Weekly Flylady Thread 20th January 2014

YORKSHIRELASS

Dusty, I hope you actually got into bed eventually! The things we do for our kids eh?

And Jazee, good news about the knifeman.

Oh gosh, keeping stuff from loved ones. Some emotional stories there and I love the one about the lawnmower. I have a box full of the kids drawings and stuff in my wardrobe which I did go through once and sort but thats all really. However, I am very attached to my pyrex roaster which has a long story attached to it but it reminds me of my husbands grandparents. I use that all the time though.

OK kids rooms today then. Have put stew in sc for tea and logged into my e-mails for second job so I have made a good start. Off to get ready for the paid stuff now and I will leave instructions for OH about putting bedding in the washing machine when he rises from his beauty sleep.

just_the_two_of_us

pigpen wrote: »

I'm not unsentimental. I don't need physical stuff as a reminder of people gone from this life. Memories of them are all knitted together into a big blanket and wrapped around my soul. They are a part of me as I am a part of them, and we are all part of each other with the strands of our lives interwoven into a big blanket of life and time and love.

I have enough emotional baggage to sink a battleship I don't need it in the physical sense too.
And now you can assume I am a nutter

Oh G Pigpen - you have me sobbing loudly and uncontrollably and it is only 8:00.

That is so beatifully and poetically worded and is so very very true. I still have loads of stuff from DM three years ago and stuff from DS school etc etc. It is so hard to go through as it brings back so much emotional stuff that I'd rather keep buried that I keep on putting off sorting it all out. Am getting there - babysteps.

If you're a nutter then I am one too. love V xx

PS - just decided that I really ought to get rid of my wedding dress - 30 years this year and it is a size 10 - I am several more than that now!! But what to do with it? it is a gorgeous short cream chiffon 80s dress? Any ideas anyone?

just_the_two_of_us

Sorry - gathered myself together - of sorts and can now do what I came on to do - post today's lists!!!

Monday - Master bedroom & landing
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing clean sheets
Vacuum floors
Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Mess
Wipe the front of the units, kickboards and the large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
Got an hour...
Wipe dining table
Clean filters and detergent dispensers

Wednesday - sprog/spare room
15 minutes...
Strip bed and wash sheets
Clear the floor of gibble
30 minutes to spare...
Vacuum floor
Got an hour...
collect dirty laundry - and wash it!! I have now got just one laundry bag for the two of us. FInd easier to do one load at a time and then can try to dry on airer rather than use TD all the time.
Extras
HHS&S of the upstairs of the house..
HH catch-up!! - must be paperwork then!!!

Also shopping as no spudatoes left.
Take photos of DS clothes at home in case any no longer loved!!

Have a good day everyone. xx
And thanks Pigpen - I obviously needed a good blub - feel much better.

nicki_2

Morning all.

Today is a baking day. I want to try something for DD's birthday but its going to have to be on a small scale so fairy cakes this morning to see if I can achieve my vision :rotfl: I have loads of baking supplies so I shouldn't run out in theory. Most have BB dates in the next month or so so I'm best using them up while I can

First though (only because the washing machine is on so the noise level is stupid in the kitchen) I'm going to update accounts and do some paid stuff. It'll also give the fruit for the |Easter cake a chance to soak since I forgot to do it last night

samtoby

Day off today so I am going to do a quite half hour hoover, put some washing on but leave any major bits until the weekend as I need to study

Honey_Bear

pigpen wrote: »

I'm not unsentimental. I don't need physical stuff as a reminder of people gone from this life. Memories of them are all knitted together into a big blanket and wrapped around my soul. They are a part of me as I am a part of them, and we are all part of each other with the strands of our lives interwoven into a big blanket of life and time and love.


I have enough emotional baggage to sink a battleship I don't need it in the physical sense too.

And now you can assume I am a nutter

I absolutely loved this, so thank you for saying it Pigpen.

Unless your house is the size of Buck Palace, there simply wouldn't be room to store all of your children's stuff. You let it go when the time is right.

No-one in my family seems to be able to let go of anything. My father used to ring me up (me, Devon, them, Kent) to ask me to go up there to defrost and clear out the freezers when there were only two of them. Then, each time I'd got them under control, he wanted to me clear the second dresser in the outhouse. The seven room attic was piled high with stuff, the three room cellar was chocka with stuff, the only available space in the kitchen drawers was the front top 2". All the wardrobes had extra rails fitted so double the amount of stuff could be squashed into them. On the third to last move, my mother asked the packers to take special care of her unread newspapers, so they were duly packed up, unpacked and I imagine probably read before she at last let them go. I sometimes wonder if the pile of unread newspapers on the second to last move was actually the same one, eleven years earlier.

What I'm trying to say is - that was the way I was brought up and the amount I've *flung* genuinely shocks me (waste), but I haven't missed a thing. I'm now down to the nub of it, but finding it impossible to deal with.

Dustykitten

Morning all

Honeybear.Imagine your house is about to be demolished you have 30 minutes to take what you want and it has to fit within a camper van, what are you taking? Think about what you want to keep, anything which doesn't make it into the camper van has a lot less importance to you.

Not a whole load done so far made a phone call. Chatted with DS1, emptied the WM.

Need to do a HH tiding up and a bit of filing whilst in the mood.

Oh and DS3 was asleep in 10 minutes and just as I was leaving to get DS2 DS1 came home so he got him for me.

nicki_2

WM done and its hung on the maiden, accounts updated, now I should really get on with the baking shouldn't I

8-of-us

Hi all.
Wednesday
Strip/re-make dd2 bed
Find boxes (ask for some) for some of dd1 clothes to keep for dd2
Laundry - Hang out - Ironing - Put away
Bath tortoise - clean out
Vacuum living room - Hall way (edge tool style)
Vacuum all rooms
Refresh bathrooms/wc
General toy tidy

roxy7699

pigpen beautifully phrased
jazee glad dh is feeling better about the whole thing
samtoby happy studying

Tiny was a monster last night, didn't sleep until gone 12 ended up in my bed being held to sleep. Good job I have a big bed. Missing big one, she's back Friday.

[STRIKE]HHI[/STRIKE]

Tuesday - Kitchen and Dining Mess
30 minutes to spare...
Empty cutlery drawer.. wash cutlery tray and replace everything neatly.. get rid of all the odds and sods that shouldn't be in there..
Wipe the front of the units, kickboards and the large appliances
Sweep and mop the floor
Got an hour...
Wipe dining table and replace cloth if needed
Clean out the fridge - now the weather seems to be turning colder is there anything that can be turned into soup and frozen. I have a collection of butternut squashes for some reason, so butternut squash soup for us I think
De-web and fluff the room

Extras

• Wash the windows
• Wipe down paintwork/sideboards/units in dining room
• Clean filters and detergent dispensers
• HHI

Wednesday - sprog/spare room
15 minutes...
Strip beds and wash sheets and any other bedding in need!
Clear the floor of gibble
30 minutes to spare...
Vacuum floor
Wash window
De-web and dust the room
Got an hour...
Binbag dance
Wipe away sticky marks
collect dirty laundry

Extras

• HHS&S of the upstairs of the house..
• HHI while watching some gubbins of the gogglebox
• HH catch-up!!