Weekly Flylady Thread 9th April 2007

poohbear59

Thanks for the idea of putting oven shelves in the bath. I put the filters and front of extractor hood in the bath in washing powder and blimey, they are clean, no scrubbing involved. Now that is the sort of job I can manage. Bath now needs cleaning though, another job for the boys!

tinselfairy

Mixed day here.

Changed the bed and had a general quick tidy round in there. Put away all the gloves, scarves and hats in the wicker hamper on top of my wardrobe as we hopefully won't be needing those again for a while.

Cleaned the outside of the car and had a mini clear up in the shed, more to do tomorrow when I'm feeling slightly more energetic. Not eaten a thing since dry toast at lunch time, fingers crossed it's out of my system whatever nasty I had that has made me feel low today.

DH has taken DS out with him to cricket practise so I have a quiet couple of hours. What to do? Ironing or lounging around ?

shell2001

Great to know that the old bio powder works on the extractor hood too. Mum's place that she rented out has the stinkies extractor hood ever so will give that ago.

Well tea on the go, just the S & S of the bathroom but as DH is having a shower when he gets in he can do that .

Flying seems to have really come together for me over the last couple of weeks and I can honestly say the jobs dont take much time at all now because its just maintaining rather than the constant uphill battle it used to be. So newbies please note it will all be worth it. We all fall off the wagon, we get ill, the kids get ill or even worse the men get ill:eek: so things go pear shape but they never get as bad as they were and once your feeling better it really does not take that long to get on top of things.

Flying really has changed my life, today I got 90% of the things I wanted to do done and so spent the afternoon in the garden with the girls. Pre-flying I would have been running round after my own tail getting nowhere.

So keep taking those baby-steps 'cos each one is a major achievement:T :T !

Pigpen - you truely are wonder woman :A - 8 kids and you still invite extra ones round, I'd be heading for the hills woman

Right off to put the steamer on.

happyathome_withmyboys

well I would have fluttered today, if not exactly flown - except 3-yr-old DS1 asked for the vaccuum cleaner - specifically with the brush attachment - to 'clean the hearth, Mummy'..... I now have a vaccuum cleaner clogged up from brush to bag to engine compartment with general dust/dog/cat hair mixed with a lot of woodash (he sucked up all the ash IN the wood-burning stove as well as on the hearth!) but also the entire contents of the dog's water bowl.
It is days like this that being a (successfully recovering) alcoholic is no fun at all... give me drunken New Years revellry to cope with any day...

happyathome_withmyboys

shell2001 wrote: »

Flying seems to have really come together for me over the last couple of weeks and I can honestly say the jobs dont take much time at all now because its just maintaining rather than the constant uphill battle it used to be. So newbies please note it will all be worth it. We all fall off the wagon, we get ill, the kids get ill or even worse the men get ill:eek: so things go pear shape but they never get as bad as they were and once your feeling better it really does not take that long to get on top of things.

Flying really has changed my life, today I got 90% of the things I wanted to do done and so spent the afternoon in the garden with the girls. Pre-flying I would have been running round after my own tail getting nowhere.

So keep taking those baby-steps 'cos each one is a major achievement:T :T !

Shell - you don't know how much I needed to read this today - thanks - down to you I'm back on that flying wagon!

Solwaykid

Hello all,
I've only just looked at todays list and am sooo glad it's the bedroom- it needs nothing doing whatsoever. It's the one room in the house that I keep tidy all the time. If there's even a stray sock on the floor I have to get out of bed to shift it or I can't fall asleep!

Anyhow, the reason I'm so glad is because I'm still in the kitchen from Tuesday..not literally, that would be plain daft. I soaked my oven shelves in bio powder in the bath before I left for work this morning... Blimey!!! That was a good tip whoever suggested it. I'm starting to worry that I'm getting into this a little too much. .Can I share my dream with you? Well, I dreamt I met a really lovely bloke (I'm single so its allowed ) he said he wouldn't go out with me because I cleaned too much. I told him it was a complete lie because thanks to you lot I've got it down to two hours a week!!

He can take a running jump whoever he was, I'm off to finish my oven. Have a useful evening all.
Sol x

lil_me

Pleased those who are using the washng powder in bath trick are finding it useful. It's something my Grandma did years ago and I have done since. Same with the denture tablets, not got false teeth myself but use them for cleaning, fab on cups, net curtains, lists endless. I do know what you mean sometimes doing them in the bath isn't good for the bath, god knws how Grandma managed (should point out she was GREAT Grandma and I last seen her do this when she was 92)

Shells right, all of us find the wagon a little wobbly and get thrown off (even if we can't admit to falling off) sometimes. For me it's the last 2 weeks, DS1 poorly, then DS2 then me, I'm usually the get up and get on with it type but this has really knocked me for 6. I'm irritable and it's taking me all my time just to get motivated. Lists have been done, just, but it's taking me all day to do them sometimes, doing little bits at a time. Hopefully back to feeling well again soon as house is almost at CHAOs stage again (Can't Have Anyone Over)

I did get myself slightly more motivated in the garden today, planted 60 bulbs and 15 ish plants, sorted the side of the pond out etc. Bedroom was done when I got up, stripped the bed as soon as I got out of it, but still waiting to be remade. Landing can get vacuumed tomorrow when do study as can't be bothered now. Still got our dinner to make yet, chicken tikkas marinading now, sheek kebab meat is prepared, spices etc in pan ready to add the rice but still needs finishing. Just fancy eating in peace for a change.

Pigpen hope the party goes well and the weather stays nice for you
Going to do tomorrows list so it'll be up soon

pigpen

the rest of the week includes..

The bathroom.
[STRIKE]Clean loo, bath, sink.
Put away all unused toiletries
wash window
clean floor.[/STRIKE]

The loo.
[STRIKE]wash floor
clean loo
clean window
empty and wash bin[/STRIKE]
wash floor again as DD3 spread poo on it.. gggrrrr

The front room.

wipe sofas
[STRIKE]vacuum crappet
water Howea[/STRIKE]
wipe mantle

The back room :eek:

[strike]Find[/strike] and wipe sofa
[strike]Hide ebay boxes[/strike]
clear PC desk!! :eek:!!!
[strike]Rehang curtains[/strike]

The hallway. :eek: again!!

[STRIKE]Clear all the mess!![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe clock and find and wipe gas cupboard [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Make sure under the stairs are neat and tidy![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]mop floor.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]wipe dado and skirting[/STRIKE]

The boys room.

[STRIKE]Rebox toys[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]put all PS2 games in their proper boxes and pile them neatly.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Put all clothes away[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]vacuum[/STRIKE]

The girls room.

[STRIKE]Put all clothes away
Put all toys away[/STRIKE]
tidy PC and PS2

Landing

[STRIKE]DD1 to clear the landing.. most of it is her mess.
Vacuum landing and stairs[/STRIKE]

My room

Clear the 2 chairs as we will need them down tomorrow
find the floor
clear the floordrobe/chairdrobe/drawerdrobe.. yes there are clothes everywhere but in the cupboards!!!

The kitchen

S&S the worksurfaces
scrub the table
mop the floor
wash the windows
de-web the ceiling!!

middle room.. it actually has floor now which is a major bonus we couldn't even see the floor this morning.. 5 binbags of rubbish later there is floor and the majority of the toys are boxed.. I am going to sort through them all and get rid of most of them though we really don't need this many.
So..

[STRIKE]Find more floor[/STRIKE]
Make sis collect her washing machine.. she is 'too busy' ... SHE is?!?!?!
freecycle the old DW.. My PC isn't working still so I can't do this either.
[STRIKE]restack the toy boxes so they aren't threatening to kill the next person who goes in there!
Banish the bunnies to the safety of the middle room so they don't escape![/STRIKE]

Wednesday [STRIKE]I also need to prepare food, buns, couscous, sausage rolls etc.. and I forgot to do a veggie count.. typical! I count 2 so far![/STRIKE]

How is that for a days work??????

Do I get biggest fly prize today???

scaredy_cat_2

hi all - well this is my worst room :eek: we don't have a study or a spare room and it is all of those and a dumping ground for everything else!! but have started - am going to do 15 mins each day til its done and sorted properly - so cupboards have to be done too so the clutter doesn't build up

Wednesday Master Bedroom and Landing

1. [STRIKE]Strip bed, replace linen [/STRIKE]after vacuuming mattress
2. Dust anywhere that needs to be
3. Put any clean laundry away, [STRIKE]dirty washing in the basket etc and clear the floor[/STRIKE]
4. Vacuum (under the bed aswell if you can) hmm need tgo find floor first
5. Clean window
6. Remove anything that shouldn't be where it is, take is out of the room as you leave :eek:

Landing

1. Remove any cobwebs
2. Dust window ledge and clean window
3. [STRIKE]Vacuum landing after making sure it's clear [/STRIKE]

Extra for today (seeing as it's an easy day really) dampen down one hotspot this is entire bedroom and needs entire fire service let alone dampening down :rotfl:

well that is me done for night unless feel too guilty about lounging and can't ignore ironing - just need to s&s kitchen and pack rest of toys away before the apprentice - i love it

scaredy_cat_2

pigpen wrote: »

Do I get biggest fly prize today???

_party_ _party_ _party_ _party_

:T

i couldn't find a tiara!!! or sash a la 'perfect housewife' :rotfl: