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Weekly Flylady Thread 30th May 2011
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I'm now full of jam doughnuts and giant chocolate buttons, don't feel good - yak! Off to get some water.
That is why they have 'reclosable info':rotfl:
I have abondoned decluttering for a while as I have 5 furries running around and (despite what Toots might say) I don't want to accidentally declutter one or more!!
Off to play ............"There's only one way of life and that's your own" - Levellers
"I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night" - Bon Jovi0 -
I'm in - thanks to all at FCC.
Half term this week so I may actually manage to get some jobs done!NST #10 Steps 7K 2/30 10K 2/12 5 a day 3/30 NSD 0/20
MBNA £55000 -
I'm in again ..... Kids are at their Dad's this week so I should have plenty of time to do jobs.0
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I'm in - OH is *so* appreciative of how much better the house looks after my first week of joining inand is making extra effort with his personal finances to reciprocate, so it's a win-win situation
Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Do items 2 and 7 from your frog list!!!
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
Wash all the skirtings and door and window frames!
Level Three
Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge!
Extras- Thoroughly clean the tins/jars cupboard!
- Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
- Clean all the filters and door seals etc
- Wipe the back door down.. inside.. and out!!
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- Phone wedding dress shop to find out if my dress has arrived
- Photograph teeth for Project Gnashers update
- List my Droopy & Brown dress on eBay
- Take bale of shavings down to stable
- Weed the rose bed
- Break down the cardboard boxes upstairs in the annexe
- Chase up last RSVPs for the wedding
- Find out how much we still owe for the honeymoon and when it has to be paid by
- Plant out spuds
- Poo pick the bottom field
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[STRIKE]1 Repair table cloth[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]2 hand sewing[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]3 set up regular savers[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]4 sort out kids savings[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]5 Governor research and emails[/STRIKE]
6 dress sleeves
[STRIKE]7 Change DS1 ortho appointment[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]8 street party lists/money[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]9 tax return (awaiting statement)[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]10 sort kitchen drawer[/STRIKE]
On top of this I'm concentrating on sorting 5 rooms this week;
[STRIKE]Living room - toy cupboard and DVD/games drawers[/STRIKE]
Family Room - toy shelf and large cupboard
DS1 room - wardrobe and drawers
DS2 room - wardrobe and drawers
DS3 room - desk, wardrobe and drawers
Deep cleaning for June
wash cushion covers
launder large winter duvets
[STRIKE]clean living room grate[/STRIKE]
Wash wood at front - kitchen window and door, front door, shed door
To buy in half term
DS2 school shoes - postponed until summer as on study leave
DS1 trainers, shorts, joggersThe birds of sadness may fly overhead but don't let them nest in your hair0 -
Hex - does that mean you're coming over my way? Re Bridgmere/LakelandNST #10 Steps 7K 2/30 10K 2/12 5 a day 3/30 NSD 0/20
MBNA £55000 -
Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Do items 2 and 7 from your frog list!!!
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
Wash all the skirtings and door and window frames!
Level Three
Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge!
Extras- Thoroughly clean the tins/jars cupboard!
- Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
- Clean all the filters and door seals etc
- Wipe the back door down.. inside.. and out!!
RIP Iain
13/11/63-22/12/120 -
Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Do items 2 and 7 from your frog list!!!
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
Wash all the skirtings and door and window frames!
Level Three
Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge!
Extras- Thoroughly clean the tins/jars cupboard!
- Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
- Clean all the filters and door seals etc
- Wipe the back door down.. inside.. and out!!
Frog list
1. Pile of paperwork and gibble in the living room.
2. Sort cutlery drawer
3. Move tins and packets into lower cupboards, freeing up wall cupboard for nice crockery that I want to buy
4. Sort out handbags & purses
5. Erm.
6. Um.
7. Erm.
8. Eek.
9. Argh.
10. Ah.
Sorry - I'm nearly perfect (for me, anyway!) at the momentI could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
I haven't called by here for yonks. Just thought I'd say hi :beer:. Frog list looks specially useful. Thanks Piggers etc.
Monday - Kitchen and dining room
[STRIKE]Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Do items 2 and 7 from your frog list!!! [/STRIKE]
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
Wash all the skirtings and door and window frames!
Level Three
Wipe the table and chairs... clean cloth if necessary
[STRIKE]Sweep and mop the floor[/STRIKE]
Degunge the fridge!
Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
[STRIKE]Level One[/STRIKE][STRIKE]
strip the bedding and get it washed.. air the duvet
Mattress vacuumed turned vacuumed other side and redress bed
Items 3 and 4 from your frog list!! [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Level Two
Deal with the floordrobe
Wash the windows in these rooms
Wipe all the doors and frames in these areas
Level Three
Vacuum floors
Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers
Dust and deweb.. inc bed frame!![/STRIKE]
Wednesday - Living area, hallway, stairs!!
Level One
Froggy items 6 and 9
[STRIKE]Vacuum/mop floors & stairs![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Level Two
dust over all the electrical appliances.. be careful though I don't want any accidents!
[STRIKE]Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move![/STRIKE]
Clean the sofas[/STRIKE]
Level Three
Declutter the inside of a cupboard or drawer!
Degrot the under stair space/cupboard.. I'm good to you all I know!
Dust mantle and polish any display cabinets or bookshelves etc
Thursday ~ bathroom/loo and cruddy study!
Level One
Declutter the clutter!
Froggy items 1 and 8
throw out 100 things from the house!
Level Two
Wash/vacuum floors
Clean the baths/basins/bogs etc and the keyboard and mouse!
Wash the bath mats, shower curtains and toilet hats!
Defrag the pc
Level Three
Declutter the pc desk and give it a wipe!
Wash all the windows and doors
Empty all those upstairs bins!
Friday - Brats rooms, spare rooms or wherever!
Level One
[STRIKE]Declutter the dog shelf[/STRIKE]
froggy list items 5 and 10
[STRIKE]Don't forget your Friday you time.. half an hour spent solely on you![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Level Two
[STRIKE]Strip and wash the bedding
vacuum and turn mattresses and remake
Drag all the junk from under the bed and place it all where it is meant to be![/STRIKE]
Vacuum floor[/STRIKE]
Level Three
[STRIKE]Wash the windows[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Deweb, dust and destickify the room![/STRIKE]
Straighten the cupboards of clothes!
My frog list:
1 Sort top of bathroom cupboard
[STRIKE]2 Update royal family info sheet[/STRIKE][STRIKE]
3 Put photo on world map
4 Sort completed workbooks[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]5 Cut children's nails[/STRIKE]
6 Get DH payslip and ring tax credits people
[STRIKE]7 Order Tesco vouchers[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]8 Transfer tomato plant[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]9 Sort books by my bed[/STRIKE]
10 Change pictures on the wall0 -
froddington wrote: »That is why they have 'reclosable info'
:rotfl:
;)
Hip flexers are really playing me up today so going to wash up and go to bed to see if lying down helps, sitting here sure doesn't.The birds of sadness may fly overhead but don't let them nest in your hair0
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