Weekly Flylady Thread 12th August 2013

cyclingyorkie

Last night's roast dinner leftovers in slow cooker with onion, potato, carrot, gravy and stock. Breakfast washing up done. Two wash loads on the line.

Time for a cuppa!

roxy7699

Didn't do a thing yesterday so need to crack on today.

Tuesday - Living Room and study
15 minutes..
Tidy up, put things away, straighten those piles - there better already
30 minutes to spare...
Hoover the floors
Dust electricals, screens etc
Do one bit of paperwork
Got an hour...
Hoover/wipe the sofas
Wipe the skirtings/lightshades and bulbs
Time to deal with something else on your desk or sort out the drawers
Extra Mission:
Wash your door sausage or make one if you need it
Check kids pencil cases ready for the return for school, no kids sort your own stationery, think about planner/diary for next year if you like a 16 month one

Wednesday - Bathroom/downstairs toilet/Hall, Stairs, Landing
15 minutes...
Clean the toilets and sinks, shine those taps
Got 30 minutes to spare...
ME TIME - newbies this is a very important part of being a flylady:D You could soak you feet and paint your nails, read a magazine, chat with a friend, have a cuppa - anything but you must not skip t his task
Have an hour...
Clear the floors and hoover and mop them, right into the manky corners
Test your smoke alarms, hoover them out inside
Clean the bath and/or shower - descale the head if required
Shine those mirrors and windows
Extra mission:
Who needs new toothbrushes/cotton wool/sponges etc?
Change pet bedding

pigpen

Lists amended for delegation..

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe the worksurfaces
Find 10 things to throw/give away

Tuesday - Living Room and study
Tidy up, put things away, straighten those piles - there better already
Hoover the floors
Curtains down for washing.. they smell of cat pee .. I know it is awful but I will be very glad when we no longer have the senile one! I am so fed up of the constant peeing! He was standing in the street squawking at the top of his lungs at 3 this morning.. I bet the neighbours hate him!

Wednesday - Hall, Stairs, Landing
Vacuum to be run over these areas
Laundry collection from bathroom

Dustykitten

Punchey, we often feel deflated (especially on hump day which is why today's list is an easier one) just stick at it, celebrate what you have done and don't worry about what you haven't.

I'm taking big bites of an ugly frog - it will be munched by tonight.

Wardrobe collected by ebayer, my hall is now clear - yay.

PunchyMc

Thanks Dusty: will try

Good stuff getting rid of your wardrobe, that's an impressive bit of clutter gone!

msgnomey

Pigpen I know what you mean about a senile cat!! We have now got 4 cat litter boxes dotted around the house because he can't seem to find them an pees anywhere

we are away atm and FIL is feeding the cats, OH phoned yesterday to check all was well and FIL said the previously mentioned dotty beast had pooed in the bedroom Grossssssss

FIL has manfully cleaned it up but says the bedroom stinks I want to go home and clean the carpet now

that cat is at least 18, the other one, who has no teeth but still manages to catch birds, is around 15 and will wait and wait until you let her out to 'go'

hey ho I do love 'em especially when I get home form work and they come running to meet me

PunchyMc

Awww, poor wee thing- but I have a lovely mental image of a cat trying to chomp on a bird while it sits there getting gummed and rolling its eyes...although having had a cat in the past I know it's not quite so sweet!

Valli

Morning all.

I have eaten a frog - with a side order of earwig :rotfl:

I have got the wood preservative out of the shed (dregs of a gallon can) and treated the 6 strips I bought from B&M to edge my in-garden allotment, each strip is 1m long and made from half-logs. The dregs covered 5 strips perfectly and one not so brilliantly but I have run out. Earwigs had taken up residence in them *shudder* and were abandoning their hidey-holes at a great rate *shudder* I hate earwigs *shudder* but I didn't squeal or squeak once! Go me! So this was a job I have had planned for some months. Once I have harvested the spuds and sorted out my strawberry runners I can dig the area over and set them in the ground.

Washing on line is almost dry and I am now showered and clean. Had to use eye make up remover to remove splashes from skin as soap & scrubbing failed. It worked brilliantly!

So I have flung - one now-empty can, sheet of bubble wrap (used to rest them on) and old ice cream container (used as temporary wood preservative holder). I *think* it was the kind of wood preservative you can no longer buy - not creosote though.

Kaz2904

I have two loads of washing on the line. They were ready to come in until it started raining about 20 minutes ago .
Have bossed children to tidy their rooms. DD was asked to put her new uniform away on Monday. I have just spotted it hanging on a piece of hardboard next to the wardrobe.
Really cross, it's cost me a fortune so far.

Honey_Bear

Valli wrote: »

... a side order of earwig :rotfl:

My Great Uncle Noel always said he was coming back as an earwig, so no-one in the family has ever been allowed to kill them.

He also posted a sign on the sitting room door that said, 'Shhh. Tables nesting.'

Not getting very far here today. Still working my way through the filing and the massive heap of paperwork. Tadpole munching, really, as it's all stuff I've been putting off for months.