Weekly Flylady Thread 25th July 2011

vanilla

Whats been done
1) kitchen worktops cleared and cleaned
2) table cleared and cleaned
3) floor brushed
4) floor moped
5) one bin bag filled with rubbish
6) glass in doors cleaned
7) my laptop cleaned
8) paperwork in kitchen filed
9) new fly catchers up
10) dw unloaded and reloaded

Whats next
1) bin emptied
2) clear cooker top
3) put more washing on
4) get bathroom list done

House is looking much nicer.....:j:j:j

gillypkk

Valli wrote: »

Gilly - what you SHOULD do (IMHO) is put each DVD back into its case them move it out of the room - until he learns to put them back.

i know thats what i should do but TBH i dont have the energy!

anything to make my life a tiny bit easier right now ill take.

stomach ulcer came back with a vengance this morning and i feel so sick and sore. forcing some food down now coz otherwise ill end up in even more pain!

once terrible 2s are over ill put them back lol. and it makes it easier if we go away in the car ive all the dvds in one folder for them to pick from for their dvd players!

seafarers_wife

ok im going to drag my !!! into the shower and go hang a dressing gown on the line. then need to get my other dressing gown in so that tomorrow my bedding can go in.

also need to do a quick whizz round downstairs and get some lunch.

list :eek:

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Sweep and mop the floors
Level Two
Wipe dining table.. (clean table cloth if necessary)
Extras
Sort through a cupboard or drawer.. I bet loads can be flung!
Clean oven if it really needs it.. or just do the hob..
Dust and deweb blinds/curtains!
Tuesday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level Two
Vacuum the floor now it is visible
Clean any glass.. pictures, windows, mirrors etc
Level Three
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Extras
Vacuum AAALLLLLL the way up the stairs
Wipe the woodwork in these areas
Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Remove bed linen and replace with fresh linen
Level 2
Vacuum mattress before replacing fresh linen
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
Extras
Air the duvet.. fling it over the line for half an hour if you can.. flyaway bugs!
Clean windows in these rooms
Thursday ~ Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level Two
Clear any clutter from desk
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Extras
Wipe the skirtings, door and window frames in these rooms
Friday ~ childrens rooms and spare rooms
Level One
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Level Two
Vacuum the floor
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Clean 2 windows
Make a start on sorting out the school stuff to out away/get rid of -OHs work stuff instead
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras
Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
Friday fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!

Frogs

1. Close Abbey Bank account
3. chase up quote from builder: making loft hatch bigger and putting in ladders, putting in bannister & removing cables from roof and filling in gaps
5. sort out kitchen walk in cupboard - this WILL be done today
6. shredding to be done
7. filing to be done
10. sort out driving licence - need to wait to do passport
11. organise clothes properly
12. sort out underwear (need to find/buy bigger bras :eek:)

vanilla

Updated list :eek:

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Three
Clean fridge and see what needs using first

Extras

1. Clean oven if it really needs it.. or just do the hob..

Tuesday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Level One
Wipe and water the plants
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum the floor now it is visible
Clean any glass.. pictures, windows, mirrors etc
Level Three
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Wipe sofas and dusty places
Extras

1. Spend 15 minutes tackling a hotspot!!

Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Remove bed linen and replace with fresh linen
Declutter the floordrobe
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs.. make sure to do the bed base.. mine was gross
Vacuum mattress before replacing fresh linen
15 minutes grotspot clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Extras

1. Air the duvet.. fling it over the line for half an hour if you can.. fly away bugs!
2. Clean windows in these rooms

Thursday ~ Bathroom and Study/Pc Area

Friday ~ childrens rooms and spare rooms
Level Two
Vacuum the floor
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Level Three
Clean 2 windows
Make a start on sorting out the school stuff to out away/get rid of

Not looking as bad now..:rotfl:
Bedding can all be done tomorrow as well as out bedroom. Once football is over i'll make a start on the livingroom, suppose i could go and hoover the kids bedroom and hall now.

mumofjusttwo

Need to find my list. 4th attempt at posting list before computer freezes again.

i thought I was doing well but looks like there is loads left to do. Hopefully some of them are quick jobs! Still not XH has got the children today and tomorrow so am on my own-I really do not like it but it is good for the children to see there dad. Not sure what I am doing tonight . May see BF but depends on how he is feeling so will wait and see.


Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Extras
HHI


Tuesday - Sitting Room and Hallway
Extras
Vacuum AAALLLLLL the way up the stairs
Binbag dance... grab a bag fill it and fling it!
Wipe the woodwork in these areas


Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Check smoke alarms are working
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs.. make sure to do the bed base.. mine was gross
15 minutes grotspot clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
Defluff and demuck woodwork... skirtings, window frames, door frames dados, picture rails etc
Extras
Wipe lightshades and dusty bulbs.
Clean windows in these rooms
Binbag dance to go to charity shop! Or just general rehoming!


Thursday ~ Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Wipe down tiles in bathroom
Level Two
Clean baths, toilets, don't forget the outside! and sinks.. shine the taps with a toothbrush
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Level Three
Wash your bathroom mats, nets, clean blind/curtains etc
Extras
Wipe the skirtings, door and window frames in these rooms
Fling all those empty bottles and tubes
replace any sponges, flannels, toiletries that need it
clear a clutter spot in the bathroom and make it clean and decluttered!


Friday ~ childrens rooms and spare rooms
Level Two
Vacuum the floor
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Clean 2 windows
Make a start on sorting out the school stuff to out away/get rid of
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras
Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
HHI
Friday fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!

vanilla

Updated list :eek:

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Three
Clean fridge and see what needs using first

Extras

1. Clean oven if it really needs it.. or just do the hob..

Tuesday - Sitting Room and Hallway

Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Remove bed linen and replace with fresh linen
Declutter the floordrobe
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs.. make sure to do the bed base.. mine was gross
Vacuum mattress before replacing fresh linen
15 minutes grotspot clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Extras

1. Air the duvet.. fling it over the line for half an hour if you can.. fly away bugs!
2. Clean windows in these rooms

Thursday ~ Bathroom and Study/Pc Area

Friday ~ childrens rooms and spare rooms
Level Two
Vacuum the floor
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Level Three
Clean 2 windows
Make a start on sorting out the school stuff to out away/get rid of

Rhys now away for a snooze so i'll wait until later to hoover bedrooms. Hubby snoozing on sofa and didn't even move while i was hoovering. :rotfl:

DW just finished so unload and reload it, then clean hubby's laptop and another glass door.:D

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

MrsChaos wrote: »

Any suggestions how I can encourage Truffles (DS2's choice of name) to do this? She's been around since February and is much less shy now, but still very wary. Sat on OH's lap for a few seconds once, and that was it.

Little treats beside you, adding very gentle fusses and talking softly, reassuring slow blinks (cat kisses), looking away a lot so she doesn't feel she is the centre of attention. Introduce a cushion beside you for her to sit on - sooner or later she is likely to roll over and slide against you.

One of mine will happily fall asleep anywhere on me - it's actually taken 13 years to convince her that sleeping beside me is an equally valid place. One doesn't like laps enough to sleep on them, but since he got slimmer, he is more than happy to stand on my legs to get fuss/shout at me for food, but will sleep on my ribcage at night if I don't turn onto my side fast enough. And one - the rescued abused fluffbag - doesn't do my lap, but loves to be on a cushion beside me and getting lots of scratches - but will snuggle up to Minion like she's her mother.

MrsChaos wrote: »

Greenbee - glad yesterday went ok.

Me too

MrsChaos wrote: »

Don't know where to start, as lots happened since my last post. OH is in hospital after a bleed in his head. I left the ward at 8pm last night and have found out that they moved him to a different one during the night, but can't find out how he is at the moment. I know they're really busy and can't always answer the phone, but visiting is not until much later.

I do hope that he has a speedy recovery and you get more lay ins throughout the school holidays without so much worry.




Had a lay in, fed cats, relandscaped Morris and the Munchers' living quarters (bit worried about one Danio that looks unhappy, but did a massive water change/treat/filter clean/medication/replant and hoping for the best there. Going to starve them to see if that helps it perk up a bit. If not, going to have to euthanise it tomorrow in a glass of iced water )


Should be doing something practical. I might do some gardening if I can be bothered, but at the moment I am debating whether to wait for food until the Japanese takeaway opens up.

Mmmmmm. Tempura.
Mmmmmm. Chicken yakitori.
Mmmmmm. Salmon teriyaki bento.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[runs to fridge to try and find something to scarf down now]

Valli

wwell having listed all my stuff on e bay I have then frittered away time answering threads and playing scrabble.

AFis here though (so THAT'S my excuse)

anyway going to get the LAST room that needs to be cleaned and in order and this will, hopefully, motivat eme to do the million and one things I have to do

I have a bag of books my mum has liberated from a friend including my new fave Kathy Reichs, a Bill Bryson (never read any) so plenty of distractions:o

Mrs_B

Flopped in here and decided I was only going to skim the latest page and then Go Get On And Do Something - only to see MrsChaos' news - so sorry to hear that - dosn't sound good - do get in touch if you need - will check in case you do.

And, in an effort to avoid my chaos - no experience with cats, but my experience with (rescue) dogs is that it takes time for them to come for fuss - and, on the whole, needs to be on their terms - and I think cats are even more independently minded than dogs! One of mine starts to come and snuggle up to me, big time, probably 6-12 months after he came to live here - and it was probably 2 years before he really laid his head on my lap. The other one will probably never be really affectionate - she just wants to be a dog - definitely wants to be with us, but would rather be being asked to 'do' things, than to be fussed and petted.

OK. I now really have to go off and do a flying HHC. Just need to reduce the outward chaos to things at least being in the right places.

Valli

well I have washed up and done the ironing. There is some laundry in the basket - but not much. Possibly enough for a half-load...other than that it's all washed, dried and ironed:D

I have also glued one of the DR vertical bind slats back - the plastic weight pocket (technical term?) had come undone. Not a big job, I know.

Just need to find the motivation to dust and vacuum the DR now!