Weekly Flylady Thread 14th October 2013

toochoosey

Daily routines
washing, S S
swish and swipe kitchen S S
bathroom, S S
ironing, S S
making beds, S S
vacuuming high traffic areas, S S
making meals S S
making lunches S S

Night-time routines
preparing clothes for the next day, F S S
swish & swipes of the kitchen F S S
tidying the living room F S S

Thanks to Bossy for the Me Mountain Challenge which can be found here

Ok here goes this week:

Magical Monday - Barnacled Bathroom and Sociable Study/Pc Area
30 minutes to spare...
Clean baths,
Clear any clutter from desk
Dust PC and desk and wipe off those cup rings!!
Wipe keyboard, house phone, sockets, switches and mouse etc
Got an hour...
Wipe down tiles in bathroom..
Clean shower screen/curtain if you have one/if required
Clean/wash the brushes/dust box/filters on the vacuum cleaner!!!! .. make sure they are completely dry before using it though.. I don’t want anyone electrocuted!!
Extra mission:
Pick whichever you want to attempt:
Wipe the skirtings, door and window frames in these rooms
Wash your bathroom mats, nets, clean blind/curtains etc
clean the radiators in these rooms
Deep Clean Challenge
Pull out the pc and desk and clear under and behind it.. how much money did you find?
Wipe sticky and dirty marks off the walls and doors.

Tantalising Tuesday ~ Masterful Master Bedroom & Loopy 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 a hotspot., or spend 15 minutes clearing one.
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
Deep Clean Challenge
Clean out that airing cupboard!!!!!! get rid of those things you don't need.. use dead towels as cleaning cloths etc.. be ruthless!!!! you REALLY don't need that 'thing' you've saved for 10 years.. 'just in case'

Wishful Wednesday ~ those frightening kids rooms and spare rooms
15 minutes...
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
30 minutes to spare...
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 light shade and curtain pole!!!
Got an hour...
replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extra task list
Time for the Flylady Fling, in the toy box!!!! aim for 27.. if no toy box you’ll have to choose another area!
Deep Clean Challenge
Pull out the beds, furniture and clean all behind them.. the skirtings and light fittings and everything.. get rid of all the things that are no longer required

Tantalising Thursday ~ Kooking Kitchen and Dancing Dining Room
15 minutes...
Clean floors
30 minutes to spare...
Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front, clean out any spills or grots in there!
Wipe dining table.. (clean table cloth if necessary)
Got an hour...
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc
Descale kettle and iron
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards..
Check those washing machine filters and drawers for ickiness!!
Extra Mission ~ Choose one or more of:

• Clean oven if you didn't do it last week.

Deep Clean Challenge
Get in that food cupboard. Give it all GOOD scrub out before placing the things you need to use soon at the front. Check dates and freshness on older things, and See if you can incorporate these into next weeks meal plan! Feel free to get carried away and do more cupboards!!!

Friday ~ Luscious Living Room, Handsome Hall Stupendous Stairs
30 minutes to spare...
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
Got an hour...
Wipe light switches, sockets (make sure they are not switched on!!) and banister
Tidy shoes, coats and bags ..
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.
• Get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be, or better still give them to their owners to put away themselves
• 30 minutes ironing
• Get those uniforms, games kits, coats and things in the wash which you will need on Monday

Deep Clean Challenge
Clean light fittings, skirtings even the ones behind furniture. Clean fire-surrounds. Wipe sofa's down. Clear as may hotspots as you can.. see if you can get it all into one pile instead of 15!!!


Hopefully get on with the majority of the lists tomorrow, see what my back lets me do!!!


Haven't kept up with the thread, sorry, so hope all are well xx

kazwookie

Dinner done, washing up to go.

Mrt to do.................

Floors to do.

bossymoo

I've had a bit of a strop tonight I'm afraid. And I cried I am so tired I just can't take any more squabbling. It's pushing me over the edge. So they have been warned and we are going nowhere this weekend until they can show me they can behave decently to each other

Question: can I make biscuits from a packet of sponge mix? If I perhaps added more flour?

Had a nice tea tonight - kids don't eat the skins of jacket spuds (nutters! It's the best bit!) so I scooped out the middle of 2 spuds, they had half with some fish and I mixed the other half with chilli jam and cheese, put back in the skins and grilled, it was lush!

Blitzed kitchen after, even washed grill pan, set DW going and wiped all round.

Me mountain: haven't kept up with mine this week I won't be having a star. But I have lost weight this week :T not been grazing y'see

pigpen

2 more loads of washing done.. that is 8 today.. 3 are dry 2 are on airers and the rest is hanging between the WMs and the basket to go out in the morning.

Girls beds stripped.. I have surprise new duvets for the 2 girls and I am intending to whizz out the sewing machine.. but I have had that intention for 2 years! :eek:

YORKSHIRELASS

Oh bossymoo I feel for you. We have been having a fair bit of squabbling going on lately and mine are old enough to know better. It really gets to me though. I am actually happy to say that both of them are in their bedrooms tonight quietly engrossed in laptops/xboxes.

So, bathroom cleaned, bedrooms dusted and hoovered, stairs and landing hoovered, shepherds pie made, eaten and debris washed up, bread rolls done in bread maker and baked. Having five minutes then off to tackle the kitchen floor.

Dustykitten

Bossy hugs. Week before half term and kids are tired and tempers short. Tomorrow will be a better day.

Honey_Bear

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Feel a bit of a fraud because I am really struggling with work, housework and all the other stuff that needs to be done. I dont know how the rest of you manage!

If you're a fraud, I'm a total fraud, then. No work outside the home, no kids. In my world, anyone who does any housework is totally wonderful. It sounds as though you're exhausted, and I'm not surprised, trying to do all of that.

LameWolf wrote: »

HB, you'll know about this stuff, she's got to have a Tramadol tablet each day with her dins, as well as various supplements for her joints. I'm told she just hoovers them down with the food, so we'll see later.

All three of my oldies have had it prescribed at one stage or other, and I've yet to come across one that would just hoover it down. All of them have spat them out on the first attempt. I'm told it's made to taste disgustingly bitter deliberately but I have my doubts about that. Labs have the reputation for being the greediest creatures, so you never know. (None of mine could/can resist a scrap of whoopsied scrunched up M&$ Liver sausage slices I keep in the freezer for just such emergencies - with the dose in the middle.)

Bossy: You're only human. We all have a strop occasionally - the kiddiewinks will survive. Well done on the weight loss.

I've spent the day actually cleaning various bits of the place. Actual dusting occurred, the vacuum cleaner has been kickstarted and a couple of laps completed, spag bol sauce made with whoopsied mince and frozen. Halo has been polished to *sparkly* state.

Parsley, basil, chives and broad beans all sown in troughs a couple of weeks ago have all germinated and are growing.

Mrs Dog has decided it is her job to guard the bed when I/we're out., By sleeping in the middle of it. Bad dog. She's started grunting with pleasure and happiness again, so I can't be cross with her.

Last week's shopping list found, and I'd only forgotten two things off it. This week's has now been lost.

And I was so busy cleaning the hob and washing the kitchen floor I forgot to bid on something on Ebay, collection only from a town we're going to visit in three weeks and no one else bid on it. Grr.

Honey_Bear

PS For Skinty

Fifty years ago, in an army school in Germany on 1st April, a small boy with a reputation for extreme mischief and cheekyness was seen standing at the front of our class next to the form teacher for the whole of the first lesson.

At break time he was asked why he was there, and he said he didn't know why the teacher hadn't just given him the long stand he'd been sent to ask for.

That memory's stayed with me all these years, and I can't remember his name but your post brought that morning back and it made me smile.

Valli

Honey_Bear wrote: »

And I was so busy cleaning the hob and washing the kitchen floor I forgot to bid on something on Ebay, collection only from a town we're going to visit in three weeks and no one else bid on it. Grr.

Contact the seller - you never know, they might relist for you (or come up with another mutually acceptable solution;))

Honey_Bear

Thanks Valli. I have, he's happy to let me have it for the starting price and I'm waiting for him to invoice me so I can pay for it and it'll be mine! It's something I've been after for months and I've missed several because they've gone for more than I can afford. Yay!