Weekly Flylady Thread 30th September 2013

thifty

Morning Everyone,
My happy news of the day, small that it may be, is that I got my swimsuit back from the swimming baths:j:j And also last night I tried on the ones that didn't used to fit and they now fit:j:j so the swimming must be working!

Interesting reading the comments about choosing a secondary school. I'm a secondary supply teacher and hadn't thought about what would be important. Most schools have a marketing director now I'm sad to say, so don't be fooled by flashy facilities and how many clubs are put on- when I was permanent we didn't have a choice about whether we wanted to do a club, we were pressured into doing one, so not always a sign of staff commitment. I would go with how a place feels and what the results are like if I'm honest. That's what I will be doing in a few years time for my DS. Their primary is going to become an academy which I don't agree with.

It's awful and grey here. So far I have made a couple of beds and have put DW on. The house is pretty good, mostly clutter free especially my bedroom as I'm nagging the kids about their rooms and feel I should lead by example!

thifty

CY sorry to hear your news and try not to feel bad about how your Mum rang a friend first, it may have been easier to tell the friend as she loves you more.

AnW'sMum

SW5 has gone in camoflage and I even remembered the £1 donation as well!

It's persisting it down here, I feel for the Germans. They and SW3 are in York today.

Huge hugs for you and the whole family CY

A quick coffee and printing what I need for meeting and then flying when I return.

mrs-moneypenny

Hugs CY, maybe your mum needed a practice attempt at telling someone before she felt able to tell you. so sorry that you've had the news confirmed i really hope your mum is as comfortable as can be and everything possible is done to help. we are all here for you

was raining here earlier, but has now all but stopped

cyclingyorkie

Mum didn't tell me - my sister did....

I feel for the Germans today visiting York with SW5 - it is hosing it down...

thifty

Mrs Moneypenny- love the flower brooches, would you mind me asking what you were going to sell them for? Also what does the wooligan thing mean?

greent

(((CY))) - sorry to hear your news.

People sometimes find it easier to tall someone else in a 'practice run' - they've then had to deal with the reality of saying it in the cold light of day before telling a close relative x


Monday Musings ~ Kitchen and Dining Room
15 minutes...
Clean kitchen floors
Vacuum dining room - spot clean carpet
30 minutes to spare...

Wipe dining table.. Got an hour...
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards.. - a necessity today (along with floor) as DS3 got milk everywhere this morning




Extra Mission ~ Choose one or more of:

• Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms
• Clear and wipe the tops of the wall units!!
• Clean oven if you didn't do it last week
• [STRIKE]30 minutes ironing.[/STRIKE]

Deep Clean Challenge
Feel free to get carried away and do more cupboards!!! - Pfffft!:mad::mad: UNder sink cupboard needs doing again after a can of spray starch exploded in there overnight

Personal Extras

List min 5 ebay items
Personal tax paperwork for DH & me to accountant
Compile Toots list
Research new gas & elec suppliers - charity I'm a trustee for
Book landlord gas safety check for charity premises
Chase remaining 2 outstanding payments re charity ball
Test the heating
Catch up on mending
Make a list of just 5 things that you will achieve in October

Tuesday Thrills ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
15 minutes...
Do something from your Toots list, or at least start something if you have nothing you can do in 15 minutes
Vacuum floors and sofas
30 minutes to spare...
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Got an hour...
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched
Tidy shoes, coats and bags ..
Sort through your handbag and fling all those ancient bus tickets and receipts.. don't forget your purse too!!!

Extra Mission ~ Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Paperwork clearance.. spend 15 minutes minimum sorting through those piles of paper.
• Vacuum under furniture you can manage to move without hurting yourself
• Clean a window or two.

Wednesday Whiles ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
15 minutes...
Check fire alarms are working
Remove and wash bed linen.
30 minutes to spare...
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Got an hour...
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
clear out one 'hotspot' drawer/box

Extra tasks list ~ as usual choose one or more

• [STRIKE]Put away those summer clothes from someones cupboard and get out the winter
  woollies.. don’t store anything that is past its best! Make a list of things you
  need to buy!![/STRIKE]
• Clean windows in these rooms
• Check house for places where draughts are getting in.. doors, windows etc and see if there are ways to stop it!

[STRIKE]Deep Clean Challenge
Get under the bed.. drag everything out and sort through it.. Clean out all
those dust-mammoths before putting back ONLY the things you need to keep![/STRIKE] - done beginning of Sept as that's where I keep Xmas pressies and I needed to check what I had and re-did my list :j

toochoosey

Ok, facebook isn't get any of the list done....................HHC at 10???? Join me if you can..........

x_raphael_xx

Morning all, was up early today, had to be up and on the Hoe for 6:30 for my first bootcamp workout.
A nice day off cleaning for me today. The bedroom is already clean
I just need to pick in the washing that should hopefully be dry by now and put it away, do the dishes and my sax practice.
Then I'm in work at 2pm today.

Honey_Bear wrote: »

This is, without doubt, the most amazing spider year I've ever known. They are everywhere, shedloads of them, huge, and OH thinks they ALL have teeth. And carry machetes. Off to Mount Edgcumbe once the conker season starts and we will have little piles of the glorious shiny orbs scattered willy-nilly in the Honey Bear House to deter them.

I'm never sure which pest I'd rather have. The spiders eat the plague of flys we seem to get each summer (some big fat ones still lingering), and the mice eat the spiders.
I'd leave conkers around but I'm afraid it would encourage the mice!

Monday Musings ~ Kitchen and Dining Room
Extra Mission ~ Choose one or more of:

• Clear and wipe the tops of the wall units!!
• Clean oven if you didn't do it last week

Deep Clean Challenge
Get in that cupboard under the sink and fling everything you don't use.. if it hasn't been used in the last 6 months you don't need it.. fling it!! Give it a GOOD scrub out before replacing the things you do use and need to keep. Feel free to get carried away and do more cupboards!!!

Tuesday Thrills ~ Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Deep Clean Challenge
Clean skirtings even the ones behind furniture.

Wednesday Whiles ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
15 minutes...
Check fire alarms are working
Remove and wash bed linen. OH did a couple of days ago
30 minutes to spare...
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen
15 minutes floordrobe clearance Floor surprisingly clear
Got an hour...
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing Did yesterday
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
clear out one 'hotspot' drawer/box My paperwork draw was filed yesterday
Extra tasks list ~ as usual choose one or more

• 27 fling boogie time, time for that midweek fling, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter
• Clean windows in these rooms
• Check house for places where draughts are getting in.. doors, windows etc and see if there are ways to stop it!

Deep Clean Challenge

Get under the bed.. drag everything out and sort through it.. Clean out all those dust-mammoths before putting back ONLY the things you need to keep! We keep nothing under the bed

Raph's 'Toots' list
Clean out and rearrange kitchen cupboards.
Buy Make new dog bed.
Wipe grouting off bathroom tiles.
Sort DVD's/CD's

Other bits
Book Boot Camp sessions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Daily Sax practice M T W T F S S

x_raphael_xx

toochoosey wrote: »

Ok, facebook isn't get any of the list done....................HHC at 10???? Join me if you can..........

I'll join you. I'll get the dishes done at least.