Weekly Flylady Thread 6th September 2010

pigpen

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 or 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

Monday ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Wash nets/curtains/other soft furnishings that are grotty.. do we need winter curtains up yet?
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Level 3
Clear fire surround of gibble!
Put all hotspots into a pile/box and sort through it all while having a cuppa.
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! Who needs new coats/boots for winter?

Extras

1. Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.
   
2. Make sure lightbulbs are working and smoke alarms!!!!
   
3. Clean a window or two.
   
4. Defluff behind radiators.. has anyone tried those heat reflective things for behind radiators? Are they good for energy saving?

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Shine the sink!
Level Two
Wipe fronts of appliances and units
Wipe small appliances and replace.. make sure the inside of one small appliance is sparkly and hygienic!
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed
Level Three
Clear and wipe window sills
Clean out the fridge thoroughly.. work the contents into your meal plan
Wipe over oven and hob.. polish the knobs!

Extras

1. Empty and wash out bins!
2. Wipe dining chairs
3. Dust, deweb and make homeless those spiders!
4. Clean light fittings.. take shades down and wash them if you can.

Wednesday - bathroom, study, pc room, loo
Level One
Clear the floor of grot, laundry and gubbins
Empty bins and clean them out
Level Two
Wash down the tiles and windows
Clean the bath, bog and basin (and the shower if needed!)
Wipe over the paintwork
Level Three
Wash mats, curtains etc that need doing
Clear the pc desk of rubbish and excess piles of junk
Dust any dusty places and vacuum the dog shelf!

Extras

1. Delete 10 dead links from your favourites
2. Delete some unwanted emails
3. HHI
4. Fill a binbag of rubbish and throw it out

Thursday - Master bedroom & landing
Level One
Strip and wash sheets
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing clean sheets
Level Two
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Wash windows
Vacuum floors
Level Three
Dust and deweb
Wipe paintwork
Sort through a cupboard.. make it neat and tidy and get rid of what you no longer wear/need/use
Extras

1. Sort through a box of junk fom the landing
2. Binbag dance
3. Collect all the dirty laundry from upstairs!
4. FINISH a craft project you've been putting off for ages!

Friday ~ Childrens Rooms, Spare rooms Or just neglected spaces!
Level One
Declutter and vacuum the floor!
Strip and wash and replace stinky bedding
Make half an hour for YOURSELF!!!
Level Two
Sort through a cupboard of clothing
Sort through a box of toys/junk
Binbag dance
Level Three
Tidy/straighten a bookcase/shelf unit
Wash any curtains/cushions etc that are in need
Dust and deweb
Extras

1. Write christmas lists.. cards, food, presents etc
2. HHI
3. Clean out pets..
4. Wipe away all sticky fingerprints and suchlike!

tootifruities

Those who are new this week are posted in blue at the end of the list.

Please let me know if your name is missing - also let me know if you are a lurker so I dont take you off the list!!!! (I take off anyone who hasnt posted for more than 4 weeks otherwise the list would become unmanageable)

PIGPEN.. You may call me ma'am, HRH or merely 'Oh illustrious leader'
toottifrootti.. Our official meeter. greeter and names keeper (as tootifruities)
soappie- because housework is not one of my strong points and my life is so full with work, community stuff etc., I need something like this to help me focus. Toots assistant.
toots3(or asbotoots or substitoots) another backup for toots


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(P) carrying a flybaby


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New this week

AnW'sMum

Boinggggggggggggg we're in

Dustykitten

I'm in in a very serious way!

[STRIKE]Ironing now and then a [/STRIKE] all done major list.

Dusty's List:
still to do

make plum jelly

Wipe dining chairs
Clean light fittings..- family room

Delete 10 dead links from your favourites

pop to garden centre

dust/wipe the kids rooms


To do before the end of September

Our room
sort [STRIKE]all drawers[/STRIKE][STRIKE]/underbed/[/STRIKE]top of wardroobe/inside wardrobe
deep clean window
wash the floor
hoover under on top and inside wardrobe

Hall
Deep clean landing window

Bathroom
Clean shower grout
deep clean window
wash down wall tiles
scrub shower tiles
Wash blind

Living room
sort out video cupboard

Family room
sort out boxes of pictures
sort out cupboard
clean out box on desk

Kitchen
sort out cupboards - all of them!
clean AGA
Wipe top of cupboards

DH office
deep clean
ebay some stuff
sort out cupboards
sort out packing drawers

paperwork
review pensions
finish details document
sort desk drawers

Garage
sort cupboards

Side shed and playhouse
Tidy and sweep

Needs washing
duvets - 1 done
DS1 bedroom blind
living room curtains

To buy
DS1 football boots
DS1 new school bag
DS3 astro turf boots
[STRIKE]DS2 squash racket[/STRIKE]
flea/wormer treatments
Mirror shower room
Blind DS3 room
Blind shower room
New garden fence
Bike for me
toilet brushes
[STRIKE]washing line[/STRIKE]
DS1 school bag

To organise
chirstmas lists
christmas cards - how many do I have
new fence
new bike
friends's 50th presnet
[STRIKE]energy comparisons/switching[/STRIKE]

grumswifie

Thank you all the ladies at fly command. Would love to join in this week, kids back to school need to make the house somehow remotely shipshape!

Mumto5

I'm in. Thank you ladies!

michbright

I'm in!

Just getting things ready for tomorrow then off to bed and will start flying tomorrow :j

MrsBartolozzi

Thanks for this Pigpen!!
I was AWOL last week, but still did most of the level 3 stuff.
This week is the last my DS1 is at home before going off to uni on Saturday, so I'll be doing what I can on the Flylady front while cleaning out his room/arranging the loft for his [STRIKE]junk[/STRIKE] childhood memorabilia. Hopefully his room will be fit for visitors to stay in, but at the minute it's definately not!!

I've got an ironing mountain to scale right now, but I'll get started on Monday's list before bed.
Hi to all the Flyladies:wave: and many thanks to all at Flylady HQ!!

Penelope_Penguin

I'm in with a vengance :j Thanls to all at Flylady Central :A DH went off to China on a month-long business trip this morning, so I'll be able to get on with loads :rotfl:

Triker

I'm in as this week is 'must get DD2 into other bedroom'. It needs stripping, decorating and a new carpet and all the stuff placing somewhere....**gulp**

AnW'sMum

A month long trip wow, plenty of time to [strike]chuck[/strike] rehome his things :rotfl:

Although I need to talk, got to do some sorting out in here.