Flylady Challenge - New Year, New You

moggins

Serena that cooker does not need an entire day! I couldn't use my nuke it spray today as my rubber gloves appear to have gone to that place where the odd socks go to. So instead I got out the Fairy WUL and the Borax, made a solution of the two and just spread it all over the base of the oven.

Soaked the shelves in the bath with some biological washing powder and then got on and did some other bits. When I came back to them an hour later they had virtually cleaned themselves. I scraped a couple of areas (where the Shepherds Pie had bubbled over) and then wiped it all away with kitchen towel. I now have a shiny oven and it just took one hours soaking and 5 minutes to clean it off.

scaredy_cat_2

thanks moggins - shouldn't be too bad as i try to do a bit everyday as they both enjoy playing upstairs so happy to be up there while i tidy - that's how i managed to do the bathroom - being small they fuss if i am away from the room for too long!! hopefully i will then make a start on some of the cupboards that really need doing

hi Anw's mum - like the others have said - baby steps start small especially if there is a lot going on as well when my babies were little and house was a mess i worked on the principle of make my list, cross of half and be pleased if i got half of that done!!

moggins

p.s. for those with kids over the age of 5! Make them take their own washing upstairs. Every evening I stand in the dining room with assorted piles of clothes. I shout someones name and when they come running I hand them a pile of clothes and point in the general direction of upstairs. My knees don't do repeated walks upstairs

scaredy_cat_2

moggins wrote:

Soaked the shelves in the bath with some biological washing powder and then got on and did some other bits. When I came back to them an hour later they had virtually cleaned themselves. I scraped a couple of areas (where the Shepherds Pie had bubbled over) and then wiped it all away with kitchen towel. I now have a shiny oven and it just took one hours soaking and 5 minutes to clean it off.

someone else posted me about this - its on my list :eek: of yucky jobs i avoid

do you just mix it and spread on and would you use it in the bottom of your oven?

comping_cat

moggins wrote:

p.s. for those with kids over the age of 5! Make them take their own washing upstairs. Every evening I stand in the dining room with assorted piles of clothes. I shout someones name and when they come running I hand them a pile of clothes and point in the general direction of upstairs. My knees don't do repeated walks upstairs

I do this too!!!! Also, when im about to put the WM on, i yell then for anything else, anything that will save me and im all for it!!!!

moggins

The biological washing powder? I just run the bath with hot water and sprinkle the powder in, stirring it until it's dissolved, then I drop the shelves in the bath.

The bottom of the oven I did with Fairy and Borax.

this_is_it

spent yasterday at my mums then went to choose wallpaper so last night and most of today was spent stripping wallpaper did get to clean cooker and the tip about using washing powder worked brilliantly, i'v not been able to see through the glass door of oven for a very long time but managed to get it gleaming was chuffed to bits as i'v tried loads of times to get it clean without success. gave shower room a good going over and sorted through all the baskets throwing empty and out of date stuff out.

allIcouldwishfor

Beccatje wrote:

AnW'sMum, do I know what you mean!! I do that with the ironing, and the folded washing. I'll have it draped on the sattee, and the cat will go sleep on it... or the kids will 'accidentally' push it off...

My trick is to leave it on the bed. Then DH comes along and chucks it on the floor. Just for good measure the dirty clothes he has just taken off get thrown on top. Result? Best case scenario, all the clean clothes get creased up and need ironing, worst is I don't know what's clean and what's dirty so end up washing it all over again!! Grrrrr!

scaredy_cat_2

moggins wrote:

The biological washing powder? I just run the bath with hot water and sprinkle the powder in, stirring it until it's dissolved, then I drop the shelves in the bath.

The bottom of the oven I did with Fairy and Borax.

can tell im tired as you did answer that question in your previous post - sorry think i meant would you use bilogical washing powder in bottom of oven if particularly bad and what is borax please - sorry for daft questions i am not feeling particularly with it at mo need to sleep and have been on ironing marathon

jjef

Thanks Moggins, as I didn't attempt the kids bedrooms at the weekend my aim for tomorrow is to gut one and to soak the cooker shelves in the bath ( I hadn't heard of this before so will give it a try).
Although I failed with the kitchen i have a shiny sparkly bath of which I am v proud.:j
Re ironing and general washing put away I was very bad i would take this off the airer and put it onto a bundle in the hall - ironing as well - but for the last five days I have been making an effort to put it sraight away whether I take it from the radiator, airer or ironing and so far it's working I don't have a large pile of washing in the hall.

Jobs for tomorrow -
Dailies - WM,DW, Bathroom SS,Kitchen SS, Ironing, and put washing away
Others - Cooker clean, DD1 bedroom
Hotspot - ledge in kitchen
Nightimes - clothes out, dishes out for breakfast, flush kids loo and check on living room.


I am now away to lie in my shiny bath with my book and a large glass of wine.