Flylady for single people?

angelavdavis

I have a tendency to leave stuff around.

I have been able to overcome it by strategically placed hideaways. I have two smart boxes with lids on the magazine shelf on the coffee table. This is for my study books and work paperwork that I seem to always been drowning in.

I don't believe in open shelving in bedrooms/bathrooms (too much dusting required!) so I make sure I have doors on shelving in these areas and ensure I have plenty of space for makeup, etc to go (I even hide away my toothbrush holder!) Leaving surfaces clear means its easier to give them a wipe. I do it after I have showered, when the tiled surface is usually still damp from steam. I just whizz over the surface with a bit of loo roll and pop in down the loo!!!

There is a downside to the hideaway trick - I lose stuff all the time, but its only going to be in one of the boxes (somewhere!) :rotfl:

cha97michelle

I've been doing the flylady bit since JAnuary, and i'm far from perfect, although the house is a lot tidier/cleaner than it was. I'm a teacher, so i would set off with good intentions, and then hit towards half term, and not have the energy for cleaning, then have to spend half term hols tidying again.

I think everybody can say what the problem is in their own house. For me, its coffee table as a dumping ground, and that the sink in the kitchen always shows up stains from food. So i try to deal with post as it arrives, and have found that just swilling the sink round each evening removes the bubbles and food bits (particularly tea and tomato stains) so it looks better.

Flylady is supposed to be for everybody, not just married people with families. It should be easier as a single person, because you haven't got other people behind you undoing your work.

I also like the do-it now principle,which i have found as the key bit of any organisational programme. Most things like throwing out envelopes/taking something upstairs/paying a bill online only takes two minutes, but if you leave it, you keep thinking about it so it takes up so much more of your time.

good luck with sorting out your routines. And as lynzpower says, we are a friendly bunch on the flylady challenge, and i don't think any of us are perfect. We have long lists, but they don't all get done in one day, or we would be cleaning for 20 hours a day. :rotfl: And believe me, that wouldn't happen.

Oh, and a tip i like from another thread - put dark clothes in the WM as you use them, and then when the load is full, put the WM on. That could be part of your morning routine to take dark washing down to the machine with you, and then you are not storing as much dirty washing somewhere, and you also don't waste money running a load with one item.


Michelle

luckylukey

I think that my task/burden/habit for the month will be to make my bed - which i do at the moment maybe once a week !!!

Toxic_Lemon

We don't seem to be doing too well on this thread, do we? LOL

tigerlily

Count me in for this, I too signed up to the flylady site and found so much of it irrelavent that I gave up as I am single with no children.

CFC

I thought that Flylady was scarey, obsessive compulsive behaviour turned into a regime that presumably makes someone a good living through book sales etc!

Laurahurst, I think your friend and your b/f need to understand that you're NOT their mother. No matter how much your b/f is working, that doesn't give him and your mate permission to lounge around on the pc while you're doing the housework.

As for me, I've got it down to a ritual of an hour's worth of cleaning on Sunday afternoons. Downstairs one week, upstairs the next. Jobs on top are cleaning bath and cleaning toilet. Washing gets done once a week. My house is far from perfect but I'm able to clear it up in 10 minutes if someone is coming round. Yes, I'd like it to be cleaner and do a bit every day but it isn't going to happen lol...

Toxic_Lemon

I'm not sure whether initial enthusiasm has dropped or if peeps are just busy over Xmas. My sink's not too shiney! :eek:

Slinky

My sink is far from shiny!! It's all gone to rats a bit with visitors/visiting over Christmas. I think I'm just going to have to live with it til the new year when Mr Slinky goes back to work away from home and I can have a bit of a blitz and start my new regime properly.

Toxic_Lemon

I actually threw away some stuff today. Mainly handbags and freebie makeup bags I've accumulated. A few old clothes, too. I filled a whole bin liner!

skintlass

I'm working my way through a years worth of paperwork today and tomorrow :eek: then I plan on being a single flylady. I hope that next year my house will not suffer from CHAOS syndrome and that I'll be able to relax when I get in from work to my clean tidy house with tea cooking in the slowcooker and bread baking in the breadmaker - oh well I can dream