STRIKE] Hob needs doing again....
7. Clean the fridge to accommodate you bounty of food
8. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
9. [STRIKE]Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..?[/STRIKE]
10. [STRIKE]Catch up on the laundry .. ironing is tomorrows job![/STRIKE]
11. [STRIKE]Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them... [/STRIKE]
12. Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself.. reading.. relaxing.. goggling... remember you are important too. Oh, if only!
    
13. [STRIKE]Change pet bedding and wash blankies etc.. we don't want them putting you off your christmas sprouts![/STRIKE] N/A
14. Dust round the whole downstairs
15. do a crazy HHC decluttering downstairs

Plus parcel to post office, bought eggs, collected OHs contact lens solution :rolleyes:, and mega visit to my mum's.

Will also be catching up on today's list, along with icing 2 cakes, making loads of mince pies, final load of washing, and delivering presents/cake to my sister and family.

Planning to have a relaxing evening tonight with a glass or two of bailey's.

Hopefully I'll get a good run at it this morning........soooooo I'd better get going!

See you later
Take care
D
x

juliejim

Morning All

Lots to do today as we are kidfree this morning and DH is at home so need to get all the presents out of the loft and sort them out and wrap whatever isn't wrapped. We're also going to Iceland and the PO and sweet shop which I didn't do yesterday. The house is also a bombsite and needs sorting before Thursday evening when everyone is coming for tea.

Piggers - hugs to all their familes and friends.

Jassa - that's fantastic news - well done you.

Have a good day all

Hugs

Jue

fedupandskint

Monday Mayhem..

1. Make sure the last of the presents are wrapped I will not have people sitting up while 5am on Christmas morning wrapping!
2. S&S the bathroom/s and loo's
3. Dust round the whole downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

1. Iron yesterdays wash mountain
2. Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs!
3. Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!
4. Have a skim through the TV guide and decide what you want to watch.. it saves missing bits of stuff if you know what is on and when!! Don't forget to make time for Queenie!
5. Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike
6. WRAP WRAP WRAP!
7. Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!

My additional list of endless tasks for the next 3 days!

Tuesday - bathroom, study and other grotty places!
Level One
Clean the loo and the bath and the shower and the basins!
Level Two
Clean windows, curtains & blinds etc
Declutter and vacuum/mop floors

SunnyZo's list of things to do

1. Secret Santa for Wed
2. Make Christmas Cookies
3. Make feta and pickles
4. Winter Fruit Compote - started
5. Granola
6. Peanut Brittle
7. Make casserole for Christmas Eve to reheat

Plan for tonight is the bathroom and somebits from my list

jackywhizz

Morning everyone. Survived yesterdays outing with the kids - just.
Hope Diva is ok - no post from her this morning.
Pigpen - hope you are not feeling too stiff today.



Monday Mayhem..

1. Clean the oven and hob ready for your feast!
2. Change any bedding you need to get washed before the fat guy arrives.. and I do not mean the OH/parent/ etc
3. Make sure your timetable for christmas day is sorted and everyone knows their tasks.. who is spud peeling? Who is stuffing the bird etc..?
4. Phone someone you 'forgot' to post a card/present to in time.. just so they know you've not forgotten them... Milkman needs a card & tip.
5. Dust round the whole downstairs

Tuesday - Time's nearly up!!!

1. [STRIKE]Children... quick.. tidy your rooms you don't want Santa thinking you don't look after your stuff.. he might not leave any presents![/STRIKE]
2. [STRIKE]Iron yesterdays wash mountain[/STRIKE]
3. [STRIKE] Vacuum through downstairs.. and the stairs![/STRIKE]
4. [STRIKE]Mop the kitchen floor![/STRIKE]
5. [STRIKE]Get rid of the washing up.. delegation is good![/STRIKE]
6. [STRIKE] get out any special christmas crockery and make sur eit is all clean and nice to use.. placemats etc too![/STRIKE]
7. [STRIKE] Prepare a list for that last second shopping[/STRIKE]
8. Declutter your desk.. if it is anything like mine it is full of receipts and invoices!
9. [STRIKE]Have a skim through the TV guide and decide what you want to watch.. it saves missing bits of stuff if you know what is on and when!! Don't forget to make time for Queenie![/STRIKE]
10. [STRIKE]Toy boxes can be banished upstairs![/STRIKE]
11. [STRIKE]Wash any soft furnishings in need of freshening up[/STRIKE]
12. [STRIKE]Tidy up coats and shoes and suchlike[/STRIKE]
13. WRAP WRAP WRAP!
14. [STRIKE]Make a note of when the binmen are coming!!![/STRIKE]
15. Spend half an hour doing NOTHING!!.. absolutely nothing!!!! Just sit.. and relax with a drink and a treat!