Weekly Flylady Thread 18th April 2011

happierdaystocome

Well DD is still asleep on the sofa, not sure whether to wake her as Im worried she wont sleep tonight or leave her.

*Rant Alert, Please feel free to ignore*

OH came home for lunch and is working late again this evening and then plans to go to the gym for a few hours. I think we need to talk about house work responsibilities as Im back to see occy health tomorrow and fingers crossed will be back at work next week. Friday/saturday and most of yesterday saw me too ill to be able to manage anything but OH still thought that rather than help he would go off bike riding and it would be take away for dinner:mad::mad::mad:. I know he needs to prepare himself for teh coast to coast but I think that spending the whole weekend doing it is just taking the !!!!!! when there are other things to do. As a consquence of this th whole house is a tip again (as dogbot is molting like mad and OH just seems to leave a trail of carp in his wake) and suprise suprise guess who is expected to clean it. So feeling a little disheartened at the moment.


Dragon (((Hugs)))) and healing vibes to you
LW (((hugs))) feel free to howl if you need too. You achieve a lot yesterday and should be proud of yourself and not let the insensitivity of the actions of the other people take that away from you. I struggle when meeting new people and hide behind my OH whenever possible as he is the total opposite to me.
Pigpen Witha bouncy Castle your lucky you have only accumulated another 5 children.


Right where am I up to on my list:

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
[STRIKE]Open the windows [/STRIKE]and turn on some music! Shush no music as DD asleep
Vacuum floors and sofas!
[STRIKE]Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
[/STRIKE]Level Two
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
[STRIKE]Sort out coats, shoes and bags.. can those winter coats be washed and put away/charity shopped/ebayed?
[/STRIKE]Do this weekly but OH seems to think all his coats need to live in the hall just incase[STRIKE]Clean any electricals.. don't be frazzling yourselves though!
[/STRIKE]Level Three
[STRIKE]Check those smoke alarms!
[/STRIKE]Wipe sofas, paintwork and dusty places
[STRIKE]HHC in the hallway.. vacuum floors/stairs, wipe paintwork, fling those broken umbrellas and junk mail!

[/STRIKE]THis took hours as are hall and stairs seem to have huge amounts of woodworkExtras

1. Binbag dance... grab a bag fill it and fling it!
2. [STRIKE]
   
3. Clean fires/behind radiators
4. [/STRIKE]Wipe the windows in these areas

Ive done better than I though, will do all the hoovering when DD is decluttered from the couch, why do they never sleep in their room when sick?

magicgirl

i found dysons to be crap too. (sorry!)

i ended up saving and gettng a second hand kirby and I don't know if i could ever go back. Would love to upgrade to a newer one (mine is a G5. dh used to seel the G4 back in the mid nineties. Think there have been about five more generations since. maybe more) it was definitely money well spent as it was (apparently) a unit used to clean a small guest house and I have now had it for five years and its still going strong! Should probably get it serviced soon but I will add that to my 'to do' list once i am off on mat leave (only three weeks to go. )

msgnomey

Thought I should really do an official listy

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Vacuum floors and sofas!
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Sort out coats, shoes and bags.. can those winter coats be washed and put away/charity shopped/ebayed?
Clean any electricals.. don't be frazzling yourselves though!
Level Three
Check those smoke alarms!
Wipe sofas, paintwork and dusty places
HHC in the hallway.. vacuum floors/stairs, wipe paintwork, fling those broken umbrellas and junk mail!
Extras
Catch up on some calls/emails
Binbag dance... grab a bag fill it and fling it!
Clean fires/behind radiators
Wipe the windows in these areas


off i go.............................

shellysue

I have an old dyson and its the best vac I have ever owned and I have been through a few, , I have the Zorb dyson as well and it seems to get blockages much easier than the old one. Old one was cheap to repair as well :j I seem to accumulate vacs, I have a goblin and a hover as well.

LR was mostly done before work, I ran the cedar mop over the floor, but I still need to finish the mats.

bluetimone97

Just a quick check in to say that I am still here and have now found I am neglecting the housework for the Tesco double the difference promotion, it takes time to shop you know!
Hope you are all well.

MrsChaos

I've finally completed the work task I started yesterday :j - daren't count the hours it's taken me (or work out the fraction of my complete work to-do list this represents :eek:), but I've now e-mailed the spreadsheet to colleagues for comments. :T

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Vacuum floors and sofas!
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Sort out coats, shoes and bags.. can those winter coats be washed and put away/charity shopped/ebayed?
Clean any electricals.. don't be frazzling yourselves though!
Level Three
Check those smoke alarms!
Wipe sofas, paintwork and dusty places
HHC in the hallway.. vacuum floors/stairs, wipe paintwork, fling those broken umbrellas and junk mail!


Extras

1. Clean fires/behind radiators
2. Wipe the windows in these areas

Plan for the week (not necessarily in that order):
laundry - just waiting for last few bits from DS2 - towels in
make DS1 tidy space at bottom of loft stairs
school stuff - WIP
HW with DS2
car stuff (please fling fluffy mule if this is still on the list by teatime) - can't do anything until friend is back on Wednesday
bake a cake or two
tea - I have a plan!
sort through DS2's clothes to see what he still needs - WIP
bake twinks for friend's son tomorrow
sort Mt Everest-sized filing mountain
put away non-iron clothes
cat to vet's Tue 5pm

paulies_nixie

I have a dyson animal - it copes with 2 huskies (one double coated) and has been going for about 3 years now (that'll be the kiss of death, you just watch!)
Next time I do the stairs (I've done em today, get me ) I'll do half a step and take a picture you can see what it has to cope with. My stair carpet is chocolate brown.... however quite often it's white or gray. And they're not in full moult yet... it's on its way. Where you can pull clumps of dog out that are thicker that cotton wool wads! :eek:
We call it husky plucking season, you cant help but pull out the wads :rotfl:
Mind you the beagle's blowing her jacket at the moment. - That fur doesnt get in your food, but is still a pain :rotfl:anyways me dyson copes nicely. Only one I've found to do so

Right and on to the windows for me. Running muttlies individually although good for me, is cak for windows as beagle wants to know where we're going :rotfl: nose art, slobber, even foot prints!!
I wouldnt be without 'em but begger me what a mess!

Ginger_Girl

Hi all
Please may I (re)join you? It's been a long time - but fingers crossed it will soon come flooding back to me.
Thanks x

vanilla

Plan today
1) Clear back hall.
2) Fix front door.Man coming next week.
3) Clear garden of rubbish, broken toys. DONE
4) Put tent away. DONE
5) Mow all gardens. DONE
6) Clean outside of windows. DONE
7) Fill car with tip run stuff.
8) Cut old carpet for car.
9) Tighten washing lines.
10) Go through boys wardrobe.
11) Get some sticks cut.
12) Brush up paths. DONE
13) Weed said paths. DONE
14) Do some baking.
15) Spend HHC in our bedroom.

My back is now broke but the list is getting shorter. Kids now munching on icelollies and hubby is snoozing so i best waken him or he'll not sleep tonight.

I've now all tha garden tip stuff in the big shed and i'll go drag the house tip stuff over now, it will leave it easier for later. Must get another load out on the line while i'm in.

dancemum

Off I go on HHC