Weekly Flylady Thread 27th October 2014

ionafan

(((Hugs))) Wendywitch. I got to the same stage with my teenagers. My daughter now lives in a tidy house (apart from piles of post and magazines all over the sideboard and the DGSs' lego all over the floor), my DS2 lives in a reasonably tidy house (until you look behind the spare bedroom door :eek: ) and DS1 lives in a house that gets tidied before visitors arrive, and if we just drop in we take them as they are. But they are all happy with it like that - at least for now. Our priorities change as we go through life.

Can you just keep the areas you want to live in tidy and clean, and leave your DDs to sort out their own room? You might need to stipulate that they leave you a way clear to the airing cupboard or you will dump everything on their beds, and you might occasionally need to send in a search party for missing mugs, glasses, etc, but you will have less hassle than if you try to dictate how they live. You could go on washing and ironing strike too.

Oh, and by the way, the staircase is your domain, so dump their carpet in their room, no matter how little space it leaves them. They'll either learn their lesson or live with it :rotfl:

Breast screening decluttered this morning (just the regular check, no worries). A bit of window shopping done - at Merry Hell on a Saturday? I must be bonkers! (but it was on my way home from the horse piddle.) DS1's chooks fed and watered: Marigold (the brown speckly one) presented me with an egg which I boiled for my lunch Tea has been cooking in the SC since 8.00 and delicious smells are wafting round the house.

I have worked int he front garden for just over an hour and nearly finished planting all my bulbs - just the ones in bowls and pots still waiting in the utility to be done this evening. I will get them finished by the start of the new flying week

Now off to drink a cuppa with my friend.

Dustykitten

Two hours hard labour in the garden so having a break. All the lawns are cut and a substantial amount of the leaves in the back garden raked but there are loads more to come down. I'll do more later in the week if the weater permits.

Second lot of towels still to get in plus fill the bird feeder then I may must up the energy to finish cleaning the bathroom.

LameWolf

Welcome dingdongavoncalling :beer:

sushistar wrote: »

Morning all!
Right, I'm going to do some SERIOUS flying this morning. I was too tired to shower last night, so first stop - have a shower, dressed (to slippers, not shoes - no shoes in the house, yuk!) and makeup on. Will pop back in 20 min with my list, going to GET CRACKING!

I have always reserved the right to go barefoot in my own home!;)

pigpen wrote: »

I feel like I am utterly failing at everything and everyone right now.

No you're not; you have a heck of a lot of stuff going on with various members of the family, which taken individually would be fine and relatively easy to deal with, but when it's all lumped together, it's a damn great elephant. Coping vibes on their way.



[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]October Challenge final update:[/FONT]

• Support Mr LW through the tests he has to have at the horse-piddle (9th and 28th October) and help get him back to being healthy Success - he's had his tests, and is back to doing his regular WiiFit exercises.
  
• Revamp my personal Flying list to be realistically do-able, taking into account my further reduction in mobility and strength (possibly looking at a 2-week cycle to do the whole bungalow) Success - the new format is working well.
• Finish knitted waistcoat (yes it is the same one I was working on this time last year):cool: Failed I still have 332 rows of 8 stitches of the front border to do, and put the dratted thing together.
• Make progress with total revamp of front garden borders Reasonable success; 3 out of 4 sides have been dug over (I'm just glad I only said make progress, not finish.

pigpen

DS is home and has taken Jacob to the park and they are going to buy a fish.


I have sorted the Christmas presents and got them all in individual boxes.. apart from Moomin and Tiddles who are sharing a box. I have cobbled together a 'shopping list' of sorts so can hopefully make some progress as and when.


I need to bring the dry laundry off the line and get some more hung out there.. I don't care if it takes a week to dry at the moment I have 1 load of just towels to do too and a couple more loads to run through.. I have refused to fold DD2's stuff, she has her own arms!

bossymoo

Aww pigpen you are not failing, they are just flinging too much at you xxx

Starting to get dark here. We've had a fairly easy day. I need to do a bit more ironing, but DS school stuff is done. He's also done his spellings and read his book to me (whilst I was ironing, multi-tasking, but he loved it as I let him sit on my swivel chair at my desk to do his home work ) DD followed us in and traced over her dotted name sheets from nursery :A

We are now watching one of the Narnia movies and deciding what's for tea.

I've just ordered from @mazon some wall-mounted magazine pockets for the garage / office to keep their homework sheets in. His teacher doesn't want his spelling sheets back, she said keep them at home for practice so we need somewhere handy to store them. It's a pack of three so they can have one slot each and we'll keep one for school letters and other bits.

I also need to think about Xmas, I think I will just send money for my nieces. I faff about trying to choose stuff for children I see once every other year and they don't even pop on Skype on Xmas day to day thanks. I make a point of bringing my kids to the screen to say thank you, but my brother seems to think his princesses don't have to.

So the only people I buy for is:
My own kiddies
Grandparents - a token gift from the children as we all agree we are not bothered really
Kids best friends - small home made treat, candy sleighs last year

I think that's it. With friends, again we agreed a few years back that presents were a bit daft, we'd rather have an outing, so we are going for afternoon tea one day, and planning a takeaway night.

For DS so far I just have the Lego Arctic Basecamp and a bunch of stocking fillers. I also need to buy him 2x £30 gifts from the cousins and aunts on my mums side for our Boxing Day get together. He wants the Lego High Speed Train but it's £100 :eek:

For DD I have a Duplo Sleeping Beauty set, the Frozen doll set and a Barbie Megablocks Dance Studio. Plus stocking fillers. Also need to get her 2x £30 gifts from family (one of which might be the frozen dolls).

Oh they also have a wii game each and a boxed game to share.

Doesn't seem a lot when I look at it...

sushistar

Bossymoo that sounds like plenty of gifts. I always give my kids a few 'proper' gifts under the tree, and then spend about £15-£20 on bits and bobs for their stockings - stationary, sweets, stickers, keyrings, bubbles, that sort of stuff. They're often more excited about the tat in the stocking than the proper presents I've put more thought into, and it costs less!

Thanks for all the positive vibes everyone, and I'm passing them on to pigpen and wendywitch.

Friends arriving at 8pm, so before then:
kids tea
kids bathed and bed (PLEEASE go to SLEEP!)
Hoover and mop downstairs floors
swish and swipe downstairs loo
tidy kitchen
tidy hall way (how can we generate SO MANY shoes and coats?!?)
tidy dining room after kids tea
whizz round living room (it's tidyish, just need to plump cushions etc!:))

Ha, just looked round - because I had a fly-ing morning, tidying the ktchen consists of putting away 2 mugs, my keys, and one piece of junkmail. Yay for this thread! :J

YORKSHIRELASS

dingdongavoncalling wrote: »

Little background info - work 2 jobs - 1 full time and another part time from home, because of this I can be very LAZY when it comes to housework!

Hi, forgot to welcome you along. I also have 2 jobs, one of which I do from home. In theory job number 2 I do on the three afternoons when I am not working at my main job. However, it never works out like this and usually I end up working nights and weekends to try and get it done. I really struggle to find time to fit housework in too.

Shredding is almost finished - 7 jumbo sized carrier bags to go to the recycling. Off to a local fireworks do tonight, not sure who else is coming. DS2 is asleep on the sofa and I cant wake him up (he "slept" over at a friends last night). OH and DS1 been out and not home yet.

Oh and I have found some theatre tokens we were given about 8 years ago and lost!!! There is no expiry date on them but I wonder if we can still use them.

dingdongavoncalling

Honey_Bear wrote: »

... (don't we all) and in other news from the little village called Fantasy Land ....

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Some people actually do though, don't they? I have a couple of friends that I know I could pop round unexpectedly at any time and there house would be near perfect. I'm ashamed to say there are times where if someone came to my house unannounced I would be mortified!


I had a unexpected visit to the vets which has thrown me off schedule today so will just rush round now to catch up!

bossymoo

Laundry sorted but needs putting away. I'm done for today, we are watching the dancing now.

Have a super evening ladies x

Honey_Bear

dingdongavoncalling wrote: »

Some people actually do though, don't they? I have a couple of friends that I know I could pop round unexpectedly at any time and there house would be near perfect.

I know sad people like that as well, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call them 'friends.'

Anyone who doesn't actually read this thread thinks Flyladies have perfect houses. Last week (or was it earlier this week?) there was a very real discussion about whether it is okay to have a gibble box in each room for when these mythical surprise guests turn up. (I voted for the oven as the hidey hole.)

I don't think I'm speaking out of turn when I say that there are one or two of us who have shambolic dens that require the services of a pitchfork, bulldozer and dumper truck occasionally to get rid of just the superficial grot.

As long as the kettle's hot, there's a plentiful supply of biscuits (Twinks hobnobs in a perfect world), the bins don't stink and there's enough loo paper, it'll pass muster as far as I'm concerned and if anyone thinks it should be sparkly all over all the time, they can go and visit someone else. Or sort it themselves, if they feel that strongly.

For me, being a Flylady isn't about keeping the place pristine. It's about loving the space I'm in, making it a welcoming place for everyone I care about and sharing the peace, warmth and friendship that goes with the word 'home.'

Occasionally I'm moved to actually sort out the detritus of a lifetime spent acquiring stuff by ditching some, selling some, giving some away. And I don't like actual dirt, so I get rid of that, too.

New regime for November - I'm going to spend 15 minutes every day on the Room of Doom. There are great flowing dunes of 'stuff' building up again. I've set a Reminder on my phone. It'll be interesting to see how far that gets me across the month. Monday - Friday, obvs, not the weekends as well. We don't want to go too mad.