Weekly Flylady Thread 8th April 2013

Dustykitten

Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us.

Thank you Natty for last week's thread

Every room comes back around next week so please don’t stress about catching up

These lists are only suggestions and not a must do list; you are more than welcome to post and follow your own lists.

Also adding a declutter mission each day will help to gradually clear the clutter and make flying easier.

A few of the basics before we start the week

Hotspots are areas where if one thing gets put there, loads of other things follow!

Daily routines are anything you need to do on a daily basis like washing, swish and swipe kitchen and bathroom, ironing, making beds, vacuuming high traffic areas, making meals etc.

Night-time routines are all things which make getting ready in the morning easier, preparing clothes for the next day, making lunches, swish & swipes of the kitchen and tidying the living room before you go to bed plus personals like shower/brush teeth etc.

Fling Boogie - stick on some loud music, grab a bin bag and whiz around the house finding items that can go out with the rubbish, recycling, for charity shop, basically anything that will stop it cluttering your home.

Swish and swipe/S&S means have a quick wipe over an area such as a sink or toilet to prevent the build up of dirt. This is usually done on a daily basis

HHE/HHC/HHI Half Hour exercise/challenge/ironing ... run around for 30 minutes to the Benny Hill music frantically cleaning exercising or ironing.. other music may be used if you prefer!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

Monday - kitchen and dining room
Level one
Clear and wipe work surfaces, only put back what belongs here
Level Two
Sweep and mop floors, Use a cloth to get right into the corners and do any skirtings too
Clean the drawer and filter in the WM
Wipe table and chairs
Level three
Sort out the your most cluttered drawer do you need all that stuff?
HHTidying up and finding homes for homeless things which make flying tricky
Wipe over the hob

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall and Stairs, downstairs loo
Level One
Vacuum through the living room, hall and stairs
Level Two
Clear the coffee table/mantle/other cluttered area and give it a wipe
Clean windows and all glass, including the tv screen
Clean the downstairs loo and basin
Level Three
HHPaperwork, make any medical appointments - anybody due a smear?
HHI
Change any batteries/lightbulbs which have expired

Wednesday - Master Bedroom and Landing
Level One
Strip the bed linen and wash and replace
Level Two
Clear the floor and hoover
Dust away any cobwebs
Remove the piles of stuff on the landing
Level Three
Have some me time – soak your feet and read a magazine etc
Do any mending, sew on buttons etc
Sort out your summer tops in hope of some nice weather (they say maybe this weekend, fingers crossed, and toes, and legs - oh no now you can't fly)

Thursday - Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clean bath sinks and toilets
Level Two
Clear and clean the floors
Clear any clutter from desk
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Level Three
Wash your bathroom mats and shower curtains etc
Hunt out the sunscreen - warmest day of year so far forecast for Sunday and we do not want any burnt flyfamilies
Clean some shoes, get your sandles out. Are school shoes and PE kits ready for next week (if your kids are not back at school already)

Friday – Choose a room which never gets much attention
Maybe snug, kids bedroom, spare room, conservatory
Level One
HH putting all the stuff away and rehoming items to other rooms
Level Two
Hoover or mop the floor
Change any beds not done
Wipe all dusty areas with a damp cloth
Level Three
HH Me time before the weekend
S&S any sinks, toilets
Hoover anywhere in need before the weekend[/B]

bonnie_bumpkins

Thanks dusty - I'm in!!

Flying will be mostly delegated tomorrow as the birthday girl takes a back seat.

msgnomey

Woo Hoo shiny new thread, thanks FLCC

I will do better this week, I will I will

Tomorrow OH has informed me we will be 'doing the garden'

He will cut the grass and I'll titivate the borders, I have some Aldi 'scatter mix' wild seeds to put in and some veggies to put in my cold frame, quite exciting!!! we usually have a gardener but he's been once and done a big tidy up and really only the grass needs cutting atm

Hey ho off to the land of nod now
night all

Hugs
xxx

Thisisme_3

Can I join please

cyclingyorkie

Thisisme wrote: »

Can I join please

welcome to the madhouse!

I'm in - hopefully the 2nd week of the hols will run more smoothly than the first!

DS is stopping at his g/f's for most of this week as her folks are away - he has offered to do his own washing!:j:beer::T

ionafan

Thank you Dusty for this week's thread and Natty for last week's.

I shall be doing my best to join in, but I'm not going to get a lot of flying time this week, as things are hotting up on the househunting front. The buyers' surveyor is coming to take a look at this house on Wednesday and I'm working on Monday, so Tuesday promises to be manic. But it's all in a good cause

At least I've got the washing up to date. I did 4 loads today and dried it all outside. Only 5 shirts to iron...

This evening I walked round our garden and found many more flowers out and more shrubs bursting into life than the same time last week. We don't have a lot of couch grass to contend with, but we do have buttercups, so digging them out before they spread their roots and runners everywhere is another thing to add to this week's list of extra jobs, along with potting up some snowdrops to take with us when we move. I also want to start decluttering cupboards for the second time round, as there will be far less storage space in our new home than here.

:bdaycake:Happy Birthday LouLouCake

(((Hugs))) mumto5

CY - glad to hear that your DD2's tonsillitis is getting better

decogecko

Hi all

I'm in again this week - thanks for this weeks list Dusty

Have tomorrow off - have to take some aptitude tests tomorrow as part of getting my dream job. The application was the first stage, the tests are the second and the third (if I'm successful in the tests) will be the interview. I'm bricking it. It's so important to me and I'm trying not to let it overwhelm me as that will be a sure way for me to fail these tests. I used to do this job previously, but when OH passed away I felt I had to break away from it (he worked for the same people).

Oh well, what will be will be.

:bdaycake: to Loulou for today

:bdaycake: for BB for tomorrow

Deco x

Valli

I am in; but I don't need to do the kichen, other than a quick S&S as it was cleaned after I painted on Saturday.

The Dinign Room, however, has been dumped in for a week or more; DD is using the table to study (due to sleep issues she's not working in her bedroom) but as she is going to work at her friend's tomorrow the coast is clear in there
So valli's plan for Monday

Dining Room
Ironing
Washing?
get Easter list out and do some work from that -
update diary/calendar
clean out handbag
clean out makeup bag - see what needs flinging/replacing
make 'list for town' - including Birthday cards for later in the month


Thanks for the thread work Dusty and Natty.

dancemum

Good luck tomorrow Deco x

I'm in. Thanks for the threads ladies. It's the 2nd week of school holidays here. Although I must also prepare for DS1 to be hanging around after his exams. Prior to starting 6th form (results permitting). Only a moment ago he was at nursery.

dollydog

Hi

Im in again this week also

MinnieMousesMummy

Please count me in again this week, hopefully I will do better this week, as I seem to be getting lost in time a bit at the moment, last week was gone in a blink.

After a good day out with DH and the kids today (although spent more than budgeted) I am hoping that I can start this week with a spring in my step and make some real progress in terms of work and flying.

Monday -Kitchen & Dining Room
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe the work surfaces[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sweep and mop the kitchen floor[/STRIKE]
Clean the drawer and filter in the WM
[STRIKE]Wipe table and chairs[/STRIKE]
Sort out the your most cluttered drawer do you need all that stuff?
[STRIKE]HHTidying up and finding homes for homeless things which make flying tricky[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe over the hob[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Take the old tv to the recycling tip rather than it sitting in the corner of the dining room[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sort out the greenhouse[/STRIKE]
Plant some of the vegetable and herb seeds
[STRIKE]Do some of the ironing pile and put clothes away[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Do some of the laundry[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Dust the kitchen and dining room for cobwebs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean the sink in the kitchen[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean the window sills in the kitchen and dining room[/STRIKE]