Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd April 2012

juliejim

Slightly different for the next 2 weeks as a lot of people are either on holiday or have children at home.
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Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us.

Every room comes back around next week so please don’t stress about catching up

These lists are only suggestions and not a must do list; you are more than welcome to post and follow your own lists.

Also adding a declutter mission each day will help to gradually clear the clutter and make flying easier.

A few of the basics before we start the week

Hotspots are areas where if one thing gets put there, loads of other things follow!

Daily routines are anything you need to do on a daily basis like washing, swish and swipe kitchen and bathroom, ironing, making beds, vacuuming high traffic areas, making meals etc.

Night-time routines are all things which make getting ready in the morning easier, preparing clothes for the next day, making lunches, swish & swipes of the kitchen and tidying the living room before you go to bed plus personals like shower/brush teeth etc.

Fling Boogie - stick on some loud music, grab a bin bag and whiz around the house finding items that can go out with the rubbish, recycling, for charity shop, basically anything that will stop it cluttering your home.

Swish and swipe/S&S means have a quick wipe over an area such as a sink or toilet to prevent the build up of dirt. This is usually done on a daily basis

HHE/HHC/HHI Half Hour exercise/challenge/ironing ... run around for 30 minutes to the Benny Hill music frantically cleaning exercising or ironing.. other music may be used if you prefer!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Basic Flying
Clear and hoover all floors
Dust all dusty bits
Clean mirrors
Empty bins
Frog List
Do items 3 & 6 from the list you should have made last week
Children
To do at least 1 job of your choice
Extras
HHI
Wipe and water plants

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Basic Flying
Clear and sweep/mop/hoover floors
Clear and wipe table
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Frog List
Do items 1 & 4
Children
To do at least 1 job of your choice
Extras
Sort out shoes and get rid of any that don't fit or are past their best
HH Paperwork

Wednesday - Bathrooms

Basic Flying
Clean toilets
Clean sink, bath, shower
Clear and mop floors
Frog List
Do items 2 & 5
Children
To do at least 1 job of your choice
Extras
Catch up with washing
Catch up with any phone calls or emails

Thursday - Bedrooms

Basic Flying
Strip, wash and remake beds
Clear and hoover at least some of the floor
Clear and wipe bedside cabinets/tables
Frog list
Do items 7 & 9
Children
To do 1 job of your choice in their bedrooms
Extras
HHI
Make sure the kids don't need anything for after the hols - mine both need new shoes!

Good Friday

Basic Flying
S & S any needy areas
Hoover high traffic areas that need it
Frog List
Do items 8 & 10
Spend the rest of the day enjoying the Bank Holiday with your family.

juliejim

As it's the Easter hols I thought that any children who are old enough should be doing jobs too. I'm hoping to get a lot done these hols but then again I hope to do that most hols so we'll see how it goes.

hex2

Thanks Juliejim, I am in this week - visitors from Friday so I have to be.

cally_c

Evenin' all,

Thank you for the thread!

Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs
Basic Flying
Clear and hoover all floors
Dust all dusty bits
Clean mirrors
Empty bins
Frog List
Do items 3 & 6 from the list you should have made last week
Children
To do at least 1 job of your choice
Extras
HHI
Wipe and water plants

April:
electrical stuff
hobby stuff (started)
declutter living room bits
magazines
anything out-of-date in kitchen cupboards
old cookery books
tea-towels
toiletries
email inbox

garden:
sow toms, cucs, courgettes
take down old trellis, buy new & put up

love to all,

seafarers_wife

Im in, mainly going to be focussing on my spare room

teebird

been off list for toooo long doing the this needs done &cant wait boogie!
off extra day this week so must get organised again

Valli my hoover tubes collapsed into each other so I set them at the length I wanted and taped them in place with OHs wide electical tape at least 3 yrs ago &still holding

Valli

teebird wrote: »

Valli my hoover tubes collapsed into each other so I set them at the length I wanted and taped them in place with OHs wide electical tape at least 3 yrs ago &still holding

That's plan B lol - I know where there is some tape I can use soo I shall sneak in and 'borrow' some. I have also possibly found a replacemnt hose online - just waiting for the company to confirm it will fit!

I'm in this week - can i Have 'shift the skip' vibes AND 'tiler do some tiling' vibes plizz

Towel cupboard sorted. Towels cut down for cleaning cloths - old cleanign cloths (full of holes) to be flung! That's another off the Toots list!

froddington

I'm in again - thanks juliejim :A

Minimal cleaning but major decluttering planned for this week. Today was quite successful - one binbag, one charity bag sorted and loads of paperwork cleared.

Mortgage meeting and cinema tomorrow but will do more decluttering after that as I'm going to London on Tuesday and won't have much time then.

Wannabe01

Please count me in for this week. I try this every week but I end up flagging rather than flying by the middle of the week.

Monday – Living Room, Hall
Basic Flying
[STRIKE]Clear and hoover all floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Dust all areas including skirtings and ceilings[/STRIKE]Clean mirrors and glass doors
[STRIKE]Empty bins[/STRIKE]
Frog List
3. [STRIKE]Make a plan of action for decluttering[/STRIKE]
6. Clean the microwave
Extra
[STRIKE]HHI[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe and water the plants[/STRIKE]

Tuesday – Kitchen
Basic Flying
Clear and sweep/mop floors
Clear and wipe table
Clear and wipe work surfaces
Frog List
Look out knitting and patterns
Wedding related tasks
Extra
HH Paperwork

Dustykitten

Hi all just checking in after a hard day on the slopes, powder and sun sums it up.

We do have a DW so loaded that, loving having the beds made and bathrooms done each day, such a treat.

Time for a cuppa now whilst resting my very achy legs.

Love to you all especially Toots and LL xx

Sagaris

Morning all - bit chilly today!

Got one load in the WM and another in the TD - it's not going to be warm enough to get anything dry today I think! Might be good and get them ironed tonight too.

List for today looks good and do-able, at least the basic level, thank you! Roads should be quieter today thanks to the holidays, work will be too - but there's always lots of office based stuff to get done then.

Hope everyone has a good day today!