Weekly Flylady Thread 18th March 2013

cyclingyorkie

pigpen wrote: »

Making a note or I WILL forget because I a goldfish.. I need to pack.. socks for me, knickers and socks for Squeak, socks for Dot and a few more jumpers for us all.. it looks like it will be heapsy freezing in them there foreign parts this squeakend! .. and the girls washbag.. which I need to buy more shampoo for.

I do NOT want to go... You know you will have to put up with me moaning ALL weekend don't you? lol

Feel free to moan - I was there fleetingly last weekend - I spent 5 hours sorting photographic slides at my mums -( my sister wanted to bin them all - I wanted to sort them so it became my job to sort them!) I was very lucky to get a seat on the train both ways.......

I have saved some cracking slides though - the next job will be to digitise them...

bossymoo

:coffee:
Time for a tea break. Already. Just while the whiff settles from the radiator paint.

Help yourself to tea and biccies

Have removed everything from room, half a wall fell off on removing a curtain hook but my filling is very professional (not), sprayed radiator with a can of enamel I found in the cupboard, and also located rollers, trays, some leftover satinwood paint and a few other bits and bobs...

toochoosey

Well done Bossy...............if you have any GUAG spare, you can throw it my way, thanks.

I have showered, stripped DD's bed and put it in the machine and since 3 this morning copious amounts of tea has been drunk. Think I may try a coffee and see if the caffeine will help..................

Valli

trulymadlydeeply_indebt! wrote: »

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I've just looked at the Calamine Lotion which will be out of date next month. I remember buying this when DS had chickenpox when he was 2 and have never needed to use it since. He will be 12 in July - I reckon it can go now.

There is a roll of lint I inherited from my Mum (RIP) last year and I can remember it being in her cupboard when I was a kid (I'm now 43) and neither of us have ever used it in the 35 years in between.

Other than the usual suspects - plasters, germolene, savlon, calpol, paracetamol, digital thermometer, cough mixtures and a spoon etc., I'm sure the rest can go in the bin. Anybody else feel they open cupboards, drawers etc., and not actually take note of what is in there? It just lives in there with no real potential for use. NOT ANY MORE - my ruthless head will be focussed this weekend.

TMD xx

If it makes you feel any better, once liquids have been opened they start to react (oxidise) with the air. Obviously as long as they are closed again this process is slow, but nevetheless ongoing. Liquids into which you put your fingers can be contaminated, hence the little opened pot symbol now appearing on things, usually followed by 6M 12M or 18M

So throwing them is probably a good idea.

Plus, there's the issue of being a slave to your possessions, they need to be looked after, dusted, stored, whatever and that all takes time.
I didn't think I was a hoarder, still don't, but I did have clutter 'because...'
eg - I couldn't throw away XXX becuase it was a gift. Even though I didn't like it. ironically my eureka moment came when I heard myself telling DD she couldn't throw something away (which she didn't use) because it was 'a gift'. I realised what I was saying - I was passing on this enslavement to possessions, in effect! So I told her she COULD get rid of it if whe didn't want it and she threw it. I can't even remember what it was, now!
Subsequently I then got rid of ornaments and other stuff I was keeping simply because it had been a gift/cost a lot of money. Dusting is easier and the stuff I have on display is stuff I like. DD will throw it ALL apparently, when I kick the bucket. Hope she has the sense to put some of it on fleabay, there's Crown Derby in there!

Kids off - snow.

:cool:

Got lots of ironing to do - all the stuff I dried outside yesterday!:T

Honey_Bear

trulymadlydeeply_indebt! wrote: »

Anybody else feel they open cupboards, drawers etc., and not actually take note of what is in there? It just lives in there with no real potential for use. NOT ANY MORE

All the time. I've become quite ruthless about the gibble that keeps on gibbling.

At the chalet it seems that half the people who stay there buy brand new cleaning products just for the week, and then leave them behind. Here at the house, everyone seems to leave stuff in the bathroom - shampoo, conditioner, shower gel etc. I would never be able to use it all. Someone suggested recently that I should car boot it all, but the amount of work I had to put into doing one a couple of years ago was just too much trouble and I've been CSing bits and pieces so I haven't got enough to do one.

Thank you for kind words about lodgers. Most of them are lovely, and the two current blokes are both good looking, well-mannered and no trouble at all. They both cook from scratch at every meal, are clean and tidy around the shower room and OH likes them too - he does blokey talk with them about footie and stuff.

Valli

Just a thought Honey Bear, but maybe if there's a homeless shelter or a food bank nearby they might take your excess cleaning (house/person) stuff?

toochoosey

Friend coming round later so going to have a quick HHC downstairs before going to work and then to MrT for supplies................

pigpen

I'VE GOT A REPRIEVE FOR 4 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...I am fairly hopeful anyway.

I am so delighted!!!

His mother suggested we go tomorrow but they dn't sleep the first night we are there so he would have no sleep and then have to drive home.. no thanks I like not being dead!

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm off to make a start on the decorating in Squeaks room.. I have boxed all the loose stuff so I need to shift it out them I can start the stripping!

toochoosey

Fab news Pigpen!!



(I am cleaning......honest.............)

toochoosey

Daily routines
washing, S S
swish and swipe kitchen S S
bathroom, S S
ironing, F S S
making beds, S S
vacuuming high traffic areas, S S
making meals F S S

Night-time routines
preparing clothes for the next day, F S S
making lunches,
swish & swipes of the kitchen F S S
tidying the living room F S S

Mondays are Marvellous!! - kitchen and dining area
Level One
mop the floor

Extras

• Deweb and polish
• Clear out a cupboard of junk!

Wiggly Wednesday- Master bedroom and landing!Level Three
Sort through a hotspot
Sort through a cupboard.. make it neat and tidy
wash out all the bins

Extras

• Half hour... FILING... meanness I know but it won't do itself!!
• 36 fling boogie!! .. GO
• Quick one.. check those smoke alarms - no that doesn't mean burn the toast/bacon to check !

Friday is Funky! - childrens rooms! ~ spare rooms or just attack a neglected room!Level Two
Declutter the floor.. inc under the beds and units
Dust and deweb the whole room
Wipe away sticky marks
Level Three
Wash windows
Straighten up a chest of drawers or wardrobe
Binbag dance!

Extras

• Ring someone you've not spoken to in a while..
• Delete some of those old contacts and texts off your mobile phone!!
• Meal plan for the next week and make a shopping list... based on what you found in the freezer and those things that need using from weekly cupboard sweep.
• Extra 30 minutes ironing.. school uniforms? work clothes?

My list

• Sort car tax