Weekly Flylady Thread 20th January 2013

Zed42

Yesterday was a bit hit n miss for me .... dining room is currently the storage area for the utility room which DH has ripped out, so that's just a "dead zone" .... the kitchen I did kinda ensure was clean and tidy, but floor not mopped and cupboards not wiped.

On the flipside I did do a blitz on the main bedroom, changed bedlinen, pulled bed out and hoovered, dusted skirtings etc., I also cleared the hall and hoovered the stairs, so I'm sure it'll even out somewhere!

I also, not conquered, but definitely demolished some of the paperwork demons, so this is ongoing for this week .... after all I must do my SA before the end of the week !!

I am substituting the word "living room" for "Sewing room" in today's list, as I did the living room on Saturday.

Tuesday Sewing Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
Level 3
Wipe light switches and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors etc
Tidy shoes, coats and bags
Vacuum under furniture (only if you won't hurt yourself doing it, don't want any injuries)
Get a winter emergency box for your car.. it's still not too late SEE HERE for ideas!
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Clear one hotspot or spend at least 15 minutes clearing it a bit

• HHI

• Give the inside of the front door a wipe (if it's not snowing you could do the outside too)
• Wipe the leaves of your plants
• Sort through any magazines or paperwork lying around
• Clean windows and sills in these areas

Other:

Find Brownie badges
Sew them on
Fix zip on DD's blue pinafore
Identify what needs fixing on her grey pinafore
(Child is down to one skirt for school …. )

Mumof2_2

Ionafan, hope today goes well; thinking of you and DH. As you say if there was anything to be really concerned about they'd have had him in sharpish.

Dusty hope you have a better day today ((hug)).

Polkadot, I am with you re the kitchen being my frog - at least it's looking better today than it was yesterday but still hope to do more later. I figure the more I can do the less of a frog it will be.

DH just gone to work; it's really slippery and I've seen a few cars sliding so there's no way I'm going anywhere. Just sat under my SAD lamp for a bit doing this and then going to start my typing jobs. BBL!

Maisie_M

flying well this morning:

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean floors
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean cupboard door fronts and the kick boards [/STRIKE] Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front
[STRIKE]Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary) [/STRIKE][STRIKE]Check your car is topped up with anti-freeze, radiator water, oil, petrol. [/STRIKE]
Check your tyre pressure too, if your car is being used during the freezing weather.
Level Three
[STRIKE]Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky [/STRIKE]
Clean oven - because I know it wasn't on the list last week
[STRIKE]Check you have essentials in the car, if you are driving, i.e. chocolate, flask, torch, warm blanket and charged up mobile phone. We don't want you to get stuck in the snow.[/STRIKE]
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Clean dishwasher, cooker hood (if washable) and tumble drier filters
• [STRIKE]Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required[/STRIKE]

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
[STRIKE]Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets[/STRIKE]
Level 3
Wipe light switches and banister
[STRIKE]Clean any other glass like mirrors etc[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Tidy shoes, coats and bags[/STRIKE] Vacuum under furniture (only if you won't hurt yourself doing it, don't want any injuries)
Get a winter emergency box for your car.. it's still not too late SEE HERE for ideas!
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Clear one hotspot or spend at least 15 minutes clearing it a bit
• HHI
• [STRIKE]Give the inside of the front door a wipe (if it's not snowing you could do the outside too)[/STRIKE]
• Clean windows and sills in these areas

Dailies
- [STRIKE]washing - darks[/STRIKE]
-[STRIKE] S&S bathroom[/STRIKE]
- HHI
- Take spag bol out of freezer for tomorrow's dinner
- [STRIKE]make beds[/STRIKE]
- wash dishes from[STRIKE] breakfast[/STRIKE]/lunch/dinner

mrs-moneypenny

spent my HHC on the wii fit, another 1lb off today but it said id put 3lb on over the weekend when i went on sunday so need to lose another 2 to get back to where i was

so going to attack the kitchen now

Honey_Bear

Morning Dusty. I hope you're feeling better today. Good luck to Mr Ionafan at the consultation, and posi-vibes for GI's DD. Thanks Jazee for SickDog info; hopefully with less exercise for a bit and staying warm will ease the problem.

The Flying strategy here will be Level 1 every day on the room stated, as I've realised that as I'm dragging the shoulder snappingly heavy Dy$on about, I do the areas on the way to the room in question iyswim. And I really must dust a couple of shelves in the dining room left over from yesterday.

When the house was a complete tip OH never noticed the dust. In the olden days dusting and vacuuming were his responsibility, bathrooms and the kitchen were mine, so it might have had something to do with wilful blindness. Now that I do all of it and the place is half-decent, miraculously his eyesight has improved. Grr.

wendywitch

All work suspended as the gas man has arrived :j Luckily I'd managed to load DW, WM & TD before he came so the kitchens not looking sooo bad
I've cleared out the cupboard under the stairs so he could get to the meter and he's currently having fun with the boiler front :rotfl:When they fitted the new kitchen (5 years ago now) they put up a cupboard within legal limits of the boiler but forgot that the boiler cover does have to come off. I did comment on it at the time but what am I to know I'm only the tenant :mad:

kazwookie

All of upstairs is now done
Wm / TD changed round, I hate the cost of the Td but needs must....
Chatted to next door neighbour, he say he is currently 'low' and missing is wife, she died last year, so he is coming round to dinner tonight it is only sc pork cassarole, but hopefully that may help just a little.

Then had knock on door:-
Kids from next door
Hi kaz
Hi kids, why are you not at school?
We have another snow day, can we ask you something?
Sure go ahead
Can we borrow some of your snow as we have run out and want to make an igloo.
Are you planning on returning the snow to me then?
que loads of giggles, :rotfl:
any way they are now happly removing the snow off my drive :jto make this igloo!!

mrs-moneypenny

kazwookie what lovely kids you live next door to, offering to clear your front like that for you;)

lounge swept and dusted to within an inch of its life (i even moved the photos etc instead of dusting round them and pulled the settees out.
all electricals dusted
settees wiped over with babywipe (leather) throws and cushions straightened
hall and kitchen floors swepts through
shelves in hall dusted
all dry washing taken off rads im in process off pairing socks while i have a coffee
had an email to say tonights govs meeting cancelled so can take knitting or stitching to do while i watch the martail arts lesson

before work i need to
[STRIKE]finish pairing socks[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]sort post recycle chaff[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]put ironing board away[/STRIKE]
wash up
[STRIKE]hoover stairs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]put something warmer on [/STRIKE]- ive rung my friend to say id sooner walk as our road is like glass so i dont want her driving along it
[STRIKE]sort out cardboard boxes and bookmark prototype ready to take to school[/STRIKE]

Dustykitten

Mumto2 and Honeybear thank you for your wishes I am feeling much better today.

Wardrobe and drawers sorted, sort for charity, some to carboot
Birds watered and fed
Old mathmat binned
Letter posted
Rug bought in from it's snow cleaning
WMx1 done
DS2 bed stripped

Just having a cuppa and a bit of paperwork before my next HHC at 12:00 before lunch

bossymoo

Morning! (Just!)

WFH again today, it's actually bright and sunny so I may venture into the office tomorrow!

Am about to stop for lunchbreak, so just checked in for the list, as will fly a little whilst finding a snack.

:hi: