Weekly Flylady Thread 7th April 2014

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 Natty for last week's thread

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

Monday ~ Stairs, Landing & Bathrooms
15 minutes...
Declutter floors!
Mop/vacuum/sweep floors
30 minutes to spare...
Clean the bath, basins, shower trays and loo's
Wipe the window legdes
Got an hour...
Wipe all the paintwork up the stairs and on the landing
Wash towels and flannels
Shine the mirrors and wash the windows
Extras
Empty and wash out bins
Wipe your washing line over and wash your pegs
Sort out your nail polish and paint your toenails
Put everything away that doesn't really belong on the landing!

Tuesday ~ Kitchen
15 minutes...
Hoover and mop the floor
30 minutes to spare...
Wipe the wall behind the oven
Wipe all the handles and switches in the room
Wipe the kickboards or around the legs of cupboards
Got an hour...
Deal with that kitchen hotspot
Find a recipe to use something up and make it
Clean the washing machine drawer
Descale the kettle/iron and change any water filters in need
Extras
Clean the extractor fan if you have one
Get rid of old leaflets/notices etc
Dig out your sandles/flipfops/birkis - are they fit for summer?

Wednesdays ~ Living Room, hallway and cloakroom
15 minutes...
Find the floors
Clear the coffee table of clutter and wipe it clean
30 minutes to spare...
Dust the mantle and behind the radiators
Vacuum or wipe the sofas, turn the seat cushions if you can
Got an hour...
Hoover the floor
Tidy the hall, wipe any marks off the wall
HHMe time
Extras
Eat a frog
Do you still need to organise easter eggs/gifts etc
21 fling boogie - 7 things for the bin or recycling, 7 to give to charity, 7 to ebay, charity or whatever else you please


Thursday ~ bedrooms - give one a deep clean
15 minutes...
Strip the bed, turn the mattress and hoover, remake
30 minutes to spare...
Drag everything out from under the bed, give it a good sort out (and dust), hoover underneath and put back what you need to
Got an hour...
Sort any bookshelves/storage boxes, dusting as you go
Clear the top of the chest of drawers/bedside cupboard, give it a good wipe
Finally hoover the floor
Extras
Does the summer duvet need washing ready for those warmer nights?
HHI
Return any library books you found back to the library and choose another
Read a book or even better share one with a child

Friday ~ Rooms of Doom
15 minutes...
Fully concentrated solid tidying for 15 minutes
30 minutes to spare...
Clear one side/table/ledge and give it a good wipe
Get rid of 15 things to the bin, recycling, charity etc
Got an hour...
Start dealing with the paperwork - are your passports and travel insurance in date?
Dust anything electrical
Hoover/mop any floor you can see
Extras
Swish and Swipe toilets and sinks
Filing
Frog eating

FurryBeastOz

Thanks for last week Natty. I'm in Dusty. Kept up last week. Almost. Still 1/3 of a cane toad to go, and I missed one of my 5k prep runs so have to fit in 4 this week not three. Hope my GUAG reappears before tomorrow morning.

MinnieMousesMummy

Hello, Thank you very much for the list. I have missed the last couple of weeks though a number of things, but I am back to join in, which I hope will help me to get the new house organised and eventually get unpacked.

Monday ~ Stairs, Landing & Bathrooms
Declutter floors!
Mop/vacuum/sweep floors
Clean the bath, basins, shower trays and loo's
Wipe the window legdes
Wash towels and flannels
Sort out your nail polish and paint your toenails
Laundry (aiming to get 4 loads done)
Write up work experience paperwork for college
Make homemade meatballs and spaghetti for dinner
Catch up with emails
Childcare runs
Office 9.30am - 2pm
Plant some vegetable seeds
Put bathroom cabinet up on the wall
Look online for some fruit seeds
Deliver some avon books

pigpen

we're in.. I'm on bit of a roll this month.. lets hope it lasts forever!!!!!


thanks all xx

Crowdpleaser

Im in. Did a bit this weekend so feel positive!

Honey_Bear

If the list fits, we'll clear it all at the chalet on Wednesday. No stairs, no landing, but there is a shower room, so that'll get a right going over.

As for the house, a short notice booking requires that the shower room here has to be sparkly by 1.00pm and the double has to have a super-quick turnaround because for some reason I've totally lost interest in it. Hey ho, 2morrow is another day and I'll be remotivated by the time I get up in the morning ... because I have to be.

ionafan

Thank you for the new thread, Dusty, and to Natty for last week's. I shall be with you all in spirit but not doing much actual flying this week (again!) as we're expecting DGS1+2 for a visit and therefore doing a lot of fetching and carrying.

I have sat and watched 'The Crimson Field' this evening with DH. I managed to do a few things off my own list earlier, and enjoyed tea and chat with my friend this afternoon (and came home with some lovely plants :j ). DH :A helped by finishing off the painting of the trellises while I was out! But I am still up to my ears in paper - will have to do some more filing and sorting before I go to bed, whilst I drink my last cuppa of the day. I seem to have landed myself with another volunteer role too... ah well, I prefer to be busy!

Froddy, hugs to your Dad. It's hard when you lose someone of your own age, however old you are.

Congratulations on finishing off the cane toad, Honey Bear :beer:

Let me think... :think: ....
2 - 4 - 6 - 8,
Who do we appreciate?
V - A - L - L - I
Valli!!!
(Don't let the so-and-sos grind you down )

Goodnight all, sleep well.

Puddleglum

Count me in please. School holidays and the place is a tip! Two and a bit weeks to sort it all out so I will post every day - promise.:D

skint_breeder_5

I am in on time for once Woo hoo.....thank you Dusty and Natty. I promise to hold aloft my steam mop and keep ontop of those floors. I must go and sort the utility at some point this week, but so many big big toads all croaking at once......will get up and pick one at random in the morning and get stuck in

night night flyfolks

froddington

I'm in - thanks Dusty :A

Well, I'm in tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday anyway ......... and I have a new Karcher steam cleaner to try out sometime over this holiday

Popping into work tomorrow to get some paperwork done then coming back and going into town with Dad to get our Euros and a gift for the lovely lady who is meeting us in Italy and being our interpreter :A

Thanks for all the thoughts for Dad xx

Monday ~ Stairs, Landing & Bathrooms

15 minutes...
Declutter floors!
Mop/vacuum/sweep floors

30 minutes to spare...
Clean the bath, basin and loo
Wipe the window legdes

Got an hour...
Wipe all the paintwork up the stairs and on the landing
Wash towels and flannels
Shine the mirrors and wash the windows

Extras
Empty and wash out bins

MadamMim2013

I'm in, Thanks Dusty & ta muchly to Natty for last week (I was following even if not keeping up!!)
I'm on holiday from work this week so shall be getting down to the nitty gritty :rotfl:
Luck dragons & hugs for all x