Weekly Flylady Thread 21st May 2007

Solwaykid

Just popping in quickly to say hi. Enjoy your pamper day, Michelle, well done on the 11th hour motivation, Lil_me, and Shell, bet you'll be glad when you get moved!
Have a useful day all, Flying or enjoying the Bank Holiday. I'm off to work for the day (booo). There's only a few of us in so I might get to pop on in a sneaky moment.

tracyg

Hello!

Just spent ages catching up on the thread so big hellos to newbies, hugs all round and lots of well dones!

Right, have woke up in an organised mood today so things will get done. Have not really done any major cleaning for well over a week so things are pretty grim, tidy but grim. Only did the dallies and must dos like washing, change beds, etc. Its babys Christening next Sunday and we are having everyone back here after so everywhere must be clean and looking presentable. Yesterday afternoon DH had baby and I tackled upstairs, it took about 2 hours but its 5 rooms plus landing done, even cleaned skirtings, tops of doors, windows so am pleased. Everywhere feels so much better when its clean. Am aiming to downstairs today, did kitchen as soon as I got up - even before I got my cup of tea! - so then I can do Lil_me list next week and just keep of top of it instead of having to fettle everyday.

So list of jobs for this weekend
[STRIKE]Clean upstairs - spare room, Sams room (change cot), our room, bathroom, ensuite, landing[/STRIKE]
Hoover through upstairs incl. under bed/cot
Lounge - windows, wax tables, dust, hoover under sofas, skirtings
Dining room - window, dust, mirror, hoover under table, clean highchair, skirtings
Loo - sink, loo, window, skirtings
Hall - hoover under table, dust, skirtings, bannistar
[STRIKE]Kitchen - wipe tops, wipe cupboard doors, clean Range [/STRIKE](will do windows, inside fridge, microwave, floor tomorrow on list)
[STRIKE]Sort online banking [/STRIKE]

Weeks jobs
Vax upstairs
Vax Dining Room and rug
Make list for food
Shopping food, napkins, plates, etc
Get glasses from mums
Finish sorting cake
Make Dr's appointment
Get extra patio furniture
Buy wine and flowers
Get new bin
DH to mow lawn and have a quick weed and tidy up, tie plants to fence
Keep up with Lil_me's list!!!

DH has gone back to bed after getting up at 6am with baby, baby is back up and happliy playing in his walker - think hes teething again so better take advantage of this good mood, we are at in laws for lunch later so no cooking to deal with so am off to crack on!

Pollybear

One load of washing done and hung upstairs - it's pouring.

Dinner cooking.

Not much else going on. Need to clean round cable box some time, it died yesterday and an engineer is coming Tuesday to replace it. It's probably full of cat hair where Meg sleeps on it.....

GeorgiaW

Hello all,
Thanks very much for all your suggestions.

I spent about six hours yesterday clearing the worktops (this included reading all the newspapers which seemingly it was only me who hadn't read) and I've managed to sort nearly everything out.

I've put all the school stuff on the fridge with magnets; I've put the manuals into a box file with all the other ones which had just been pushed in a cupboard so now they're all tidy; my daughter's given me a folder for the insurance reminders etc - I just need some dividers to section it into months but I'm going shopping later so I'll have a look in Wilkos; OH has taken a lot of stuff out to the garage and some of the broken bits I can't even remember what they're from so I binned them.
I've also decided that I'm going to buy birthday cards for the whole year and put them in the appropriate section in the folder - how organised is that?

So back to the flylady........

I hardly dare ask this (and I wouldn't if it wasn't anonymous) but can you give me some pointers on cleaning? Take for instance swish and swiping. In my pre clear worktop days I would do the washing up and wipe the draining board and the worktop next to it (that was all about all that was showing) with the dishcloth. Is that acceptable or should I use a different cloth and any cleaning agent or just water? And if so where do you keep the said cloth? I keep my floor cloth in the bucket under the sink but there's nowhere really to keep a 'clean' cloth as under the sink is in a worse state than the worktops - I leave the dishcloth in the washing up bowl.
I noticed something about wiping the taps over but they're a bit gungy around the bottom so there's no way I'm using the dishcloth for that - I guess I should get them pristine first then stick with it.
Which leads me to something else, I've never been much of a cleaner so would it be better to try and get everything clean (like I've done with the worktops) and then start your routines or what?
I hope I don't sound too slovenly - I would love to have a clean home but I need some guidance.

ShirleyPark_2

GeorgiaW - just jump right in, not everyone follows the list and most people have a few extra jobs of their own that they add. The list on here will do the whole house once a week, so even if you only do a couple of things a day you'll find that within a few weeks you'll have made good progress. Plus you'll find lots of helpful and motivational advice on here too.

MoneyQueen

Hello All,

Hope everybody is flying well...

I have done general S& S everywhere... So the house looks lot more tidy than it was last week(not bothering with much - It's Weekend!!!!)

And For the very first time in my life, I made HM Bread...
In Oven, not in BM - We are just 2 at home and none of us likes bread a lot - so we have decided that we don't need BM, whenever we want, we will make it in the Oven.. Believe me it was the best I ever had...
Thanks to all of U...

And we sorted all the document files - Financial/ House/ Utilities/ Travel/ Employment etc... Now we know where everything is... Have shredded ones not required....
And everything in Rrcycling Bin...

Will spend 2-3 hrs today to prepare the Guest Bedroom for Painting...Will paint it tomorrow or next weekend...

Have done lots of washing... Nothing dried yet...

DH busy watching TV...

I haven't finished preparing my list yet... Will post it soon..

GeorgiaW - Welcome to the Thread

I have different boxes in the cupboard under the sink to keep clean clothes and used clothes... I daily use a new one and then once in a week, put all of the used ones in the Washing m/c... I generally use Microfibre ones - which are machine washable...Hope this helps...

Cheers

juliejim

Well have done hardly anything this week. I think I've spent too much time catching up with posts on here.

Will try to do better next week but it's half term so s I tidy the kids will probably follow me making a mess again!

Catch you all later

Jue

Beccatje

Georgia Don't worry about asking stuff! That's how you get onto new idea's.

I wipe my kitchen worktops with a dishcloth and just water most of the time. Only once a day, at night usually, I use a cleaner with disinfectant. then I clean the sink and make it shine, and stick the dishcloth in the wash. Next day I take a clean one. During the day, it usually sits in the sink of when I'm extra 'cleanish' I'll hang it over the tap.
the dishcloths get washed a lot because I'm afraid of germs spreading through the cloth. So when I wipe kitchen cabinets and stuff, the cloth goes in the wash after that. Or when I'm being lazy I use disposible wipes.

I would suggest you just jump in with the list and clean the area given for that day. That way, within a week, you'll have given your whole house a good clean, and you can then stick to the routine of keepin it clean. It will mean a great deal of work the first week though. The rest of the house then gets a swish and swipe, because you are focussing on the one area, but it really works. It's far too much to make yourself want to clean everything really well first. That's how I never got anything done, because the task was just too daunting! I always thought along the lines of:
I have to clean the kitchen

But to be able to do that, I first have to clean the living room to hold all the crap that comes out of the kitchen, and I can't clean the living room untill I've done the underthestairs cupboard.. and I can't do that till I've done the shed because stuff from the under the stairs has to go in the shed and I can't ..... and on it went.. so I never did anything!!

Since I now just do the one area required for the day, I can then sit down and feel like I'm done!! And bit by bit everything gets sorted.

You sound like you've done really well already!! :T :T
keep it up!


Becca

Beccatje

Right, spent the morning sleeping and lazing around..

Spent the afternoon watching DD1's musical performance.
DH is cooking the tea, and I'm going to make a dent in this HUGE pile of washing that needs folding

Tata for now!

Becca

Solwaykid

Everyone seems to be getting filed and organised paperwork wise this week end, so that's what I'll do too.
Georgia, I didn't have a clue when I started on this, I tend to just see what everyone else is up to and it kind of prompts me. I wouldn't do a mamoth blitz, as Shirleypark says the whole house comes around in a week. I stick to Lil_me's list and if I notice anything in that room that wants a bit of extra attention (like the curtains need washing, the floordrobe is in need of sorting, or the undersink cupbard) I stick it on a list of my own and I get round to it at some point.
I went through a spell of sticking a post-it up in each room with things like 'new lampshade' 'fix curtain track' and I get round to it!

Well, they let me out of work early so here's my little list for the rest of the day.
Tidy kitchen (not too much incase tomorrow is kitchen day!)
BM on (yesterdays was glue)
Make crumble
Paperwork sort and shred
S&S livingroom
Phonecalls x 2