Weekly Flylady Thread 16th June 2014

Honey_Bear

Healing vibes for DS's knees Bossy.

Missing Lamewolf.

Hard at it in the kitchen but having a lovely time doing it, so even if I don't say it, I'm doing continuous HHs all today and joining in everyone else's. I've managed to use all five machines I keep on the counter tip (! - typo worth keeping, I think) breadmaker, slicer, food processor, toaster and obviously kettle. DW will be run later. OH has put the sitting room and dining room in the paaaaaartaaaaaay mood but I can see dust in the first place that people's eyes fall when they walk in. Will dust and then do kitchen floor later.

I swear by bicarb on mattresses and now carpets but I leave it at least 24 hours, sweep it off (or you'll burn out the motor on cheaper vacuum cleaners - ask me how I know) and then vacuum the last of it up. The sweepings get saved to pour down drains when they need clearing or in smelly trainers. I buy it by the 3kg sack in the Chinese supermarket round the corner so I'm pretty liberal with it.

Valli

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I swear by bicarb on mattresses and now carpets but I leave it at least 24 hours, sweep it off (or you'll burn out the motor on cheaper vacuum cleaners - ask me how I know) and then vacuum the last of it up. The sweepings get saved to pour down drains when they need clearing or in smelly trainers. I buy it by the 3kg sack in the Chinese supermarket round the corner so I'm pretty liberal with it.

I'll bite!

How do you know this Honey Bear?

Am wfh for the afternoon. Am supposed to be doing 'work' work but as it's bin day I have washed the black bin out. Shall crack on with 'work' work when I've had my :coffee: - anyone else?

:coffee::coffee::coffee: help yourselves!

Honey_Bear

Since you ask, Valli, When we bought the chalet, the owners lived a long way Oop North and didn't want to come back down to visit it, so we bought it with everything still in it, including a nifty little black vacuum cleaner, mountains of cleaning gear including two canisters of $h@k3 'n' v@c, the chalet absolutely filthy and a stench. We took everything we couldn't live to the tip and most of the stench left with a sofabed and moved my zip and link beds from the house over there. And then we scrubbed - a lot.

About three years later, when we had the second bedroom and shower room built on the back we couldn't clear all the furniture out, so it was stacked up in the sitting room, wrapped and dustsheeted. Unfortunately, the zip and link mattresses were plastic wrapped and quite simply stank after they were unwrapped. Stupidly, I didn't put them outside on the hottest sunniest day of the year as soon as I discovered what the smell was because I was busy doing something else, and then had to get the chalet ready in a hurry for a let during a rainy spell a couple of weeks later.

$h@k3 'n' v@c is basically bicarb with the most disgusting perfume added, so I shook and vacced them over a couple of days, because the stench had also seeped into the bases. And the motor burnt out on the first mattress. By the time I'd finished with them, they were niff free and have been ever since.

But I had to replace the vacuum cleaner, which, obviously, wasn't very MSE.

So, I no logner ever vacuum up bicarb but I do use it a lot.

Valli

ugh! That initial clean-up must've been grim.


Anyway - MUST write reports.

(house is a tip but in no way bad enough to feature on Hoarders so I ain't worried y'all, (cos it's a Yank prog. You know it's bad when they clean the floor with a SHOVEL :eek:))

bossymoo

My two are asleep

Dustykitten

Went into the garden for a little light prunning, wheelie bin is now full. Feeling grim so going to make a cake and do very little else until I go to cricket just after 5pm.

bossymoo

Little plastic "garage" playhouse scrubbed and hosed. Drying on lawn. Semi permanent home found for slide. Sandwiches made and consumed in garden.

DS much happier after a nap, he's straightening his leg now still a bit stiff but managed to get up the slide and is going back to school tomorrow. DD and I will get picnic food for Saturday trip and go to tip. His old trike now doesn't move even when pedalled (although one is missing) it needs to go to the big play park in the sky... It's been well loved for about 4yrs.

Tonight I'll be doing the bathrooms then redoing my nails which have all popped off today. Need a treatment I think...

Honey_Bear

It was utterly vile, Valli! However, your comment made me realise how much more I expect of myself now, having been Flying for a couple of years. When we bought the chalet I didn't 'do' rubber gloves, or much in the way of getting things sparkly clean; now, if wherever I'm cleaning is minging, the disposables go straight on and then I don't mind quite so much how bad it is. (Just as well with the filthy 'can't shoot straight' lodger we had a few weeks ago.) OH has just swept the kitchen floor for me while I had a bath. He's a good guy.

wendywitch

Been out all day, took best friend for appointment this morning, then went for a coffee before dropping them home. My laptop fixed by her hubby, girls laptops left with him to be made into one all in exchange for washing their sofa throws as their WM is dead. They've been without for a month now :eek: I didn't know, they're using the laundrette and seem ok with it at the mo :undecided
Quick fb chat with Mr O&O, becoming quite regular :eek:
I can feel a low patch coming on for me but I'm really trying to fight it. Going to pick DD1 up from work, then back to some jobs . . .

One of best friends throws in TD, other just going in WM

nicki_2

Working on my paid stuff since I last posted. My accounts are now properly up to date up to September and I've hit the point where I haven't broken down the invoices in my accounts just put the total amount paid so the rest will take much longer. Going to write myself a check list for each campaign so I remember to do everything then maybe I can get my tax return done in May next year, well I can hope can't I? :rotfl::rotfl:

I've also done a few loads of laundry, now I've got to do todays actual deadline work Best move myself. :wave: