Weekly Flylady Thread 21st July 2014

nicki_2

Morning all

Working from my own lists until Friday when both DD and I will be tackling the entire list :eek:
- Today I'm doing paperwork, I want to fling/shred/file/condense lists as much as possible.
- Tuesday I'm running errands as I'm getting the bus with DD at 7am as she has to be in school early so getting a day pass and will be doing Mr T when DD has met her friend outside the store. Then home, back out to the bank and then on to Dunhelm Mill which I've still not had a chance to visit. I'll then go on to the other shopping places, I'm desperate for some inspiration for my bedroom
- Wednesday DD finishes for the summer (take away tea planned )
- Thursday I'm working.
- Friday house being cleaned top to bottom, inside & out
- Saturday or Sunday we have visitors as ex's parents are coming down for the weekend with DD's cousins to see Giant Spectacular and will be taking DD with them on Sunday to see the finale (she might be staying with them Saturday night as well) as I have no desire whatsoever to go (the puppets freak me out :eek:) and ex is going away camping Monday so needs to get sorted for that.

DD will be cleaning the kitchen today when she gets home from school. She baked yesterday (very tasty ) and it wasn't until I went in there to get breakfast this morning after she'd left for school that I noticed just how much butter icing has been dribble on the floor and down cupboard/appliance fronts. No idea what she was doing but she's made a hell of a mess! I've cleaned up the floor but its left yellow stains, and half of what she's washed up needs re-washing, so she can do it! I don't mind her cooking etc if she'd just clean up after herself properly. :mad: She can do it, she does it in school!!

Already done today:
Beds made
Toilet bleached
Bedrooms tidied
Massive to-do list written out (woke up this morning and all these jobs were just floating around in my head so I wrote them down while I remembered )
Bins emptied (bin men have just been so I'll go retrieve the wheelie bin in a minute)
DD's alarm clock taken apart broken glass removed and reassembled, glass thrown away

Still to do:
- Set up scanner and work out which laptop it wants to talk to today so I can scan in old documents I want to keep for reference but don't need the paper version. (Think benefit letters which prove how much etc at certain times)
- Start purging papers etc, starting with condensing my DIY list so its in one notebook and not on 50million sheets of random paper :rotfl:
- Update finances
- Set up paper based table for bill tracking (trying to work out whether we're using more now or not) and shred actual bills unless from 2013/14!
- Empty file box (which is my "to file" file and is bursting at the seams)
- Empty magazine boxes of random stuff.
- watch rental DVD (its a 15 so not for when DD is around) so it can be returned tomorrow.
- Laundry, maybe ironing but no more than HH

Right, best go find the extension lead for the scanner and get my laptop up and running as well. I will make a big dent in this paperwork today. I might even end up with some empty folders if I really get stuck in

See you all at 12.15 when I'll break for lunch! :wave:

Dottydaisy

Hi, I'm going to start my first fly lady day today, doing the kitchen first is fine as it needs a good clean. Question: how do you put the daily task list into your own post? I am not very good with computers but am slowly learning.
My extras to do:
Visit mum and make some phone calls for her
Supermarket on way home
15 min garden-watering-weeding
Clean mould off bathroom ceiling, going to do this in 15 min sections
walk the dog


Will finish my coffee and hang out first load of washing
Thank you for the welcomes

greent

I'm in! Thanks Natty for the lists


Week's tasks:
Tax return - me
Tax return - DH
Tax credits renewal
Charity paperwork
PTA & Charity banking
Expenses - me - JUne
Expenses - DH - July up to date - DONE
Expenses - me - charity ones
Book hair appt for me
Book eyebrows appt for me!
List 5 things on ebay
Get DH's invoicing up straight - and do bank rec
BOOK GUINEA PIGS INTO BOARDING FOR HOLIDAYS!
BOOK HIRE CAR FOR OCT HOL


Minging Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
15 Minutes...
Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces
30 minutes to spare...
Sweep and mop floors
Sort & clean fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front, clean out any spills or grots in there! - DONE
Wipe dining table..
Wipe kitchen table
Got an hour...
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc
Wipe all the windows in these areas!!
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards..
Check those washing machine filters and drawers for ickiness!! Tumble dryer, cooker hood and dishwasher filters need to be done too!!
Extra Mission : help yourself

• Clean the hob..
• Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps.. a toothbrush is great for cleaning away the gunk!
• Empty the bin.. wash it out.. and make it smell SWEET

best get myself into gear - have been messing about with paperwork so far - am off to set timer ! HHC @ 12, anyone?

Mumto5

Hello ladies,

Ginge has been moved to intensive care. It's a setback as he said a few words and ate and drank a little yesterday. Please keep him safe with flylady vibes and prayers.

My house is very empty without the children, unsurprisingly there is no mess or clutter.

Honey_Bear

Well that was an interesting 10 minutes. I was expecting A to arrive at about 5.00pm, so when the doorbell went and OH answered it I was still playing around with the laptop and not Flying because I am exhausted.


Fortunately, because Flyladies have taught me that nibbling away at a mammoth task will eventually produce results, my office was almost ready. All I had to do in the end was pull the futon out, put the (freshly washed) underblanket on it, slip the fitted sheet on, drop the freshly washed, dried, stored and aired pillows (already in their pillowcases) and duvet (ditto for cleanliness) already in its cover on the bed and open the window. Voila! Room ready.


Two years ago, that would have taken an hour because I would also have had to vacuum it, and clean the sink. And I would have had to traipse all over the house finding and carting all the bedding up there (from the settle in the dining room) or down (from the attic) which might have been a bit musty.


This thread is a lifesaver!

Honey_Bear

Keep safe and healing vibes for Ginge heading your way, Mumto5.

pigpen

Mumto5 wrote: »

Hello ladies,

Ginge has been moved to intensive care. It's a setback as he said a few words and ate and drank a little yesterday. Please keep him safe with flylady vibes and prayers.

My house is very empty without the children, unsurprisingly there is no mess or clutter.

The care he will receive will be so much better and people DO come out of there regularly.. My mothers friend Phil was sedated for 3 weeks and is now home and while he needs another op he is well and home!!


Healing vibes for Ginge and hugs for yours and his families.. xx


OH minced the grass, I sent some returns back to Next.. sale stuff we don't fit in OH appears to have grown!! The long length trousers are half mast and he is having to get the extra-long!! .. and a size bigger in the waist but we aren't mentioning that lol.. .. at 6ft4 and a 36waist he still looks like a twig!


Recycling out,
3.5 loads of washing out.. hoping it dries quick as I have another 1.5 loads ready to go out and 3 more loads to wash! I want to get my duvet cover in too seeing as one of the littlies dribbled juice on it.
Ebay parcel and school meals form posted.. DD1 popped round so I delegated that to her


Off to look at bicycles for Squeak shortly.. for her birthday I can't believe she is 4 in 2 weeks time!!! It seems like only minutes since she arrived! She has got so grown up and sensible.. not sure how that happened tbh!


OH is outside watching the girls in the paddling pool and Pixie playing in her pushchair.


Off to fling in the front room.. back soon xx

just_the_two_of_us

Dottydaisy wrote: »

Hi, I'm going to start my first fly lady day today, doing the kitchen first is fine as it needs a good clean. Question: how do you put the daily task list into your own post? I am not very good with computers but am slowly learning.
/QUOTE]

Hi and welcome Dottydaisy.
There are two ways - you can click "quote" on the post you want and then take out all the text you don't want - gets a bit much by end of the week!

or


I usually go to the first post and highlight the current days list - sorry if you know this already -
To highlight
left click so the flashing cursor is at the beginning of the first line you want to copy
click and hold the left mouse button then drag the mouse down so all that day's text is highlighted in blue.
Then on your keyboard hold down the control key + letter c and that copies the text into memory.
Then when you have started writing your post and want to put the text in there just do control key and v and it copies it wherever your cursor is positioned.

Hope this helps.

Just had lunch and am trying to motivate self to have a shower - really horrid smelly dirty books to deal with this am at vol job 1 - if I wouldn't read them they don't go out!!!

Will catch up later - welcome newbies and returners. xx

greent

Firstly - massive posi vibes going out to Ginge and Mumto5 - have only just caught up on the news xx


Week's tasks:
Tax return - me
Tax return - DH
Tax credits renewal
Charity paperwork
PTA & Charity banking
Expenses - me - JUne
Expenses - DH - July up to date - DONE
Expenses - me - charity ones
Book hair appt for me
Book eyebrows appt for me!
List 5 things on ebay
Get DH's invoicing up straight - and do bank rec
BOOK GUINEA PIGS INTO BOARDING FOR HOLIDAYS!
BOOK HIRE CAR FOR OCT HOL


Minging Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
15 Minutes...
Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces - DONE
30 minutes to spare...
Sweep and mop floors
Wipe dining table..
Wipe kitchen table - DONE
Got an hour...
Dust any extra furniture in dining area, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe and replace all those small appliances.. kettle, toaster etc - DONE
Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances .. don't forget those kick boards..
Check those washing machine drawers for ickiness!! - DONE
Extra Mission : help yourself

• Clean the hob.. - DONE
• Wipe down any tiles and shine those taps.. a toothbrush is great for cleaning away the gunk! - DONE
• Empty the bin.. wash it out.. and make it smell SWEET - DONE

All the 'DONE' things achieved in my HHC, along with s&s downstairs loo and washing up/ drying/ putting away.
Lunch now decluttered and I'm sat here with a cup of tea. Will tackle a couple of things from 'weekly' list next - and do kitchen floor after DD has had her lunch

Smoosh

Count me in Going to be adding extra jobs today as I have a lot of housework to catch up on.

[STRIKE]Tidy kitchen
Clean kitchen counters[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean kitchen appliances[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean kitchen & bathroom floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sort & clean fridge[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Clean table[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Tidy general mess in the living room
Empty & reload dishwasher[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Hoover all rooms[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE][STRIKE]Tidy bedroom
Put away clean laundry
Pack away clothes from weekend away[/STRIKE][/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Iron boyfriend's shirts[/STRIKE]
Bake a cake