Weekly Flylady Thread 30th June 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.

Thanks to Natty for last weeks thread

As promised we are going for a new style for one week only to try to get some of us motivated and flying.

I shall put up a list for Monday (downstairs) and Friday (upstairs) and a theme/challenge for the other days. You need to post ideas as to what you will do on those days and from that I will fill in the list to give ideas for anybody who is stuck.

These lists are only suggestions and not a must do list; you are more than welcome to post and follow your own lists.

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.

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

Ok here goes this week!

Monday - Downstairs Dash
HH tidying, putting away and floor clearing
Hoover and mop all the floors you can see
Wipe kitchen work surfaces and clean the sink
S&S toilets and basins
Dust the electricals and anything else you have time to.


Tuesday - Declutter Day - ideas of what some flyladies are planning

Sort out recycling and put out in bins - all of it
Go through book-cases and box up for CS anything not required on future voyage
Clear out linen cupboard and only put back what you will use
Go under all the tables etc on those shelves where you 'store things for later' and sort out/throw out
Declutter Office
Sort wardrobe
The cupboard of doom in the kitchen...
Weeds
Sort through stuff under and around bed
Tidy dressing table and drawers
Sort magazine racks
Bag up the basket full of clothes which have been sorted for chazza shop and deliver.
List some items on the facebook free to collector page. Breadmaker, stair parts and sink jump to mind straight away
Kitchen: Get as much off surfaces as possible!
Hall: Put shoes away!
Living Room: Put DVDs away! Put ALL Random Stuff Away!
Bedroom: Clothes either in Laundry basket or away properly! Windowsill - clear of all unnecessaries! Shelf - make sure it's tidy! Put ALL Random Stuff away!
Spare Room (of Doom, and animals): Get all paperwork Frogs out of the room

Wednesday - Deep Clean Day
Honey Bear is to Deep Clean the office bookshelves
Pick the Deep Clean Job you have been putting off for .........
it might be the oven/fridge/freezer etc and do it FIRST !
Give kitchen a really good clean - from top to bottom and inside out.
This needs to be the dining room as I just tend to skim through here.
Empty bookshelf of non shelved books (IYSWIM)
Remove stuff which shouldn't be on the floor
Clear and polish the table
Wipe the window sill and clean the window
Wipe the skirting boards
Pull out piano and hoover behind it
Get rid of DNs frog chair or put in loft
Wipe down dining chairs
Pick up all of flaked off paint and scrape the rest down
Deep clean Office
clear drawers in bedroom
scrub hall stairs landing carpet
scrub all cupboards in kitchen
Bathroom tiles and shower
Hoover EVERYWHERE
Hands and Knees - do Kitchen and Bathroom floors thoroughly!
Hoover sofas
Cobweb ceiling mission!!! Sorry little spidery friends, I don't want your old unused webs making my place look gross!
Curtain rails!
Bathroom Mirror!
Windows if time

Landing

Thursday - Frog Feast

Friday - Unwieldy Upstairs
HH tidying, putting away and floor clearing
Hoover and mop all the floors you can see
Clean the bathroom, change the towels and toothbrushes/sponges etc
Change bed linen
Dust as many flat surfaces as you have time to.

Dustykitten

June Challenge:
Bossymoo - Sort bills including car insurance, organise ISAs and lose 10lb
Jazee - No snacks except fruit, other than that only eating at main meals
Dusty - Finish the planting out, loose 3lb, do stomach exercises
Lozzy88 - lose 5lb and repay Dad £370 for bunks!
Nikki - Complete exercise challenge!
JennyJewel - Lose 1st in weight!!! (hope you don't intent to amputate any parts!)
Froddy - Rejoin SW and lose half a stone
RebeccaHarris31 - To try and "Boost My Income" each day by doing surveys etc. and (hopefully!) get some pay outs by the end of the month.
Aldahbra - do flylady tasks every day for June! Welcome to the team!
Mumto5 - no mid week wine, a month of packed lunches so I can save dinner money for my upcoming holidays
Mummyroysof3 - complete last assignment for degree by the 10th, lose 7lb and not put of smear test
Lynnejk - Restart home exercise with Lesley Sansone - please give me a kick through the week someone. And lose weight gained since stopping smoking
Ionafan - Lose another 5 lb (surely you will vanish?). Finish writing this course. Finish the planting out. Finish touching up the paint all round the house. Get the voile up in the kitchen.
JTTOU - Lose 3 lbs more before June 30th Anniversary holiday ( just in case I put it back on!). Sort one box of paperwork for each week I am in the country - so three boxes.
Wendywitch - tba
Mrs MP - lose 7lbs, do some excercise every weekday, keep up to date on the fly lists, complete at least 2 panels on dictonary of homes cross stitch, give mil ALL the support she wants, ring mum dad every week, text sis and bro at least fortnightly, clear some more clutter - wow Mrs MP we might demand you at least take a day off for YOU xxx
FizzWhizz - stay on the midweek wagon and lose a few lbs
JennyBee - Do all the filing that has been in a pile for ages, Do a car boot to sell all the stuff that's in a box waiting to go, Send off DS1 passport forms, Have some me time
MaddyWaddy - Complete weeks 1-3 jogging couch to 5k - Join 2 running clubs, Fly
HoneyBear - 1 Lose 4lbs 2 Deal with one box a day in the Room of Doom 3 Go booze free for the month 4 Complete an entire Flylist one day a week.
Vanilla - To stay on the thread and completely empty the attic.
Charlieyates - Lose at least 5lb and make at least 2 rooms look liveable
Lamewolf - Reduce my Toots/Frog list by 5 items.
Crowdpleaser - knit four squares for blanket - and now another four
Natty - Staying on the thread every day, and post something even if it's a couple of words, every day.
Greent - SW, lose 1/2 stone in the remainder of this month and min 15 mins of crosstrainer 3x/ week
Amyloofoo - Do some exercise every day, even if it's just taking DD to the park. Make sure I get the referrals DD and I both need. Meal plan and stick to grocery budget. Get rid of the evil overdraft. Send letters to P and D. Arrange a visit to family. Try to lose 1kg in preparation for the July wedding.

FizzWhizz

Loving the new format Dusty, I will try my best this week, the past fortnight has fallen by the wayside and I need to get back on track.

kazwookie

Oh, I'm in, thank you all for the lists and keeping us order.

froddington

I'm in - thanks Dusty :A

I seriously need to kick myself into doing something - I don't want to be in this place let alone have other people in!!

Monday - Downstairs Dash

HH tidying, putting away and floor clearing
Hoover and mop all the floors you can see
Wipe kitchen work surfaces and clean the sink
S&S toilets and basins
Dust the electricals and anything else you have time to.

charlies_tribe

Evening all. Thank you for this week's thread. Hopefully i will be with you all.
After my post on Saturday about a poorly dd we ended up in hospital by ambulance. Dd had about 18 nebuliser overnight but sprang back really quickly through the day so we got home around tea time. Luckily dh has been busy and didn't come back to as much mess as i was expecting.
Ds1 off to Paris with school in the morning so will be an early start.

MinnieMousesMummy

Good evening, I have not been on here for a long time and it shows, therefore I really need to get this house back into order.

CharlieYates - I've not read any posts from last week but glad that your dd is feeling better.

Monday - Downstairs Dash
HH tidying, putting away and floor clearing
Hoover and mop all the floors you can see
Wipe kitchen work surfaces and clean the sink
S&S toilets and basins
Dust the electricals and anything else you have time to.
Go to the homeware store to get a mop and bucket
2 loads of laundry
HHI

Other Jobs
Work 8-5
Sort through some paperwork


I will try to keep up with the thread, however this is a busy week at work.

Mumto5

Fabulous! A new thread!

Thanks for the new list.

bonnie Lovely to see you back ah-haaa!

Kids have a long weekend off school for NPd's. Hence tonight is the weekend and we are drinking vino.

challenge news. I am delighted to report that my kids have had packed lunches for the month of June with no interruptions. I may have erred on the wine part of the challenge.

Good things happening this week. Kids off tomorrow. Have given up with useless weather app and am planning to go to Zoo with kids and hubby.

Meeting lovely friend on Tuesday.

Hospital on Wednesday for DS3's shoulder.

Thursday will fly all day to catch up (promise)

Friday..... Too far away to worry about.

Wishing all of you a successful week xx

lynnejk

Hiya everyone - I'm in please Thanks Dusty, Natty and Bossy for keeping us all in order.


Sounds like you doing really well on the clearance Pig-pen.


Oh Honey-Bear - I think it's rose-coloured glasses syndrome. You sound such a nice person and so you have expectations that others will be as good-hearted, kind, responsible etc as yourself and I know it's hard when they are not and you feel kind of a bit 'walked over'.
Don't be disheartened and as LW and others say what comes around goes around and it will come back and bite them on the ar*e and it's good to know that it's not all of them


I think I see what you mean so kind of had a go below - is this what you had in mind and when will you put up additional lists ??

Monday - Downstairs Dash
HH tidying, putting away and floor clearing
Hoover and mop all the floors you can see
Wipe kitchen work surfaces and clean the sink
S&S toilets and basins
Dust the electricals and anything else you have time to.
Watch Wimbledon


Tuesday - Declutter Day


Sort out recycling and put out in bins - all of it
Go through book-cases and box up for CS anything not required on future voyage
Clear out linen cupboard and only put back what you will use
Go under all the tables etc on those shelves where you 'store things for later' and sort out/throw out
Watch Wimbledon

Wednesday - Deep Clean Day


Pick the Deep Clean Job you have been putting off for .........
it might be the oven/fridge/freezer etc and do it FIRST !


Give a bathroom or kitchen a really good clean - from top to bottom and inside out.

Watch Wimbledon


Thursday - Frog Feast
Line them up and shoot them down !!!!!


Start with a BIG one and do for an HH then tackle a few small ones to spur you on.
If time go back for another HH on the BIG one


Better have another DASH like Monday to keep on top of things

Watch Wimbledon

Friday - Unwieldy Upstairs
Have to change bed linen and
Change towels through the house
Make sure washing up to date


Clean bathrooms and toilets - to your own standard
Do any ironing/shoe cleaning etc for the week-end

Watch Wimbledon


My list

Find all DH income for last year
Fill in WTC form for this year
Turn up linings for spare room curtains
Turn out drawers in side cupboard in sitting room and sort
Tidy and sort both freezers
Do at least two hours in Room of Doom sorting paperwork
Tidy and weed boxes on balcony
Freeze spare herbs
Make pesto
Cook something NEW !!

June Challenge
Haven't done much exercise but have done a lot of walking last two weeks and have managed to lose 2 lbs


I know everyone has all the usual dailies but these apart from those. Gosh - it's quite difficult making these lists eh !!


Hope everyone has a magnificent Monday
Lx

pigpen

Ty, we're in.. I need to keep up with my almost psychotic flinging.


Bit short this new list..


Monday - Downstairs Dash
Hoover and mop all the floors you can see.. did it today but it will no doubt need redoing by morning!
Wipe kitchen work surfaces and clean the sink


Tuesday - Declutter Day - ideas of what some flyladies are planning

Sort through stuff around bed
Bag up the basket full of clothes which have been sorted for chazza shop and deliver.
Kitchen: Get as much off surfaces as possible!


Wednesday - Deep Clean ... what does this even mean?? Nothing anyone else is doing is relevant or possible..


Thursday - Frog Feast ..


I need to update my Toots list 16:62 items left to complete!!


and update my Frog Family.. currently big frog eater is knitting up my wool stash!! Almost finished shawl, then I was to see about this blanket on bigger needles/thicker wool, see if it still works!

Other bits are not relevant

Thisweeklies

drop tut at chazzer.. car still full
demand DS2 rings dentist
Check week appointments
Phone chemist re Moomins new prescription
£35 sponsor money in to nursery.


Todailies

WM
DW
TD
Laundry out, folded, away


I can't work to this list structure, it doesn't work for me.

Honey_Bear

Mumto5 wrote: »

I may have erred on the wine part of the challenge.

You are not alone. I may have erred on the wine/gin part of the challenge.

lynnejk wrote: »

Oh Honey-Bear - I think it's rose-coloured glasses syndrome. You sound such a nice person and so you have expectations that others will be as good-hearted, kind, responsible etc as yourself and I know it's hard when they are not and you feel kind of a bit 'walked over'.
Don't be disheartened and as LW and others say what comes around goes around and it will come back and bite them on the ar*e and it's good to know that it's not all of them

Thank you for that! Today's Flylady support meant that I could delete the rant part of that post because I felt much, much better after the kindnesses I received. And if I were you, when the Flylady Christmas Card invitation comes up, I'd put your name on it because I'd most certainly want to send you one. Thank you, Lynne.


And I like your lists, too!


I'm going to complete Monday's list and ponder Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Genius, Dusty.