Weekly Flylady Thread 23rd July 2007

pigpen

Mondays list..

[STRIKE]WM[/STRIKE] .. I've still got DS1's bedroom floor clearance to wash.. it is stinking in mountains in the kitchen at the moment. I also have huge heaps of everyone elses stuff.
[STRIKE]
DW
TD
fold and put away clean laundry
BM
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[STRIKE]Sort school clothes from this year and bin anything we don't need/ruined/outgrown etc[/STRIKE].. partially done.. Some still needing to be washed
DS1 sorting his clothing as it is washed.. so at least it is clean to ebay... (I've decided to take him shopping when we have everything out that doesn't fit him, but he doesn't know that yet.. Ssshhh)

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[STRIKE]Clean floors[/STRIKE].. Found it!!
Level Two
[STRIKE]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces [/STRIKE]
Clean cupboard door fronts and the [STRIKE]front of appliances[/STRIKE]
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front .. not hard it is empty practically!
[STRIKE]Wipe dining table [/STRIKE]
Level Three
[STRIKE]
Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round
Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required
Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky
[/STRIKE]
Extra Mission:
Choose one or more of:

• [STRIKE]Clean inside of fridge [/STRIKE]
• [strike]Clean OVEN[/strike] I did the hob as agreed!!

And on top of that I played hostess to my cousin for 3.5 hours!!!!!! She popped in because it was raining and she was passing.. I did keep pointing out it had stopped raining but some people just don't get a hint do they?

Mermaid

Hope you've all managed to get loads done today. Congrats Dr AimeeLister. Your smiles speak volumes!

Sorry to hear about all the problems with flooding. I'm very lucky - I live at the top of a hill! **Hugs** to all of you who need them.

Done loads in the kitchen today - at least a level two, verging on a level three, despite having to tear two toddlers apart every five minutes, so I'm feeling very proud of myself. Also made a start on tidying the living room - could barely see the floor for the toys. DD was so good, when asked if she could put something safely away in her bedroom, she kept replying 'Course I can' and trotting off with the item in question (although I did find some of the things dumped in the hall later!). Of course, she spoilt it all by being a little monster during tea.

Read HP over the weekend - wasn't sad enough to join queue at 1am as one of my friends did - he had to wait until 3am before he got the book! Now feel it's time to rejoin the rest of the world as I've been acting rather zombie-ish over the weekend. Feel sad series is finished but also relieved to think I won't run the risk of someone 'accidentally' spoiling the book for me now, I hate people who tell you the ending of a book or give away a plot twist :mad:

Buyers for our house have asked us if we can complete in 4 - 5 weeks time! We still need to get the results of the survey on the house we want to buy. I'm going to print out a calendar that I can carry around with me and scratch notes onto it. So much to organise now - removal people, getting furniture dismantled, etc. Think I'm going to do a 6 week meal plan, so it's one less to think about. I want to empty the fridge/freezer and kitchen cupboards as much as possible before we go. Anyone up for a bacon and lemon curd butty??:rotfl:

Sold my first few items on Ebay yesterday - all packed and ready to go to post office in the morning. Spent ages listing everything, most of stuff didn't sell, and spent ages packing it all up for about a £10 return - gonna take a long while to become a millionaire at this rate!

Nighty nite,

Mermaid

kazmeister

:mad: :mad: :mad: Just lost whole post :mad: :mad: :mad:

Just about sums up the day, so we all having them but in this house its mostly down to OH's mood :rolleyes:

Cant remember what I just spent 20 mins typing (it was a long one) so hugs and wishes to all.

The lists

My dailies
Pleased to say kids now doing all the following
[strike]
S/S kitchen
S/S bathroom
Clear table and wipe
Empty dishwasher
Mini hoover all downstairs
Walk dog
[/strike]

Extras this week
[strike]DD to dentist Mon pm [/strike]
Me to docs Wed am
All visit my Nan
[strike]Make appt for dog vaccine[/strike]
[strike]Ring property management co and complain about neighbours noise[/strike]
Book holiday insurance
Pay childminder for last month
[strike]Birthday card for friend[/strike] did letter as well

Hotspots to clear
Utility room
Kids bookcase
Landing
Downstairs Loo
Old Au pair room
DS old room
Our room

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[strike]Clean floors[/strike] - both rooms washed
Level Two
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces[/strike] - done
[strike]Clean cupboard door fronts and the front of appliances[/strike] - done
[strike]Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front[/strike] - done saturday
[strike]Wipe dining table[/strike] - done
Level Three
[strike]Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round[/strike] - done
[strike]Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required[/strike] - done
[strike]Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky[/strike] - its ok
Extra Mission:
Choose one or more of:

• Clean inside of fridge
• [strike]Take a duster and wipe around the tops of your door frames – as many as you can manage in 5 minutes[/strike] - all 13 done
• [strike]Use a wire coat hanger and a duster to get down behind the radiator and get them bits you never normally reach[/strike] - not done but scrubbed ones in kitchen & dining room will that count instead
• [strike]Clean OVEN yes I know you all hate that one wonder how many choose it[/strike] - still HIS job and he can deffo do it after telling me "thats how you need to clean a frying pan this morning" :mad:

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

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

• Clear one hotspot
• Clear one shelf, dust and replace items after giving them a wipe over
• Clean any other glass in these rooms, mirrors, picture frames etc
• Clean windows in these rooms

Might not get much done as hoping to go to Nans tomorrow unless its raining then OH will have to have the car to go to work as he wont want to get his 16k of motorbike wet now will he :rolleyes:

So I'll leave todays cooking on the table for you all to enjoy while I'm out (Coconut loaf, Breakfast Muffins, Peanut Butter and Chocolate chip cookies and at last made the Lemon Curd)



Best I go clean the kitchen again

galantvr4

Hi All

Thanks for all the best wishes, sis is home with baby now and relaxing!:j

Hugs to you all who need them.

7WW-you made me giggle with the cat poo/hoover thing, i had the same problem, after much jiggling about with a chop stick I found a prawn cracker had caused the blockage, went to bed that night and finally realised the chinese connection of chopstick/cracker and couldn't sleep for laughing:D

Well I'll check the list now and mentally prepare myself for a better day tomorrow
night night

pigpen

Tuesdays list..

[strike]WM[/strike]
[strike]TD[/strike]
DW
[strike]hang out some laundry..[/strike]
[strike]fold [/strike]and put away clean laundry
[strike]having nails fixed at 11:15...[/strike] DS1 having the 2 tiddlers while I go.
[strike]Children at church summer club 9:30-12:30..[/strike] PEACE!! Lol
Clear back room floor.. it looks like a bin
[strike]Organise 2 catalogue returns[/strike]
Collect DS2's alpha-smart from school
Photograph sisters ebay gibble.. bad sister not done it yet.. slap wristies!!
Vacuum up the stairs and the boys part of the house... or encourage a child to do it.. *grin*
binbag dance around the house... it's getting a bit binlike!
[strike]Tesco order for Wednesday delivery.. [/strike]birthday party for DD2 on Thursday!!

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
Remove clutter
Level 3
Clean any other glass like mirrors etc
Tidy shoes, coats and bags
Vacuum under furniture
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Clear one hotspot .. I'll fill a bag from the middle room.. it it getting better.. I removed 5 binbags of carp at the weekend!!
• Clear one shelf, dust and replace items after giving them a wipe over
• Clean windows in these rooms

rach

morning all

i imagine i'm the only one still up! i'm up in birmingham at the moment helping my mate move into a new place. (she moved from bournemouth). i'm quite awake and i can't find my novel so i've managed to get onto wireless and catch up on here!

it's been quite a productive day and one where its hard to believe its still the same day i got up! i woke up early at OHs, he went to work, i did quite a bit of wedding stuff (mainly to do with the cake) and thenm met him for lunch before driving from croydon to birmingham. then have worked flat out sorting the house out. my friend is not very practical so has looked to me to oversee how its best to go about sorting the house. i also had the pleasure of choosing all the paint colours (the house comes with the job). tomorrow we're going to ikea to pick up some bits and bobs she needs.

am not sure how well i'll sleep as this bed's not very comfy oh well.

happy flying to you all, i'll be doing lots of cleaning and organising here (i got her to chuck 2 big boxes of kitchen stuff she'd blatantly never use today )

ShirleyPark_2

Morning all. Everything has gone a little crazy here, even more so than normal. So instead of working off lil_me's list, I'm going to have one long list for the week. I'll try and catch up with the posts once I get home from work tonight

[STRIKE] Check details with K for wedding (think I might be double booked!!)[/STRIKE]
Update finances
Backup computer
Update calendar
Get birthday card for E
Put clean washing away
Washing
Change bedding and vacuum bed
[STRIKE] Finish sorting out clothes, put away what to keep, bag up stuff for getting rid of[/STRIKE]
Fling boogie and get rid of everything that needs going in wheelie bin, once it's been emptied
Dirty washing boogie - go find it all and put it in the washing basket
Dishwasher boogie - go find it all and put it in the dishwasher
Clear intray
Return all the tools to the tool boxes
Take library books back
Tidy desk
Clean upstairs bathroom
Clean downstairs bathroom
Hoover upstairs, inc under bed
Finish striping wallpaper off lounge wall
Seal plaster in lounge
Remove rawplugs from lounge wall
Tidy away stuff from shelf under stairs
Caulk understairs
Paint shelf understairs
Clean front door on the outside (if weather is nice)
Remove rubbish from garden
Finish striping wallpaper from landing
Seal plaster on landing
Tidy bedroom
Tidy Study
Clean out rats cages

nicki_2

Morning all :hello: I am so tired :silenced: Didn't see OH out to work again this morning but as soon as he shut the door I was suddenly wide awake :rolleyes: Never mind, I'll see him out at least one day this week...I think :rotfl: It's lovely and peaceful here without DD but I'm not getting very far with the jobs I want to get done.

I didn't tackle the kitchen yesterday, instead I tackled the understairs cupboard :eek: I only filled one binbag this time and that was mostly bits that were damaged beyond use, a re-jig (including moving the filingcabinet back into the livingroom as we're using it more than I realised) and some varnishing of the filingcabinet & toy(tool in our case) box with quick dry varnish and it's looking soooo much better I can actually see the back of it and everything that should be in there is in there :j Only 1 more cupboard related job to go - photographing DD's larger (and decent) pieces of artwork from school, putting them into a word document & then printing/filing them in the lever arch folder for school work, originals being thrown in the recycling, much easier to store and they won't get damaged I've done this years, last years are just waiting to be edited and I still have the nursery ones to do which are the biggest & most difficult :rolleyes:

Soooo todays plan is :

• Dailies
• Kitchen - Lil-me's list from yesterday
• Livingroom
• Ebay parcels to dispatch to the post office
• Asda shop (purely so I can use the selfscan and get rid of the mountain of silver I have :rolleyes: )
• Ironing - maybe not today but it has to be done!

Right, best go and check email, weather (might change our bedding today as it's supposed to be the nicest day this week) and get some co-co pops for breakie as the toast I've just had hasn't filled me up at all.

I'll try to catch up properly later, but hotmail has just shouted that I have 30+ new emails most of which will probably be surveys :eek: :wave:

tinselfairy

Morning, the sun's out here!

Didn't get a huge amount acheived yesterday on my first 'proper' day back. A friend came to visit in the morning with doughnuts and a birthday card and present for me. It was my birthday on Saturday and she was away for the weekend. So of course we nattered away and then it was lunchtime and then it was time for me to take DS to the activity at the library I had booked him in for. We nipped into a charity shop whilst we were out and he bought himslef Screwball Scramble for 99p and has been playing it constantly ever since. Then once home it was time to cook tea and by that time I couldn't be bothered!

I did manage to bake a cake and wash down the work surfaces and have a general tidy yesterday as well as one load in the WM.

Off to be busy now for an hour......

7_week_wonder

Good morning everyone,

Well the sun is shining, DH is outside preparing for the hedge-cutting marathon and I've got a load of washing on. So life is looking better this morning!

Amieelister the photos were great - although I can't believe how much water there was! Hopefully that will be me in 4 years' time.

Kazmeister, thanks for making me drool with all that baking. I might just feel inspired to do some baking in preparation for parents' visit at the weekend.

Rach I hope you got some sleep on your friend's bed.

In the end I didn't do too badly on the list for yesterday:

Level One
[strike]Clean floors
[/strike]
Level Two
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces
[/strike]
[strike]Clean cupboard door fronts and the front of appliances[/strike]
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front It's pretty empty anyway!
Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary) Did before Sunday evening meal
Level Three
[strike]Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round[/strike]
Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required
Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky
Extra Mission:
Choose one or more of:

• Clean inside of fridge Well I certainly did under the fridge
• Take a duster and wipe around the tops of your door frames – as many as you can manage in 5 minutes
• Use a wire coat hanger and a duster to get down behind the radiator and get them bits you never normally reach
• Clean OVEN yes I know you all hate that one wonder how many choose it Does the microwave count?

Have a good day everyone,
7WW