Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd May 2011

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Monday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
[STRIKE]Open the windows and turn on some music![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Dust/polish grubby glass and mirrors and pictures.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace[/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]Vacuum the floor now it is visible[/STRIKE]
Pile all hotspots into one heap and sort through it all.. File/shred as appropriate
[STRIKE]Clean and defluff the fire.[/STRIKE]. arrange for chimneys to be swept if necessary and services!
Level Three
[STRIKE]Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe sofas and dusty places[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]HHC in the hallway.[/STRIKE]. sort those coats and shoes and mess!! Clear out handbags and schoolbags!
Extras

1. [STRIKE]Freshen up any soft furnishings[/STRIKE]

WM x 1 DW x 1

pigpen

Triker wrote: »

Wow, some news to wake up to...Osama bin ladan dead...historical weekend indeed.

I'm up and need to get my planning head on, got a lot to organise.

Yeah.. great news.. let's see how many people his successor can kill.. and of course the Americans 'saving the world' because they had no assistance from British troops and no doubt others too.

TBH I don't believe a word .. they claim he is buried already.. but they've said that at least 10 times before!

Gadaffis youngest son has also supposedly been killed in a NATO airstrike..

Chappy came and gave a quote £800 for the gutter and the bay. He seemed very nice.. I said I'd let him know as I was waiting on a couple of other quotes... I'll build myself a spreadsheet and see what we come out at..

greenbee

Anyone know where my swimming goggles etc are? I really hope I didn't leave them in Dublin

Work stuff packed... jacket, dress, skirt, trousers, 3 tops, 1 cardigan, tights, socks, knickers, bras, 2 pairs of shoes. Now to try and shoehorn in the non-work stuff...

I have a headache already (oh yes... painkillers... need to pack those too...)

beemuzed

YooHoo! (Waves to all and sundry!)
Was MIA for a couple of weeks as I always log out when sharing the laptop and DS was with us for nearly three weeks. Then I forget my password and have to get a new one..and so it goes on!
However, I have been vaguely keeping up so house not too bad just now.
Won't be more than level 1 as I have an essay (sounds like a disease doesn't it? It's due in on Thursday so seriously need to get cracking today. on the other hand the housework has just suddenly become so much more appealing!
Take care all.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Morning, everyone,

DD is still MIA, as she was apparently coming back 'this morning' as it was easier for KH that way. Hopefully he has let her sleep in until about 9 but no later or she'll suffer at 6 tomorrow morning when she has to get up for school. I have been up since 6.50am but have been on a bit of a mission over the long weekend, so haven't done much more than drink tea and eat Jamaica Ginger Cake.

Over the weekend, [STRIKE]unencumbered[/STRIKE] unassisted by DD, I have

WM X 9
TD (for dry cleaning sheets with the winter coats - before anyone - Valli - tells me off ) X 3



Bedroom

Emptied my bedroom of everything
swept
dusted
vacuumed
cleaned skirting
washed walls

then
moved bed,
wardrobe,
2 chests of drawers
make up mini drawers
tiny filing cabinet
bedside cabinets
To make room look ten times bigger than the original way round


Extended curtain poles slightly as they were a bit short
Regathered and fluffed new curtains so they hand perfectly
made bed up with brand new posh linen
cleaned blankets & throw
chased cat off new bedlinen countless times
fixed lamps

Done 3 bin bags of clothes for the charity shop
Decided to part with 3 handbags (gulp) only 25 to deal with now :whistle:
put clean clothes in chest of drawers and wardrobe in gap left by charity shop donations
put 5 boxes up in loft
changed loft bulb to energy saving one

Emptied 2 bags and 3 boxes of pointless gibble into binbags


cleaned and moved rug into bedroom
cleaned blanket basket and put clean linen into it
chased cat out of clean linen filled blanket basket where I left it open
cleaned window sills
put plants from houseplant population explosion on bedroom windowsills
recovered beloved cat scuplture in a million pieces from the front path where a gust of wind took it out the window (don't go for dustcatchers ordinarily, but made an exception for this)

purchased large lead crystal vase for £2.50 from charity shop with the intention of putting things like lillies in it in the bedroom (trimming anthers off before I poison the cats/stain the furniture)


Kitchen

Cleaned kitchen from top to bottom
polished sink, cupboard door handles, door furniture and tiles with car wax as I had run out of suitable household sprays
made hob sparkle
cleaned out oven


Landing & Stairs

Vacuumed stairs and decided upon darkish milky coffee colour for landing and stair carpet.
Dusted banisters

Stuck laminate in cupboard under stairs

Made new vacuum cleaner earn its keep


Bathrooms

Bleached both bathrooms to within an inch of their lives



Garden

Rearranged plant pots on patio
planted out camomile, maize
sown sunflowers and runner beans
built mini cold frame out of storage tub, old oven door glass and bits of rotten bookcase
relocated mini greenhouse to spot where it actually sees some sunshine in the morning

found 2 pairs of lily beetles on my snakeshead fritilaries doing naughties :eek: so got involved in my first ever wildlife massacre of the innocents, including much squishing of red eggs.

picked up all abandoned pots
sowed some Japanese Anemones in a pot
Planted up a pot for my lovely neighbour from Jamaica - have done a terracotta pot with scotch bonnet, thyme and cherry tomatoes, in the hope that she will find them useful

Extended the sunny raised flowerbed.
Cleaned the patio





And stuffed my face on curried goat, rice & peas, plantain and dumpling
Salt & pepper squid from the Chinese
Tempura and chicken yakitori from the Japanese
and a fried egg sandwich

as you may be able to guess, I haven't had much time or inclination to cook this weekend!



Jobs for the week:

One hotspot where the coffee table used to be - the only one in the house :j

Clean windows

Mop floors

Clean mirrors

Clean electricals and glass TV unit/hallway unit

Clean leather sofa

Plant up the stuff out the front with some nice summery stuff as the pansies have gone over now - and hate the full sun all day, every day.

A bit of wandering round polishing things

Buying and arranging a silly expensive bunch of flowers I am going to buy myself as a reward for what I have done this weekend.


the rest of the time shall mostly be spent lazing around either dozing in the garden or in my lovely bedroom!

skintscotslass

Anyone up for HHC 12-12.30?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

skintscotslass wrote: »

Anyone up for HHC 12-12.30?

I shall push the vacuum cleaner around downstairs, but other than that, I hope everyone shall excuse me from doing a great deal....?

beemuzed

Hi Scotslass - I'm about to spend 30 minutes delving into the loft ( has to be cleared before new insulation is installed in two weeks time) so I'm with you!

JennyJewell

Morning/afternoon all
I am in if I may I've got stuff that I need to do today and if time I will start on Monday's list also :)Thank you for the list pigpen and the lovely welcome toots
Here's my list for today:

[STRIKE]Feed animals AM[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]TD on[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Iron clothes[/STRIKE]
Dishes and shiny sink
[STRIKE]De-clutter breakfast bar[/STRIKE] and window sill
De-clutter pantry
Clean pantry
[STRIKE]De-clutter computer table[/STRIKE]
Dust and polish living room
Hoover living room
Cushion covers back on in front room
Clean bathroom - sink
Toilet
Bath
Peel off borders
Clean walls
Clean tiles
Clean behind toilet
Feed animals PM
[STRIKE]Cook dinner[/STRIKE] and tea
Wash uniform
Dry uniform
Iron uniform

Ok must crack on Unusually looking forward to pottering around and cleaning!
Will be back soon
Jenny

nicki_2

skintscotslass wrote: »

Anyone up for HHC 12-12.30?

Running to catch up with you for HH in the garden deadheading etc. DD is washing up