Weekly Flylady Thread 31st August 2015

Natty68

]Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us.

Thank you Bossy for last week's thread

Every room comes back around next week so please don’t stress about catching up

These lists are only suggestions and not a must do list; you are more than welcome to post and follow your own lists.

Also adding a declutter mission each day will help to gradually clear the clutter and make flying easier.

A few of the basics before we start the week

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

Daily routines are anything you need to do on a daily basis like washing, 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 - stick on some loud music, grab a bin bag and whiz 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!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

The Spoon Theory

Ok here goes this week!

Monday ~ Bank Holiday..
Because I'm feeling so nice....Have the day off but......

Do your dailies
Tackle a frog or 5

and spend the rest of the day doing nice things with your family!

Tuesday~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Wipe fronts of appliances and units.. kickboards too!
Level Two
Wipe small appliances and replace.. clean 1 to perfection..
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed
Clean the tiles and sink
Level Three
Sort out the fridge... what needs working into your meal plan before it tries running away?
Tidy the cupboard full of all those things you never use.. and get rid of the ones you really don't need
Wipe over oven and hob and fridge.

Extras

• Arrange services on fires/boilers etc
• Scrub and demould doorseals! Don't forget the ones in the WM
• Tidy the top of the fridge/freezer
• Empty and wash out bins!

Wednesday ~ Bedroom and Landing
Level One
Strip and wash the bedding, remake bed before bedtime!
Declutter the floor and vacuum it! See if you can find a bit of floor you've not seen in a while!
Level Two
binbag dance
Sort a box of junk/cupboard/drawer
Dust and deweb
Level Three
Wash any curtains/nets/pillows etc that are in need
Tidy up the shoes and clothes that are scattered about
Tidy the linen cupboard

Extras

• HHI
• wash windows
• wipe paintwork
• Catch up on a job you've been putting off... phonecalls, filing etc..

Thursday ~ pick a room...
Level One
Declutter and vacuum/mop the floor
Clear window sills
Level Two
Dust and deweb
Scrub down kitchen units/table
Tidy up a cupboard/drawer or other storage vessel
Level Three
Clean filters and door seals on relevant appliances
Wipe doors and skirtings and paintwork
Binbag dance

Extras

• Wash windows
• Sort out having chimneys swept/boilers serviced etc ready for winter
• Organise car tax/MOT/insurance papers, household insurances extended warrantie.. make sure everything is up to date and filed appropriately!
• HHI.. or HH-something else if you do not I

Friday ~ Study and Bathroom
Level One
Spend half an hour doing something for yourself! Coffee with a friend, hair appointment... whatever
Declutter the floors!
Level Two
Vacuum/mop floors
Wash the bathmats/shower curtains or anything else that needs it
Scrub the fixtures! polish the mirrors and taps
Level Three
Clean and sort a cupboard or shelf and recycle all hose empties
Dust and defrag the pc and declutter 50 unwanted emails and 5 links from your favourites.
Wipe over the desk and any chairs that are in these rooms

Extras

• Empty and wash out bins
• Wash windows
• Wipe doors and paintwork
• Wash any stinky pet beds.. or the pets themselves if you wish

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:


I'm in for the week again. Thank you Bossy for last week's and Natty for this week


Here in Scottie-lands we don't have this bank holiday so it's just a normal Monday for us.


I think I might do some cooking and try to finish the ironing after I've done the dailies.


Also need to finish turning up my shorts, as I've pinned and tacked them and just need to hem. I have to do this in the daytime as using black thread on black shorts.


Hope you all have a lovely holiday Monday and the sun shines for you all



Monday ~ Bank Holiday..
Because I'm feeling so nice....Have the day off but......

Do your dailies
Tackle a frog or 5

and spend the rest of the day doing nice things with your family!


((hugs)), spoons and sticks
Lx

ionafan

Thank you Bossy for last week's thread and Natty for the new one.

I still have six box-shaped frogs to munch, so plenty to keep me occupied while DH is playing on the railway. For my "nice thing" I will make DGS4's christening cake. Also need to phone DS1 and send someone an email plus a cheque in the post. Meals will be easy, as we've got plenty of leftovers in the fridge

FBO, I loved your earlier post. Taking pride in your appearance is definitely a good thing to be doing :T

(((Hugs))), spoons and sticks wherever needed. Hope everyone has a good start to the week x

pigpen

Fankies for Fred Nattabags xxx

decluttered a binbag of clothes to DD1
Decanted bags of wool into a stacking box and binned a whole bunch of bags.. stored much more neatly now
sorted a binbag of stuff to post having sold it on ebeast as per usual I have an AWOL item.. gggrrr
Taken a bunch more pics to list.. winter coats.. when they are gone I shall list Halloween stuff then the Christmas stuff.

Bought a bunch of rainbow yarns to knit a rainbow blanket for DD1's friends rainbow baby. She lost a little one at her due date last year and is now expecting again..

I shall reclaim my sofa and front room so that I can start decorating soon.. I need to fling a bunch of toys so must sort through those at some point too!

I need a Frog List compiling.. that may become a frog in itself lol... tomorrow.. right now I'm off to my nest xx


Love and bunnies to all xx


Frog List

1. Sort wool stash
2. Sort GP appt. for DS3 .. BIG step for us.
3. gutter for the back
4. Tile edging for kitchen
5. Finish sewing clothkits kits.. I am NEVER biying these again, I HATE them !
tbc.

Dustykitten

Morning all and thanks for the threads Natty and Bossy

Weekend was filled with cricket, the annual fundraiser/charity event was yesterday so I've spent most of the weekend at the cricket club.

Today needs to be a catching up day of everything flying, financail and back to schoolish. Also need to take DS1's chest of drawers over to his flat.

Have a good day friends.

nicki_2

Thanks for the thread Natty

Woke up this morning with intentions of going on a long walk. Looked out the window and its raining so that put the mockers on that. I want to go to Mr Al & Mr A this morning as early as possible to buy some more bits I didn't get on Saturday but need. They open at 8am & there's supposed to be a break in the rain then so I'm hoping to dive out quickly and get back.

DD is due back at lunch time, so I want to get some admin frogs eaten before she gets home, and then I'll do the washing when she gets back as we want to run errands tomorrow on the bus as her school bus pass will be valid so we'll only have to pay for mine (£4.20) I best list my jobs for today or I'll still be sitting here at 10am :rotfl:

Personal
Sort through freezer/fridge
Update food inventory
Meal plan
Start Mr A delivery list for Friday
Write to do list for tomorrows errands (sweatshirt, butchers, HB)
Laundry

Monday ~ Bank Holiday..
Because I'm feeling so nice....Have the day off but......

Do your dailies
Tackle a frog or 5 (HGP, WP, HHNB)

and spend the rest of the day doing nice things with your family!

Time to finish my coffee and get myself sorted for the shops. Hopefully it'll be quiet! :wave:

Jazee

Morning flyers. Thanks for the list Natty, just my type.

It's raining here too so my plans to progress with the garden are scuppered although I hope to spend some time in the greenhouse. As for dailies, I'm putting them off till the afternoon in the hope that the rain will stop and I can take the dogs out, as I'm planning to bath them and then hoover and mop through the house. Maybe their bath can be a walk in the rain....or maybe not.

Can I ask you lovely people for some advice please? We are going to a wedding soon and the couple have asked for money instead of having a present list. Now, my dilemma is that we haven't actually met the couple yet although I expect that at some time in the future we will be related.

Any ideas what a suitable amount might be??

Have a great day everyone.

Jazee

Oh, and meant to say I tackled a real live frog yesterday while gardening. Nature is amazing but it did make me giggle.

Dizzy_Imp

I'm in please Small starts school on Wednesday *sniff* so I'll have a bit more time to fly. Will just be me, Tiny, three dogs and six chickens while DH is at work.

Raining hard today so unlikely to get out and about, so might potter and plan.

Caught up with last week's thread just now - lots of lovely posts and comments. Had the skids all week and was flat out entertaining left, right and centre, so sorry for being MIA. Echoing all the thanks - you ladies are so supportive xxx

Dustykitten

Jazee it sounds complex, I have never been to a wedding where we have not met the bride and groom. I would say how much would you choose to spend on a gift and if you feel happy to then give that amount.

Frizzle_2

Morning all.

Thanks for last weeks thread and thanks for starting this one.

I just wanted to echo my appreciation for everyone on this thread. I love hearing about other people's lives and helps me to know others have times when they find things tough. I also appreciate the lists as I need some guidance!

Yesterday was eventful! The hous looked great, we did all the jobs apart from hhi and put up the bathroom cabinet. We had the bbq inside due to weather with a slight hiccup of running out of gas!!!!

Then after we had eaten my cousin collapsed which involved some of the family looking after her and some of the family trying to contain 7 children in one room without letting them know what was going on. Ambulance was called but she started feeling a little better and refused to go to hospital! Arrangements were made to get her home and she went straight to bed to sleep it off!

Anyway, today will be a chilled out day.

Wudupa
Wm x2
Sweep and mop kitchen floor
Hhi
Put bathroom cabinet up