Weekly Flylady Thread 19th August 2013

Honey_Bear

Thank you Valli. (Yes, it was me.)

I have finished my filing! Frog job. The filing cabinet's now a right mess, but the filing tray is empty.

littleskintdragon

Friday Frenzy- those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
15 minutes..
[STRIKE]Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Make an appointment for some ME-time.. hairdressers? manicure? night out with friends? .. whatever just do it! -
30 minutes to spare..
Vacuum the floor[/STRIKE]
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
[STRIKE]Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too[/STRIKE]!!
Got an hour..
Clean 2 windows
[STRIKE]Sort through a cupboard[/STRIKE]/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season! cant do this being 38 weeks pregnant, nothing fits :-/
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extra Tasks
Find 5 things to ebay/freecycle
Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
HHI
Binbag dance!!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
Kitchen is next, but dh has made the mess so i'm hoping he sorts it!!

decogecko

Hi all

Quick question: does anyone have 100% cotton bedding? Was thinking of buying decent quality bedding and wondered whether it would be a nightmare to iron. Would I be better buying a poly-cotton mix? TIA

Back flying at home as my mum is back earlier than she thought.

Had the afternoon off so flying wise:

Grass cut
Some weeds pulled
Dying lavender plant dug up and potted, doubtful it will save it but it's worth a try
Bedroom dusted & hettyed
landing hettyed
LR & hall runner hettyed
3 sacks of garden waste taken to the dump
WM x 1, washing hung on line and brought in when dry
Plants watered
Visit to Mr S - took milk over to grandparents and made sure they were ok.
Went to vets to pick up LB's flea stuff

Before bed - cats to be defleaed

Goodnight all

Deco x

bossymoo

Evening!

Have got loads done today. Since my last check-in I've sorted and ironed the dry stuff, all put away. Checked DD birthday present. Polished my shoes. Labeled DS uniform. Tidied kids rooms. Put case up in loft. S&S bathrooms. Had a shower and got ready for bed

So everywhere except garage has had some attention today.

Need to make room in DS wardrobe for uniform, and work out why he has two almost identical black coats for school... He can try them on and if they are the same size / weight then I think we'll give one away... Wondering if one is thicker than the other...

Tomorrow morning I want to:
Root / greys touch up of hair
Declutter eyebrows
Finish ironing school tees and put away
Sort kitchen junk drawer and corner cupboard
Wrap birthday pressie for party tomorrow
Try another fondant peppa pig princess I have walnut whips now to help get her "dress" right

ETA Deco, I have cotton sheets, I treated myself to some 400tc :eek: but I don't iron them. Life is too short to iron bedding. Or pants. Or tea towels. Having said that, I get them out of the washer whilst still steaming and shake them really well so they don't tend to need it. I've had them just over a year and they are still as new. HTH X

cyclingyorkie

I have 100 percent cotton sheets and I love them.

I do iron them - but whilst slightly damp, and I fold them in half to iron....

NOTHING beats getting into a newly made bed with cotton bedding!

decogecko

bossymoo wrote: »

Evening!
ETA Deco, I have cotton sheets, I treated myself to some 400tc :eek: but I don't iron them. Life is too short to iron bedding. Or pants. Or tea towels. Having said that, I get them out of the washer whilst still steaming and shake them really well so they don't tend to need it. I've had them just over a year and they are still as new. HTH X

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

I have 100 percent cotton sheets and I love them.

I do iron them - but whilst slightly damp, and I fold them in half to iron....

NOTHING beats getting into a newly made bed with cotton bedding!

Thank you both - that's what I thought. I'm looking forward to the crispness. What bedding do you both have - any particular make & where from?

Deco x

Valli

You are making me miss my cotton candystripe inherited sheets...that tore...

I now have candystripe dustcloths

I LOVED them.

I have cotton sheets and steam iron; iron while slightly damp.

I have bought DS a fitted sheet for Uni; my mum has bought him another (he just has a bottom sheet and duvet cover) .I hate fitted sheets but they are kind of self-oroning IYSWIM.

msgnomey

so I got the shopping, put that away and then popped to JSbury for the bits I couldn't get at 4ldi (eg lactose free milk!)

then play a couple of board games with OH and the watched some programs and drank wine!!! Now it is bed time!!

Will fly more in the morning

XXXX

nicki_2

Evening all.

Hugs, and vibes as appropriate as I've forgotten everything I've read again.

Today has more or less been a loss. I have no idea where the morning went, but before I knew it, it was time to take DD to the opticians in Mr As. She has 20/20 vision and the blurriness she keep experiencing is down to tired eyes according to the optician. He said she shouldn't read for more than an hour without taking a break, so I think I need to get her a funky timer which she can set to help her remember to take a break. I use mine too often to let her use it

Rant alert
Then we needed to get some shopping and DD complained the entire way around Mr As. I swear we hadn't even been 2 minutes before she started "Are we done?" "Can we go?" "Have we finished yet?" and huffing and puffing and stropping. I had a list and yet I still came out without stuff as I was so aggravated by her. If she's like this at 12 I dread to think what the next 6ish years are going to be like. :mad::mad::mad: Back to school cannot come soon enough as far as I am concerned. She hasn't even been over the doorstep this summer unless its been with me or her dad (except when she went away for the weekend and I took her to her grandparents and her dad brought her home), she refuses to contact any of her friends, won't go on her own to see my family who live within 20mins walk, won't stay home alone for more than 10minutes and doesn't want to go out on any trips anywhere. She's driving me more mad than she did last summer with her broken knee!
Rant over

So I've printed the list out and tomorrow she is up at 6.30am helping me to clean before she goes out with her dad (only because all the cleaning cloths are still damp from being washed and I refuse to put the TD on). Then while she is out I am going to sit on the sofa and watch my films/programs in peace or I might go on the w11 for a bit. When she gets home I'll finish labelling her uniform while watching stuff she can be around for and she can finish some of her craft projects which are half done and currently taking up the whole sideboard! Some have been in progress for nearly 4 years now!

Sunday should be a Christmas in August day, but we'll have to see how DDs behaviour is first. :mad:

ETA: I did remember to make an opticians appointment for myself. Apparently I should have gone last September I suspect I will be needing more new glasses. This time I think I'll get another set of frames though as the ones I have are very good for when I need to do close up stuff like sewing repairs but hopeless for reading or computer work which is what they're supposed to be for.

Honey_Bear

Decog, we have cotton bedding for ourselves and we used to have poly cotton mix bedding for all the lodgers and at the chalet. For the past few years I've been turning all the bedding over to cotton and as long as you peg it out without creases and crumples in it, it will be fine without ironing it - just fold it as you get it off the line and stroke it flat as you do. I wish I liked ironing enough to iron it but I never get round to it.

Wilk0 have had a very affordable plain cotton bedding range this year that I've bought for the chalet. All the duvet covers are the same plain dark blue and all the bottom (fitted) sheets are white. (Makes life very much easier.) If the quality is as good as the single white fitted cotton sheets I bought five years ago, it's one of the few bargains around at the moment.