Weekly Flylady Thread 16th February 2015

Natty68

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 Dusty 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 Mess
15 minutes...
Sweep, vacuum and mop floors
Declutter and wipe worksurfaces
Oven and hob cleaning week... and it is level one so none of you can get out of it..
30 minutes to spare...
Wipe table replacing cloth if necessary..
Clear out a cupboard.. the larder unit if yyou jave one or just the general messiness of cupboard.. the one where you stuff all things useless.
Wipe and replace small appliances.. Clean one thoroughly!
Got an hour...
Wipe units and large appliances.. don't forget kickboards!
Wipe the tops of the wall units.. lining them with old wallpaper or newspaper keeps them clean!
Dejunk window sills, dust blinds and wash windows!
Extras

• Wash light shades and clean bulbs
• Clean out the smelly fridge
• Sort out and restock baking cupboards
• Wash the vacuum cleaner innards and filters.. do not reassemble until completely dry!!

Tuesday ~ Living/Family/Reception room
15 minutes...
Declutter and vacuum floor!
Wipe sticky grubby marks from sofas
30 minutes to spare...
Wipe sticky grubby marks from walls and paintwork
Vacuum nuder furniture you can safely move.. we have bit of a baby boom on at the moment so please all be careful!!!
Wash any smelly soft furnishings (this may include pets and OH's)
Got an hour...
Clear and wipe firesurround..
Decant all the miscellaneous papers and bits into a box
Polish any glass.. screens, pictures, ornaments mirrors etc
Don't forget to do your decluttering for today - you choose where
Extras

• Wipe and water any plants
• Vacuum fluff from the fire and behind the radiator
• Sort through the box of miscellaneous belongings
• Binbag dance

Wednesday ~ Master bedroom
15 minutes...
Strip, wash and replace the bedding.. leave the mattress and duvet to air!
Declutter the floor.. and vacuum it!
30 minutes to spare...
Put away all the shoes and clothes and bags and belts and ties lying around!
Wash the curtains/nets and clean the window before rehanging them!
Dust away the webs and fluff
Got an hour...
Sort through a box of stuff... I have about a million to do!
If it hasn't been done in a while vacuum and turn the mattress
Tidy up a cupboard of clothing
Don't forget to do your decluttering for today - you choose where
Extras

• Sort some stuff to ebay ..
• HHI
• Wash any coats needed to be clean for school after half term!
• If any children are due shoe checks/opticians/dentists today is the day to sort these out!

Thursday ~ Bathroom, hall, stairs and landing!
15 minutes...
Declutter and vacuum/mop floors
Sort coats, bags, shoes and dead umbrellas!.. Get rid of any that are no longer needed.
30 minutes to spare...
Clean the bath, sinks, blah blah.. you know the list! don't forget the back of the toilet.. that gets gross.. and under the icky rim!
Empty out and clean a cupboard.. put back the necessaries neat and tidy!
Wash doormats, bathmats and shower curtains
Got an hour...
Tidy the towel cupboard.. any manky towels can be donated to the PDSA or dog rescue.. they always need them!.. and blankets etc
Wipe the doors in the hallway and wash any curtains
Wipe radiators.. front and back!
Replace any dead sponges/toothbrushes!
Don't forget to do your decluttering for today - you choose where
Extras

• Binbag dance
• HH doing something you want to do.. reading or whatever.
• Check where the car papers are and see when MOT/insurance/tax are due and put them in a file safely!! Mine is due this weekend!!.. Ditto house insurance papers!
• Clean out the upstairs bins.

Friday ~ Chimps rooms!/Spare rooms..
15 minutes...
Strip, wash and replace with clean, any bedding
Spend half an hour doing something that makes you happy.. and I do NOT want details!! Or else you get mine with full colour graphics and that won't be pretty !
30 minutes to spare...
Rope children in and declutter the floors and quickly vacuum them
Straighten cupboards of clothing/shoes
Make sure school stuff is ready for next week.. inc. homework done!
Got an hour...
Tidy up a bookcase or a toy box.. or just a box of junk!
Wash any smelly curtains and wash windows
Clean out any pongy pets
Don't forget to do your decluttering for today - you choose where
Extras

• Go spend some time with your little people.. or big people.. or friends!!!!
• Binbag dance
• HHI
• Spend weekend slobbing!

pigpen

thank you.. hopefully I will feel able to do some flinging tomorrow!

Dustykitten

Thanks for the thread Natty, half term here but hoping to get some flying done.

Piggers wishing you well.

froddington

I'm in - thanks Natty :A

Pleased with myself today as I have deep cleaned the ratty cage taking out all the shelves and floors and giving them a good wash in the shower! It's a big job!

Half term this week so lots of flinging is in order!

Monday ~ Kitchen Mess

Vacuum floor
Declutter and wipe worksurfaces
Oven and hob cleaning
Clear out a cupboard
Wipe and replace small appliances.. Clean one thoroughly!
Wipe units and large appliances.. don't forget kickboards!
Dejunk window sills, dust blinds and wash windows!

Frizzle_2

I'm in! Thanks for the list. Kitchen not too bad so will be a mini list but with kids and hubby off school/work I want to make sure I don't spend the whole week doing jobs!

Narc0lepsy

I'm in. Aim to continue throwing and reorganising things in the office.

lynnejk

Hiya everyone


Thank you for this week's thread Natty and thank you Dusty for last week


Pigpen - hope the back eases up a bit


If it's gone I've done it or don't have one


Monday ~ Kitchen and Dining Mess
15 minutes...
Sweep, vacuum and mop floors
Declutter and wipe worksurfaces
Oven and hob cleaning week... and it is level one so none of you can get out of it..
30 minutes to spare...
Wipe table replacing cloth if necessary..
Clear out a cupboard.. the larder unit if yyou jave one or just the general messiness of cupboard.. the one where you stuff all things useless.
Wipe and replace small appliances.. Clean one thoroughly!
Got an hour...
Wipe units and large appliances.. don't forget kickboards!
Wipe the tops of the wall units.. lining them with old wallpaper or newspaper keeps them clean!
Dejunk window sills, dust blinds and wash windows!
Extras

• Wash light shades and clean bulbs
• Clean out the smelly fridge
• Sort out and restock baking cupboards
• Wash the vacuum cleaner innards and filters.. do not reassemble until completely dry!!

DH did the extractor for me this morning so starting the week with all last week completed thank goodness.














((hugs)), sticks and spoons to anyone in need and hope you all have a magnificent Monday


Lx

juliejim

Morning all

Seeing as it is half term, I want to spend at least half an hour on the room of the day even if it is off list. I have lots of jobs and sorting that I also want to do as well as spending some time with the kids if they want me to and making sure I go to the gym at least a couple of times.

Have a good day all

Hugs

Jue

Dustykitten

Morning all

I want to declutter but I'm not sure where to start this time or if I'm really in the right frame of mind for it. I realise that I tick all those boxes which trip you up:

It might be useful (I had kept all the child proof locks for about 10 years, got rid a few months ago and now I want one to kitten proof the kitchen cupboard)

Somebody gave it to me as a gift (got a new one of these this week, an aga biscuit tin, I love my aga but don't want a biscuit tin)

It cost a lot so it has value

It has memories attached - big one boxes and boxes of 'memories' from the kids lives

Photos and Paperwork - I just don't seem to ever get to these - too hard to throw but too many to enjoy/need/file/store.

So who else has these 'issues' and have you conquered them? I actually don't want everything neatly folded and stored, I like there to be some stuff about but looking around there is stuff everywhere in some rooms and cupboards etc are stuffed full (mainly of stuff we don't use).

I feel I need one of the half term challenges we used to have many years ago on this thread.

Jazee

Morning all. Thanks for the list Natty. I'm in part time this week too...this morning I need to dust some dusty bits in the LR and give the bathroom a quick once over before walking the dogs, putting the recycling out for collection and the paid stuff.

Hope you're feeling a bit better today Piggers.

juliejim

I'm with you needing a half term challenge Dusty!