Weekly Flylady Thread 26th October 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 to . Bossy for last weeks thread

Still going with the new style this week, which works on how much time and motivation you have. The idea is that even if you are really busy you don't need to fall off the wagon!

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 ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Declutter the floors
Vacuum decluttered floors!
Tidy coats and shoes, put summer ones away for next summer or in the bin or charity shop bag as required!
Level Two
declutter and dust the tops of any units and dust ornaments
Wipe the sofas if needed or wash covers as required
Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb
Declutter and wipe fire surround
Level Three
Check house for draughts and make a plan to plug them before it gets REALLY wintery cold!
Hang pictures/mirrors etc that you have had for AAAAGES and not got round to doing yet!
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..

Extras

• HHI or HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!
• Binbag dance
• Wipe the skirtings and window frames
• Empty and wash out bins and fill coal/kindling baskets as required
• HHI

Tuesday ~ Kitchen and Dining area
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Shine the sink!
Level Two
Wipe fronts of appliances and units
Get out your toothbrush and scrub the grout and taps!
Wipe table and replace cloth if needed
Level Three
Clear and wipe window sills
Clean the oven and hob..
Scrub the fridge

Extras

• Sort the childrens undies.. what needs replacing/flinging/hitting with a stick?
• Wipe skirtings
• wash windows
• Thoroughly clean out the jars and spices and cereal shelves

Wednesday ~ Surprise Day Off
As a lovely surprise..You can all have an unexpected day off today... Do whatever room/level you wish to do today. !

Normal service resumes tomorrow

Thursday ~ Master bedroom and landing
Level One
Declutter the floor
Strip wash and replace the bedding.. do not wait until you want to get in it!!
Level Two
Vacuum floors
Dust and deweb
Empty and clean out bins
31 fling boogie!
Level Three
Clear the floordrobe.
Sort through your cupboard and get rid of those items of clothing you no longer wear or need or are worn out.. memories are in your heart not in things you no longer use!!
Declutter some of the stuff you have stashed under the bed, in the bottom of the wardrobe

Extras

• Wash windows
• Wash curtains or other soft furnishings that need it
• Straighten your shoe and bag collection.. can any be rehomed?
• Sort through a box of general junk that is lurking

Friday ~ Bathroom, loo and study!
Level One
Declutter floors
scrubify the tiles
Level Two
Clean the bath, loo, shower etc...
Defrag comp while you vacuum/mop
Wipe chairs keyboards, mouses monitors etc..
Level Three
Wash shower curtains/bathmats etc
Clean the radiators and paintwork
Shine the taps and descale the shower head!

Extras

• 15 minutes filing
• HHI
• Delete 100 useless junk emails!
• Dust deweb and wash some windows!

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Thanks everyone xxx

Narc0lepsy

Golly I can't be first. Have lost track of all my good intentions to get flying properly but I keep trying. Really, really have to clear backlog of paperwork this week.

dancemum

I'm in x Thank you Natty and Bossy x

It's half term here. I have spent 3 hours tackling the shelves of doom in my living room today. I was going to move ds2's magazine files upstairs but got him to edit them instead. All the large books have been placed on the sod (shelves of doom), most comics have been recycled and 6 files are now ready to go to the tip leaving 1.
Popped out earlier to get petrol. I stalled the car in major roadworks and couldn't restart it so had to be pushed around a roundabout by DH and a kind road worker.
Ironing done. DH washed car and raked up some leaves.

I have vacuumed under the sofas and around the LR edges and the hall.

Under bed dusted

pigpen

ty Natty. xx

we're in I think.. if I can stay at home..

!!!!!!.. what is it with little moths tonight? I've killed 2 now another is flithering about with a deathwish!


Monday ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Declutter the floors
Vacuum decluttered floors!
Tidy coats and shoes
Level Two
declutter and dust the tops of any units
Wipe the sofas
Declutter and wipe fire surround
Level Three
Check house for draughts and make a plan to plug them
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..
Extras

• HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!.. that's the whole list!
• Binbag dance.. no bin room!!!
• Wipe the skirtings and window frames

Valli

I'm in many thanks Natty and Bossy for your sterling work with the thread.

Stairs huh? *snigger*

so living room and hall...

and here's me reading so quickly I thought Dancemum was put her books on her son (who she was calling a sod) :rotfl:


I also need to flingy flingy fling fling

Mumto5

Thanks for the new list. Scary to think that this time next week i will have completed my first day at new job!

Coco muttley has been through the wars. She had to eat alot of charcoal to soak up the bad stuff that makes kidneys fail. We had to keep her quiet and if anyone has had a bull terrier before they will know it's like trying to keep a snake in a string bag. She seemed better this morning so DH took her for a walk. She slipped down the path and got into the field alongside the flitch way. DH whistled for her and she forced her way back to him through a Hawthorn hedge. She looks rather the worse for wear now. funny really, kidney damage is invisible but can be fatal! A few scratches looks like the end of the world!

Good luck everyone!

Valli

Monday ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Declutter the floors
Vacuum decluttered floors!
Tidy coats and shoes, put summer ones away for next summer or in the bin or charity shop bag as required!
Level Two
declutter and dust the tops of any units and dust ornaments
Wipe the sofas if needed or wash covers as required
[STRIKE]Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb[/STRIKE] No plants in these areas
Declutter and wipe fire surround
Level Three
Check house for draughts (yup - draughts galore) and make a plan to plug them before it gets REALLY wintery cold! AND THE PLAN IS NEW WINDOWS - WOOTY WOOTY WOOT WOOT
Hang pictures/mirrors etc that you have had for AAAAGES and not got round to doing yet!
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..

Extras

• HHI or HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!
• Binbag dance
• Wipe the skirtings and window frames
• Empty and wash out bins and fill coal/kindling baskets as required
• HHI

Frizzle_2

Thanks bossy for last weeks thread and natty for starting off this week.

pigpenthats an amazing transformation! Well done you!
nikki- can you post a picture of your window? I would love to see it!

I munched a massive frog tonight. I have sorted out all the Christmas presents so far! Pretty much done all the kiddies! (My two, two nieces, three nephews, five friends and four cousins) they have all been put in individual carrier bags with labels and hung up on coat hangers in the wardrobe! It looks very organised!
Just need to concentrate on adults now and stocking fillers! :T

I am going to work from my own list tomorrow as the living room is looking quite presentable from yesterday!

We are going out at 10.30 with some friends so I have said that ds1 can have a list f jobs and when it's done he can choose to do what he wants until we go out. But if the jobs aren't done we aren't going! Hopefully he will be on board!

My list.....

Wudupa
Wm x 2
Sort out room of doom
Hoover dining room
Hoover stairs
Put pictures up in kiddies bedrooms
Ds1 to finish thank you cards.
Shredding!
Sort out playroom ready for decorating!
Steam clean hall carpet
Wrap present

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:

I'm in and thank you Natty for this week's thread and Bossy for last week's


Monday ~ Living room and Hall
Declutter the floors
Vacuum decluttered floors!
declutter and dust the tops of any units and dust ornaments
Wipe the sofas if needed or wash covers as required
Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb
Empty and clear out a cupboard or drawer..
Extras
HHI or HHC doing some task you ALWAYS put off!
Binbag dance
Wipe the skirtings and window frames
HHI


Hugs, sticks and spoons to anyone needing some

Hope you all have a marvellous Monday
Lx

dancemum

Valli wrote: »

and here's me reading so quickly I thought Dancemum was put her books on her son (who she was calling a sod) :rotfl:

It isn't that son who has been a sod. The other spent 1000 minutes and then £300 on calls in 19 days. I have spent the last few days trying to sort it out to no avail. :mad:

juliejim

Morning All

Well it's half term so I'll try to be in this week! I'm meeting my friend at 11 for a walk so I've got until then to get some things done.

Pleased that Mutley's on the mend mumto5.

Have a good day all

Hugs

Jue