Weekly Flylady Thread 22nd November 2010

jackieglasgow

You sound like a whirlwind, come up here when you're done, please. Well done!

Triker

You know what I found a great motivator, a white board, a large peice of paper will do just as well.

As we each wrote down each job to be done and then did it , we crossed it out, the whiteboard filled very quickly and we all used to charge round doing different jobs, great system, gives everyone a sense of achievement and also got my (initially reluctant to help out) hubby to join in.

In fact after a while he instigated it and we used to all get home on a friday evening and have a massive purge/clear up....setting us up for the weekend.

maybemischief

Daily jobs done. Husband woken up. Kids outside. Now off to tackle upstairs.
Dailes
[STRIKE]SS Kitchen & Table
SS Bathroom & Loo
Make beds
Kids stuff up & away.
Unload/load DW
laundry
Fed/clean animals
Vacuum downstairs[/STRIKE]
Monday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area All done :j
Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining room All done:j
Wednesday - living area, hall and stairs All done :j

Thursday ~ master bedroom and landing
Level One Done
Level Two
Sort through one cupboard of clothing
Level Three
Sort out the gibble under the bed!
Sort through one box of junk!
Extras

1. HHI

Friday ~ brats room.. if you have no brats do another room!
Level One Done
Level Two Done
Level Three
Tidy a box of 'stuff'
binbag dance!.. See how many toys you can fling before the large guy in red arrives.
dust and deweb
Extras

1. HHI
2. Wash windows
3. Fill a binbag for charity shop!
4. Wipe over ALL the upstairs doors!! (don't moan, I have 7!!)

vanilla

What a flipping morning, managed to get the kids to sunday school. Car reading -10. Then when i went to lift them, the car skid on the lane and out onto the road. Thankfully nothing was coming and i didn't hit the fence. :eek:

Then on the way back a man was trying to put a horse into the field (why when there is no grass, i don't know) the horse off with the man holding the lead. The man let go of the lead and fell flat on his front, the horse shot out onto the main road. We have a new road built so most of the traffic is on it so this road is pretty quiet but if i had have been a couple of seconds later the horse would have been out in front of me. I think i shall go back to bed until the snow is gone. :rotfl:

gratefulforhelp_2

poohbear59 wrote: »

DH slid his Sportage very calmly into a disabled parking spot this afternoon. :eek:.

Hope he is ok.

jools27 wrote: »

Absolutely no flying here today, as its my hoppy barfday....OH had the paths cleared and gritted and 2 loads of washing done by the time I got up! We were going out for dinner, but couldn't be bothered facing the snow and ice, so have just decluttered a large Indian takeaway, and I am sitting here sipping a glass of wine eyeing up a bag of percy pig sweeties and wondering if I should start reading one of my new books......life is hard, but hey-ho!:)

Many belated happies.

Natty68 wrote: »

Happy Birthday Grateful, hope you have had a lovely day Here's a cake for you to enjoy xxxx

Thanks, that's lush!

jojo if memory serves me, isn't the bloke a fairly recent addition? If he's not responding to training, should you chuck him back in and catch another?? Hugs.

dusty many schools use !!!!!philes as an excuse not to have annoying parents wrecking plays with injudicious use of flash photography. When I was 14, we had a party at the parish hall, paid for and booked and cleared up appropriately. The local paper took photos of us sitting on the lawn there with cans in hand (weak lager) but to make us look really guilty they blacked out our eyes:rotfl: and your life will be fuller and happier if you don't read the Daily Fail. Honest!!

DD1 up all night puking (nice!) so have the mountain of sicky washing to contend with. Bought a new car yesterday - well new to me. And MIL has cancer that has spread. Not great, she's 81.

valli excellent defrosting idea.

Craftyscholar

Valli wrote: »

well I am using the fact that it' freezing outside to defrost my freezer - all the food is outside (bagged) keeping cold!

Oh, that's a good idea.
Don't even need to go out - space between front door and inside sliding door will do. :T

nicki_2

Morning all

Very cold and frosty here, apparently a high of 2 today:eek: I text ex and asked what he'd be doing with DD today, he said Geocaching. When he got here he'd changed his mind, it was -2 and he was frozen :rotfl: No idea what they'll be doing but DD is well wrapped up.

Todays plan:
- lists of what needs doing & when
- Ironing
- knitting of hat & scarf - done some more of the scarf
- Vacuum through & scrub kitchen floor then put rug down.

Decorating To-do: (Italics are not urgent, but need to be done once the rest is done, preferably before the new carpets go in!)
Paint DDs walls
Paint my bedroom walls
Paint my bedroom walls again (painting magnolia over blue!)
Paint hallway again x 2
Sugar soap all the gloss work (sanding where necessary)
Paint gloss work
Paint bathroom ceiling
Paint bathroom walls
Clear surfaces in livingroom
Fill cracks in ceiling & holes around pipework & any holes in wall from pictures
Paint ceiling
Paint walls
Sugarsoap/sand gloss work in livingroom & kitchen
Repair floor trim
Sugarsoap gloss work in livingroom & kitchen
Paint glosswork
Paint kitchen ceiling
Paint kitchen walls

Monday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area :j:jDone:j:j

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining room
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
wash windows and any other glass.

Wednesday - living area, hall and stairs
Level one
Level Two
Wipe/vacuum sofas
Wash windows
Level Three
Wash any soft furnishings in need

Thursday ~ master bedroom and landing :j:jDone:j:j
Level One
Level Two
Level Three

Friday ~ brats room.. if you have no brats do another room!
Level One
Level Two
Wipe the paintwork
Level Three
dust and deweb

Just watching Merlin from last night while I have a coffee and fold the towels I forgot to do last night. Then I'll finish all bar the wiping of paintwork, remove the carpet grips, put tea on then start washing down paintwork...its going to be a long day! Although wash load 1 of 5 is already on

toottifrootti

Morning all
oh dear we have about 8 inches of snow overnight and its still snowing and we have thunder and lightning with it - most strange! I tried to go to church but there were no taxis or buses and I could hardly walk out my gate!!!
Dusty we have photo bans already in schools here but my nieces and nephew's school does take photos by an official photographer and usually a camcorder is used as well - as grateful says is does stop a lot of interuptions and everything flows better. its just such a shame that it is necessary.
hex I have everything crossed that it is thyroid troubles because that can be so easily sorted with medication - (((hugs))) what a shame after all your hard work of losing weight but it will come right again.

Valli wrote: »

well I am using the fact that it' freezing outside to defrost my freezer - all the food is outside (bagged) keeping cold!

Valli thank you for reminding me that I should do the same xx
Grateful (((hugs))) not a good birthday for you then apart from betting a new car - excellent! sorry to hear about MiL - I do hope its something that they can treat and I hope DD is feeling better today.

stay safe if you have to go out
toots xx

lil_me

I kept frozen bread etc frozen in a box filled with snow last year (was in a bin bag first) worked a treat

Dw on, salt in sink (using Dw salt and just allow to dissolve gradually) WM on, brekkie done and eaten, TD on so hopefully all washing will be up to date when Ds2 gets home for his manky cubs stuff. Got him some spare clothes out ready too. Missed him even more this time so can't wait to collect him.

Right, kitchen needs more work. I've bagged a load of rubbish which all must go in bags now as our bins haven't been emptied and goodness knows when they will be, waited 5 weeks last year and this has started early so I might end up doing tip runs again if it's open.

esmf73

Sounds great Triker. Did have a clear out not long ago, so not much clutter, just stuff that I've not unpacked since we moved in the summer (hangs head in shame!) or items that haven't been put back. With Christmas presents raising their heads its getting worse. Have done as much as I can in the dining room today - so will be posting things next week. Have put the two chairs in the kitchen on freecycle and am just about to dejunk the kitchen table so it can go into the garage.

Am setting myself up with a HUGE pile of paperwork and things to sort through this afternoon, but I'll find a good film on the TV - or video to watch as I do it. Now to kick OH to put up my wall hanging and to put up the baskets in the kitchen - even if we use one of the baskets for junk its less of a space to have to clear every week. xx (Have sent youngest son to kick OH!!!)