Flylady Challenge - New Year, New You

moggins

Clutter is definitely the main problem, a house can never look clean and tidy if it is filled to the gills. Personally I'd invest in some nice looking storage boxes so you can just chuck the kids stuff in at the end of the day.

scaredy_cat_2

love bold colour and v big text

i know i have really lost it as feeling excited about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rotfl:

my 2 girls love having sofa cushions on floor to play climbing mountains and jumping on so will make doing this easier

and i might find my keys missing since wed - top tip don't give keys to 18month old to play with while you cook dinner :eek:

thanks moggins

LJD1_2

Hiya
Well, this might make me sad but i didn't know you gave a list of things to do and i'm so excited!!!!! Yip, ok, i'm sad! Where will I find a list of the daily jobs I have to do. This is just what I need, someone to tell me what I need to do. I'll have a look back over the posts to try and find those extra daily jobs.

scaredy_cat_2

i think dailies are the things you do every day anyway - like get dressed to your shoes(!) empty dishwasher, cook, make bed - i think!! also do washing load maybe

lil_me

Daily list should be your own, what you need to do daily, I have weekly ones I do aswell, plus those little extras that moggins add it usually keeps things ticking over well!

Here's mine

Kids up, all of us dressed inc get boys washed, teeth done and dressed
Beds made
10 mins each bedroom quick tidy & laundry out
Laundry taken downstairs & sorted into basket (have 3 section one its fab)
At least 1 washer load done and out to dry, iron, then put away
Air the house
Living room, kitchen and dogs room vacuum and mop(twice daily for me)
Washing up kept on top of and sink shining (I am the dishwasher)
Swish and swipe kitchen and bathroom, quick dust where needed
Breakfast, lunch and dinner (incs packed lunches, DPs lunch etc)
Clothes ready before bedtime for next day
Kids bathed and to bed on time
Dogs routine kept to (inc walks and feeding)
15 min paperwork, ebay, email & calls(may reduce now have filing system)
Rubbish out and 10 minutes living room tidy before bed

I think thats the lot It's all in my start of my journal which is upstairs.

Bexstars

moggins have you been looking in my house! I have so much stuff on my stairs to go upstairs rofl Been working today so nothing really has been done apart from the tea time dishes and while I was at work hubby started knocking out the old doorframes upstairs and gutted the spare room which has pretty much left a nice mess everywhere for me to sort tomorow! Busy day me thinks

cha97michelle

I'm just relaxing for half an hour on here before bed after another productive day.

Done:

• 2 chickens roasted
• roast dinner made, plus extra one for my lunch tomorrow
• spare chicken in fridge for sandwiches and rubber chicken meals
• 1 x chicken carcass in SC to make stock
• baby stuff sterilised/washed/put away
• my CC bill paid
• sink properly scrubbed
• all washing up done
• sides wiped
• DH updated his financial paperwork ready for doing tax return
• 1 trip to tip to recycle xmas tree
• 1 to take waste cardboard from chrimbo to recycle
• TD emptied, clothes folded
• my wardrobe decluttered,with 6 items to go charity shop
• underwear sorted - odd socks and old undies binned.
• maternity clothes boxed to go in loft for at least a year (3 boxes, when i kept saying i had nothing to wear, but that happens when you dress smart for work :rotfl: )
• all airers emptied
• 2 loads through WM
• one airer refilled
• windows opened to air upstairs
• all my new chrimbo clothes put away/tags off
• charlies toys sorted into a plastic box instead of all over house. (box is overflowing, but looks loads better)
• trip to supermarket to buy carpet shampoo and cat food that we forgot on Saturday
• cut up old cards to gift tags
• empty cat litter trays/feed cats
• check internet banking

Kitchen is as sparkly as it can be for the week ahead. There are a couple of jobs that didn't get done so i will add that to the weeks tasks. Take down outside christmas lights (couldn't do as it chucked it down and was windy), shampoo kitchen carpet, and put decs and my materntiy clothes in the loft from the landing. Meal plan i can do tomorrow. Will do when i have to sit feeding/playing with baby.:money:

All in all, i can't believe how much we've achieved. I've been putting off sorting out my clothes for weeks, and once i started i actually enjoyed it.

Next big job is the ironing - i managed 2 items, but that is still 2 more than i would have done.

Thanks moggins. Can't wait to start tomorrow as i have already got my lunch prepped, and will make a rubber chicken dish for tea. I need to make some phonecalls and have put them off because i hate ringing people. Oh, and i have a pile of paperwork on the coffee table that just needs to go in the filing cabinet.

Have a nice evening everyone and a good nights rest for tomorrow.
Michelle, xx

LJD1_2

Thanks Lil_me, I'll make a start on a list for my daily tasks then. I've a feeling it's going to be very, very long.

loumac

WooHoo! Tomorrow evenings dinner is left over lasagne from today. (There's also a portion in the freezer [duly labelled] for another day!) I love feeling like I have a head start.

I especially love how all the useful threads on this forum all link together to help lead a more organised life! I am currently trying to be a flybaby, follow the grocery shopping and storecupboard challenges and it all seems to be coming together!

Have a scary observation at school tomorrow. As a new teacher I'm observed every half term and I'm very nervous so off to get a good nights sleep. Depending on how well the obs goes depends on how motivated I am towards all the other tasks on the list.

Luckily I live in a first floor maisonette and as my stairs are my main entrance to my home nothing tends to get left there!

millionaire_in_training

Ok did not manage to do all the jobs I wanted to do today but still feel as if I achieved loads. Took DS to swimming, went to church, cleaned and shined half of the tiles in the bathroom and took down shower curtains for washing. Did 3 loads of washing, hung up to dry. Tidied my bedroom, living room, kitchen, hoovered and tidied halls. Bought loads of storage boxes from Argos ( great bargain. 2 drawer units with three drawers in each and got 6 medium sized lidded boxes free. Each set was meant to be £19.99 but were £13.49 in sale) I needed these as I was not able to even contemplate my ds's room without them. Tidied my ds room but to be honest just shoved all the junk into said boxes but looks so much better and will treat these boxes and drawers as hot spots until cleared. Made chicken casserole in SC ( was delish) filled DW and dd emptied it. Didn't get ironing done or windows and need to finish bathroom but am knackered now so they can wait till next weekend. House is definately getting there though xx:T