Weekly Flylady Thread 16th January 2012

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Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
[STRIKE]Clear floors and hoover inc stairs
Clear chairs and settees[/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear and dust mantelpiece and fireplace
Clear and clean windowsills[/STRIKE]
Level Three
[STRIKE]Wipe front door
Clean light switches
Check fire alarms are working[/STRIKE] (they are, went off when i burnt dinner last night) !!
Extras
HHI
[STRIKE]HH dusting
HH decluttering[/STRIKE]

My List

Wash spare cooker and ebay
Ebay phone
Look out receipts and send stuff back (if still in time)

Am really enjoying doing this. HHI i believe is half hour ironing, i don't iron, apart from very occasionally, so i will aim to wash the windows instead. Am really enjoying having all the bits set out for me. Am gonna do a list of long term things that need doing.

hex2

Jovichick - it is a very brave (foolish) company who makes a pg person redundant. Are they shutting the whole place down? Basically you should be the last person out of the door.

Juliejim, thinking of you and your family.
Triker, huge hugs. Shout if I can help but if the whole team is going I doubt I can contribute much.

F-f-f-reezing! It has such an impact on my mobility so my aim for tonight is to get the DW emptied and filled, and a small boys bedding changed,

Goodintentions

Good afternoon

short_bird wrote: »

It might be worth booking to see Citizen's Advice just to check that the company have dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's if they do make you redundant. Especially since you are pregnant.:eek:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Moneyandworkentitlements/WorkAndFamilies/Pregnancyandmaternityrights/DG_10026556

Good luck on the Flying, it does make a difference:D

I was thinking that. Are they making lots redundant, or just you?

Mumto5 wrote: »

Good advice Short_bird you are probably around your "qualifying week" have a chat with your midwives because it can make alot of difference if you get Statutory Maternity Pay or Maternity Allowance. I was made redundant when I was 19 weeks when I was pregnant with DS3. I had a lovely midwife who moved my due date 2 days earlier and that made a difference of over a thousand quid!

I assume they have to give you notice anyway, so hopefully you will be over the qualifying week by then? (Can't remember what that is as my youngest is 13 )

Flying wise I have put on the DW, walked the dog (with DH, in the sunshine ), hoovered through last night, DH has washed up. That's about it
In my defence, I have been working, and while I wasn't I ordered some frontline for the cat & a text book for my course

Boys are playing nicely, so I may wander into the kitchen & see what we can have for dinner tonight.

LisaJane

Hello I was wondering if anyone would have some advice for me?? I joined this thread last week and love the idea of being a Flylady...but I work full time and am also quite busy outside of work time at evenings and weekends.

I currently live alone so feel I have no excuse, but I still really struggle to follow the thread. I always end up cleaning the whole house on the Saturday morning which is something I would really love to stop doing!! Does anyone have any advice about how to squeeze in more flying during the week??

decogecko

LisaJane wrote: »

Hello I was wondering if anyone would have some advice for me?? I joined this thread last week and love the idea of being a Flylady...but I work full time and am also quite busy outside of work time at evenings and weekends.

I currently live alone so feel I have no excuse, but I still really struggle to follow the thread. I always end up cleaning the whole house on the Saturday morning which is something I would really love to stop doing!! Does anyone have any advice about how to squeeze in more flying during the week??

Hi LisaJane

I'm the same - during the summer months (Apr - Sept) I'm lucky enough to have an evening job as well as a fulltime one and have just joined a running club, so there will be 3 evenings a week were I will be on limited flying.

Aim for level one each day after work/after work activity. It's amazing what this will do! Valli has/had a great saying in her signature 'Don't put it down, put it away' and I find this helps no end as the task is done and then I'm not thinking 'I need to do so and so' (Believe me I still falter on that one, which is why my ironed clothes are still folded in the basket and not put away - from last week! )

Tonight for instance I'm going to running club, but will have a little time when I get home to hoover the LR, then get changed and go. (I'm lucky to be able to pop home at lunchtime so have fluttered a bit in LR today) When I get home I will cook tea and then S&S kitchen after and put things in DW/wash up, as I did most of the kitchen yesterday.

HTH

jackywhizz

LisaJane wrote: »

Hello I was wondering if anyone would have some advice for me?? I joined this thread last week and love the idea of being a Flylady...but I work full time and am also quite busy outside of work time at evenings and weekends.

I currently live alone so feel I have no excuse, but I still really struggle to follow the thread. I always end up cleaning the whole house on the Saturday morning which is something I would really love to stop doing!! Does anyone have any advice about how to squeeze in more flying during the week??

Hi LisaJane - I work too but 2-4 days a week depending on my rota. I agree with Deco and I also have a list of dailies which I try to do before I leave for work. They are make beds & harvest the laundry, S&S bathrooms and kitchen, DW & WM x 1, tidy the living rooms and check emails. I live with 4 messy males tho(one has four legs and a waggy tail:D) should be easier for you hopefully.

Coxy11

Update from me on today's activities:

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level One
[STRIKE]Shine your sink[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe and water plants[/STRIKE][STRIKE]
[/STRIKE]

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
[STRIKE]Clear floors and hoover inc stairs
Clear chairs and settees[/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear and dust mantelpiece and fireplace
Clear and clean windowsills[/STRIKE]
Level Three
Wipe front door
[STRIKE]Clean light switches
Check fire alarms are working[/STRIKE]
Extras
[STRIKE]HHI
HH dusting[/STRIKE]
HH decluttering

My list for today
[STRIKE]Washing - darks
Finish job application and hand-deliver
[/STRIKE]Walk dog - hoping DH will do this
[STRIKE]Strip kids beds and wash
Apologise to school mum friend for my son giving her son a bloody nose at Beavers last night - they are 7!
[/STRIKE][STRIKE]Admin for youth clubs
[/STRIKE]

pigpen

Week list.. today list lol

Put up Dots cot
Back up boys old pc, DD2s old pc, my old pc and my lappy (new one being delivered next week )
Fling out 3 monster TFT monitors.. just 2 to fling.. DD1 wants 1
Order new power supply for DD2
Move bookcase from front room to middle room
Build new bookcase for front room.. I might not do this yet.. I might want it up on the landing!
Wash front room crappet..
Put up new clock
Dentist for children.. I DID IT (ONLY TOOK 8 MONTHS!!!)...
Bury boing in frozen ground.. hopefully it will give it some closure and DS3 can start getting over it.. he had to have his insulin increased again as his blood sugars are going up and up, I havent had control for about a week and the rabbit upset has them soaring
unload car
drop pushchair at DD1's
Tesco shop before we starve
Finish knitting Tiddles cardy.. chunky so knitting up quick.. good job as naughty me just bought another 12 balls of wool and 3 patterns so I look to be busy for the next 2 years!

Laundry catch up.. I got the laundry done from the babys christening.. need to *i*r*o*n Dots gown and Squeaks silk dry clean only dress! I booked photoshoot for the 2 of them tomorrow.. there was a short notice cancellation so given they might have chickenpox in a fortnight I thought we would get it out of the way ASAP

Fridge de-grot

pollyskettle

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Three
Sort out a cupboard/drawer or hotspot
Clean tea, coffee, sugar containers
Wipe fronts, large appliances aand kickboards
Extras
HHI

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs
Level One
Clear floors and hoover inc stairs
Level Three
Wipe front door
Clean light switches
Check fire alarms are working
Extras
HHI
HH dusting

Ruthy1604

Evening all,

Hope you are all ok. DH is away tonight so I need to drop DS at scouts, go to SW, do some jobs, collect DS from scouts at 9 then do some paperwork. Oh and help DD with homework too
DS is very grumpy tonight, presumably its hormones - theres a lot of door slamming here at the moment

I have edited the list a bit as I'll never get it all done...

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
Clear floors and hoover inc stairs - just gonna do the stairs as all the rest was done at the weekend
[STRIKE] Clear chairs and settees[/STRIKE]all clear - no-one dares to put anything down any more!;)
Level Two
Clear and dust mantelpiece and fireplace
Clear and clean window sills
Extras
[STRIKE] HHI[/STRIKE] all up to date
HHP - need to finish my parents VAT return