Weekly Flylady Thread 31st May 2010

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

[lots n lots n lots of champagne later]

Ergh - why am I awake and have been since 5 am?

Stuff flying.

I'm going back to bed.

[stomp stomp - flop (crash)]

juliejim

Morning All

Hope your daughter's okay mummyslittleboy.

Froddy - yes the holiday was okay thanks - it was our 10th wedding anniversary on Thursday so I've had a new wedding ring as my old one doesn't fit me anymore.:o

Soappie - I'm sure you'll get something sorted on the job front soon.

Valli - I think you need to send me a pm and fill me in with the details!

Washing is on the line and another load in the WM. Think I'm going to Mr As now before it gets busy and hot.

Have a good day all

Hugs

Jue

saver-j

Right, just caught up with thread, hugs to everyone and thank you for keeping me entertained, and my spirits up. I don't know why but I woke up at ridiculous o'clock on a saturday and at 6.15 felt like I couldn't lie awake anymore so have got up, not done much...you've been busy people to catch up with...but got my list for the weekend sorted which is looking like this:

Bank Holiday Monday ~ Bits of not very much!
Level One
Wash the manky windows you have ignored every week it has been on the extras!
Level Two
Level Three
wash out the bins

Extras

1. Binbag dance.

Tuesday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Wash front door.. both sides!
Extras

1. Clean the car.. inside and out.. get the minions to help (or do it for you!) Empty and tidy out a grotty cupboard!
2. Wash any smelly soft furnishings!

Wednesday ~ Bedroom & Landing
Level One
Level Two
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Find 10 things to get rid of!.. no men/women/children/pets
Level Three
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere.. your bedroom is NOT a shed!!
Remove some dust bunnies and wipe over the light shades
Extras

1. Wash any curtains that need doing
2. binbag dance
3. Clean the windows
4. 15 minutes sort out of the landing gibble.. see if you can find something to rehome!

Thursday - Bathroom and Study
Level One
Clear the floors of clutter
Level Two
Clean/vacuum the floors
Shine the bath,bog,basins etc
Wipe over any chairs/sofas
Level three
Clean the germs off the telephone, keyboard, mouse, monitor, sockets and switches
declutter the pc desk.. while it defrags
Sparkle the mirrors, screens and windows in these rooms

Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. Throw out/get rid of 3 things from every room in your house!!
3. 15 minutes filing
4. HH-something

Friday - spare room
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
[STRIKE]Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!![/STRIKE]
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season!
[STRIKE]Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors[/STRIKE]
Extra

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
• [STRIKE]30 minutes ironing.. you love me & you know it![/STRIKE]No ironing to do...yet, about to put washing on though[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend![/FONT]

No flying done yesterday because I only left work at 7pm then went out for dinner with some work friends....but I think that means I can cross one of the level ones off yesterday's list:D, ok wasn't by myself but it was relaxing.

Other jobs for the weekend:-
wash clothes
water houseplants
peg out washing in the lovely sunshine
ironing when washing is dry
menu plan
check freezer for bread rolls
shopping list
shopping
gardening sublist (I am learning...just because it's not a room doesn't mean it dosn't need breaking down)

• attempt to rescue seedlings, which appear to have withered in yesterday's heat
• water veg and anything else that needs it
• declutter any slugs/snails
• plant out squash
• sow some carrots
• pot on tomatoes
• weed veg
• weed pots
• weed beds
• plant hollies
• nag OH until he cuts back clematis for me (asked him to do this on Sunday or Monday, even said he could do it after the cricket, 6.30pm after I have cleared everything away in the garden and am coming in to start dinner he appeared saying he was exhausted, but what did I want him to do, all he had done that day was go for a run for half an hour then watch cricket ALL DAY, I looked like this :mad: only with smoke coming out of my ears!)
• trim hedge
• tidy hanging baskets
• learn about my poinsettia (I have never had one before on the basis they're meant to be really difficult to keep, so assumed I would kill them, but was bought one just before xmas and it is still flowering! I am told it may need cutting back now, but need to investigate)

declutter hotspots in the rooms cleaned at the start of the week
declutter terry pratchet from sky box with sis when she comes over this evening

right that will do for now.

But if anyone has any tips about getting OH's involved I would greatly appreciate them...we did have a chat on Monday night where I said I felt like I was doing everything and he said he just liked to chill out on the weekends (I ignored the fact it was Monday) and does his jobs in the week, which I said is fine and left it at that seeing how it would go...he did nothing Tuesday because I had been home all day (except run his finger over the sideboard in the dining room and say you missed a bit:mad:), he made the dinner on Weds and Thurs and lunches for us Weds Thurs Fri, unloaded the dishwasher once and did the washing up once. I know I didn't do much more but I am prepared to clean the house on a weekend. I know I am not going to get much help this weekend because he is bgring off to clear out MiL's shed today, has been asked to be there by 10am and said he will be back about 6pm.

Sorry about that, rant over! Just needed to vent at someone and don't feel I can do it to anyone in person at the moment.

Ok, I am off for a while now, think I need breakfast if I'm going to tackle that lot!

Hope everyone has a good day and enjoys the sun :cool:

MummyOfTwo

fabulous posts about the toddlers! so true.... well its been a *rubbish* week, and im glad to see the back of it. my new week is starting tonight - my best friends birthday and we are making dinner for her and her BF, complete with cocktails and a large chocolate bday cake in the shape of yellow underpants (very immature:D).
i have a job interview monday which im really excited about - my current post is becoming painfully tedious so the prospect of moving onto something new is great.

right, the lists...

Thursday - Bathroom and Study
Level One
[STRIKE]Clear the floors of clutter
Open the windows and air the rooms
Level Two
Clean/vacuum the floors
Shine the bath,bog,basins etc
Wipe over any chairs/sofas[/STRIKE]
Level three
Clean the germs off the telephone, keyboard, mouse, monitor, sockets and switches
declutter the pc desk.. while it defrags
[STRIKE]Sparkle the mirrors, screens and windows in these rooms
[/STRIKE]
Friday - Child rooms and spare rooms
Level One
[STRIKE]Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!![/STRIKE] (went for afternoon tea with the girls!)
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!![/STRIKE]
Level Three
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors

kazwookie

Morning

Windows are open
Bed stripped and remade
Some plants watered (it's going to be mega hot here today)
Bacon rolls decluttered
Wm is on
Mop at the ready

Hugs xxx

fedupandskint

Bank Holiday Monday ~ Bits of not very much!
Level One
S&S kitchen
Wash the manky windows you have ignored every week it has been on the extras!
Level Three
Empty and wash out the bins
Tidy one cupboard.. any cupboard bt opening one which is already tidy and saying you did that one is not good enough

Extras

1. Ring/visit a friend or relly you haven't seen/spoken to in a while!
2. Binbag dance

Tuesday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!

DONE!

Wednesday ~ Bedroom & Landing
Level One
Open the window and air the room
Strip off smelly bedding and sling it in the wash
Level Two
Vacuum the mattress and air the duvet
remake bed with the clean bedding
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Find 10 things to get rid of!.. no men/women/children/pets
Level Three
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere.. your bedroom is NOT a shed!!
Remove some dust bunnies and wipe over the light shades

Extras

1. Wash any curtains that need doing
2. binbag dance
3. Clean the windows
4. 15 minutes sort out of the landing gibble.. see if you can find something to rehome!

Friday - Child rooms and spare rooms
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!!
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors

Extra

1. Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
2. Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
3. 30 minutes ironing.. you love me & you know it!
4. grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
   
5. Binbag dance
6. Throw out/get rid of 3 things from every room in your house!!
7. 15 minutes filing
8. Clean the car.. inside and out
9. Empty and tidy out a grotty cupboard!

Bedding in WM ready to go on the line to dry, cleaned LR last night and today will do the bedroom and leave the rest until tomorrow.Want to concentrate on the garden today and crack on with that.

See you all later and have a lovely day....tootles off to put some suntan lotion on

Penelope_Penguin

Good morning :beer: Hoping for a less "eventful" day today BM on, WM done and first load on the line, DH has taken the children to swim club. Going to have a quick whizz downstairs, then breakfast :j

greenbee wrote: »

Ok valli... i get the picture... kids are probably worth giving a miss...

Greenbee - sorry, but my teens and their friends are wonderful. We had 8 of DD's friends (18, 17 and 16yos) in the garden last evening, and they were3 beautifully behaved, and said how nice my marmalade cupcakes were

Dustykitten wrote: »

Kids got fed up with the people at the bottom of the garden arguing whist they were out there so they started grunting very loading whilst playing badders. They have been a right pain as neighbours. This week we have had endless loud music blaring in the garden. The woman (not his wife) is a councillor too. She is now sobbing in the garden after another row (he is drunk and threatening to have her ex murdered). I'd so love to live in the middle of nowhere away from people.

Phone the police :eek:

vanilla

Morning all.

Weather looking good here today so loads of washing to get done.:D
Need to crack on with the lists as well.:o

Saver my hubby would be the same so i've started to do a list out for him, nothing to bad just 5 things and if he has the list he does it, i sometimes add a few more on when he's not looking.:D I think he likes crossing everything off. I now give the kids lists too.

Now where is my list......

vanilla

Bank Holiday Monday ~ Bits of not very much!
Level One
Wash the manky windows you have ignored every week it has been on the extras!
Level Two
Bake a cake or prepare a meal you've never done before
Extras

1. Clean out smelly pets

Tuesday ~ Living room, hall and stairs!
Level One
Declutter floors and vacuum them
Dust and deweb
Level Two
Vacuum under furniture you can safely move
Clean and tidy the porch!
Level Three
Wash front door.. both sides!
Extras

1. Clean the car.. inside and out.. get the minions to help (or do it for you!)

Wednesday ~ Bedroom & Landing
Level One
Strip off smelly bedding and sling it in the wash
Level Two
Vacuum the mattress and air the duvet
remake bed with the clean bedding
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Level Three
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere.. your bedroom is NOT a shed!!
Remove some dust bunnies and wipe over the light shades
Extras

1. Clean the windows

Thursday - Bathroom and Study DONE:D:D:D:D

Friday - Child rooms and spare rooms
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Extra

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
• grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!

EEKS:eek::eek:Lots to get done.....

greenbee

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Greenbee - sorry, but my teens and their friends are wonderful. We had 8 of DD's friends (18, 17 and 16yos) in the garden last evening, and they were3 beautifully behaved, and said how nice my marmalade cupcakes were

SO not helpful PenPen I'm trying not to let my broodiness influence my decision-making

Woke up early. Should have got up and done stuff in the garden really... Need to find breakfast, then go to the farm shop and garden centre. Should go into town and do some shopping, but am hoping I can put it off for another week or so...:D