Weekly Flylady Thread 21st May 2007

cha97michelle

catznine welcome back. Hope you had a lovely time in Florida. Don't feel like you have to rush to get back into, as i don't want you doing too much and getting over-tired. I'm sure everywhere has got a little dusty, but i bet there isn't as much as you think.

I'm having an equally manic day today,as we are rennovating the spare room a bit. We have a kiddies futon bunk bed which we bought thinking it would be good for a spare bed, and it so isn't as our main visitors are the ILs. So, we have been given a single bed, and we are swapping them today. only, my spare room is my biggest dumping ground.

So, so far today, (although with DH's help for some of the big things):

• got up, all fed, all dressed
• cats fed twice
• WM emptied, and DH's pants now in TD
• WM refilled with towels - that has just finished
• ironing moved from spare room onto our bed
• all junk like ironing board, airers, coathangers, my wedding dress, all the spare bedding also now in our room
• Charlies cot remade as i didn't have a clean fitted bottom sheet yesterday, and with all his wriggling it had come off.
• airers emptied - foldable clothes done, and put away
• DH now dismantling bed as we speak
• several loads of washing sorted - spare bedding, bath mats, DH's work jeans, DHs work t-shirts and jumpers, so now need to crack on.

I guess next:

• go out and wash line as covered in spider webs as i forgot to fold it away
• hang out towels, and DH's PJs
• next load in
• once bed dismantled, hoover and dust the spare room, before taking the new bed up
• clean the new bed where it has got mucky from being in the garage for the past couple of months
• get DH to clean up the cat kill outside the garage door (baby squirrel i think)
• put travel bags away on top of the newly cleaned wardrobe tops
• clean window in spare room (will need to do outside as well)
• buy mum some flowers for her wedding anniversary
• phone sister to work out what the timings are and what i need to take on the spa day i am going on tomorrow
• DH needs to go and collect some equipment he said he would sell on commision for some students.
• i need to mark lots of SAT papers as i don't know when my extra ones are coming
• i need to run the hoover round the rest of upstairs where i am not cluttered, although that will probably be after we start moving some of the junk back into the spare room
• get DH to put the baby swing and cot mobile in the loft
• get DH to bring the baby walker in out of the garage and assemble that
• i need to wash the cover off the baby bouncer, then that needs dismantling, and then that can also go in the loft at some point.

we also have a vague idea that we may get out into the garden perhaps later this early evening when Charlie goes back to bed, and mow the lawn and have a general tidy up.

Gosh - we have loads to do when i look at it written down, so i had best get on.

Catch up with you all later. Have a good one!

Michelle, x x

lil_me

Welcome home Catzine, sounds like you've got your work cut out.

MoneyQueen, more than welcome to follow your own list as many do, might even steal some ideas myself

Michelle, sounds like another busy day for you, good luck!

Well I've got a little list for me for today, ok well a big one. Main thing is to complete the paperwork sorting and sort the kitchen out. I had a problem with the boiler yesterday so was unable to get washing up done, did try with kettle but gave up after a while, so have blasted through that lot this morning.

Here goes today for me

[STRIKE]Clear kitchen benches
Wipe kitchen benches
Sort baking cupboard
Freezer sort and list
Meal plans and shopping list
27 fling boogie upstairs
Wash dog bed
Clean dogs room [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean 2 of the PCs and desks I didn't do during the week
Finish sorting the paperwork mountain [/STRIKE]:j :j :j
[STRIKE]2 loads laundry
Water change pond when DP gets up (see if I can get him to help)
Dailies left - inc downstairs floors to vacuum and mop
Measure up for new fence between houses, found out who is moving in and I don't like them! (not many I can say that about but this ones for a good reason!)[/STRIKE]
Baking if time left
Find somewhere for new food processor

GeorgiaW

Hello all,
I would love to give this a try because my house is a mess and I'm not organised at all.

I'm afraid I'm going to fall at the first hurdle because there's no way I can swish and swipe (is that the correct term?) my kitchen. The worktops are covered in 'pending' stuff. Can someone please tell me what to do with things that come into the house and need to be kept out so that I don't forget to do something with them?
I'm talking about things like letters from school concerning future events, insurance reminders that come a month early etc. There's also a pile of newspapers and magazines which I or someone else in the house hasn't read yet, stuff that's broke off something and is waiting to have something done about it, odd spare things left over from jobs such as knobs, hinges etc, things you had in your hand when you came in the house so they just get left on the worktop, instruction leaflets for something kept outside so needs to be handy, etc, etc, etc.
If I could just get the worktops cleared it would be heaven but whenever I've tried I fail dismally because a lot of the stuff I need to be reminded about and the rest hasn't got a home.
Please help me get started.

pigpen

Well... I have a sore throat from my partying last night.. *grin* (or I hope that's what it is or else it means I am getting a stinker of a cold which I could do without this week).. God help me this week.. I have a hen do a wedding do and 3 nights out 2 days shopping for the last wedding bits and it's half term so the grubs are all home too... I think I need a break next week!

The boys are to be banished to their room to find the floor and bring down their laundry.
DD2 is being bribed to tidy her room.. I told her she can have a friend come during the week if it is sorted this weekend.
Hubby and I are to be making a start on emptying the middle room.. you need a pic of this..
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ok.. the camera needs charging so you'll have to wait!

erm..

The house is a bin.. it doesn't matter where I start it all needs doing.. ina bit.. *wink*

love and fluff to everyone!!

this_is_it

Hi everybody not been around for a few days had granson on thurs for the day and since then have nt really done much except dailies have an awful headache and been feeling abit down aswell so this morning iv just been doing abit sitting down then doing a bit more so at least things are getting done slowley.

Beccatje

GeorgiaW wrote: »

Hello all,
I would love to give this a try because my house is a mess and I'm not organised at all.

I'm afraid I'm going to fall at the first hurdle because there's no way I can swish and swipe (is that the correct term?) my kitchen. The worktops are covered in 'pending' stuff. Can someone please tell me what to do with things that come into the house and need to be kept out so that I don't forget to do something with them?
I'm talking about things like letters from school concerning future events, insurance reminders that come a month early etc. There's also a pile of newspapers and magazines which I or someone else in the house hasn't read yet, stuff that's broke off something and is waiting to have something done about it, odd spare things left over from jobs such as knobs, hinges etc, things you had in your hand when you came in the house so they just get left on the worktop, instruction leaflets for something kept outside so needs to be handy, etc, etc, etc.
If I could just get the worktops cleared it would be heaven but whenever I've tried I fail dismally because a lot of the stuff I need to be reminded about and the rest hasn't got a home.
Please help me get started.

I know just what you mean!
I've started using a notice board.
One that I can pin stuff onto, like school letters about future events.. and reminders..
I also have a door painted with blackboard paint, and I use that to write stuff down on.. instructions for the kids, or to myself.

Things that need to be fixed and the likes, maybe you can set up a seperate container for them? A decorative box, of any other container. Give it a home, and store stuff in there.

Newpapers and magazines that need to be read by other family members I don't have so can't help you there.

We have a hook in the hallway which holds handbags and schoolbags, to be put there as you come in. A small cabinet with hooks to hold all the keys, keeps them out of the way and safe.

Hope it helps! Keeping your worksurface clutter free is SUCH a great feeling!

Becca

AnW'sMum

Georgia welcome, this is the place to be.

My house is FAR from tidy but I am making small inroads into it.

I have a file for all instruction books (it prob needs junking out of instructions for stuff we no longer have!) Car seats to washing machines to lawn mowers, they all go in there in individual plastic wallets. I also include gaurantees in there.

For school letters, term dates and general reminders I have a cork board up in the kitchen with pins where all this stuff goes. Annual reminders for insurances etc I havve set up on the pc either in works calendar or in money.

Magazine rack for papers/mags (needs junking as well!) And for all those DIY bits we have an old wardrobe in the garage which we put more shelves in with loads of icecream tubs/chinese tubs for the various bits n pieces. The fact that we can't get to that cupbaard coz of all the bikes, bbqs and other stuff is irrelevant!!!!

Hope that gives you a few ideas.

Right back from swimming as you can probably tell, lunch eaten, pics printed off we go to nannies so DD can go to the kids theatre this pm.

Catch you later

xx

ShirleyPark_2

GeorgiaW wrote: »

The worktops are covered in 'pending' stuff. Can someone please tell me what to do with things that come into the house and need to be kept out so that I don't forget to do something with them?
I'm talking about things like letters from school concerning future events, insurance reminders that come a month early etc. There's also a pile of newspapers and magazines which I or someone else in the house hasn't read yet, stuff that's broke off something and is waiting to have something done about it, odd spare things left over from jobs such as knobs, hinges etc, things you had in your hand when you came in the house so they just get left on the worktop, instruction leaflets for something kept outside so needs to be handy, etc, etc, etc.

The pending stuff - how about getting an a4 folder, some dividers and some of those plastic wallet things. Then have a section for each month and put the papers in the appropriate month.

I have an A4 folder with all the instruction manuals for everything in the house in, which I did after I got fed up with the manuals being in 1 of 4 places and never being able to find them.

As for the other stuff. How about getting a few boxes, sort everything that needs to be fixed into 1 box, put everything that people haven't read into another one, while you're at it you could also get a box for stuff to go to the charity shop, another for freecycle, another for selling on ebay / carboot etc. While it might just look like you're moving the stuff from one place to another, atleast it has somewhere to go and your surfaces can stay clear. Then you can come back to the boxes at a later stage and deal with the stuff that's in them.

Pollybear

Two loads of washing on the line.

Shopping delivered and put away.

Just had pork pie and salad for lunch, that was nice and easy

Cable box has died and they can't come with a new one until Tuesday. Oh no, no television......no Grand Prix tomorrow......I'm heartbroken

We've got a couple of things taped previously to watch and plenty of DVDs. We'll live!

There's a television with freeview box up in DS's room so DH will have to sit up there if he really want to watch anything.

cha97michelle

Quick update - and a hello to georga

I transfer any important dates onto our calendar in the kitchen. Anything for further on than that covers gets written on the back cover. Any letters that need an action like a bill or car tax reminder, or letter to post on a certain day i stick in my plan a day diary, and then when the day comes, i check my diary and like magic it is there.

Welcome to our world, and i'm sure between all of us, then you will get some ideas of how to sort your kitchen out.


Saturday 26/5/07

• go out and wash line as covered in spider webs as i forgot to fold it away no as weather turned nasty
• hang out towels went in TD, and DH's PJs went on airer
• [STRIKE]next load in[/STRIKE]today i have done - towels, bath mats, DH's jeans, and now his work t-shirts/jumpers are in
• [STRIKE]once bed dismantled, hoover[/STRIKE] and dust the spare room, [STRIKE]before taking the new bed up[/STRIKE]
• clean the new bed where it has got mucky from being in the garage for the past couple of months
• [STRIKE]get DH to clean up the cat kill outside the garage door[/STRIKE] (baby squirrel i think)
• put travel bags away on top of the newly cleaned wardrobe tops
• clean window in spare room (will need to do outside as well)
• buy mum some flowers for her wedding anniversary
• phone sister to work out what the timings are and what i need to take on the spa day i am going on tomorrow
• [STRIKE]DH needs to go and collect some equipment he said he would sell on commision for some students.[/STRIKE]doing that now and he will be a good few hours
• i need to mark lots of SAT papers as i don't know when my extra ones are coming
• i need to run the hoover round the rest of upstairs where i am not cluttered, although that will probably be after we start moving some of the junk back into the spare room
• [STRIKE]get DH to put the baby swing and cot mobile in the loft[/STRIKE]
• get DH to bring the baby walker in out of the garage and assemble that
• i need to wash the cover off the baby bouncer, then that needs dismantling, and then that can also go in the loft at some point.
• make shepherds pie for dinner
• make some baby purees
• sort out charlies things for tomorrow as i think i have to leave about 8ish

we also have a vague idea that we may get out into the garden perhaps later this early evening when Charlie goes back to bed, and mow the lawn and have a general tidy up.

Gosh - we have loads to do when i look at it written down, so i had best get on.


Extras:

• made baby bottles for tomorrow
• made lunch
• washed up all breakfast and lunch dishes
• garage had a thorough clean/tidy
• run up to the tip with cardboard for recycling, and any rubbish
• DH has sorted a huge pile of his stuff for ebaying (that can be done on one of the other days this weekend)
• played with/dealt with grumpy teething baby

not too bad then.