Weekly Flylady Thread 30th August 2010

fedupandskint

MrsChaos wrote: »

Fedup - any idea where I could find small bottles for bottling rosehip syrup and similar? I could do with them being not much bigger than 125ml.

I'm planning onmaking some rosehip syrup too when they appear in the hedgrow in the next few weeks

As for bottles, I always keep my Mr S cider vinegar and white vinegar bottles that I think are either 300ml or 350ml in size. Give them a good wash out, soak off the labels, scrub off the glue and are ready to go!

I use these for flavoured oils (chilli and spice) which I'll be making later on in the year. Will use it for the pontack sauce if I can find enough elderberries as they dried out way too much last night and it went wrong so have to start again.

pigpen

I have my eye on a couple of dolls prams on ebay, 1 each for Moomin and Tiddles.. is it worth purchasing them now or waiting unil closer December and hoping for something bargainous?

MrsChaos

Thanks, fedup and AnW's - I'd thought about it, but we don't seem to use many things in bottles and/or don't go through enough. I think I'll have to bite the bullet this year and buy some - have seen some reasonable ones on the web.

Pigpen - difficult to say. If they'd love them and the prices are reasonable, go for it. 2 presents less to worry about. But if you are holding out for something particular, it might be worth waiting.

pigpen

They wil be 8 and 6 so need the biggest size dolls pram you can get (5-10) theirs are trashed and they love wheeling their eeyores/cats around.. they are £50 each but £90 in toys r us... I am so disgustingly indecisive!

MrsChaos

Sounds like a good deal to me, especially as it's something they are going to play with lots. Suppose you can always blame me if something better comes along - or sell them on.

invisiblecabbage

MrsChaos wrote: »

ETA Fedup - any idea where I could find small bottles for bottling rosehip syrup and similar? I could do with them being not much bigger than 125ml.

You could buy a dozen of those individual wine bottles that are about 4 for a fiver at the moment. Declutter the contents (sure to be plenty of willing helpers on here:D) and then use them. They tend to have a screw cap.

MrsChaos

Nice idea - thank you.

invisiblecabbage

best do a quick check ...

still to do

Tuesday~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level Two
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed
Level Three
Tidy the cupboard full of all those things you never use.. and get rid of the ones you really don't need

Extras

1. Arrange services on fires/boilers etc
2. Scrub and demould doorseals! Don't forget the ones in the WM

Wednesday ~ Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Extras

• Sort a wardrobe or part of, a drawer or set of drawers making sure it has what needs to be in it and any 'extras' are put where they should be
• Spend 15 minutes shining mirrors and picture frames

Thursday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Catch up on phone calls.. make necessary appointments .. and sort out insurance policies that need renewing soon!!
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
Level 3
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc
Tidy shoes, coats and bags .. wash any that need washing. See if there are any that don't fit, past their best or just plain uncomfy which could leave the house!
Extras

1. Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.
   
2. Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
   
3. Clean a window or two.
   
4. Get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be, or better still give them to their owners to put away themselves

Friday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Declutter the floor
Remove and wash bed linen. replace before bedtime!!!
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..
Wash windows and nets/curtains
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing 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. Binbag dance!
2. Wipe grotty paintwork.. touch up any bits that are looking shabby
3. Wash windows
4. Plan to cook the christmas cakes!!.. and make chutneys, pickles or whatever

And I also need to sort out some school bits and pieces. Despite having 3 INSET days this week we received our timetables at 2.55pm today:eek:. Guess what my weekend will be spent doing. I hate management controlling my time like this.:mad: Not yet got pupil lists for Monday and I'm teaching all morning:eek::eek:.
Looks like its an early start tomorrow ...(depressed yawn)


Hope everyone else has a restful weekend.

off to bed now, goodnight, nos da

hollyh

Evening all,

I haven't caught up with the thread so i hope everyone is ok.

I've only just got my pc working again. I've gone almost 2 weeks without the internet.:eek: My laptop has died a sad death, it needs a new motherboard so isn't worth fixing.:( I took my Pc to have the sound fixed and when i got it back it wouldn't recognise the keyboard. :cool: It's all ok now thankfully.

We also went on holiday to West Wales on Sunday and came back late last night. I couldn't believe the weather, i thought it was going to be miserable all week and we had brillaint sunshine the whole time.:D We spent most of the time on the beach and swimming in the sea, it was great.

Back to reality now and i've done 5 black bags full of washing today. I've been shopping as i had no food and neveah had to bail me out because when i went to pay i realised i'd left my debit card in OH's wallet.:o I've cleaned out the rabbits and unpacked everything.

I've got a list of what i need to do before Monday when my baby starts school.:( I'll sort that out tomorrow though as i'm going to bed very soon.

toochoosey

Where in West Wales did you go Hollyh?