Weekly Flylady Thread 9th July 2007

Dustykitten

Hello all I am back and feel much better for being out.

Tried on my bikinis whilst getting changed - quickly decided I needed to cycle to the lottie and not drive, in fact I need to cycle everywhere!

Pigpen are the pictures of what you call 'the middle room'? That is some project, I just hope you don't find an extra child you did not know you had in there.

Thanks for all the photos they have made me feel that our house if tidy.

Right finished my cup of tea, to the hoover - who every asked I hoover kitchen Monday. Tuesday do hall/living roomfamily room and redo kitchen on the way through. Thursday hoover stairs/landing/bedroom and often kitchen and family room on the way through. Leave hoover upstairs to do kids rooms on Friday. Hardly ever hoover on the weekend.

Spoke to DS2 on the phone - gone to see Harry Potter with Dad - he seemt tearful and not like he had enjoyed his trial day at Secondary school - we have to go down later for 'the talk' and to get his PE kit.

witchypoo

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clean floors[/STRIKE]
Clean cupboard door fronts and the front of appliances
[STRIKE]Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front
Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round
[/STRIKE]Level Three
[STRIKE]Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary)
[/STRIKE]Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required
Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky
Clean oven if you didn’t do it last week
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Wipe the outside of all your small appliances (kettle, toaster etc)
• Clean out your vacuum cleaner, get rid of the hair from the brushes, clean the filters is they are washable and clean anything else you can like the ‘muck bucket’ etc, make sure you leav it to dry thoroughly before putting it back together.
• Clean out the freezer, I find the vacuum cleaner is good for getting up any crumbs in the bottom or stray peas etc. Defrost it if it needs it.
• Sort through one cupboard, emptying it, wiping it out and wiping items before putting them back

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
[STRIKE]Vacuum floors and sofas
[/STRIKE]Level 2
[STRIKE]Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
[/STRIKE]Clean window
[STRIKE]Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets[/STRIKE]
Level 3
Wipe light switches and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors etc
[STRIKE]Tidy shoes, coats [/STRIKE]and bags
[STRIKE]Vacuum under furniture (only if you won't hurt yourself doing it, don't want any injuries)
[/STRIKE]Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Clear one hotspot
• [STRIKE]
  
• Clear one shelf, dust and replace items after giving them a wipe over
• Sort through any magazines or paperwork lying around
• Clean fireplace, vacuuming it can help if it is very bad, wiping over with a damp cloth to make sure it's dust free, clean fire aswell if safe to do so (mine comes apart so can vacuum inside the cover)
• [/STRIKE]

• Wednesday, Master Bedroom & Landing
  
  Level 1
  Remove bed linen and wash, replace with fresh linen
  Clean windows and wipe window sills
  Level 2
  Check fire alarms are working
  [STRIKE]Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing
  [/STRIKE]Level 3
  Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs
  Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen
  Extra tasks list, as usual choose one or more
• 27 fling boogie time, time for that midweek fling, go on grab a bag and clear that clutter
• Wipe light switches and dust light shades/lights in bedroom and on landing
• Sort one drawer, making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
• Wipe door handles and doors upstairs

Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
Level One
Clear any clutter from desk
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear clutter from floor
Clean floors in these rooms
[/STRIKE]Clean bath, toilet and sink
Dust PC and desk
Level Three
[STRIKE]Vacuum/sweep and mop these rooms
[/STRIKE]Wipe keyboard and mouse (these usually have more germs on than your toilet so important)
Wipe down tiles in bathroom
Clean shower screen/curtain if you have one/if required
Clean windows
Extra mission:
Pick whichever you want to attempt

• Clean windows in todays rooms
• Clean any light fittings and switches in these rooms
• Wash your bathroom mats
• Sort your toiletries, flinging anything well past it's use by and those empty containers. Leave out what needs using first like the last bit of shower gel in a bottle etc.

Been having a hectic week and not got much done, however today I ran the hoover round all the rooms so the floors are done, and I will try to get more on top of the list later and tomorrow.

newmrslockwood

Just got back from early years fun day with DS2. they had a really rubbish punch and judy show! the kids seemed to love it though. then the guy did a bit of a magic show. He was much better at that. He pulled a rabbit out of a top hat! How fantastic a real rabbit.....

not had a bad day fly wise. got everything i wanted to done.

lil_me

Scary photos. Saying that my DSs room and the computer room (also the kids not mine as our PC etc is in our room) are just as bad. Can't find the camera anywhere or I would show you, the boys room is the worst, 2 weeks ago every toy was in a box (over 20 boxes) now they are all over the floor and can barely walk in there. Computer room is bad, did some of it today, PCs and desks etc were all cleaned (aswell as the ones in my room(2 laptops and a desk top) but still a nightmare.

Good luck with those on sorting missions reclaiming rooms again, take my hat off to you as I've decided the boys can help with theirs and waiting until over the holidays. Not disrupting them playing out over the summer, but most rainy days will spend sorting through. They don't need all those toys, some are well grown out of, will be doing plenty of charity shop trips!!

Books is something else we have a lot of, never sold on Amazon so might have a look on there and see how much it is etc.

borderlakland

love all the piccys

i admit,i hold my hands up, apart from s/s the kitchen and bathrooms,w/m and d/w i have not done any flying:o (didn't take me long to fail)but house still looks faily good

felt like #### when i got up so got kids sorted o/h kindly took them to school and i went back to bed:p
then had ds1 presentation of achievments in afternoon, he got awards for french and german:j (doesn't get his language skills from me)then straight over to another school 15 miles away to pick dd1 up from her footie match.lots of consoling as her team lost,she was goalie and got loads of stick for letting in 2 goals, she has also had problems with her knee recently it just"gives way" think a trip to drs is needed to make sure nothing seriously,so the whole house stinks of freeze spray. tea(yummy chicken wraps on the go
o/h picking ds1 up from bowling trip organised by his maths tutor

kdean

Hi all, hope you are all well, I have not logged on for a few days and cannot catch up the 15 pages that you have managed to fill in that time, so ((hugs)) to anyone who needs them.

I have not got much flying done this week, DS has been unwell and so have I so it looks a bit like a tip at the moment, especially with the added toys from his party.

Also spent whatever hours weren't used up for the party helping my brother in law move, he had not packed a single item so it was hard work.

Will have to pick up flying again when I feel a bit better.

nearlynewbie

Pigpen and Heavenleigh. Thank you for your pics. As a newbie on this thread I've been feeling bad because I had NEVER vacuumed my matress NOR my sofa (until this week). Your pics have ley me knwo we all neeed a bit of enouragement. Sometimes my DD room's almost that bad....
Heavenleigh I don't know if you do flylday.net but she has a running email -in thing for "the weirdest thing you've ever flung"- Do you think those legs might qualify?

Mermaid

No real flying today, as we visited a friend this morning and then went to playgroup this afternoon. In between I made some raspberry and white choc muffins from here, and they came out looking like this:



I can't post the taste here, but I can guarantee that they are extremely yummy ! (BTW I made the recipe into 12 muffins instead of the recommended 8). We ate 4 at tea time, so I've kept 4 for tomorrow and frozen the other 4.

I'm impressed by all the pics of shame you guys have posted. I have to confess that our spare bedroom looked unnervingly like those until about 4 months ago, but we had to clear it as we've had viewers round to look at the house. Anyway, I know what you're up against. You feel so much better when it's all gone and you can use the space properly. I've also found I've stopped buying so much stuff since doing this flying lark, as I know that otherwise I'm just going to end up having to throw it out at some point in the future. Actually, I can't boast too much, I've just remembered my garage still looks like that!:eek: :eek:

We've got a charity collection coming next week - how many bags of clothes do you think I can put out before they decide I'm taking the mickey? I'm hoping it's going to be at least 10 - perhaps I can put some outside the neighbours houses if not!

Now off to do a bit of vacuuming and tidying up...

Mermaid

grannynise

Heavenleigh thanks so much for your pictures. I thought the befores of the kicthen were the afters, it looked so good. I almost decided to give up all attempts to fly as I clearly couldn't meet your high standards.:eek:
So seeing your really messy rooms --- well it made me feel a whole lot better.:beer:

Pigpen how many skips d'you think you'll need?

Li'l_me, can you add an extra mission ... polish legs?

Now I need to take a photo of all the mess in my house -- but I don't know how to put it on here. Does anyone use photobox for printing pictures and if so do you think they're any good?

broomstick27

If i manage to do ds's room tomorrow i will have managed every day for the first week ever Hope i havent spoken too soon!

Oh and ds fell asleep on the other side today so he finally has hair cut on both sides! It was the best hair cut so far, who knows by the time he is old enough to care what his hair looks like i might even be competent!