Flylady Challenge - New Year, New You

aimeelister

Well i definatly flew yesterday.
I am just about satring to get the house where i can keep on top of it. Deep deep deep deep cleaned the kitchen yesterday, and the bathroom. Hoovered the lounge, cleaned out the fireplace, finally emptied the last boxes from moving a month ago.

Todays list
Washing
Shampoo lounge carpet
Sort out all my makeup (i dont wear much so how i have gained so much i have no idea!)
Meal Plan
Paperwork round 2.

Good luck everyone!

Little_Miss_Winner

off topic i know but we just got an excellent comb from the pharmacy - sadly the packaging is gone so i don't know what its called but it has really long teeth which are sort of spiralled and gets eggs out as well - 10yo dd has been clear for two weeks now which is unheard of - cost about a tenner but worth it

NITTY GRITTY ?

pigpen

Monday 8th January.

Today

[STRIKE]WM x2
TDx2
DWx2
BMx2
Fold dry clothing[/STRIKE] and put away
Vacuum the boys room
vacuum front room
wipe worksurfaces and units, sink
clean bathroom.. maybe..
Actually, it is the toilet floor that needs cleaning.. I am ju8st finding anything to do so I don't have to do that!

This month..

[STRIKE]Reshuffle my bedroom once smallfry has been banished.[/STRIKE]
Nag the children to get their rooms tidied at least a little.. they are like war zones.
Make the 2 oldest sort out their clothing, what fits and what doesn't!think!! about losing some christmas lard.
2 bills still to pay
new toilet installed in the bathroom... if it doesn't get done, I at least need to save for it.. so be prepared to see this for the next 3 months!

Mondays Mission is:

[STRIKE]Do dailies including at least one load of washing[/STRIKE]

Living room - Hoover, dust, remove sofa cushions and (after checking for change) hoover those sofas. Tidy away anything that shouldn't be there. Check for cobwebs, hoover hallway (I'd need to find it first.. but I shall make a little effort!) and take up anything on stairs that needs to go up into bedrooms... can't remove cushions as they are attached but I'm vaccuuming in there later anyway so will be done.. I refuse to dust.. I prefer to wait until there is enough to vacuum lol.. I need to water Howie (the plant) though, he is looking a little droopy

Tackle one hotspot and file away any post that needs to be kept and has been dealt with.

[STRIKE]Make any important phone calls[/STRIKE]... I have 2 to make.. but DD needs placing in her nest first because she is screaming for no apparent reason!.. consider her placed! and she has JUST shut up so she spent almost 2 hours screaming in total.. I love children!COLOR]

See if there is any part of the evening meal that you can prepare in advance... what are we having?

pigpen

I was drying her hair last night I noticed something moving..... nearly 2 hours later I was still trying to rub derbac (which I didn't have enough of ) into her hair to kill the little b*stard lice and nits. I'm sure she was clear when she went to school on Thursday Got 10 out so far. This morning I was the hair and start drying it again thinking "got them all " when I notice something still moving... they're still alive!!!!!

off topic i know but we just got an excellent comb from the pharmacy - sadly the packaging is gone so i don't know what its called but it has really long teeth which are sort of spiralled and gets eggs out as well - 10yo dd has been clear for two weeks now which is unheard of - cost about a tenner but worth it

Yep.. nitty gritty.. I got mine off ebay though it was £3 cheaper than the pharmacy!!! including P&P Plus it was a buy it now so I got nectar points as well!

I spent 3 hours yesterday going through the childrens hair.. the boys were walking.. and are now practically bald.. if they won't be combed off I'll freeze the blighters to death lol. I was quite shocked as we actually seem to be somewhat in control of them at the moment. *itch scratch* I did myself too! lol

Penelope_Penguin

Stopping for a break. Jobs done (some yesterday, but didn't have time to post then):

Washing – done and drying on creel
Coffee table – polished
Tree – taken down and now outside
Downstairs – hovered
School uniform – washed and ironed
Ironing – done
Recycling – sorted and into bins
Chicken breasts – cooked for pasties
Kitchen – tidying started

See you all later, Penny. x

jo_b_2

stefejb wrote:

off topic i know but we just got an excellent comb from the pharmacy - sadly the packaging is gone so i don't know what its called but it has really long teeth which are sort of spiralled and gets eggs out as well - 10yo dd has been clear for two weeks now which is unheard of - cost about a tenner but worth it

It might be this - the Nitty Gritty comb, as a few others have already suggested:

http://www.nittygritty.co.uk/ng/index.jsp

Apparantly, you can get it free on prescription but haven't tried it myself.

Anyway, back on topic.... My house is so messy, I haven't even got the time or motivation to draw up a list of jobs.

rach

i was away this weekend, still struggling to get rid of lingering cold too!

today's my day off so i'm hoping to do both friday and mondays lists (bedroom and living room). i live in an upstairs flat so the stairs willl be the mission - its a job i leave and leave...but i love coming in when its done (i'm terrible at dumping stuff on the stairs)

so i'm gonna do my best....

gonna throw in sausage casserole into SC as friend coming for dinner later

hazzie123

I did absolutely sweet naff all yesterday apart from,work and make two loaves of bread!

But seen as it was Sunday I simply dont care.

Today I`m going to clean the front room and stairs and whatever details are on Moggins list.Desperately need to sort out the sideboard drawers as they are full to bursting point with bits of DS paper and nik naks.

nicki_2

Pigpen...thats the bit I'm not looking forward to...might have to get OH to do mine for me.

Well, I've been to Asda and Aldi spent £25 but got some "specials" from Aldi (like a staplegun so I don't have to keep borrowing my mums ) and some new copping boards so not too bad.

OH has just had me searching for a celebrity chef whose name he couldn't remember for 30 minutes! :mad::rolleyes: I found it though Nancy Lam :rotfl:

My list looks like this as I haven't done anything yet....

• Dailys - [strike]Beds Bathroom[/strike]Dishes Kitchen, WM & Bleach mould
• Livingroom
  • Hoover
  • Dust
  • Clean Suite
  • Tidy
• Hallway / landing/ stairs
  • Hoover
  • Dust
• Hot spot - crockery/baking cupboard - moving crockery to another cupboard, putting small appliances in current crockery cupboard which will involve me getting something out of the baking cupboard :rolleyes::rotfl:
• Filing - 30min x 2
• Evening Meal - not decided yet, but it will be followed by apple crumble :drool:
• Salt pots to be put back in rooms :rolleyes:
• Ironing - 30 mins
• Put stuff back outside ~ weather permitting as it's just started raining :mad:
• Clothing repairs - buttons to sew on & holes in DD's other school cardigan :mad:
• Clean toilet ~ forgot to buy a new toilet brush will have to just put stuff down it for now.

Right, off to make a start by putting dishes away that OH washed last night, then get on with some more washing up, and put some laundry in....does it ever end? :rotfl: :wave:

moggins

The nitty gritty comb is great. I use it on DD and we manage to keep pretty clear most of the time.

I'm just sat here waiting for the painkillers to kick in so I can tackle bending down to the washing machine. The living room looks lovely and tidy. I stuck DH's remote control car right in the middle of the stairs so when he went to bed this morning he had to move it or fall down the stairs The hallway is all tidied up after the weekend too. Will head back to the list and remind myself of what else has to be done.

Telephone call - must ring council re vacancies on local allotments.