Weekly Flylady Thread 24th June 2013

Scottish_Power

trulymadlydeeply_indebt! wrote: »

My last house was a 3 bed mid terrace and we paid about £36 for gas and £45/50 ish for electric. This old, draughty farmhouse has been a shock to the system in more ways than one!
I changed from npower before Christmas to Scottish Power on a Fixed until April 2014 deal. I've looked online and I have noticed there is an entry saying "Change of Plan" in early April. This coincides with me not getting paid on time at Easter and having to stall the Direct Debit by 2 days. I'm now wondering if they've cancelled my deal. I haven't had anything in writing to say that is what has happened, so will have it out with them on Saturday morning when I ring them up. If they have stitched me up, I will go and find a better deal. No loyalty here where money is concerned :T

TMD sorry to hear this. It does sound like we may have changed the tariff. If you want to save ringing, contact us at the e-mail address in our profile & we will investigate & contact you back. I don't think reinstating the tariff will be an issue.

David

macpep1

Hi All :wave:

Can you tell I started off well this week, to be honest, as it was end of term this week, kid shave had so much on that I have not had time to get anything but basics done. I am glad it is now Friday as I have been emotionally & physically drained this week, DD is moving up to high school after the holidays & she also got a few awards at the prizegiving so I was a blubbering wreck!!! Itis mine & DH’s 16th wedding anniversary today, we are going outfor a meal tomorrow night, apart from that I will be flying as much as possible all weekend.


ETA - Put into a more Manageable list now


Friday Evening

Remove clutter making surestairs especially are safe

and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors, pictures etc

Check fire alarms are working

Clean floors in these rooms (evenif it is around the clutter)

Wipe keyboard, house phone andmouse (these usually have more germs on than your toilet so important)..
Clear clutter from floor

Saturday Morning

Clean floors

Remove and wash bed linen.
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs.. (make sure to do the bed base.. Iwon't tell you what I was cultivating in mine last week!!!!)
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Clean baths, toilets and sinks
Clear any clutter from desk
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!! (baby wipes are fantastic forthis!!)
Wipe down tiles in bathroom

Sunday Morning

Vacuum the floor, even if it'sjust where you can see
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the lightshade!!
Strip beds and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening uptoo!!
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are nolonger wearable, too small or out of season!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors

Sunday Evening

Ironing!!!ironing!!! ironing!!!

Manic Monday - Kooking Kitchen and Dining RoomDalliance...
Twinkling Tuesday~ Luscious Living Room, HappyHalwayl and Sunshine Stairs
Wacky Wednesday ~ Bedroom of Duvet-nia & Landing ofLoveliness
Thrilling Thursday ~ Bountiful Bathroom and Stupendous Study/Pc Area
Friday - thosefrightening Friday kids rooms and spare rooms

pigpen

5 minute sit down with a cuppa.. first of the day before dashing off to rediscover the front room for the nursery teacher coming at 2:30 and so we have a room to get DD2 into her prom dress..

Her hair and nails are sorted.. The woman doing her hair had someone not turn up so DD got in at 11 instead of 4.. as it is pouring with rain OH picked her up and sorted the lack of prom ticket. My sister is coming to do her make up at 3 and my mother is coming at 4 to help shove her in the dress.. while I collect Moomin and Tiddles from school..

Squeak and Dot were up at 6 so Dot has just gone down for a much needed nap.. she couldn't stop crying so bed is the place for her.

I'll get those infernal bills paid now.. before I forget again!! I've not got many to pay today.. I quite like the end of the month when nothing is due!

mrs-moneypenny

off to work 'see' you this afty

skint_breeder_5

Been staggering around like a Zombie, phoned insurance company, they want me to get quotes in from a plasterer, an electrician and a decorator, plus they want to send someone to look at the rugs......so that means 4 strangers I potentially have to let into my home. had DS jumping over me on the laptop while I was trying type and now my enter button doesn't work GGGRRRRR.....I think I should go back to bed and start again

pigpen

skint_breeder_5 wrote: »

Been staggering around like a Zombie, phoned insurance company, they want me to get quotes in from a plasterer, an electrician and a decorator, plus they want to send someone to look at the rugs......so that means 4 strangers I potentially have to let into my home. had DS jumping over me on the laptop while I was trying type and now my enter button doesn't work GGGRRRRR.....I think I should go back to bed and start again

Get 4-5 quotes... send them the most expensive 2 and go with the middle one.. When we had the fire I got decorator quotes and the insurance company paid us the cash so I did the decorating myself.. getting the new cooker took FOREVER though.

On the bright side.. while it has made a nasty nasty mess no one was hurt and it is all just 'stuff' and the room was not full of all your rammed in belongings like it was before you started.. imagine how awful that could have been! :eek: xxx

Bills paid, cuppa glugged, Squeak fell asleep on OH so is now on the sofa snuggled up and snoring.. off to clear the front room :eek :eek: :eek:

aklmatthews

Hope everyone is having a good morning I have not gotanything done in house but I have paid bills made some phone calls I needed tomake some work some housed. Work is abit slow this month so that’s worrying me a bit I really don’t want to go baketo a day job so will have to concentrate on work a bit more and get thingsgoing again. We had 5 days in Cornwall last week with oldest daughter and granddaughterand I have not really got bake in to work mode. I got some paint in B&Qyesterday it had been reduced so I am thinking about starting some decorating Iam also thinking about having a go at papering in the bathroom never done wall paperbut is only one wall and a strip over the door as rest of the room is tiledit’s a tile pattern so should not be too hard I hope :eek: any advice from anyone whodose wall papering would be good.

bossymoo

Hair decluttered :T am I allowed to say I wish he'd done it even shorter but couldn't tell until it was dried and the kiddies were getting hungry. Well pleased with it though. I've booked us all for trim before hols so will ask him to take it a little shorter then.

There's toys everywhere :eek: just having some soup - sent kids upstairs as they wouldn't stop running around when supposedly eating after telling me how hungry they were.

I'm going to do 2 x HHC at 1.30 if anyone fancies. May involve putting dd down for a nap again... Can hear her screeching...

Honey_Bear

TMD I hope SP sort your problem out. For information, they were our suppliers on a 12 month FTC, but the quote for this year was an increase of about 30%, so we're with EDF again - a 10% increase, which seems like a relief, but that's still 10% which is treble the rate of inflation. How come increased power (and petrol) costs are always strataspherically more than the inflation rate?

Skint Oh ((((((hugs and more hugs)))))). I honestly don't know how you cope and still take the time to write that long post on power suppliers. I've saved it as a masterclass in my Finance folder and I'm grateful for it. Please take care of yourself today.

Congratulations Deus!

I managed to clean the oven without really thinking about it yesterday, which is amazing considering the years it didn't get done at all. I also defrosted the fridge last week, albeit far from perfectly, but I'm beginning to realise I don't have to clean everything so that it looks like new again - just get it to an improved state and have another go when I have more time. As a new system is working for me and I'm a lot more relaxed about housekeeping generally.

Valli

*rant now deleted*

Anyway I have washing out.