Weekly Flylady Thread 18th November 2013

Dustykitten

Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us.

Thank you to Natty for last week's thread

There are 3 levels per day with depending on how much time you have. Feel free to mix and match to suit your own personal circumstances.

Every room comes back around next week so please don’t stress about catching up.

These lists are only suggestions and not a must do list; you are more than welcome to post and follow your own lists.

Also adding a declutter mission each day will help to gradually clear the clutter and make flying easier.

A few of the basics before we start the week:

Hotspots are areas where if one thing gets put there, loads of other things follow!

Daily routines are anything you need to do on a daily basis like washing, swish and swipe kitchen and bathroom, ironing, making beds, vacuuming high traffic areas, making meals etc.

Night-time routines are all things which make getting ready in the morning easier, preparing clothes for the next day, making lunches, swish & swipes of the kitchen and tidying the living room before you go to bed plus personals like shower/brush teeth etc.

Fling Boogie - stick on some loud music, grab a bin bag and whiz around the house finding items that can go out with the rubbish, recycling, for charity shop, basically anything that will stop it cluttering your home.

Swish and swipe/S&S means have a quick wipe over an area such as a sink or toilet to prevent the build up of dirt. This is usually done on a daily basis

HHE/HHC/HHI Half Hour exercise/challenge/ironing ... run around for 30 minutes to the Benny Hill music frantically cleaning exercising or ironing.. other music may be used if you prefer!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

Ok here goes this week!

Monday - Rooms of Doom (that'll be Dining Rooms then :rotfl:) and downstairs loos
15 minutes...
Clean the toilet and sink including the pedastalls
Got 30 minutes...
Spend the entire HH tidying up, putting away, finding homes for whatever is making this room a mess - make sure you find the table
An hour to spare...
Wipe the table you have just found :rotfl:
Hoover any floor you can now see
If a surface is clear, wipe it and try this week to keep it clear
Clean a window or a mirror
Do 15 minutes more tidying if you have time.
Extras
Mid month check of bank accounts
Do you need to submit gas/elec readings?
Recycle some paper/magazines etc

Tuesday - kitchen and hallway
15 minutes...
Give the hob a clean
Got 30 minutes...
Sweep and mop the floor
Clean a window
An hour to spare...
Clear a hotspot
Clean washing machine and DW filters and drawers
Clean the kitchen sink, taps, plugs

Extras
Catch up on phone calls
Update diary with December plans, does the LBD need to go to the cleaners? Kids costumes for plays etc
HHI

Wednesday - Bathroom and downstairs loo/ensuites
15 minutes...
Check medical supplies, get rid of out of date stuff and replenish stocks
Got 30 minutes...
Clean baths, sinks and toilets
Wash tiles and splash backs, make them sparkle
An hour to spare...
HH me time, face mask, soak you feet etc
Wash shower curtains/bath mats
Shine the mirrors

Extras
Something off your own list, some mending maybe?

Thursday - Bedrooms one and all
15 minutes...
Tidying up always makes it look better
Got 30 minutes...
Change the bed most in need
Hoover as much of upstairs as you can
An hour to spare....
Wipe two flat surfaces
Dust the lightshades
Wipe all the doors, tops and sides too

Extras
Catch up on paperwork
Update your festive list

Friday - Living Room Stairs
15 minutes...
15 minutes tidying up/clearing a hotspot
Got 30 minutes...
Drag out what furniture you safely can and hoover behind, dust the skirtings whilst you are at it
Got an hour....
Hoover the stairs
Wipe the bannisters, marks on the wall by the stairs and lightshades
Dust the mantle/coffee table
Extras
Are you ready for when it snows, salt (or cat litter), snow shovel, frozen bread (or stash of bread flour), frozen milk, torch and batteries, hot water bottles etc in case of power outage. Supplies in the car too - spare hats/gloves/chocolate etc

Dustykitten

November Challenge

Who's up for a month of decluttering, ebaying, donating and general making space (and hopefully some spare cash) before those presents arrive?

Pledge now how much space you will have cleared before Advent starts.

Dusty will ebay at least 15 items - 9 done :staradmin
Lizzie_b will aim for 15 things to the bin, 5 to the ebay/carboot box and wave goodbye to the magazines
Ionafan will empty and freecycle at least 20 packing cases
mrsmortenharket will follow the flylady daily
Froddington will sort and declutter her bedroom including going through ALL wardrobes and drawers
Honeybear will clear 1m3 in the attic
Jazee will empty, sort out and decorate DD's room in the next two weeks - room emptied :staradmin
Bossy will pledge to clear my garage counter this month
Wilf55 will pledge to clear her whole house
Mrs Moneypenny complete all the 'works in progress' for the craft fayre
Cycling Yorkie will clear her bedroom
Rosetta will sort out the living room - coffee table clear :staradmin
LameWolf will do techie decluttering and backing up and file/archieve/shred - has made good progress :staradmin
Deco will get the house ready for selling - has started CS pile :staradmin
Madcatgirl will declutter my paperwork and the baby's room as well as my clothes
Tooch will sort the spare room out
Skinty pledges to get counters in Utility clear (by hook or by crook!)
Pigpen pledges to bin/fling/dispose or otherwise remove from the house 15 binbags
Eltee pledges to Finish bathroom - painting, put towel rail up, put new loo seat on and to do at least one flylady thing each day - hooks are on the door :staradmin
Coffee Queen will buy paint for both the girls bedrooms and paint them
PenPen pledge to declutter the spare room and make it tidy and inviting for our guests in time for our 23 November party
Just2Us aims to have her house de-cluttered (not including loft or garage - much too cold ) as well as completing most of the daily Flylady
Natty will reduce her ironing pile by half, to do her cross stitch exhanges and post by the end of November, to post on Flylady thread daily and to do one Flylady thing a day
Kaz2904 I pledge to empty all the charity shop books and clothes out of my car boot; get the last part of the wall papered; get carpet in our bedroom and the landing and stairs. Wooden floor or carpet for the hallway.
DH and I will clear out the massive cupboard on the landing ;5 bin bags of stuff to go.
DH will paint the rest of the woodwork on the hall stairs and landing and will paint the 3 bedroom doors.
MinnieMM pledges to declutter ds1 bedroom and decorate it; finishing decorating the bathroom, make a start on decluttering dd’s bedroom and catch up with ironing mountain. As well as doing these tasks I will also be aiming to make £150 on ebay
Roxy - finish the bathroom

cyclingyorkie

Any one else want to sign up for Secret Santa this year?

If you do - pm me your name and address and I'll sort out who is buying for who....

MinnieMousesMummy

Thanks for the new thread, Please count me in for this week.

Monday - Rooms of Doom
Clean the toilet and sink including the pedastalls
Spend the entire HH tidying up, putting away, finding homes for whatever is making this room a mess - make sure you find the table
Wipe the table you have just found
Hoover any floor you can now see
If a surface is clear, wipe it and try this week to keep it clear
Clean a window or a mirror
Do 15 minutes more tidying if you have time.
Mid month check of bank accounts
Recycle some paper/magazines etc
HHI
Do 3 loads of washing
Check airer and hang up washing
Put clothes away that were ironed yesterday

Other Jobs for Monday
Attend college
Do paid work
Do homework for Tuesday
Sort paperwork for Tuesday
Raise invoices for freelance work completed last week


Challenge
Declutter ds1 bedroom and decorate it
Finish decorating the bathroom
Make a start on decluttering dd’s bedroom
Catch up with ironing mountain
Aim to make £150 on ebay

Mumof2_2

Many thanks for the list Dusty - I'm in this week

Dustykitten

I've updated what I could of the November challenge but I'm sure I've missed some progress - please let me know if you've made progress by putting a :rudolf: in your post. I'll aim to be more diligent this week.

optimistic-mummy

Thankyou dusty for new thread. Im in again please. Was going to do a few jobs before bed but got a bad headache so gonna make my self a nice cuppa .. may unload the dw while kettle is boiling and then im gonna try and get an early night and good nights sleep .. I need it I think x

pigpen

we're in.. will sort list later

ty all xx

Monday - Rooms of Doom
15 minutes...
Clean the toilet and sink including the pedestals
30 minutes to spare...
[STRIKE]Spend the entire HH tidying up, putting away, finding homes for whatever is making this room a mess - make sure you find the table[/STRIKE]
Got an hour...
Wipe the table you have just found :rotfl:
Hoover any floor you can now see
If a surface is clear, wipe it and try this week to keep it clear
[STRIKE]Do 15 minutes more tidying if you have time.[/STRIKE][STRIKE]
[/STRIKE]

Tuesday - kitchen and hallway
15 minutes...
Give the hob a clean
Got 30 minutes...
Sweep and mop the floor
An hour to spare...
Clean washing machine and DW filters and drawers
Clean the kitchen sink, taps, plugs


Wednesday - Bathroom ~ DONE/NOT NEEDED

bossymoo

:rudolf:

I did clear my garage counter. I have 4 bags of books, CDs and DVDs on the floor... ;)
Seriously though, they are to exit the house this week.

On a flying note, I will be MIA this week.

Catch up soon X

p.s. as ever, thanks v much for the lists

Lozzy88

I am in this week too thank you for the lists dusty, I am laid in bed with the OH he is playing on ps3, he is usually on the 360 i have forgotten how lovely and quite the ps3 is.

I have ironed, more to come once the rest is dry, i have bathed the kids too.... No mopping or dishes done. DS1 has fallen asleep with Dd they were watching a film in her bed, i am tempted to leave him there but i can see her walking up and having a hissy fit so i will move him before i fall asleep.

dancemum

I'm in thank you for the lists. Aim to try to be organised and get some control back to my life. I can not be in all places at once.

DS2 has had lots of meltdowns today and sobbed his heart out in his bath about school.
I have given in and got DS1 a new phone (can't have him out of contact at the moment) he is having it as a birthday present. It was a free upgrade and came with free insurance so should cost me less each month.

Me time: painted my nails