Weekly Flylady Thread 10th February 2014

Dustykitten

Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to enjoy it!

Thank you to Natty for last week's thread

THESE LISTS ARE ONLY SUGGESTIONS AND NOT A MUST DO LIST, YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO POST AND FOLLOW YOUR OWN.

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

A few of the basics before we start the week

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

Daily routines/todailies are anything you need to do today and every day stuff like laundry, 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/binbag dance - stick on some loud music, grab a binbag and whizz 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!
5GC five minutes gardening.. make it lovely for your family and enjoy it!

Any more questions I bet are answered in the wonderful welcome guide which was produced by our much loved Toots

Ok here goes this week!

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
15 minutes...
Hoover and Mop the floors
30 minutes to spare...
Clean the window and any glass/mirrors in the room
Clear and wipe the worktops
Got an hour...
Wipe the hob
Wipe the front of the Oven, clean any gunk from around the dials
Remove any cobwebs from the ceiling/ontop of units
Wipe light switches and sockets carefully not with a soaking wet cloth!
Extra Mission
Clean the extractor Fan
Sort the fridge and freezer and meal plan for the week

Tuesday - Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
15 minutes...
Clean toilets and basins including the pedestals front and back
30 minutes to spare...
Hoover and wash the floors
Clean the bath and/or shower
Do some filing or shreeding
Got an hour...
Clean behind the desk
Remove everything from the bathroom cabinet, wipe inside, sort and replace the contents
Give the plug holes a good clean and slush
Extra mission:
Stock up on hayfever remedies - tree pollen season has started early
Catch up on phone calls/emails/repeat prescription
Half term next week (at least in the south) do you need to make appointments/plans?

Wednesday - Mid week wind down
Deal with a hotspot
Eat a frog
Catch up on Monday and Tuesday's lists
Spend time doing something you enjoy just because life is sometimes too tough and always too short

Thursday - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
15 minutes...
Vacuum floors and mop if required
30 minutes to spare...
Clear the mantle and dust it
Vacuum/wipe the sofas and chairs
Wipe the door frame and door
Got an hour...
Clear the coffee table, wipe it over
Clean a window or two
Wipe any marks off the wall by the stairs
Extra Mission:
Sort out your handbag and purse

Friday - Choose a bedroom
15 minutes...
27 fling boogie
30 minutes to spare...
Hoover the floor and wipe the skirting boards
Clear a surface and give it a good dust/wipe
Got an hour...
Change any beds in need
Finish off something you have been meaning to do for ages be it flying/craft etc
Extra tasks list...
Take anything you are getting rid of to the charity shop/recycling/tip/friends etc or at least work out exactly when you can get this done

Crowdpleaser

Im in this week. Thanks dusty x

Valli

*pretends has every intention of flying lots and lots*

seriously I will be flying this week, both at home (a bit) and at work (a lot) - this weeks 'drop in focus' is 'state of the room' so I have to be uber tidy.

bossymoo

Hello!
Thanks to both natty and dusty, I'm in this week possibly off-list again.
:beer:

Mumto5

Thanks for the new thread Dusty. I'm in,

I need to get up early as I've not done the uniforms. We went to a friends 40th on Saturday. It was at a lovely barn conversion. We were the sensible ones who retired to bed at 2.30am. The rest partied on until 5! My internal body clock woke me at 7 so I'm a bit tired!

My eBay sales have netted me a 3 figure sum and they haven't finished yet. I'm kicking myself for not getting on with it before. Procrastination is my middle name.

YORKSHIRELASS

Thanks Dusty. I didnt manage to get the kitchen floor washed last week so thats a priority for tomorrow. Hopefully our hospital appointment in the morning wont take too long!

CoffeeQueen

I'm in also

decogecko

Hi all

I'm in again this week, thanks for the lists this week Dusty.

I aim to fly and DIY this week after the paid stuff. I need to crack on with it.

Mumto5 me and you must share the same middle name :cool:

Have a great week all

Deco x

pigpen

Flying resembles something more like flu in here


Front room is looking much better after DD2 and bf tidied it and I vacuumed it.. just need to clear through the toys... but no one will help me and I am too useless to do it by myself.

ionafan

Thank you Dusty for this week's list and thank you Natty for last week's.

I shall definitely be flying around but will probably be doing my own thing most of the time. DH is getting his garage sorted and I shall then be able to concentrate on the remaining bits that I said I would do, but I also have a lot of paperwork to do at the start of the week and some computer work before the weekend. With only the two of us (and DH spending much of his time in the garage) the house generally stays quite clean, and I have gone about decluttering as much as I can as I have been setting up each room

One thing I simply must do this week is some clothes shopping: I only have 2 pairs of wearable trousers now - the others are dropping off my hips :eek:

2 more items have come off my personal toots list this evening - mending the back bedroom curtains (header tape needed stitching back in place) and my dressing gown (pocket stitching re-done). Each job took about 5 minutes once I actually started

Hope everyone gets some sunshine this week...

just_the_two_of_us

Hi Dusty - I am in - thanks for the thread and thank you Natty for last week's thread too.

Won't be doing the kitchen floor tomorrow as only got round to it on Friday last week!! I used to have a "round tuit" plate - no idea where that went to!!! :rotfl:
Perhaps I should start using "procrastination is the thief of time" in my signature as well as the rest.

Probably a bit off plan next week as struggling with my research and the paper frog - well that has been given a new and much smaller home -yay! - but the shredder is in "jammed up" mode again.

Glad it is the dining room as that is probably the worst in the house with papers all over. I did manage to clear and tidy the shelves in the cloakroom this weekend and unearth two old laptops for hard drive destructon/ binning.

Bed calls - sleep tight.

xx