Flylady Thread for Monday 5th March 2007

Penelope_Penguin

Afternoon, everyone! :beer:

Lil-me - well done on getting the thread started.

Kiwi - welcome! Hawkes Bay, isn't that where the wine's from.

Hi, Punky - thanks for your thoughts - they're much appreciated :A

Pigpen - glad you enjoyed your weekend!!!!

Moggins - you sound better! :T

I've been making pasta for tea - delicious with spinach, parmesan and ricotta. Even DS had a *happy plate* :j :j

So far I have done:

Order prescriptions – done
Old carpet to dump – gone
Butterfly buns – made
Chocolate walnut cake – made
School uniform – washed and drying on creel
DD’s school slip – completed
Notes and change – got from bank
Parcel – posted
Transfer money from saving account – done
YM – on overnight
Wash school uniform - done
List Freeceycle items – done
DD’s pizzas – made and frozen
Credit card – paid
Wallpaper – stripped
Tesco tokens - ordered
Plasterer – paid
Swim club subs - paid
Hen house – painted and disinfected
Ironing – done

See you all tomorrow, Penny. x

comping_cat

Hello again,

Done a bit today, still have to hoover and load the dishwasher, but apart from that ive done the bits id planned to.
Ive just got to hoover downstairs and finish loading the DW (ive already made the packed lunches for tomorrow!!!)

I think that will be all today tho, still feeling a bit dodgy, although i have managed to eat my dinner - should be much better tomorrow, ready for whatever the challenge will be!!!

Have a lovely evening everyone xxxxxxxxxxxxx

this_is_it

Monday
Living Room/Dining room

1. Vacuum living room thoroughly including under furniture - done
2. Dust ALL surfaces and polish wooden furniture - done
3. Hoover sofa and check under seat cushions for lost items, wipe if required -done
4. Sort mail and do filing - done
5. Clean television screen, dvd players, digi boxes etc etc - done
7. Clean inside of windows
8. Sort any magazines/books lying around -done
9. Clean any mirrors/clocks (yes that includes dusting the tops)

Dining room
1. Hoover- done
2. Dust- done
3. Clean table and replace tablecloth

dailies
s&w kitchen/bathroom -done
mop floors - will do later
kids lunches- later
dishes
load washing done
hot spots

susieb

Not done alot today - but have spent the day on the phone tidying up some paperwork. My foot is now green going blue, but I could drive okay with it, just not walk so it could ahve been worse

choccie3

Hi
Is there a link for how to get started on flylady routines as I think it will take me longer than a week to sort my house out!!

bebee_2

Monday
Living Room/Dining room

1. Vacuum living room thoroughly including under furniture - done yesterday
2. Dust ALL surfaces and polish wooden furniture - done yesterday
3. Hoover sofa and check under seat cushions for lost items, wipe if required -DH did form me yesterday
4. Sort mail and do filing - Still to do
5. Clean television screen, dvd players, digi boxes etc etc - done ysterday
7. Clean inside of windows-:rotfl:
8. Sort any magazines/books lying around -done yesterday as paper collection today
9. Clean any mirrors/clocks (yes that includes dusting the tops) - done yesterday

Dining room
1. Hoover- done
2. Dust- done
3. Clean table - dont have cloth


My List for Monday

[STRIKE]Pay Bill[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Taxi service for DH to DN and back again[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Daily's[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Expecting delivery of Dog Food[/STRIKE]
Might attempt to clean windows ( no i'm not lazy just have problems with shoulders) but may have to call for assistance as liable to make a pigs ear of them. - not a chance today
Try to get car washed if weather permitting.- weather was fine but still not done mainly due to below:
OMG what a day DD2 has Mondays of work, and this morning she found a Mobile Phone fairly new, well to cut a long story short, I managed to located the owner via 1 of 2 of his girlfriends (ssshhh don't tell) and after going to the wrong address twice!!! the said phone has been returned to its rightful home !!
GOOD DEED FOR THE DAY DONE!! although i was a bit worried when trying to locate owner and you go through phone book to see if home number and there was some right dodgey name's listed ie J*** - weed/ probation officer:eek: turns out he was quite a nice bloke. i won't bore you with all the other running around i did for DD2 as well.
Pigpen -
Moggin's -you stay on the phone Hun if you can get sorted:A
Lil_me - Keep up the good work keeping Moggins seat warm:T
and to all Newbies - Welcome
ps - susie - hope the foot feels better soon

pigpen

The thing I hate about selling stuff on ebay is finding time to parcel up all those things!! I have filled 3 bags in the last 3 hours with parcels to be flung!!! I wish more would come and collect!! lol

mumoftwo

Beccatje wrote:

I feel very sunny and bright, as my Dearest sister has offered me a week's retreat in beautiful Scotland in April!! WHOOHOOOO.. it'll be just me and the baby going. What a joy!

Retreat? I thought you were coming to help me flying
Only joking!! I will make sure the house is lovely and tidy for you coming sis.

Done Living room today
Hoovered downstairs and upstairs
dishes
mop kitchen floor
ironing

Mermaid

I realise that any critiscism of Flylady may lead to me having my stardrops and microfibre cloth forcibly removed from my hands and inserted somewhere painful, but I have a dilemma...

I've been subscribed for about four or five months and I'm thinking about stopping my subscription. I don't really want to do it, as sometimes I get great tips from her, but I find a lot of things that she sends are irrelevant at best. Currently I try to do the daily mission and as many of the jobs from the list here as I can manage to fit in. I don't post my list as I really don't have the time, although I do read a lot of the posts, which I find entertaining and helpful (thanks everyone).

I like Flylady's ideas of using a timer and the 27 fling boogies (I seem to do these on an almost daily basis!) and doing a swish and swipe, I even manage a house blessing every now and again. I also found her Christmas countdown an enormous help, as it was my first Christmas with two toddlers to contend with as well as all the usual preparations. I don't really want to miss any other good ideas that she comes up with, so I feel that it's a good idea to keep on with the mails.

But, I find all the soft sell for things from dusters to waterbottles annoying and pretty blatant (OK - I appreciate that she's got to make a living somehow, but she seems to be in overdrive right now). Also the sheer quantity of mail she sends is a problem as all my mail gets sent on to several different accounts to make sure I can pick it up wherever I am and this gives me an awful lot of junk from her to delete.

Does anyone else find that Flylady herself is a bit much? I know I could filter her mail to keep just the daily missions, but I think that if I'm going to do that I might as well just do what I can from this list and stop getting all her mails.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Mermaid

mumoftwo

choccie3 wrote:

Hi
Is there a link for how to get started on flylady routines as I think it will take me longer than a week to sort my house out!!

On page 1 of this thread we get the day's task posted. You just jump in on the day, The first few weeks it will take you a while to sort things out, just do what you can, it will come around again the following week. You will start to notice that it will take you less time each week to complete tasks. We all have our own dailly list like washing (WM) ironing, swish and swipe bathroom (a quick wipe) dishes, file mail etc.

So to get started, wait for tomorrow's list (usually posted on Page 1 later on in the evening) and jump in, do what you can...

Welcome all other newbies to and happy "flying"