Weekly Flylady Thread 18th November 2013

Kaz2904

:rudolf: small wall has been papered
:rudolf: large cupboard has been emptied (I need to Hoover it out and line the shelves with something). I can then decide what is going to go in said large cupboard .

I bid on (and won) DD's bed for her Christmas present last night. It's about 40 miles away from home and will take me a 3-4 hour minimum round trip to collect. My winning bid was £2:20 :j:money::beer:. DH and I have discussed and I will actually hand over £20 as I would feel really bad handing over £2.20. The bed when new is £160 and we couldn't get it when we were at the big blue shop. They have it available now but only in white and we prefer the grey.

DH has picked up they beading this evening to run alongside the stairs. He'll stick that up tomorrow.

:rudolf: I've filled 2 bin bags with rubbish to go.

We have decided to have DD's birthday celebration on Saturday so that all the kids can get together and play party games. DD groaned but I think it's going to be loads of fun and will stop them going upstairs and trashing the bedrooms .

Will quickly whizz around the list in the morning, having only done the dailies today . Speaking of which, I need to go and shuffle the WM and TD. DW has probably finished too!

Sorry so many of you are having grim times. I hope things improve soon .

Skint, is it you with the radiators? I'm wondering if they are full of sludge? Is there any warmth at the top of them? If they are, you can remove them from the wall (you need to stop the water supply first or there will be carnage!) and take them outside, drain out all the mucky water and run a hose full of water through which will degunge them. It's not ideal and won't work as well as running fernox or such like through but when you have no spare cash, it can tide you over. You would then reattach rad and bleed it.
Ours have isolation valves to every rad in order to keep removing and replacing (decorating!) but you may not have.
HTH's...

System

Hope you feel better soon Mumof2, Dusty hope you get some quality time together. Glad to hear you got tickets Skinty. Hope your dog gets better soon Faceless. Well done Kaz, sounds like you've made lots of progress! Bed sounds like a bargain too!

List for tomorrow:

Kitchen and hallway

[STRIKE]Wipe the hob over
Mop kitchen floor
Clear a hotspot - on top of stereo
Wash up - 3 loads done!! One load left to do after dinner
Dry up
Clean draining board[/STRIKE]

Other jobs (that may end up getting carried over all week if I am still ill):

[STRIKE]Hoover all floors[/STRIKE]
Clean mirrored furniture in bedroom
Hoover ledges in bathroom
Clean and organise shoes we took on holiday/organise hall cupboard a bit

Goodintentions

FacelessNumber wrote: »

Hi Goodintentions
He is a mixed breed, large dog. Think German shepherd/lurcher/a bit of everything! He seems happier after one dose so fingers crossed they will do the trick! Post-op rest would drive him (and me) nutty!

I know what you mean! Although ours was happy to rest post-op, so it must have hurt! He was 2 1/2 at the time, so not old. He is fine now, and recovered quickly, but it was very expensive! Luckily he was insured Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery with no op x

nicki_2

Dusty - *hugs*

Working from my own lists this week. Work Wed/Thurs, DD is going away Saturday just overnight but needs to be collected early, I have 2 Christmas gifts I need to wrap and send with her, I lost today to Christmas shopping with her but only got 2/6 gifts so I'm back out tomorrow to get them remaining 4 (and maybe a few bits for DD) before the money gets spent on something else! I can foresee Friday being another mad dash around the house to get stuff done before the weekend.

Now I'm off to bed. I'm too tired to do anything else, and I would ideally like to be up and out for just after 8am tomorrow. Night all :wave:

ionafan

Sorry to hear about Royal Paws, Dusty - glad she is at home and comfortable. (((Hugs))) for you and DS3.

Katy, having measles is bad enough. Having measles and chickenpox in the same year is just extreme :rotfl: But I do sympathise - I had measles when I was 29 and had never felt so ill in my life.

Hope you're feeling better today, wendywitch.

09:00:05 ??? Yay, skinty, go girl!!!

So pleased for you re: car, Vanilla.

I finished painting our bedroom this morning and have started on the grandchildren's room / my office. Hope to get more done tomorrow afternoon, The decorators are arriving at 7.45 to start the HSL, then most of upstairs will be done (there's just a small door and loft hatch to paint in the bathroom when we move the beds back into the bedrooms!) and we'll be waiting for the carpet fitter.

We also played packing case tetris this morning. I didn't manage to unpack any boxes for my challenge, but we have rearranged things so that I can get to paint two of the lounge walls while DH finishes glossing wardrobe doors and handrails. Afterwards , we can move things round so that I can get to the other two walls. Things are moving on...

optimistic-mummy

its still ok here ........ except the kitchen ! DP cooked tea and now it looks like a bomb has hit it .... ive never known anyone use so many pans etc...... so thats tomorrows job as well as the dailies and popping to the bank fetching some stuff from in laws paying bills filling forms out oh and a delivery !
busy day but need to get it all done as have an app weds and thursday .... need to pop to the drs and get my prescription and go to the pharmacy and get that too

pozza_73

I'm in On nights this week so will do the best that I can!

skint_breeder_5

Monday - Rooms of Doom (that'll be Dining Rooms then :rotfl:) and downstairs loos and the Study/Computer Room/Guest Bedroom

Extras
[STRIKE]Mid month check of bank accounts[/STRIKE] all except one as their website has fallen over
[STRIKE]Do you need to submit gas/elec readings? It's dark now but I will do that tomorrow :rotfl:[/STRIKE] videod on my phone, updated spreadsheet and update supplier online


Wow, a clean slate for Monday at 2 minutes to midnight.....maybe I won't turn into a pumpkin

Skinty's Toots list for today (and the rest of this week til done)

Get the top bunk in DD4's room clear of gibble and made up
Make a duplicate Spice Kit for DD1 to take back to Uni at Xmas
[STRIKE]Work out my debts for this month - once I have worked out what I need to slam on it[/STRIKE] close as I can with one website down, but I know where I am shifting my debt :money:
make a Sausage Dog or similar for drafty front door
Sort out the "Man Drawer" in the kitchen and re-stock
Clean up builders mess (plaster and paint splatters) in hallway in 15 minute chunks [STRIKE]x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 x10 x11 x12[/STRIKE] til done
clean cooker hood and replace filters
do DD3 roots at home
find an empty picture hooks to hang it on
Take battery pot to recycling when I go to pharmacy or dump next

[/Toots list]

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
[STRIKE]Catch up on phone calls[/STRIKE] rang DoM, FB/Skyped DD1 and DD2
Update diary with December plans, [STRIKE]does the LBD need to go to the cleaners? [/STRIKE] nope not going anywhere ...[STRIKE]Kids costumes for plays etc[/STRIKE] nope not this either
HHI

Right DS has just quit, so I am going to get down to kitchen and make a start.....I really really want a clean slate this week

skint_breeder_5

Kaz2904 wrote: »

Skint, is it you with the radiators? I'm wondering if they are full of sludge? Is there any warmth at the top of them? If they are, you can remove them from the wall (you need to stop the water supply first or there will be carnage!) and take them outside, drain out all the mucky water and run a hose full of water through which will degunge them. It's not ideal and won't work as well as running fernox or such like through but when you have no spare cash, it can tide you over. You would then reattach rad and bleed it.
Ours have isolation valves to every rad in order to keep removing and replacing (decorating!) but you may not have.
HTH's...

My system has a magnatech thingy which attracts the metally sludgey deposits, but you have to drain the system before you can remove it. The EX drains and clears with the expensive solutions once a year, but i am sure that was done in the spring.

Weirdly the bottom copper pipes in and out on the downstairs rads are cold. One possible thing is an air lock, and EX has now advised me to use TVRs to turn ALL upstairs rads off, and make sure all downstairs rads are on full to see if that will force the water round the downstairs and then I can try bleeding. Otherwise it might be the pump on the heating system itself.

Not sure I want to turn the heating off upstairs here tonight to try this experiment...but I will see about it tomorrow.

Ionafan yep, I was there giving myself repetitive strain injury this morning hitting the refresh button for half an hour (just in case they sneakily let the tickets out before the allotted time) all those hours I spent sniping on ebay have truly paid off.

Mumof2_2

Morning all, just popping my list up before I take a cuppa up to DH, DD and DS!

[FONT=&quot]Monday - Rooms of Doom (that'll be Dining Rooms then) and downstairs loos[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]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
Do 15 minutes more tidying if you have time.

[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Tuesday - kitchen and hallway[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
15 minutes...[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Give the hob a clean
Got 30 minutes...
Sweep and mop the floor
Clean a window
An hour to spare...
Clear a hotspot
Clean the kitchen sink, taps, plugs

Extras
HHI[/FONT]

Also need to get to Mr S to get a couple of things for DH's birthday tomorrow, am on rota for Knit & Knatter this morning so have to be there early. Mum & Dad up later this pm & tomorrow so not going to get a lot done .....

Best get going! Have a good day everyone