Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd December 2012

hex2

Mudbath and PP! Welcome back, 2nd week back for me too.

ROD here is still the dining room, I am slowly working on it.

trulymadlydeeply_indebt!

Busy, busy, busy

Can I just shout out I LOVE THIS THREAD. Thanks to ongoing "persuasion" by the powers that be, each room is soooo much easier now I'm on top of them.

Seriously, in my last HHC (sort of 50 mins actually!) I went upstairs into our room and DD's room and

- made beds, opened curtains, opened windows, wiped condensation, flirted yesterday's washing down the stairs, grabbed hoover, hoovered bathroom, our room, DD's room and study, S&S the bathroom, cleaned all surfaces in our room and DD's room, PC monitor, mouse, keyboard and surfaces in study, came downstairs, grabbed laundry from bottom of stairs, went into DS's room, did all the same jobs in his room and put WM on, emptied TD, folded and put away.

Wiped paintwork down the stairs, wiped fireplace, TV and electricals, phone, furniture etc.,

Now just having a catch-up on here, before I grab the hoover and go through downstairs.

As I said earlier, I am not boasting, I am just utterly grateful to you all as I was able to do all this because my house is far less UNCLUTTERED, than it used to be.:T

THANK YOU, THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU - you know who you are!:A:A:A:A:A

Of course, this is also a cop-out for dealing with my frogs :rotfl:

TMD xx

Monday - living room, hallway, stairs
Write some cards, buy any remaining 'special family ones' before the shops sell out

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Declutter and mop/vacuum the floors
Find and wipe the worksurfaces
Level Two
Wipe the big appliances and units.. don't forget kickboards!
Clean WM and DW filters and top up rinse aid/salt
Sort the cupboard under the sink
Level Three
Wipe the table, including the legs

Extras
Right a list to stock up on Washing powder/liquid, pet food, kitchen roll, foil etc to see you through into the new year

Wednesday - Master bedroom and landing
DONE

Extras
Clean any jewellery to make it sparkle

Thursday - Rooms of Doom or just neglected spaces
Level One
Make half an hour for yourself

Extras
Write a list of all store cupboard items you need to top up, sauces, salt and pepper, pasta, rice, cereals, Tbags etc plus anything you need for Festive baking
Update remaining present lists


Anyone fancy HH Something at 11.45? - I'm having "Me" time in the shower! Anyone want to join me lol - oo-eerrr missus!

kazmeister

Oops had to have a second cup as DH came home (earlier than I thought he would be) it would have been rude not to.

Definitely need to do some more now as I've got cold. Heating goes off during the day as theres not usually anyone here and I have no idea how to work the boiler timer. DH offred but I said no I'll work hard - go me. Better go and do it now then :rotfl:

Dustykitten

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Tiptoes in quietly Any room for a little'un

PenPen is here, was thinking about you the other day when Hex and I were talking wood stores and stacking logs in size order you would understand out joy :j

Walk done
Hair chopped

Lunch next

OMG just seen Mudders is back too - all we need now is Greenbee and Soappie and the we'll have a royal flush.

mineallmine

:oRoom of doom is too cluttered to work in...:o

So I grabbed two bags from it, emptied them onto a sheet I'd laid on the bed and got sorting listening to some music channel while I did.

Founds a bag of bits for the charity shop. Now have a ton of papers to burn in the fire later.

I must admit to being jealous a smidge when I read some of you can hoover your upstairs thoroughly. The bedroom is ok. The bathroom is ok. The landing is sh-t and so are the spares. Our house is, although getting better, is still awful. Although areas where I'd thoroughly decluttered then started flylady are better. But now flylady is helping attack the remaining very badly cluttered spaces.

Loving the pictures of the trees. Ours is up but undecorated. Need to dig out the boxes of decorations and get cracking when hubby gets home.

Honey_Bear

Take heart Mine All Mine. As a relative newbie, I can assure you that it will suddenly all fall into place. I 'found' an area yesterday that hasn't had a cleaned since the Dead Sea reported sick, but most of the rest of the house is pretty okay. I still have lots of Rooms of Doom if we are including the oven as one of the them, the attic, the coal hole ....

I have raked the leaves in the communal garden that no-one else ever seems to lift a finger in, and my resentment boiled over and kept me warm for the hour and a half that took. At least I won't need to put the heating on today. I've also swept and washed the backyard between the gate and the door so that when Lee wheels the new-to-me washing machine in he won't be tracking fresh mud over the fleeces covering the carpet. In the process I emptied all the bins and did the recycling and found a big yellow coloured puddle the in shower room. I s'pose I must have kept Dog waiting too long for her first walk this morning, but at least it was on the lino. Isn't she good?

Hugs for all those who have been for an interview and not got the job recently - it's demoralising. The good news is that the rule of thumb is that if you are shortlisted for an interview, it's accepted that you can do the job, so that's a positive. I think the most depressing thing must be to put in endless applications for jobs you know you can do, and never even get a response.

helen_jelly

Monday - living room, hallway, stairs
Level One
[STRIKE]Clear the floor of clutter[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Remove anything now which can give more space for putting the tree up (or tidy
your tree if it is up)[/STRIKE]
Level Two
Vacuum the stairs and hallway [STRIKE]and living room[/STRIKE]
Level Three
Wash the windows
[STRIKE]Wipe the paintwork in the hallway and up the stairs[/STRIKE]

buy any remaining 'special family ones' before the shops sell out

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[STRIKE]Declutter and mop/vacuum the floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Find and wipe the worksurfaces[/STRIKE]
Level Two
Wipe the big appliances and units.. don't forget kickboards!
Clean WM and DW filters and top up rinse aid/salt
Sort the cupboard under the sink
Level Three
Wipe the table, including the legs
[STRIKE]Sort through tea towels, table cloths etc and find the Chirstmas ones
[/STRIKE]
Extras
Right a list to stock up on Washing powder/liquid, pet food, kitchen roll, foil etc to see you through into the new year

Wednesday - Master bedroom and landing
Level One
[STRIKE]Strip the bedding and get it washed[/STRIKE]
30 minutes floordrobe/junk clearing!!
Level Two
vacuum the landing and floor
Clear and dust one flat surface
Clean the windows
Level Three
HHI
Collect all the dirty laundry from upstairs

Been AWOL - having a bit of a clear out ready for the Xmas Tree to go up - this involves a major move round of furniture etc so it takes a while.

Love and hugs as needed, I haven't had a chance to catch up but plan to tonight


Thank you ladies for the lists
Helen

trulymadlydeeply_indebt!

Lovely tree Bossy - keep those little elves working, that's the spirit!

Mineallmine - Believe me, all my rooms used to be horrific with clutter, but once I got on top of them, it really is a minimal amount of effort to put things back in order. I also found that once they were in order, anything that shouldn't be around "stands out", rather that just being lost in the gibble.

I don't know if this little "tip" would help, but in my cluttered olden days, my bedroom was where my "bed" was, my bathroom was where my "bath" was and my spare room was where anything "spare" was. Once I decided to call my spare room a Study/Office, then I had to tidy it up as I cannot work efficiently when I'm surrounded by "stuff". Perhaps you could rename your "spare" rooms e.g. Ironing room/Crafting room whatever, and see if you can rehome what shouldn't be there. Of course, you would have rename the Landing, otherwise everything will "land" there :rotfl:

TMD xx

mineallmine

Thanks HB I'm pleased with stuff I've this week like the kitchen, the stairs and things. The spare rooms have a lot of emotional strings attached to them so I think thats why I struggle there. It's about reclaiming the space as much as anything.:o

kazmeister

DH's away now to Norwich so wont see him now until after we get back tonight so fingers crossed for him.

Have since last post

Emptied DW
Cleared away outstanding drying up (yes from last night)
Hoovered hallway and stairs
Washed hall floors
Wiped hall walls - oops forgot up stairs which is probably the muckiest bit
Wiped stairs down
Hoovered Dining room

And munched a huge Chicken and Salad roll

Love your tree bossymoo

And Dusty I agree it would be lovely to see some more of the !ld' gang back

Right decisions now, do I shower now so I'm all done then can walk the dog before DD gets home or do some more and then get myself all behind and end up rushing. Think the former (my Dad doesnt like to be late anywhere and if I say I'll be there around 5, to him it means at least 5 to 5) so will see you later