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Weekly Flylady Thread 5th April 2010

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pigpen
pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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edited 8 April 2010 at 10:53PM in Old style MoneySaving
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to enjoy it!

Following requests to start things steadier for new members who did not realise the tasks list wasn’t a must do, just an encouragement. There will now be level 1, 2 and 3. Level 1 being very basic it has been requested that this is just one task per day, level 2 in the middle, up to 3 which is more advanced and time consuming. If you want to do level 2 you add the tasks on level 1 with the level 2 tasks, if you want to do level 3 you add the tasks on, easy peasy. Choose a level to aim for but be realistic, if you’ve got a busy day on or are just starting etc aim for level one, if you get higher then great, if not then not to worry its only suggestions. Every room comes back around next week. Trust me some days I'll only be doing level one myself.

THESE LISTS ARE ONLY SUGGESTIONS AND NOT A MUST DO LIST, ALWAYS WELCOME TO POST AND FOLLOW YOUR OWN.

Also adding a declutter mission each day. Another one where it’s up to you if you want to do it or if you need to. This follows requests from members who are looking to declutter. Fling boogies, hotspot clearing, cupboard sorts, drawer sorts etc will all be on this list. Any problems with this of any suggestions do please let me know.

A few of the basics before we start the week

Hotspots are any areas which if one thing gets put there, loads of other things follow!

Daily routines/todailies are anything you need to do today and every day stuff like laundry, swish and swipe kitchen and bathroom, ironing, making beds, vacuuming high traffic areas, making meals etc

Night-time routines are all things which make getting ready in the morning easier, preparing clothes for the next day, making lunches, swish & swipes of the kitchen and tidying the living room before you go to bed plus personals like shower/brush teeth etc.

Fling Boogie/binbag dance - stick on some loud music, grab a binbag and whizz around the house finding items that can go out with the rubbish, recycling, for charity shop, basically anything that will stop it cluttering your home.

Swish and swipe/S&S means have a quick wipe over an area such as a sink or toilet to prevent the build up of dirt. This is usually done on a daily basis
HHE/HHC/HHI Half Hour exercise/challenge/ironing ... run around for 30 minutes to the Benny Hill music frantically cleaning, exercising or ironing.. other music may be used if you prefer!
5GC five minutes gardening.. make it lovely for your family and enjoy it!

Other abbreviations you may find useful

WM ~ Washing machine
TD ~ Tumble dryer
SC ~ Slowcooker
BM ~ Breadmaker
DW ~ Dishwasher
SOAADFA ~ Sit on 'bottom' and do 'nothing'
KH/XH ~ Ex-husband and other not so polite version
DH/DD/DS/DW/DP ~ Dear husband/daughter/son/wife/partner/whatever
OH/SO ~ Other half/significant other
NN ~ nice neighbour
Toxic (friend/mother/sister/whoever) ~ person in your life that seems to exist to make your life miserable
AF ~ Aunt Flo 'time of the month'.. nothing to do with flying but it comes up often.
ETA ~ Editted to add
gibble ~ miscellaneous crap that appears forever homeless

Ok here goes this week!

Easter Monday ~ Surprise!
Level One
S&S kitchen
Sweep and mop
Level Two
Vacuum through downstairs
S&S bathroom
Level Three
Complete ALL your dailies!

It's Bank Holiday.. go enjoy yourselves!

Tuesday ~ Living/family areas.
Level One
Clear and vacuum floors
Clear and vacuum sofas.. wipe away any sticky grubby marks
Level Two
Dust and deweb.. shine any glass/mirrors/electricals
Clear mantel and only put back what it meant to be there
Binbag dance
Level Three
Vacuum under furniture you can move safely
Wipe and water plants.. fling dead ones!
Sort out ALL the paperwork strewn about.. put it all in a heap and work through it!

Extras
  1. HHI
  2. Sort out one drawer/cupboard
  3. Sort a pile of stuff you have beenignoring for an age!
  4. Tidy a bookcase
Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Declutter the floor
Remove and wash bed linen.
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..

polish light fittings/mirrors etc
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing with fresh linen
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
Sort through a box or bag of stuff you've not looked at in months..


Extras
  1. Sort out under the bed!
  2. Tidy the wardrobe.. anything that can be rehomed?
  3. Binbag dance!
  4. Wipe grotty paintwork.. touch up any bits that are looking shabby
Thursday - The Land of 'Spare Oom' and the neighbouring 'Land of Child Grot'
Level One
Open the windows and collect the smelly laundry!
Strip the beds that need doing
Spend half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!!
Level Two
Find the floor.. books on shelves, toys in boxes, games in cases and restacked.
Vacuum new found floor
Wipe windows, pc's, screens etc
Level Three
Wipe away any sticky messes and grub-spots
Fling 10 things which no longer fit or are beyond wearing
Turn mattresses and remake the beds

Extras
  1. Find something to freecycle.. you could even fill a box of junk to car boot ;)
  2. Find something to ebay
  3. Find something to send to charity shop
  4. Find something to give to someone you know
  5. Get rid of them then!!! lol
Friday! ~ what's left?
Level One
Declutter and vacuum the landing
Declutter andvacuum/mop bathroom floors
Level Two
S&S kitchenWipe over kitchen units
Vacuum hallways and stairs
Wash any coats that are grubby ready for going back to school
Sort shoes/bas ready for school/work
Level Three
HHC in a grotty neglected room!
15 minutes filing and 15 minutes hotspot restacking/clearing
Catch up on important calls
Extras
  1. HHI
  2. Binbag dance
  3. Empty and wash out all the bins
  4. Wash pet bedding
LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
Hope to be debt free until the day I die
Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    edited 4 April 2010 at 6:14PM
    Those who were new this week blue

    PIGPEN.. You may call me ma'am, HRH or merely 'Oh illustrious leader'
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    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
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    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • tootifruities
    tootifruities Posts: 1,384 Forumite
    edited 11 April 2010 at 7:59PM
    1. You don't have to complete the daily list on the same day to get your star
    2. You must do levels 1,2 and 3 to get a star but remember the 'extras' are extras and don't count towards the stars!
    3. Please make it obvious when you have finished a list so that I know you need a star - for example Monday Done! make sure I can see it!!!!!!
    4. If you dont have something on the list then it gets deleted - e.g. clean out pets - if no pets no cleaning out done - delete!
    5. Similarly when it says childrens rooms then you should substitute spare room/utility room/conservatory...etc if you have no childrens rooms.
    6. If you have no spare room or any other room not on the weekly list then make sure you do any thing thats on that list that you haven't already done earlier in the week and try to substiture similar type jobs - and make sure all the extras are done - make an effort please!!
    7. You should not be deleting stuff just because you CBA!!
    8. You may delete stuff if you are not physically fit to do something!
    9. And for goodness sake remember that the stars are for FUN - there will be no discrimination - no sulking - no striking - no bribing- no cheating - or there will be no stars!!! so there!!

    Last week there was 153 stars awarded with 17 flyers doing all five days lists. Well done everyone!
    That means 153 rooms across the country were cleaned and sparkling this week.
    w/c 29/03 - 153 (17)
    w/c 22/03 - 141 (13)
    w/c 15/03 - 140 (11)
    w/c 08/03 - 166 (11)
    w/c 01/03 - 209 (20)
    w/c 22/02 - 243 (26)
    w/c 15/02 - 217 (21)

    w/c 08/02 - 221 (25)
    w/c 18/01 - 252 (24)New record to beat!!
    w/c 27/07 - 120 ( 5)(worst ever!!)


    REQUESTS FOR STARS NEED TO BE POSTED BEFORE 8PM ON A SUNDAY.

    Updated to:1600

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    Special award this week

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    Carrying a Flybaby
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    KazLA due 27/06/10
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    I can stay and chat on the fly thread with my friends and don't have to do any work cos Piggers says so

    Mummyoffour77



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  • [waits with bated breath, dreading the [STRIKE]punishment[/STRIKE] task organisation and planning Pigpen is going to mete out] :D
    I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.
    colinw wrote: »
    Yup you are officially Rock n Roll :D
  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,242 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    edited 4 April 2010 at 7:14PM
    After a week's holiday, I'm back in :j DH is off to India for the week :( so I'll have plenty of free time :)

    Thanks again to the 3 Musketeers!

    Penny. x
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • cally_c
    cally_c Posts: 498 Forumite
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    Evening all,

    hope everyone has had a good Easter & thanks to the fantastic three for this thread.
    Easter Monday ~ Surprise!
    Level One

    S&S kitchen
    Sweep and mop
    Level Two
    Vacuum through downstairs
    S&S bathroom
    Level Three
    Complete ALL your dailies!

    the list is a very pleasant surprise - will be able to get these done quickly & get on with DDs bedroom.

    best wishes to all....
  • Hi everyone
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    I'm in again! I'm loving it....the cleaning, the organising, the help, the support, the satisfaction of a good job, done well.

    Thanks to the usual suspects...wherever they may be...... :D



    Talk to you all later.....


    Notso

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    I'm not so tired & not so desperate..... mainly thanks to MSE :D so just call me Notso.....
    Yes, I'm juggling and I might drop some.... but at least I'm trying ;)
    SPC5 1710 :j
  • hex2
    hex2 Posts: 4,736 Forumite
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    edited 4 April 2010 at 6:42PM
    Thanks as always to Pigpen, Toots, Soappie and the mysterious one.

    Pigpen - I am liking that list :j! Are you ill or something :A:p?
    Poohbear - it is fun isn't it. Putting a hole in the wall for the TD and WM pipe was a major project. It took two weekends of DH working hard and over £100 in specialist drill bits on a £500 hammer drill (borrowed from work!) to get through two foot of solid stone. If we need any more done we will get diamond drilling in. The layout of my kitchen is being dictated by the existing holes for plumbing :cool:. DH bought a dovetail jig this week and can now make drawers :jso one day I may have a kitchen. I may invest my share of our little windfall in some worktops to encourage him. Bathroom or kitchen? Hmmm.
    Penelope Penguin - the new girls are now mixed in with the old, and I am waiting to see what happens at bedtime.... The new ones have been kept in a barn with several hundred others so not sure they know what to do at dusk. They are 18 weeks old so not expecting a lot on the egg front at the moment. If Bertha and Betty are big bullies then they will have to be urgently re-homed. Seems like a good excuse to get an eggskelter though :j.
    Thifty - don't know what to suggest then, the special plugs have always worked for us before so we must have been lucky. You can get more expensive ones that may be worth a try if you look on the screwfix website. I have some pressure mounted rails from Ikea rather than try and drill our walls so that may be worth a try?


    ETA - henwatch - the six new girls are huddled together (knititng and reading mills and boons in a chicken run style) under the nesting area. The old ones are sulking because they are not used to being shut in the pen, they run into the new ones every so often to scatter them but without any pecking so hopefully things will be ok. We have had a good scrub out, nice fresh bedding and the floor area has doubled so fingers crossed...... Does anyone know how long I need to keep the new ones in the pen for? The old ones are free range round the (secure) garden.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need' Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Dustykitten
    Dustykitten Posts: 16,507 Forumite
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    Evening all

    Everybody enjoyed Easter Dinner. Mum brought me a couple of lovely tea plates (I love odd plates) for cooking which was a nice surprise.

    Plan for this week is to get upstairs straight, I'll do a list in a bit.

    Looking forward to JC (no wine here but I do have a load of ironing)

    Trifty - you are using long raw plugs aren't you? I think you can get quite heavy duty grippy ones. I'm guessing if it is curtains it is an outside wall and not plaster board. I'm a bit confused. You could post the question on the DIY boards here
    The birds of sadness may fly overhead but don't let them nest in your hair
  • kazwookie
    kazwookie Posts: 14,261 Forumite
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    I'm in again, thanks to all for the lists and stars.
    Breast Cancer Now 100 miles October 2022 100 / 100miles
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    Diabetic UK 1 million steps July 2024 to complete by end Sept 2024. 1,001,066/ 1,000,000 (20.09.24 all done)
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    Diabetic UK 1 million steps July 2025 to complete by end Sept 2025. 291,815/1,000,000
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  • jellybaby21
    jellybaby21 Posts: 268 Forumite
    I am so excited it's my first week of flying YAY!!!!!! :j
    Hmmm will add up debt and stick on on later!
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