Weekly Flylady Thread 9th February 2015

Dustykitten

Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to enjoy it!

Thank you to Natty for last week's thread

THESE LISTS ARE ONLY SUGGESTIONS AND NOT A MUST DO LIST, YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO POST AND FOLLOW YOUR OWN.

There are 3 levels per day deepening on how much time you have. Feel free to mix and match to suit your own personal circumstances.

A few of the basics before we start the week

Hotspots are any areas which if one thing gets put there, loads of other things follow!

Daily routines are anything you need to do today and every day stuff like laundry, 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.

Fling Boogie/binbag dance - stick on some loud music, grab a binbag and whizz around the house finding items that can go out with the rubbish, recycling, for charity shop, basically anything that will stop it cluttering your home.

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!
5GC five minutes gardening.. make it lovely for your family and enjoy it!

Any more questions I bet are answered in the wonderful welcome guide which was produced by our much loved Toots

Ok here goes this week!

Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
15 minutes...
Hoover and Mop the floors
30 minutes to spare...
Clean the window and any glass/mirrors in the room
Clear and wipe the worktops
Got an hour...
Wipe the hob
Wipe the front of the Oven, clean any gunk from around the dials
Remove any cobwebs from the ceiling/ontop of units
Wipe light switches and sockets carefully not with a soaking wet cloth!
Extra Mission
Clean the extractor Fan
Sort the fridge and freezer and meal plan for the week

Tuesday - Bathroom and Study/Pc Area
15 minutes...
Clean toilets and basins including the pedestals front and back
30 minutes to spare...
Hoover and wash the floors
Clean the bath and/or shower
Do some filing or shreeding
Got an hour...
Clean behind the desk
Remove everything from the bathroom cabinet, wipe inside, sort and replace the contents
Give the plug holes a good clean and slush
Extra mission:
Stock up on hayfever remedies - tree pollen season will start soon
Catch up on phone calls/emails/repeat prescription
Half term next week (at least in the south) do you need to make appointments/plans?

Wednesday - Mid week wind down
Deal with a hotspot
Eat a frog
Catch up on Monday and Tuesday's lists
Spend time doing something you enjoy just because life is sometimes too tough and always too short

Thursday - Living Room, Hall and Stairs
15 minutes...
Vacuum floors and mop if required
30 minutes to spare...
Clear the mantle and dust it
Vacuum/wipe the sofas and chairs
Wipe the door frame and door
Got an hour...
Clear the coffee table, wipe it over
Clean a window or two
Wipe any marks off the wall by the stairs
Extra Mission:
Sort out your handbag and purse

Friday - Choose a bedroom
15 minutes...
27 fling boogie
30 minutes to spare...
Hoover the floor and wipe the skirting boards
Clear a surface and give it a good dust/wipe
Got an hour...
Change any beds in need
Finish off something you have been meaning to do for ages be it flying/craft etc
Extra tasks list...
Take anything you are getting rid of to the charity shop/recycling/tip/friends etc or at least work out exactly when you can get this done

Jazee

Morning all. I'm in, thanks for the list Dusty.

I need to hoover through the house today before the paid stuff as only downstairs got done yesterday. Will wait for the neighbours to get up, so some of list and dog walking first.

Have a great day everyone.

bossymoo

Morning, I'm going to try harder this week. Thanks ladies for the lists xx

Jazee

Already done some dusting in dining room, washed up the breakfast dishes and decluttered 10 items. Go me!

froddington

Thanks Dusty - I'm in! Parents Evening tonight though so don't think I'll get much flying done today. Only a week till half term and then I'm on a room a day decluttering mission!

Monday - Kitchen

Hoover the floor
Clean the window
Clear and wipe the worktops
Wipe the hob
Wipe the front of the Oven, clean any gunk from around the dials
Remove any cobwebs from the ceiling/ontop of units
Wipe light switches and sockets carefully not with a soaking wet cloth!

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hugs good wishes, posi vibes sticks and spoons for all who need them.
Thank you for the lists dusty and last weeks natty, I'll be young to follow them this week rather than going solo.
Dusty re family history, I found DH grandfather and great uncle had both been in the local industrial school. I only found great uncle had been there when reading about the school and seeing a list of 'old boys' names on a war memorial in the school grounds in the paperwork, I went down to our local records office and they had the most incredible information I got a photocoy of the admissions page and magistrate report as well as a birth certificate and the school head kept a journal on all the old boys so I got all the info where he went after leaving and some interesting details and descriptions on his life. He was put in by magistrate for sleeping rough in someone's outhouse and being little more than a street urchin! I didn't get as much on The great grandfather but I did get a copy of his admissions page from the industrial school and later medal card from Kew but his war records were burned in the fire at Kew, if your relays live local to the area you are I now it's definately worth trying your records office. You need to take photo ID and can get a day pass free but have to pay for copying at ours.
This weeks jobs
Govs meeting
Mils warfarin check
Pack DS2 for school residential
mils Drs appt
Tidy front garden
Clear ironing basket again
Decide what wee doing for valentines
Make chair backs for friend
Round mils help find lost paperwork.
Ring step mum and dad
Get another foot of edging knitted
Make a start on 100 years cross stitch

ionafan

Thank you to Dusty for this week's list and Natty for last week's.

I managed to get out in the garden for an hour yesterday and clear all the leaves off the lawn and quite a lot off the borders, and the sun came out as I was working. I discovered lots of bulbs coming up and snowdrops already in flower It turned into a beautiful afternoon, so DH and I went for a walk up one of our favourite hills. The National Trust has worked hard to declutter a lot of trees which had grown up around the edge and obscured the view, and now you can see for miles again - absolutely beautiful!

I won't bore you with my list for this week; suffice it to say that (to my shame) I have listed some things on the thread several times before and not completed them yet Will list my achievements later, if any!

I must not forget to go to the dentist at 2.55 (only a check-up). On the plus side, it's Old Wives' Group tonight

Hope everyone has a good day x

kazwookie

Morning

Thank you for all the lists.

So far
Stripped bed
Re made bed
WM x about 4 to be done / on the go
TD on the go
Kitchen floor done
Toilets bleached
Litter tray done
Rubbish out

wrk laters .......................x

Mumto5

Thanks for the new thread Dusty.

Standard week coming up. Nothing special to be added. I 'be been invited out to lunch for a good friends birthday but don't finish my pad work until 2 so that's a missed opportunity.

DH started painting the study/DS3's bedroom. Everyone got involved and everyone got covered with paint. Nobody wore protective/old clothes. I'm not impressed.

I hope everyone has a successful day.

Jazee

Hoovering done quickly through. About to walk the dogs but need to sort some urgent paid stuff.

Dustykitten

Morning all

Should not have stayed up so late as brain was too awake to sleep well. However, I feel all excited and inspired.

Mrs MP - this line of the family, my paternal Grandmothers all appear to be from a tiny area in Bedfordshire, often involved with living in the vicarages, some of this I knew and we did visit the hamlet when I first started FH but did not have many details then. I shall be planning a lovely walk around the area (maybe next weekend for my Bday if the weather is fair) and I shall visit the llibrary and records office there too, about an hour away so I'd need to get all my notes in order which they are not.

So much to do so having breakfast and then making a start. Know idea what is happening with Mum yet but not visiting until much later would help me get a bit back on track.