Weekly Flylady Thread 26th September 2011

vanilla

Woohoo my sister went into labour last night, BIL rang at 6am to say she was 8cm but was finding it very tough. I'm so excited :j:j:j

Plans have changed for today as BIL needs lifted later from the hospital to go to a different hospital to get his stitches out. MIL will look after the kids later so me and hubby can go visit.

Right i best get the dw unloaded and wm...

xx_Jo_xx

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Level Two
Wipe dining table..
Level Three
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum sofas
Level 2
Level 3
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister

Extras

1. wipe doors and handles downstairs

Wednesday - those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Strip beds and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Pull out the beds, furniture and clean all behind them.. the skirtings and light fittings and everything.. get rid of all the things that are no longer required!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Time for the Flylady Fling, in the toy box!!!! aim for 27.. if no toy box you’ll have to choose another area!
• HHI
• Do a D.I.Y. job, fix something you've been putting off forever!!

Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean floors in these rooms (even if it is around the clutter)
Clear any clutter from desk
Level Two
Clean baths, toilets and sinks
Wipe down tiles in bathroom.. defragment the pc while doing this ).. if you do the disc cleanup as well it clear all the cookies and temporary files too
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Level Three
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Delete 10 links in your favourites which you no longer use or are dead!
Clean/wash the brushes/dust box/filters on the vacuum cleaner!!!! .. make sure they are completely dry before using it though.. I don’t want anyone electrocuted!!
Extras

1. Wash your bathroom mats, nets, clean blind/curtains etc
2. grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
3. clean the radiators in these rooms
4. delete 50 emails
   

Friday - Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Check fire alarms are working
Remove and wash bed linen.
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen.. do you need that winter duvet yet?
15 minutes floordrobe 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
HH Me time - whatever you like - soak in a bath - get your nails done etc.
Extras

• Time for that Friday fling, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter
• Put away those summer clothes from someones cupboard and get out the winter woollies.. don’t store anything that is past its best! Make a list of things you need to buy!!
• clean out that airing cupboard!!!!!! get rid of those things you don't need.. use dead towels as cleaning cloths etc.. be ruthless!!!! you REALLY don't need that 'thing' you've saved for 10 years.. 'just in case'
• Check house for places where draughts are getting in.. doors, windows etc and see if there are ways to stop it!

toochoosey

Good morning all, I have done the dishes and got bedding in the wash.

Going to find my list and see what I can get done before the school run and going to Mums.........

Savvy_sewing

Hi, I have not been on any of the Flylady threads for a very long time, but as I sit here looking at the mess around me, I think that I need to try and get some sort of order back!. I have been quite ill so things have piled up.
Although today my daughter is going to come over and give me a couple of hours of her time, and help.
I have the SW coming this afternoon to see DGD and I dont want her to see the state of the bedroom! Toys are everywhere! DGD has a habit of waking up and grabbing the toy boxes onto her bed and tipping them out. Then they end up on the floor.
With my health problems tidying them up again has been difficult and getting a 3 year old to tidy up, when she is being mrs NO, is difficult.
Hope you dont mind me coming back out of the wood work.

toochoosey

Daily routines/todailies
laundry F
swish and swipe kitchen T F S S
bathroom, T F S S
ironing, T F
making beds, T F S S
vacuuming high traffic areas, T F S S
making meals T F S S

Night-time routines
preparing clothes for the next day, T
swish & swipes of the kitchen T
tidying the living room T

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 2
Remove clutter
Water any thirsty plants, wipe their poor neglected leaves!!
Level 3
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Extras

1. Get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be, or better still give them to their owners to put away themselves
2. wipe doors and handles downstairs

Wednesday - those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
Level One

Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Level Three
Strip beds and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Pull out the beds, furniture and clean all behind them.. the skirtings and light fittings and everything.. get rid of all the things that are no longer required!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras

• Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
• Time for the Flylady Fling, in the toy box!!!! aim for 27.. if no toy box you’ll have to choose another area!
• HHI

Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean floors in these rooms (even if it is around the clutter)
Clear any clutter from desk
Level Two
Clean baths, toilets and sinks
Wipe down tiles in bathroom..
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Level Three
Delete 10 links in your favourites which you no longer use or are dead!
Clean/wash the brushes/dust box/filters on the vacuum cleaner!!!! .. make sure they are completely dry before using it though.. I don’t want anyone electrocuted!!
Extras

1. Wash your bathroom mats, nets, clean blind/curtains etc
2. grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
3. clean the radiators in these rooms
4. delete 50 emails
   

Friday - Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Check fire alarms are working
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen.. do you need that winter duvet yet?
15 minutes floordrobe 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
HH Me time - whatever you like - soak in a bath - get your nails done etc.
Extras

• Time for that Friday fling, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter
• clean out that airing cupboard!!!!!! get rid of those things you don't need.. use dead towels as cleaning cloths etc.. be ruthless!!!! you REALLY don't need that 'thing' you've saved for 10 years.. 'just in case'

euronorris

Update:

Wash dishes X 1 - Done
WM X 1 - Done
Tidy clean clothes away - Done
Make Dinner - Done
Empty & disinfect bins - Done
Change bedsheets - Done
Disinfect toilet - Done
Disinfect doorhandles - Done
Knitting - Some done

Thanks for the warm wishes peeps. I am doing massively better And feeling even better now that apt is cleaner/disinfected.

I also updated budget yesterday. Today I need to make some payments, and:

WM X 1
Wash dishes X 1
Make Dinner
Put clean clothes away
Prepare lunch for tomorrow
Wipe down kitchen sides and clean sink
Knitting

I hope everyone is OK. I need to catch up on the thread.

Mucho hugs to those who need them ((HUGS))

xx

seafarers_wife

Vanilla how exciting Id have ants in my pants waiting to hear when baby finally arrived, knowing its going to be here at some point this morning.

not back at work today, still being sick when eat or drink something so never mind. will potter about and see what I can do. I tried to put the bin out but cant bump it up the step as its so heavy (garden waste) so need to catch my neighbour as he leaves for the school run or speak nicely to the bin men when they come and see if they will bump it up for me as i just cant shift the thing.

list still stands as it was yesterday night. downstairs is presentable with just a hoover and upstairs is still ok.

toochoosey

Hugs seafarers_wife xx
vanilla.....hope all goes well and baby is here soon xx

WM finished so will get that on the line and get DD's bedding in the wash......she stripped it for me

AF has turned up to join the head cold...........mucho fun!!!


Going to try and s+s around now too............xx

Valli

Morning all

another beautiful day in Valliland!

Hugs to Pigger's DS and Minion

and re the KHs - persist, persist, be sweetness and light and eventually they come over to the brightside although, were it medical, I would be pointing out sharply that they need to be adult enough to support their offspring regardless - luckily never been there *touches wood*

Got 2 lots of washing done yesterday and pegged out for them to dry while I was at work so, NOW IT'S THE WEEKEND I'm ahead of myself IYSWIM:D:D:D:D:D:D and I ironed it all last night:D:D:D:D:D:D and I used my PPA time yesterdfay afternoon to prep for next Wednesday's Y5 Lit session:D:D:D:D:D:D which means I won't need to panic first thing Wednesday if I've forgotten:cool: was up at 5:30 too! so I did some marking - eyes are often sore at night making that an arduous task. Now know second neice had shared the gift with first neice - whether they mentioned this when they handed the gift over I don't know but I had had a little drink:o no card from neice 2 though. Did get Mark Radcliffe's book 'Reeling in the Years' (thanks to Amazon wish list;) and anothe Mash DVD for my collection. Also won't be getting a visit from Mum today as they have gone away (again) to Greece.
Have also brought some tea towels (used for art) from work. They have been left in the classroom for about a week, damp. So they hung (dirty) on the line all night because I SO did not need their 'fragrance' in Villa Valli! They will join my towels on a HOT wash.

Valli's Cunning Plan

Bathroom
Kitchen
Lounge
Boudoir
Peg out washing
Put ironing away
post e bay
shift recycling (won't be long before I have new bin and it will ALL be picked up from here:T)
Take down Happy Birthday banners and put away safely (HUGE advantage of consecutive birthdays - they go UP and DOWN fewer times):T

toochoosey

DD's bedding and bath mat were put in the wash before the school run and the bathroom was cleaned(apart from the floor). Debating whether to go to Mums or not as feeling a bit carp.?!?!?!

hhmmmm................