Weekly Flylady Thread 18th June 2012

juliejim

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.

There are 3 levels per day with Level 1 being very basic, level 2 in the middle, up to 3 which is more advanced and time consuming. Feel free to mix and match to suit your own personal circumstances.

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

Ok here goes this week!

Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
Clear and hoover floors
Empty all bins
Level Two
Clear mantelpiece and dust
Wipe sofas
Level Three
Hoover under any furniture you can safely move
Dust any dusty bits
Clear and clean windowsills
Extras
HHI
HH Paperwork
Wipe and water plants

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clear and wipe worktops
Clear and wipe table
Level Two
Clear and mop floors
Clean hob
Level Three
Sort a cupboard or drawer
Wipe cupboard/drawer fronts
Dust any dusty bits
Extras
Wipe lampshades
Deweb ceilings
Catch up on any phone calls

Wednesday - Master Bedroom and Landing
Level One
Clear floors - or spend a HHC doing some of it!
Hoover cleared areas
Level Two
Strip, wash, and remake bed
Sort out a drawer or cupborad
Level Three
Dust any dusty bits
Clean windows
Wipe lampshades and bulbs
Extras
HH Decluttering
Fill a bag for CS/ebay/rubbish
Collect washing from around the house

Thursday - Bathrooms
Level One
Clean toilets
Mop floors
Level Two
Clean sinks/baths/showers
Wipe towel rail
Level Three
Descale taps/shower head
Wash bath mats/shower curtain
Clean window
Extras
HHI
Delete unwanted emails
Declutter empty shampoo/bubble bath etc bottles

Friday - Children's Bedrooms
Level One
Strip, wash and replace bedding
HH floor clearance
Level Two
Hoover floor
Sort out a drawer/wardrobe/cupboard
Level Three
Clean radiators
Sort under the bed or at least some of it
Fill a bag of rubbish
Extras
HH me time

ammonite

I have got to join in this week and stick to it. I never make it past Tuesday Back to work tomorrow and need to get into a routine and make good habits.


Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
[STRIKE]Clear and hoover floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Empty all bins[/STRIKE]

Level Two
Clear mantelpiece and dust
[STRIKE]Put a load of washing in and hang to dry [/STRIKE]


Extras
HH Paperwork
[STRIKE] 15 minute tidy of office [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Get the white towels really white [/STRIKE]


Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level Two
[STRIKE]Clean hob[/STRIKE]

Level Three
[STRIKE]Sort a cupboard or drawer
Wipe cupboard/drawer fronts[/STRIKE]

Extras
Sort car insurance with LV
[STRIKE]Put a load of washing in and hang out
Sort eBay posting[/STRIKE]

Wednesday - Master Bedroom and Landing

Level One
[STRIKE]Clear floors - or spend a HHC doing some of it![/STRIKE]
Hoover cleared areas


Extras
[STRIKE]Put a load of washing in and hang out[/STRIKE]

Thursday - Bathrooms
Level One
[STRIKE]Clean toilets[/STRIKE]
Mop floors

Level Two
[STRIKE]Clean sinks/baths/showers
Wipe towel rail[/STRIKE]



Friday - Utility Room
Level One
Tidy and hoover floor

Level Two
Clean floor with soap and water

Level Three
[STRIKE]Clean toilet and mini sink[/STRIKE]

bossymoo

I'll be here thanks JJ. Sofas are grubby again, so that's a good start. Also need to catch up with laundry, and might pop to aldi before work...

Night all x

mrs-moneypenny

Valli wrote: »

Janie's Lemon Cake

4 oz margarine
4 oz caster sugar
6 oz S. R. flour
2 eggs
4 tbsp milk
grated rind of 1 lemon

Put all the ingredients in a bowl. Beat for 3 mins (or use a processor on a lower speed). Turn into a 2lb loaf tin, greased and lined. Smooth level

Bake for 40mins Gas 4 or 180 deg
(test - I find mine needs a few more minutes)
Put tin on rack and allow to cool. While cooling add the juice of the lemon to a pan along with 3 tbsp icing sugar, heat until syrupy, stirring. pr!ck cake and pour lemon syrup over. Leave until cold; turn out, sprinkle with icing sugar.

swear filter! I ask you!

(or a 6" square tin if no loaf tin)

I intend to try this with orange, one day;)

bought this across from last weeks thread so it doesnt get missed:)

i'll be in again starting tomorrow, thank you in advance for the weeks lists juliejim

juliejim

A busy weekend so I haven't caught up with the weekend's thread yet. DS's bed is nearly built - he's asleep in it anyway albeit later than I would have liked. However the kitchen is covererd in unwashed dishes, there is loads of washing to be done and the kids' uniforms are in the WM and TD so have not been ironed. DH is at home for the next couple of days though so I'm hoping the kitchen will be nice and clean when I get home tomorrow and everywhere will have been hoovered. Having said that he's got to take DS to the hospital for 8.30, he's got the dentist at 2 and there's a load of stuff for going to the tip as well so we'll see.

Hope everyone's well - I'll go for a quick catch up and then I'd better go and clear our bed as some of DS's stuff is on it so we can't actually get into bed yet.

greenbee

Thanks Jue!

Will try to achieve something this week. Think it's time for me to go to bed now though...

wendywitch

I'm back in this week. The boyfriendish came to stay for a fortnight so everything was let slide but I need to get back on top of it and hopefully it'll take my mind off my problems with him

If it's deleted it's already done

Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
Clear and hoover floors
Level Two
Clear mantelpiece and dust
Wipe sofas
Level Three
Hoover under any furniture you can safely move
Dust any dusty bits
Clear and clean windowsills
Extras
HH Paperwork

froddington

I'm in again - thank you juliejim :A

Still on a sorting / decluttering mission but also have to do assessments, write new IEPs and write reports!!!!!

Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
Clear and hoover floors

Level Two
Clear bookcase and dust

Level Three
Hoover under any furniture you can safely move
Dust any dusty bits
Clean windowsills

Extras
HH Paperwork

Nanamia

Big hugs Bossy and night night. You've got through another first. Your DHs parents are so very thoughtful aren't they:)

Thanks Dusty for last week and JJ I'm hoping to keep up and do a little more this week energy permitting x

wannabe_sybil

May the Lord have mercy on my soul, I am in.

The last two times I have been poorly and only got to Wednesday at the furthest - I have now decided it is all in my head, and so signing up again. I have just watched a 'hoarders' programme and am suitably terrified.

Monday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level One
Clear and hoover floors
brush down all stairs (I have lots )
Empty all bins
Level Two
Clear mantelpiece and dust
Wipe sofas
Clear coffee tables so that I can see them and put the stuff away nicely
Level Three
Hoover under any furniture you can safely move
Dust any dusty bits
Clear and clean windowsills
Extras
HHI
HH Paperwork

Pack up parcel A & B
Ring re holiday cottage
Ring HMRC
Clear things so that it is really, really easy for little bear to do piano practice.

Amended the list for myself. It should be possible.

Sequeena

Oh my. I'm not sure what happened last week but I did not keep up with thread at all. Good news is we moved our bedroom around so a lot of crap got cleaned up in there. The living room got baby proofed though I do need to move one box. We collapsed one of the dogs crates (and she did great!). Even found the time to paint 1 kitchen wall.

I'll post my list later or tomorrow (well I guess it'll be tomorrow either way).