Weekly Flylady Thread 30th May 2011

JennyJewell

Afternoon all
I had a lovely afternoon with my friend yesterday - we sat outside in her lovely countryside garden drinking coffee and eating scones with jam and cream, mmm lovely We spent most of the afternoon talking about de-cluttering, cleaning and re-vamping our houses,lol! She has lent me a book called A Modern Girl's Guide to Getting Organised - this is seriously starting to become my new hobby,lol!
I have just been able to get myself a dining table and benches from freecycle - whoo-hoo! So my focus is going to continue with the kitchen with a bit of general tidying Have also put flowers on my newly de-cluttered kitchen window sill as well as in my living room and bathroom

Here's my list for this afternoon/evening

Brush carpet up with rubber broom and hoover
Finish dishes
Put DS2's bedding in wash
Hoover DS2's mattress
Sort 6 boxes and bags of books for Freecycle (DH de-cluttered table for me this morning so I now have space - yay )
Sort rubbish in pantry

Right that's enough for now - will report back later

Love and hugs,
Jenny x

Craftyscholar

Valli wrote: »

It's ridiculous. Neither I nor the neighbour are married so no issue there - but he is just !!!!!! stirring to deflect attention away from his own un-neighbourly behaviour.

Last time I ask the bloke-across-the-road for help though, now, because of what A (the bloke with the lorry) thinks. The bloke-across-the-road (let's call him kindly took me to pick my car up when the radiator leaked and I had to drop it in the garage. Also B is retired, in all day and keeps an active eye on ALL our houses - like having our very own neighbourhood watch.

Problem is - he is going to !!!!!! stir whatever you do and it seems a pity to turn down genuine offers of help from someone who is obviously happy to be a good neighbour (and fill time in retirement).

Triker

Well my HHC was super productive.

I could cry with joy, daft as it sounds. I went to pump air in my ever deflating tyre on my van...its been so unreliable I haven't dared take it anywhere, really spoiled things for me, it was supposed to be a camper/come allsorts van.

Anyway, as I was taking it to the garage to pump the tyre up, hubby said, its the valve thats split, shouldn't cost very much to replace.

So I hottailed it to the garage, pumped it up, then drove to the Tyre place and they replaced the valve and pumped all the tyres up to correct psi.

Cost £5.00.

My hubby fixed the dodgy ignition the other week and that cost a tenner from the scrappers....so I now have a fairly reliable van...trouble is MOT runs out next week....but another froggy disgested.

Its full of car boot stuff for tomorrow.

nicki_2

I've had to stop for a bit to cool down! DD is back as X had to be home because of someone coming round so she's cleaning my room since I cleaned hers :rotfl: There's a lot less to do in my room as there is a lot less in there :rotfl: Will carry on in a minute when I've had a drink.

Monday - Kitchen and dining room
Level Two
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances and kickboards
Wash all the skirtings and door and window frames!
Level Three
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge!

Tuesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One
Items 3 and 4 from your frog list!!

Repair blouse 1 & 2
Fix black jumper

Level Two
Wash the windows in these rooms - There's a wasp like bug on the window so this can wait for now.
Wipe all the doors and frames in these

Wednesday - Living area, hallway, stairs!!
Level One
Froggy items 9

- Set up accounts for work properly instead of "make do" paper ones.

Vacuum/mop floors & stairs!
Level Two
dust over all the electrical appliances.. be careful though I don't want any accidents!
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move!
Clean the sofas
Level Three
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 Two
Defrag the pc

Friday - Brats rooms, spare rooms or wherever!
Level One
froggy list items 5 and 10

Sort pics out for DD's bedroom
Hang pic in DD's room

Don't forget your Friday you time.. half an hour spent solely on you!
Level Two
Strip and wash the bedding
Still haven't worked out what bug is in my room I think its a bee. I'm just wondering how to encourage it to go back out...

Mum_on_a_mission_2

One large item decluttered, our old car has gone to its new owners, and another frog gulped whilst waiting so list is now

1. eaten
2. Sort last page on website with wrong fonts
3. eaten
4. Ring HMRC re tax for charity
5. Pay o/s bills
6. eaten
7. FF & carhire - join & print
8. ESTA/API's
9. eaten
10. Text for emails about where we are etc (away & local versions)
11. eaten
12. Catering list

Visit to supermarkets next, needs must, then back for more HHGs & frogs...

Moam

sharonr

I see a chiropractor for my back problem. She recommends ice packs for "mechanical" problems. I can def recommend them. Ibruprofen and paracetamol just didn't touch it, which is all my GP would offer me. Ice packs, however, relieve the pain at least whilst they are on which gives some relief. Hope this helps.

kazmeister wrote: »

Back from the doctors - DD has had a painful tailbone for over a month now, he has recommended ibuprofen 3x a day and to go back in a month. I guess there's not much he can do but as it has gone on for a while I did think he might have recommended an xray.

vanilla

All done
empty dw and reload
strip all beds
find boys school uniform and summer jackets
clear all worktops in kitchen
bring up all dirty washing
bring in clothes off line
get kids fed, dressed and throw them outside
put rubbish out
fold all clean clothes and put away
put clothes on line
get wm back on
spend HHC in our room
remake our bed
put recycling out
dust livingroom
hoover livingroom and hall
hoover DD's room
get boys to tidy there room
hoover boys room
hoover hall
put rubbish out from bathroom
clean bathroom
brush and mop bathroom floor
more washing
make boys beds
sort and put away more clean washing
get DD to finish homework
clear hall window sil
clear kitchen window sil
sort paperwork in kitchen

Next
brush and mop kitchen floor
spend another HHC in our room
sort clothes for kids for tomorrow
work out money for next week
sort my clothes for tomorrow
clear car out
dinner
get all kids bathed
spend HHC in front hall
hoover front hall

I'm shattered....:rotfl:and still have loads to do...

Well done Triker :T

LameWolf

Dustykitten wrote: »

Valli - I'd be spitting chips. How vary dare he.

^^^ Wot she said! Shame some people can't mind their own flamin' business! I'd be making a Voodoo doll of Truck Man if that was me....:eek:

BIG frog suitably chomped - Mr LW and I spent an hour out in the back garden, and we've done loads out there; I've had a major blitz on the Creeping Jenny that's invading from next door.... I will eliminate the damned stuff, if it kills me!:D

We decided to stop when we did because I was starting to feel really dizzy with fatigue (I hate lupus!) but if it's nice tomorrow, we'll see what else we can get done out there.:o

Get well soon Maxonian; I Googled quinsy, and tbh, wished I hadn't!:o

Hope you're not climbing the walls with having to rest Greenbee.

Last but by no means least, lots of posi-vibes for little Meggie.

Valli

OMG Has Maxonian got Quinsy - I had that once it was DREADFUL - I couldn't swallow anything and the meds I got from the doc knocked me out then gave me a 'hangover' til the next batch.

One the plus side it didn't last long.

Had to get exOH home from work (was a Sat) to see to the kids as I was incapable.
Soothing throat vibes for you - also Meggie's inmy thoughts.


Yeah Crafty - you're right. By me there a a few of us on our own so we do look out for each other. Some of my neightbours (well all bar truckman, actually) are lovely. NDN joined on mowed my lawn for me this morning - he does both together. NDN's on the other side are like family...
One of the reasons why I wouldn't shift from here when we split up. I LOVE where I live.

have listed two pictures I found in the upstairs landing cupboard on e bay. Something the first Mr Valli brought home from Oxfam about 25 years ago. Fingers crossed they sell - I want those Denby pots for my new kitchen

(They're cheaper direct or from Debenhams )

JennyJewell

Lamewolf - I'm not creeping in from next door honest,lol! x