Weekly Flylady Thread 30th December 2012

LameWolf

:eek:Loobylou2 that's a horrendous start to the year! Hope you can get it sorted with minimum hassle - I assume insurance will cover it?

Skinty good luck - hope all goes well, and that MiL doesn't cause too much havoc. I have to say, I sympathise with the young Skints, having myself been made very ill through eating roast spuds I didn't know had been cooked in goose fat. Hoping the green thread does the trick. Oh, and pardon me if I speak out of turn, but if I was working in someone else's kitchen, I'd be extremely careful to put everything back exactly as I found it. This is something I'm totally OCD about in my own kitchen, so it raised my blood pressure slightly to read that MiL would rearrange your kitchen if you weren't careful.

Bathroom day in the Wolf's Lair today; it's taking an age, as I have very little range of arm movement currently, and need to use both hands to lift a full bottle of cleaning liquid. However, we'll get there. Shower head is soaking in a jug of vinegar as I type, then I'll "recycle" the vinegar to deal with loo limescale.;) I need to give the shower screen a good polish, too.:o

Oh, and Hoppy Birdday to Juliejim's DD.:beer:

loobylou2

Thanks, to say I'm not happy about it is the understatement of the year so far. We live in a rented property and so have spoken to the Housing People and apparently its a chargeable job so OH is going to have to come up with the money to get it sorted. Will speak to insurers though to see if I am covered for something like this but think we've only got contents cover and am not sure if that would cover me for something like OH flooding the bathroom and causing the living room ceiling to come down!!!! Am sick of having to pay for and sort out his disasters all the time!!!!! Tree and decorations are now down and boxed up for next year though and so I'm off to start on the chaos that is the kitchen!!!!

bossymoo

Wednesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[STRIKE]Wipe the table and work surfaces put everything away that shouldn't be there[/STRIKE]
Descale kettle, iron, taps etc
Level Two
[STRIKE]Sweep/mop/hoover floors
Wipe kickboards or legs of cupboards[/STRIKE]
Level Three
[STRIKE]Wash or exchange washing up brush, teatowels, cloths, dusters
Declutter one cupboard[/STRIKE]
Wipe the hob and extractor fan
Extras
[STRIKE]Are coats and shoes, hats and gloves all clean and ready for the return to work school?
Are anything thank you notes/phone calls still outstanding[/STRIKE]

Done a spot of paid stuff already. Tree is down, and everything upstairs ready to go in loft. Have cleaned LR floor so everything back to normal. Decluttered kiddies cup cupboard, wm x 1 done, and kitchen wiped round.

Very quiet here without the little ones. Rather peaceful. Going to organise some meal planning and finances in a bit. Just decluttered lunch so will go set DW going.

Sorry to hear about your ceiling, loobylou x

funfairprincess

Afternoon all. I have managed to get up,washed and dressed before lunch time today so thats a start:T OH has took DD up to the shops and DS2 is on xbox live with his pals so i can get a quick clear up. Anyone want to join me in a HHC at 2pm???

Valli lovely cardigan love the shawl collar x

Funfairs list of daily dreads
(not in any sort of order!)
If all else fails
Monday Bit of Everything
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Extras
Clean WM/DW filters and put through on a clean cycle
Meal plan for the week
Count some blessings from the year gone by



Wednesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Wipe work surfaces put everything away that shouldn't be there
Descale kettle, iron, taps etc
Level Two
Sweep/mop/hoover floors
Wipe kickboards or legs of cupboards
Level Three
[STRIKE]
Wash or exchange washing up brush, teatowels, cloths, dusters
[/STRIKE]Declutter one cupboard
[STRIKE]
Wipe the hob and extractor fan
[/STRIKE]Extras
[STRIKE]
Are coats and shoes, hats and gloves all clean and ready for the return to work school?
Are anything thank you notes/phone calls still outstanding
[/STRIKE]

funfairprincess

Washing located in various areas of house, WM on, quick S/S of the kitchen, hoovered downstairs, S/S of bathroom, DS1 quick tidy of his room (wonders will never cease), kettle filled with vinegar and water (just hope i remember and dont make myself a coffee!) and apart from WM, TD and cooking/washing up I'm quitting for today


Funfairs list of daily dreads
(not in any sort of order!)
If all else fails
Monday Bit of Everything
Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Extras
Clean WM/DW filters and put through on a clean cycle
Meal plan for the week
Count some blessings from the year gone by

Wednesday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[STRIKE]Wipe work surfaces put everything away that shouldn't be [/STRIKE]there
Descale kettle,<<<in progress
Level Two
[STRIKE]
Sweep/mop/hoover floors
[/STRIKE]Wipe kickboards or legs of cupboards
Level Three
Extras

**Vanilla**

Been busy here this morning, thought the boys were back to school today but seems not. :doh:

Kitchen worktops done, dw on a few times, washing going down slowly, bins emptied, 3 bin bags of crap out, box of stuff left over to shed, filing all done, food shop put away, clean clothes put away, more dirty clothes gathered up, stuff put back up in attic, ebay pile gathered up, sinks cleaned, bedrooms tidied.

helen jelly hope your feeling better soon.
Happy Birthday to your DD juliejim.
loobylou2 oh no, hope it can be fixed at not too much expense.

Right away to clear laptop of junk..

wendywitch

I'm not feeling too happy today so not much done so far.
I had the Doctor (I have a new one now), he refered me for counselling (finally) but just before Christmas I received a letter saying they couldn't give me an appointment :mad: So I'm back to square one and all the Doctor says is I should get back to work (no job to go back to) Obviously all my problems have magically disappeared :cool:

After the Doctor's I went for coffee with my best friend and her family, it's her birthday today We also got some more bits for her and her husband's blessing (10 days to go), it all seems to be coming together though the girls and I still need to sort out costumes (it's medieval themed).

I'm annoyed that neither of the girls are at home so everythings been left to me to do again :mad:
I've told them both that everythings to be done by the weekend or I'm black sacking the ****ing lot :mad::mad:

Monday Bit of Everything

Level One
Have home been found for all the presents? Try to get one thing out of the house for each thing in - new socks, get rid of the religious ones etc ~ still waiting for the girls to do theirs
Level Two
Declutter floors Not just into a box or binbag to hide away, try to put things where they belong, a home for everything will make life easier ~ still waiting for the girls to do theirs
Sweep/mop/hoover floors you can now see
Level Three
[STRIKE]S&S toilets and sinks (including the kitchen[/STRIKE]
Extras
Clean WM/DW filters and put through on a clean cycle ~ will do once caught up with the washing


Tuesday - New Year's Day
DONE

Wednesday - Kitchen and Dining Room

Level One

Descale kettle, iron, taps etc
Level Two
Sweep/mop/hoover floors
Level Three
Declutter one cupboard
Extras
Are anything thank you notes/phone calls still outstanding

nicki_2

Well DD is home and the place is covered in abandoned things already :rotfl: She's unpacked and trying to find homes for all her pressies. I'd rather she went for her bath but at least shes doing something. I'm going to do a HHC of making my bed and then some jobs in the kitchen. Hopefully DD will get in the bath this side of 6pm if I'm up there as well Off to see how much she has put away, then tackle making my bed, one of my least favourite jobs!

Dustykitten

gerturdeanna wrote: »

Just a quick question: how do you descale stuff?? Glad its the Kitchen today as I seriously did nothing all day yesterday!!

I use white vinegar, fill kettle to cover element, leave for a few hours, pour away and then boil a couple pints 2 times before using

loobylou2 wrote: »

Can I join in too please? I really find it difficult to motivate myself to do housework and it shows by the state of my house. I work full time and have 3 children ages 15,13 and 7, OH is retired but dosen't do much around the house so it mainly falls to me and often because I have quite a stressful job I'm just too exhausted to start on housework when I stagger in from the office. Any help, advice, hints and tips would be very much appreciated as although I live with 4 other people I don't get much support at all from them in keeping our home nice.

I think you have 2 choices. You either do what you can to get them all helping, rota, rewards etc or you decide you are doing it just for your own benefit and do your best without stressing. You should not be clearing up the mess that your OH has created with the ceiling disaster though!

Dustykitten

Bit of Everything

[STRIKE]HHI - who has achieved that empty basket?[/STRIKE]
Clean WM/DW filters and put through on a clean cycle
Meal plan for the week

Hoover out smoke alarms and test
Delete some emails/favourites

Write a list of hopes and dreams for this year

Wednesday - Kitchen
[STRIKE]Descale kettle, iron, taps etc
Sweep/mop/hoover floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wash or exchange washing up brush, teatowels, cloths, dusters
Wipe the AGA[/STRIKE]
Extras
Are coats and shoes, hats and gloves all clean and ready for the return to work school?
Are anything thank you notes/phone calls still outstanding