Weekly Flylady Thread 20th August 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 - Kitchen & Dining Room
Level One
Clear and mop/hoover floors
Level Two
Clear and wipe surfaces
Clear and wipe table
Level Three
Wipe cupboard doors
Dust a bookcase - are there any books that can go?
Clear a hotspot
Extras
HH Paperwork
Wipe and water plants
Catch up on any phone calls

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs
Level One
Clear and hoover floors
Level Two
Dust any dusty bits
Wipe telephones and remotes
Level Three
Clean a window or 2
Clear a hotspot
Wipe settees
Extras
HHI
Catch up on emails

Wednesday - Miscellaneous
S & S Bathroom
S & S Kitchen
HHC in kids' bedrooms
Spend the rest of the day having family time!
Tell someone tyou love them.


Thursday - Master Bedroom and Landing
Level One
HH Floor Clearance
Level Two
Hoover floors
Strip, wash & replace bedding
Level Three
Hoover mattress
Have a sort out in your wardrobe - does anything need getting rid of or replacing?
Wipe bulbs and lampshades
Extras
HHI
Clear a hotspot

Friday - Bathrooms
Level One
Clean toilets
Level Two
Clean bath/shower
Clear and mop floors
Level Three
Clean sinks and taps
Clear and wipe windowsill
Clean windows
Extras
Empty all bins
HH Paperwork

juliejim

Well it'll probably take me all day just to do level one but I'll do as much as I can.

This week I've got
Monday - Beavers then Beavers planning meeting
Tuesday - Funeral
Wednesday - nothing yet
Thursday - Beavers
Friday - Speed awareness, mum's for tea, climbing after

Quite a busy week really - I'll be out most of the day Tuesday and Friday so I'll try and get as much done as I can the other days.

pigpen

Yoohoo!!!! I'll play... hovelesque is us... will sort list momentarily!

Mondailies

WM
DW
TD
Laundry out folded and away
DS3 @ psychologist 3:30pm
DD3 @ summer school 9-3
Measure playhouse for carpet
Collect prescriptions from chemist
Collect Tiddles specs
Sweep door step
List 10 items on ebeast

Sort Squeaks clothes
Sort Dots clothes for Samuel/CS/ebay

Monday - Kitchen & Dining Room
Level One
Mop floors
Level Two
Clear and wipe surfaces
Clear and wipe chairs (table gets done at least twice a day)
Level Three
Wipe cupboard doors
Clear a hotspot

neveah

hi can i come back and play :j? thanks for fred xx

ionafan

Thanks juliejim, I'm in again this week. New week, new start! However, this week my DH is helping out at the local beer festival, so he will be out almost every evening; I have said that I want to have the car during the day, in the hope of getting out and seeing a bit of the world outside my own four walls. I doubt that I shall go far or do anything particularly exciting (a visit to the market to buy curtain header tape is one of the things on my list, and coffee with a friend is another) , but it's nice to be able to go if the whim takes me, without having to wait for a bus or three.

It's been soooooooo hot here this weekend, but suddenly this evening a cool wind has sprung up and it is really pleasant, so we might sleep better tonight.

Glad to hear that Samuel is making good progress, pigpen.

(((Hugs))) to all who need them.

helen_jelly

I'm in, thanks for the lists JJ and Dusty

I'm having to listen to DD doing Just Dance on the Wii, I need not say anymore I think lol
Just done the banking - oh what a sorry state thats in, I need to go food shopping tomorrow, gulp.

Helen

froddington

I'm in - thank you juliejim :A Hope you and MrsChaos had good hols (any anyone else who has been away).

Some success today - one cupboard cleared, decluttered, sorted and things put back neatly, washing done and dried outside, 2 cages cleaned out and some paperwork and shredding done!

Now need to focus on a list for tomorrow ..............

froddington

Not a bad list for me tomorrow as the kitchen is in pretty good shape!

Monday - Kitchen

Level One
Clear hoover floor

Level Two
Clear and wipe surfaces

Level Three
Wipe cupboard doors
Dust a bookcase - are there any books that can go
Clear a hotspot

Extras
Catch up on any phone calls

Dustykitten

Thanks Jue, really need to try to do some flying this week especially in the bedrooms.

Off to read 25 pages of "I was a Rat" with DS3

cyclingyorkie

I'm in - gotta sort the hovel - this is the week...

bossymoo

Hi, I'm in, thanks JJ for the list.

Kitchen not too bad, and working from home tomorrow, so should be able to gt some done. Hopefully things will dry off, as I could do with mowing. Still, I have Wednesday to myself, except the dentist in afternoon, so could do it then...

Need to do more in my garage. It's coming along great, or was till this weekend and those tots have been driving me demented, haven't got a thing done...

Will do my extras list in morning, as am done in and off to bedfordshire x

ETA Listy:
Do some more hhc garage
Sew extra couple of tucks in dress for wedding at weekend
Paint shed door - hahaha
Lawn mincing if this [EMAIL="bl@@dy"]bl@@dy[/EMAIL] rain stops
Wipe handprints off spare room window
Do a couple of hhc in loft on Wed (day off, child free)
Do my errands (dentist, bits of shopping) on Wed
Get some fake tan on my pasty pins for aforementioned wedding
Ditto hair colouring, this time not a BLACK one, lol