Weekly Flylady Thread 10th August 2015

lynnejk

Evening everyone :hello:

Left do this week
Three wash loads for the morrow including the bedding.
Empty a drawer and wipe it out.
Have a clear out and only replace in the drawer what needs to stay.
Paperwork to sort and file
2 x HHI
Pick up and get prescription for DH
Shopping for myself
Shopping list for week-end
Turn-up new pair of shorts
phone a friend


(hugs), sticks and spoons as needed


Hope you all have a fabulous Friday
Lx

MinnieMousesMummy

Good evening, I didn't get around to posting a list for today but I have been busy with paid stuff, cutting the grass and dealing with deliveries of a new chest of drawers for ds1's bedroom and a new bed for my room. I am just going to update my list and then get an early night.

Monday Mayhem: A bit of everything!
Starting upstairs, work your way through the house with that feather duster (or whatever you have). Dust and deweb, as far through as you like / need.
S&S a sink or two.
Follow your dust trail with the vacuum cleaner, only lift it upstairs if it's safe to do so.
S&S a toilet or two.
Empty / clean filter and set a hot wash on WM and/or DW (do you need salt? I think my DW needs a top up
Clear kitchen worktops and wipe down.
Wipe out the fridge and stick any grot in the compost / bin.
Shine your sink
Catch up with the thread

Tuesday Tantrums: Kitchen & Dining Room
Wipe down the cupboard fronts, including kickboards, and get those door handles hygienically clean!
Wipe down your large appliances.
Clear a hotspot, is anything breeding on top of your cupboards or fridge freezer (is it just me that has 6 varieties of breakfast cereal?)
Give your DR table a polish and change the tablecloth if needed.
Wipe down the chairs too.
To the cooker - give the hob a good shine!
And the oven too, if you've any steam left!
Mop a floor or two.
Catch up with thread

Wednesday
Decorate ds1's bedroom - Made a start
Spend 2 hours on course work

Friday
Take kids to childminder
Feed the animals
Paid stuff
Check online banking
Pay bills that are due
Take dh to doctors appointment
Finish decorating ds1's bedroom
Build ds1's chest of drawers
Iron school stuff for next week and hang up
Do 3 loads of laundry
Do some of ironing pile
Spend 2 hours on course work
Make a shopping list
Do weekly online shop
Hoover the carpets
Dust the living room
Collect the kids from childminder
Look into the information about making student finances go further
Make a list of anything else that needs to be done this week, I need to get organised as start my new placement next week.

YORKSHIRELASS

Fed up this morning, for lots of reasons which I wont bore you with. Flying has gone a bit awry this week but the house looks reasonably OK. Looks like a wet day today so OH was talking about taking the day off.

Will see what the plan is later.

just_the_two_of_us

Morning everyone - quick read of thread and most of it has gone in one eye and out the other!
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Bargainhunterss I do SW so will reply to your SW query and sure Iona will when she sees it.


You get a booklet from SW when you join which gives all the basics and access to their website with thousands of recipes so you don't have to buy a cook book or sw meals ( from the Ice shop) or their magazine or anything - they are purely optional.


We are still having our usual home cooked meals - tweaked to make more SW or sinned. eg we still have corned beef hash!! but I use a no cal spray in which to fry the onions rather than oil or butter and sin any butter used in the mash topping. I was worried that it would cost more as such a lot of fruit and veg - but you can get so much of that for little money that there has been a reduction in our spending and a huge increase in health benefits. Previously at risk of type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high BP so risk of heart attack and stroke and now all OK or the lowest risk possible!!!


Hope that helps. (ETA I am 5+ stone lighter than I was less than 2 years ago and have been steady at target for 6 months)

Horrid weather forecast today so plan to be in all day doing " the devil and all"


I'll try and catch up later and let you know how I got on or not!!! LOL.

bossymoo

I'd agree re slimming world- very much encourages real food and they don't have an array of puds and biccies that WW does. The main expense is buying leaner meats but that was my preference anyway x

Making the most of the peace before our guests arrive;)

Jazee

Morning all. Bit of a grim day here weatherwise so I'll just be pottering indoors, having had a day out with DH yesterday so therefore no flying was done.

I have orange cake in the oven for a fundraiser tomorrow, but looking at it now, I don't think it will raise any funds. May have to try again, I have to take something.

My list then:

Walk dogs between showers
Hoover through house
Ironing
List

Have a great day everyone.

dancemum

Grim here too.

Bathroom S&s done

I'm hoping to take the dancesons to an outlet village for shoes. My bf has offered to join us incase ds2 kicks off.

cyclingyorkie

Waving from the sofa.

Yesterday was distinctly horrible, but I seem to be through the worst. New medication is greatly helping my indigestion.

DH is working from home today to make sure I am ok.

My time on the chemo ward is best described as humbling. I am generally in a room with up to 6 other patients. Yesterday there was good conversation going on between 3/4 of us. But on every visit I have come across one person who is really struggling. The staff are truly amazing and this shows in their treatment of these struggling patients. So whilst I came out feeling really rough yesterday - even DS noticed and commented - I knew that by today I would feel better.

DD1 seems to be coping with living out. Fingers crossed it continues. DD2'S fiance is still unwell in Spain. They start the return journey tomorrow (36 hours on a coach), so priority is to get him checked out when they return.

Hope everyone has a good day. We had a lot of rain overnight, but we probably needed it.

ionafan

:wave: to CY - hope you're feeling OK this morning
MMM, how is your DH?
Hope you get a dry pitch for your tent, Frizzle.

bargainhunterss wrote: »

Do you find that you spend a lot on SW stuff when you're doing it? I always found when I was doing WW that we ended up spending lots on books, branded food etc (and I didn't even go to weigh-ins so didn't have that expense).

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

You get a booklet from SW when you join which gives all the basics and access to their website with thousands of recipes so you don't have to buy a cook book or sw meals ( from the Ice shop) or their magazine or anything - they are purely optional.

We are still having our usual home cooked meals - tweaked ...huge increase in health benefits.

(ETA I am 5+ stone lighter than I was less than 2 years ago and have been steady at target for 6 months)

bossymoo wrote: »

I'd agree re slimming world- very much encourages real food and they don't have an array of puds and biccies that WW does. The main expense is buying leaner meats but that was my preference anyway x

Wot they said! I am 4.5 stone lighter than I was 2 years ago and feel sooooooooo much better for it, and DH has lost 3 stone so far. Cooking is one of my passions, and from the start I was determined not to fall back into old ways of eating - I decluttered most of my posh recipe books with expensive ingredients so that I would not be tempted to "add half a pound of butter" etc! I buy the magazine and recipe books because I want to, not because of any pressure (I can get high on just reading recipe books ). I buy almost all our food from @1d!. As usual, our meal on Wednesday was all cooked from scratch and was delicious - and I don't think I spent more than 2 hours preparing everything, which was my "me" time for the day because I find it very therapeutic. My DH is always complimentary about the meals I cook, so that makes me happy too

I achieved everything off my little list yesterday apart from pinning up DGD2's skirt - but I did enjoy my Hollywood blockbuster I have even slept in for a change
Today I shall aim to do:
- no washing until tomorrow because it's raining steadily, and sunshine is forecast for the weekend
- QHTR (quarter hour tidy round)
- make some phonecalls
- drive (1 hour) to our cathedral city
- do a little bit of shopping
- go to a meeting from 11.30-12.30
- home for late lunch (but we're also having late breakfast!)
- pin and sew DGD2's skirt
- make notes on chapter 1 of the book I started yesterday
- update 2 more resource boxes

Hope everyone has a good day x

MrsPepperpot

Thank you Lynnejk, took your advice and managed to tidy the kitchen before going to bed. Lovely to come down to it all clear and tidy.

:hello: to CY I hope you feel better today x x x


Frightful Friday: Master Bedroom
Level 1
Clear that floordrobe
Strip the bed
Remake it too
Level 2
Pick out any clothes with missing buttons etc that need mending, and mend them! (Or let them go!)
Polish a mirror / picture
Wipe door handles, frames, window frames
Level 3
Airing cupboard- anything lurking that needs to exit the building?
Extras:
fling 5 things
start / finish a list: back to school things, university things, December festival things - you get the picture...
phone a friend
HHI

Off to do a bit of craft shopping but hope to do a bit off the list when we get back x