Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd January 2011

Mum_on_a_mission_2

Morning! School is not back until tomorrow - so today my junior assistant & I will have a useful day..:rotfl: Thankfully he's keen to help to make up for some dreadful behaviour yesterday.

Lists as follows - I've made a start....GreenBee - want to join me in a mini mealplan challenge as we have similar overly full freezers?


Monday ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floors
Level Two
Wash the appliances.
Wipe over window sills and shine the taps
Level Three
Dust and deweb
Extras
1. Make sure diaries/calendars are up to date with appointments!!!
Tuesday ~ Living/family room, hallway and stairs
Level One
Declutter EVERYTHING that does not belong in these areas
Dust and deweb
Level Two
Vacuum/mop.. inc. under furniture you can move without hurting yourself!
Level Three
Wipe banister rails/stair spindles/paintwork
Tidy away christmas decs.
Extras
1. Wipe door handles and tops of door frames
2. Vacuum sofas.. don't forget under cushions!
Todays list of added joys
1. Library
2. Glass recycling to bank
3. Tree down
4. Decs & Tree to loft
5. Order new trousers
6. Sort DS ready for school tomorrow
7. Make dctrs appt
8. Make dental appts x 2 or maybe 3 people (must check)
9. Pay phone bill
10. Letter (RC) to T/TCS
11. Find church meeting dates (I have it and have put it somewhere too safe!) – transfer dates to diaries, email into myself at work to add in that diary
12. Hoover through
13. Car levels
This weeks joys
1. Invoices for new accounting year ads (need to collect sample mags) – deliver/post as necessary
2. More work on website
3. Find a new snow shovel
4. Mealplan – freezers are full

OK - anyone for a HHC at 9am?

Moam

skylight

I know you guys said this thread moves fast, but boy!! Had a quick skim over posts and glad to see SEAFARERs you have a reply. I would do nothing about it (as in replying) for a short while so you can have a good think on a more rational basis; kneejerk reactions can usually make things worse. xx




Today:

Tuesday ~ Living/family room, [STRIKE]hallway and stairs[/STRIKE]

Level One
Declutter EVERYTHING that does not belong in these areas
Dust and deweb
Level Two
Vacuum/mop.. inc. under furniture you can move without hurting yourself!
Clear tops of cupboards/coffee tables/magazine racks etc
[STRIKE]Wipe and water plants[/STRIKE]
Level Three
Tidy coats and bags and shoes and make certain everything is ready for back to school!
[STRIKE]Wipe banister rails/stair spindles/paintwork[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Tidy away christmas decs[/STRIKE].
Extras

1. Filing.. all the papers you just gathered up
2. Wash any soft furnishings that have not been done in a while or need doing
3. Wipe door handles and tops of door frames
4. Vacuum sofas.. don't forget under cushions!

Plus the DAILIES - like the WM is on, DW is on. HOTSPOT in bed still hasn't been done; but has to today as I have a man coming to quote for a move tomorrow AM. I think I will cancel him as little bro and his mate are going to do it for a few hundred instead and a professional cannot do it cheaper.

greenbee

Mum_on_a_mission wrote: »

Lists as follows - I've made a start....GreenBee - want to join me in a mini mealplan challenge as we have similar overly full freezers?

Good idea... in my case this should probably include not buying anything other than veg for about 6 months. Or do you want to come over and help me eat it ?

Walked to the shop, bought broccoli & eggs. Washed and changed for reflexology. Can't find my ipod headphones anywhere, and I need them for running I know I've seen them... must have tidied them up!

Blood test appt. cancelled and appointment made with my usual GP, so need to write a list.

Seafarer's - ignore me if you like, but I suggest you say to your OH that christmas/new year is a difficult time emotionally, especially when you're already apart so much, and that you avoid dealing with things that might be emotional/misinterpreted via email. Even the phone can be risky, as you miss out on so many signals from body language. Buy yourself some time to reflect. Never send an email first go - always sleep on it and reread in the cold hard light of day . And use the next few weeks to think about what you really want from life, so that when you see each other again you can talk through the potential issues sensibly.

Might try to take my own advice at some point. I am so not looking forward to this week...

lostinrates

I would like to join the flylady thread. I have tried before and found it moved too quickly and most importantly I never can find the daily ''chore list'' in the busy thread apart from in the last posts, where things are already edited but I'm out of routine and I think it will help me.

edit: so...from an another edited post:
Today:

Tuesday ~ Living/family room, hallway and stairs

Level One
Declutter EVERYTHING that does not belong in these areas...Oh my! Ok.my biggest hurdle ATM
Dust and deweb
Level Two
Vacuum/mop.. inc. under furniture you can move without hurting yourself!
Clear tops of cupboards/coffee tables/magazine racks etc
Wipe and water plants I'm doing this first because its crossed out on the post I've grabbed it from...silly me:o but its quicker than editing the post back
Level Three
[STRIKE]Tidy coats and bags and shoes and make certain everything is ready for back to school![/STRIKE] for school read DH back to work...thats done, as
Wipe banister rails/stair spindles/paintwork
Tidy away christmas decs.Oh no, not yet!
Extras

1. Filing.. all the papers you just gathered up
2. Wash any soft furnishings that have not been done in a while or need doing[STRIKE]
4. Wipe door handles and tops of door frames

[/STRIKE] did this yesterday:)

1. Vacuum sofas.. don't forget under cushions!

Right...off to start decluttering.

lovecrafting

Tuesday ~ Living/family room, hallway and stairs

Level One
Declutter EVERYTHING that does not belong in these areas
Dust and deweb
Level Two
Vacuum/mop.. inc. under furniture you can move without hurting yourself!
Clear tops of cupboards/coffee tables/magazine racks etc
Wipe and water plants
Level Three
Tidy coats and bags and shoes and make certain everything is ready for back to school!
Wipe banister rails/stair spindles/paintwork
Tidy away christmas decs.
Extras
Filing.. all the papers you just gathered up
Wash any soft furnishings that have not been done in a while or need doing
Wipe door handles and tops of door frames
Vacuum sofas.. don't forget under cushions!

morning all, busy busy busy today i will post when my jobs are done.

cyclingyorkie

sensible advice as usual greenbee! Hugs to seafarers and valli!

DD2 off to school, DS off to college. OH cluttering the place up! He has never been here in the mornings when the kids get up and I LOATHE it when he is now - he b*****s up our carefully worked out routine!

I'm not back to work until tomorrow (back permitting) so I'm about to do a series of HHI - anyone want to join me?

Oh and we felt nothing last night! In this neck of the woods (2 miles south of York) the earth did not move. Ironically DD2 was doing Geography homework at the time!

seafarers_wife

lostinrates wrote: »

I would like to join the flylady thread. I have tried before and found it moved too quickly and most importantly I never can find the daily ''chore list'' in the busy thread apart from in the last posts, where things are already edited but I'm out of routine and I think it will help me.

have a :xmastree:so that your noticed

the chore list is always shown on the very first post. pigpen edits it to give us the lists that way so that its always easy to find.

helen_jelly

Morning everyone

I planned to get up early this morning as a taster for getting back into the swing of things tomorrow but didn't get up till 9!

List to do and also hairdressers and need to book swimming lessons for kiddies

Seafarer - glad to see you got a reply - love Craftyscholar's advice

See you all later

Toots - have a lovely day with DB

Helen x

lostinrates

seafarers_wife wrote: »

the chore list is always shown on the very first post. pigpen edits it to give us the lists that way so that its always easy to find.

d'uh! OK thanks! I'll get it from there tomorrow!

pjjjx

Hello Can I join in please. I have been lurking before Christmas and need to get off my behind as i live in CHAOS. Ready to start... kids occupied....here I go.....