Weekly Flylady Thread 18th April 2011

happierdaystocome

Ive got a Henry,who i love on the hard floors but is no good at getting the dog hair up (so I want this attachment http://www.equip4work.co.uk/shop/red-easy-ride-airo-brush.html)

I also have a Vac which does a great job of collecting the dog hair .The dog is black and the carpets throughout the house are clear and beige and they come up spotless, well at least for the few seconds that dogbot is out of the room:p.

ETA Running to catch up with Dancemum

The_Dragon

1. [STRIKE]Phone doc's, get results and order more tablets (they are needed whatever the result!)[/STRIKE]
2. [STRIKE]clean the loo[/STRIKE]
3. [STRIKE]clean the bathroom sink[/STRIKE]
4. clean the stove top
5. clean the kitchen sink
6. empty the bins
7. get Dr Dragon to take the black bin out
8. find a new recipe to try
9. shopping list
10. shopping (Saturday)
11. laundry (Friday)
12. laundry away (Friday)
13. [STRIKE]Dust the bookcase I managed to move[/STRIKE]
14. [STRIKE]Parcel to Feisty Kat[/STRIKE]
15. [STRIKE]Postcrossing cards[/STRIKE]
16. Move some books upstairs (need Dr Dragon's help with this one!)
17. try and stitch (again!)

Okay so far so good - hopefully most will be done by the time Dr Dragon is home for a while

pavlovs_dog

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
[STRIKE]Open the windows and turn on some music![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors and sofas![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace[/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]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?
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, [STRIKE]fling those broken umbrellas and junk mail[/STRIKE]!

not much point investing too much time on the hall at the mo - due to do some DIY over next few days which will inevitable involve traipsing of much dust, dirt and other delights through the hallway. Shall leave it until the end of the hols once the work has been done.

going to do a psot of ironing today, and if i'm really on the ball I may even tackle the downstairs loo as it's a small job.

Dreading the day the kitchen comes up on the list... may have to juggle days around and leave it until last so I can psych myself up to face it

cat_smith

Thanks to all for the good wishes. The deed is done. Just had a text from sister saying thanks for the bubbly and the card - it made her cry. Just the effect I wanted:rotfl:

cyclingyorkie

pigpen wrote: »

I have fitflops.. my feet are too wide so don't fit in them.. despite me getting a size bigger than my shoe size..

Another 2 loads of laundry out.. and I appear to have accumulated 5 children that aren't even mine!!!! I am sure I am doing something wrong!

Bouncy castle out so we'll have screaming in about 5 minutes!

Re the fitflops - you are not alone - DD2 cannot fit her size 4 feet into mine or DD1's....- her feet just ain't that shape!

Have changed 2 beds, washed and line dried all the bedding. Have walked into York with DD2 and mostly walked back.

happierdaystocome

Thank you for the company Dancemum:

I got the vacuuming parts of the list done (except for hall) and wiped the sofa's, as DD has now gone upstairs and she may be sick after all as she is running a fever. I also managed to get dinner on and S&S kitchen.

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music! Shush no music as DD asleep
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors and sofas[/STRIKE]!
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum under any [STRIKE]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?
Do this weekly but OH seems to think all his coats need to live in the hall just incaseClean any electricals.. don't be frazzling yourselves though!
Level Three
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!

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. 
   
3. Clean fires/behind radiators
4. [STRIKE]
   
5. Wipe the windows in these areas
6. [/STRIKE]

ScarlettsMum

Dancemum and Happierdaystocome how did your HHC go?

I'm really pleased with how much I've managed this afternoon. I have spent half hour sorting out carp from the nursery and it's really statting to look a little better. Done the washing up/recycling and general wipe down of the kitchen and taken most of the rubbish out of the hallway. I have several bags for the charity shop, an ofcut of carpet and the car seat still there but it's a lot better than before. Carpet should be in study and car seat in the car but baby not letting me put her down for long enough to move heavy things.

Here is the things I have left.

I'm going to get the duster out now as I can do that while carrying the baby and I will brush the floor after dinner tonight when baby is asleep.

This is the first time in a long time I'm begining to feel positive that I can get back on top of the house. Thank you to piggers for the thread. Hope you managed to get all the excess children carted off back home and your not having to feed them all too!

ScarlettsMum

loopy-loo73

been out for lunch with dh & dd2
dd1 now home form school so playing with dd2 to give me some peace

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
done
Level Two
Sort out coats, shoes and bags.. can those winter coats be washed and put away/charity shopped/ebayed?
Level Three
Check those smoke alarms!
HHC in the hallway.. vacuum floors/stairs, wipe paintwork, fling those broken umbrellas and junk mail!
Extras
done

just the hall left to do which i'll tackle later when dh out
also done the shoppping & cleaned the birds

Lou x

seafarers_wife

proper list update

Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
Vacuum floors and sofas!
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Clean any electricals.. don't be frazzling yourselves though!
Level Three
Wipe sofas, paintwork and dusty places
Extras
Clean fires/behind radiators
Wipe the windows in these areas

3. write a list of who we need to tell about changing address
4. write a list of who need to tell about changing my name
5. write away with change of name
6. get soemone in to sort out the hall carpet
7. hand in notice to landlord once competed on house
11. sort out power of attorney
12. get me a 2nd card on OH's credit card
13. wrap presents for nephew birthday
21. book dentist before OH goes back to sea
22. write a list of all furtniture we need and cost up best options. NB sofa done
24. buy ladders (to get into loft)
25. get quote for deep cleaning this house when we leave
26. get quote for carpet cleaning rented house
27. back up all my spreadsheets onto both desktops and OH netbook in case my laptop goes belly up
28. get pics of edinburgh and sydney framed.
29. take edinburgh prints with me this weekend.
30. sort out electrical box before we move
36. get up to date on filing
37. clear my shredding pile - wip

cat4772

Good afternoon...

I've been lurking on and off this past couple of weeks; SPD & sciatica have been horrendous so having weekly accupuncture iwth the hopsital physio for it. The 24 hours after physio I'm in great pain but then it settles so I've more energy 2-6 days after each session - I'm trying to do my housework in the good days and not worry about the house during the bad days. Only problem is that I do too much during the good days:o

Anyway, last Wednesday was a mammoth cleaning session from sun up to sun down. This weekend I had a good look at the house and realised that it just needed a tweak here and there to be company ready; putting a cushion straight, wiping sticky finger marks from the TV, put LO toys and books away neatly (she doesn't like them put neatly and much prefers them strewn around the living room):D

So we spent the weekend in the garden. LO playing on her toys and hleping DH and I with our garden related chores. DH has been in the garden most weekends for the past month so it was looking a lot more tended this year than in previous years with veg patches dug over, the green house cleaned etc. I spent 15 minutes with a scrubbing brush and soapy disinfectant cleaning the little tykes climbing frame - this has usually just had a wipe down with damp cloth over winter but I saw that there were patches of algae forming in the shaded areas :eek: ... 15 minutes later and the soapy disinfectant was mostly gone but the climbing frame looked as good as new!

Because I'm growing a future flybaby I decided the next 15 minutes would be spent reclining on the bench... I woke up an hour later:o. Feeling much refreshed I decided to plant some sweetcorn, pepper, tomato and squash seeds as well as some summer flowering bulbs. Then weeded a border and sowed some salad leaf seeds - salad days in three weeks hopefully! Some of the (out of date) seeds I'd planted a fortnight ago had already started sprouting but I think the 10 year old sweetcorn seeds were past their best so we'll make do with this year's 40 seeds I planted yesterday!

DH insisted that I make more of twinks hobnobs as the batch i'd made earlier in the week had been eaten by fairies and mice! How very dare he suggest that mice live in my house. I suggested that the last batch was eaten by a big fat rat who answered to DH! He didn't disagree:rotfl:. Hobnobs made and half of them disappeared within an hour or so.

Tonight I'll be damp dusting the skirting boards and door frames in the bedrooms and living rooms, blitzing the kitchen (washing, drying and putting away crockery, wiping doors & surfaces, sweeping and mopping kitchen floor - kitchen blitz usually takes about 20 minutes. Last job to load WM. I might even get to sit outside and read a book for a while...

I have a plan for Tuesday - unload WM in morning and hang out to dry (in sun room on airers). Vacuum bedrooms, stairs and living room. Then do HHI in the evening (watching Holby City).

Love and hugs to all... Cat.xx