Flylady Challenge - New Year, New You

JAMIEDODGER

front room, hallway and dining room dusted, hoovered and all cleaned!!!

wash 1 is dried and back on my bed:)
wash 2 is drying now
wash 3 is in washing machine

i might contemplate wash 4 later lol

daughters bag and lunchbox are all done ready for nursery at 12, and ds's 1,2 and 3 have been packed off to school:D

i feel like ive actually acheived something this morning:T

now i have to get on with some work and pack orders etc but im having a tea break first:D

more work and food shopping planned for this afternoon, plus dailies, also have to pop to shops and get me some new socks as didnt manage to find any without holes in this morning lol

thank goodness for moggins lists:D

JD

Moll

Can i join in please? i havent done a fly lady challenge before ,BUT NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET ,,,,,,,,so can someone give me a bit of help in understanding things please ( Dont worry im a quick learner )
Ive read back a few pages ( and will read more) you are all a great inspiration to get me motivated, I understand the "Monday" list and will get cracking on those , I live in a big house,,,that at this moment in time is a tip . Pick ANY room im ashamed to say ...but thats all going to change now isnt it .
Is there an original flylady thread telling you about uses for Stardrops etc, did a search , and i cant find it .sorry
And keep reading about shining the sink ? ( Told you i was new) is this a time saving tip ? i am slowly reading back through this thread, so hopefully ill find everything eventually.
Just "Looked" in the living room .............and i have grown up kids,and christmas bags full of thier stuff is still in there..still needing moving ,,,,.............so looks like the whip is coming out for them to .
What are Hotspots?? are these things youve put off doing ......or areas that are prone to build up clutter ?
k off to make a dent in it .......................Little steps eh
thanks for having me

*JoJo*

Morning Everyone,

Hope you all had a good weekend. Monday morning seems to come around so quickly! While hubby was at home to help with our 2, I blitzed the bathrooms and all the rooms upstairs. We moved to our new house a few months ago. We are lucky enough to have two bathrooms and a downstairs loo, so there is quite a lot of cleaning involved. I thought that by blitzing them and then doing "swish and swipe" daily, it will really help me to keep on top of it all. Big thank you to lil_me for the website with all the charts, scedules etc. I had a look at it yesterday and used a few ideas to come up with a daily/weekly chart, and another chart for planning meals. It was really helpful so thanks again :T I now feel ready to really get on with things. I got hubby to check forum out at the weekend so he could understand why all these charts were going up, and why I was flying round the house....Moggins; I think you have even inspired him so thank you! :A

Nearly finished dailies then off to do the lounge. Quick question....does anyone know how to get baby formula out of the carpet? Tried a carpet shampoo but it just won't lift Have a great day x

pigpen

Moll wrote:

Can i join in please? i havent done a fly lady challenge before ,BUT NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET ,,,,,,,,so can someone give me a bit of help in understanding things please ( Dont worry im a quick learner )
Ive read back a few pages ( and will read more) you are all a great inspiration to get me motivated, I understand the "Monday" list and will get cracking on those , I live in a big house,,,that at this moment in time is a tip . Pick ANY room im ashamed to say ...but thats all going to change now isnt it .
Is there an original flylady thread telling you about uses for Stardrops etc, did a search , and i cant find it .sorry
And keep reading about shining the sink ? ( Told you i was new) is this a time saving tip ? i am slowly reading back through this thread, so hopefully ill find everything eventually.
Just "Looked" in the living room .............and i have grown up kids,and christmas bags full of thier stuff is still in there..still needing moving ,,,,.............so looks like the whip is coming out for them to .
What are Hotspots?? are these things youve put off doing ......or areas that are prone to build up clutter ?
k off to make a dent in it .......................Little steps eh
thanks for having me

Hello and welcome!!!

Hotspots are those areas prone to build up clutter.. you know you get that letter and dump it on the heap?.. that's it! The corner up the ceiling in junk and mess.. there's another one!!

Oh yes!! whipping grown up (or almost grown up) children is a must.. they need to be trained so their houses are neat and tidy once they leave!

I have a large house too and it WAS!!! a complete slum. I now have floor with carpet, worksurfaces, a landing!! and useable spaces in most rooms.

My suggestion.. DON'T try to catch up just do it as we go along or you lose motivation. If you WANT to do more once you get on a roll (yes this evens ahppens to a pig like me lol) you can look at somewhere else than. Don't burn yourslef out doing too much at once. You need to do a bit, have a break then start again. Many people find having a timer helps so they know they only have 15 minutes or 30 minutes and can watch the time pass, personally I dig in and stop once it is done. Once you've done somewhere a good clean you can go back over it easily then.

You'll get through, it only LOOKS a lot.. once you get into the swing it is much easier. Plus having it written here and everyone can see what you've left off your list or 'failed' to complete you soon step up the pace!

Some of these here put lazy ones like me to shame, don't be put off by them they just live to scrub! lol.. MOST of us are quite bearable.. apart from that Moggins.. she is a right old slave driver!! Gives us loads of really hard jobs.. clean the childrens rooms she says.. That was me gone for the best part of 4 days!

Baby steps at first!!.. No flying before you can walk!

pigpen

jojo.. you scrub it!!! No other way I've found!! The water has to be as hot as possible to dissolve it them it soaks out with a towel or something and then just whizz over with a shampooer to get the residue out.

FRUGALPIE_2

Plan of action for today is

Living room

1. Clear all junk.
2. Clean Windowsill.
3. Dust all areas.
4. Polish Leather Suite and plump Cushions.
5. Lightswitches etc
6. Hoover (moving furniture not just around it).

Kitchen

1. Clear all junk.
2. Clean sides,
3. Unload WM and load again (as many times as is necessary)
4. Unload DW
5. Put on bread maker.
6. Start dinner
7. Shine sinks.
8. Sweep and mop floor.

That'll do for now catch you all later.

Frugalpie
xx

Moll

I have a large house too and it WAS!!! a complete slum. I now have floor with carpet, worksurfaces, a landing!! and useable spaces in most rooms.



Wow.thats great,,,,,,,,,,,hope "One Day " ill be able to say that :j
thanks pigpen for all the advice,especially about not trying to catch up ,


so its Day 1 for Moll x

lil_me

Right, rant first then work, sons appointment cancelled just as we were going to set off, so just got back from dropping him off at school. Puppy made a mess agin so had to clean that up. DP been in a flap all morning so been helping him sort the car out and getting his suit pressed before he set off for the funeral. Confession - didn't do dishes last night, son woke, went to settle him and dozed off so have all the Sunday dinner dishes and cooking things to wash up now, I am NEVER doing that again!

Right today

[STRIKE]Do that washing up
Extra load of laundry
Wash floor cushions
Clear car out (inside as DP been using it for work
Several calls to make
Sort paperwork pile I found
Moggins list
Dailies [/STRIKE] seeing as we're out for dinner I'm done early :j

Post eBay parcels and bills
Make some fruit loaf

Take kids to Mister Twisters 6-8 (having dinner there)
Niight time routine (inc bathing & putting boys to bed)

Welcome to all the newbies, pleased those charts helped Jojo I use them all the time. If you register they send you updates of new ones too.

*JoJo*

thanks lil_me, I will register with the site; I feel a bit more organised having the schedules; it is not such a mountain to climb having the housework spread out across the week. Thanks for the advice about baby formula pigpen. My youngest has taken a liking to shaking his milk and spraying it all over the lounge (and I thought it would be easier after we had gone through all the weaning!!!) I cannot believe how much chaos and mess 2 toddlers can cause! They seem to move from room to room with me running behind them cleaning it all up! I'll remind them of this one day! :rotfl: x

LJD1_2

Morning all.

So far i'm done one washing load and dried it, about to put the second one on now, done the food shop, done the banking and taken our dog to the vets for annual check - nothing wrong with her and just needed jabs, yeahhhhhhh!

Things to do;
1) Living room (everything on Moggins list)
2) Dining room (everything on Moggins list)
3) Hall
4) Unload dishwasher
5) Swish (is this the right technical term?) the kitchen
6) Another washing load
7) 5 mins in each of the bedrooms

I have one hour so on my marks, get set........go!


PS Hello Moll, hope you enjoy the challenge xx