Weekly Flylady Thread 28th December 2015

Jazee

Thanks LW - will be sending coping vibes your way tomorrow.

Mrs Moneypenny - your dinner sounds delicious.

Floors are clean until the dogs go outside again. About to do something nice now, catch up with a couple of phone calls to friends, assuming they are available.

Oh and Christmas not quite over, I've just had another mince pie and there are still two in the box.

Honey_Bear

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Printed out a label for the 2016 saving challenge that was mentioned in Nother thread, basically me the mins game you save 1p on 1st Jan, 2p on 2nd through to £3.66 on Dec 31st so by then you'll have saved about £668 but the most you save in a day is the final £3.66. Or you could do it in reverse so you start with the in amounts and work down.

I love this! Never heard of it before but it's a great way to structure my savings habit. I think I'll carry on with purse emptying on Mondays, £2 coins and £5 notes that come my way and then balance that against the running total to end up with the full £668. Thanks for posting that Mrs MP!

Valli wrote: »

House de-Christmassed; decs etc boxed/bagged and waiting to go up into the attic. Lounge vacuumed; furniture repositioned. Foul pots brought out of DS's room and soaking. Old Cat fed salmon and cat milk. Old Cat hanging around for more salmon; she will have to wait (for this to settle) as I don't want a repeat of yesterday's regurgitation.

Plain white fish might be less rich and therefore easier for her to keep in one place, so to speak. I found frozen coley filets the best to keep my elderlies going, but salmon or tuna are favourites. OH has finally found this pouch or tinned food that Devil Cat loves. Even Morribunds sells it so although it's expensive it's easy for them to digest and they eat every scrap. We only get the fish flavours as he's not so keen on meat and won't touch any beef flavoured cat food. (Occasional lodger's cat won't either.) It sounds as though she's having the time of her life, Valli.

Jazee wrote: »

Posi-vibes please for DH who is having a rough time of it at the paid stuff at the moment.

Masses of *posi-vibes* winging your way, Jazee.

Your kiddiewink juggling sounds as though you've reached the nescessary balancing act, Bossy.

Yesterday was a mad scramble to get everything looking shipshape after new-to-us lodger emailed to ask if she could 'just drop off some stuff' 48 hours before she actually moves in. I hate the word 'just.' It always means it should be a small thing but in reality it's going to be majorly disruptive. So, first impressions and all that. House finally looked shipshape yesterday by 3.30 pm so I started on our bathroom. Grout scrubbed and bleached on the biggest section of tiling (looks a lot better), shower curtain hems bleached (why didn't I think of that before?) dusting, scrubbing and swabbing generally have left it looking a bit sparkly. Day of rest today, at long last.

pigpen

tree down.. several bags of stuff deposited at DD1's.. lots of boxes and paper into the bins.. TD on..

Glorious rain around here.. all such fun!

Heating supposedly fixed.. unfortunately the boiler doesn't realise it has been fixed so the heating is off again already!

Lost the letter re DS3's assessment thing goodness knows how I've not even been here! I need to call them tomorrow because there is no way we can get to the appointment on Tuesday.. Need to chase money from cf too.. that should have been in on the 20th December.

mummyroysof3

Got a tub of Xmas chocs with best before of end April...would it be wrong of me to use them to put in party bags on 9th April?

pigpen

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

Got a tub of Xmas chocs with best before of end April...would it be wrong of me to use them to put in party bags on 9th April?

no.. do it!!

Jazee

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

Got a tub of Xmas chocs with best before of end April...would it be wrong of me to use them to put in party bags on 9th April?

And if you take them out of the tub there won't be a date on them at all!

Caught up with friends by phone. Feeling ready to tackle the paid stuff tomorrow now I've achieved everything I intended to today.

Flying in the morning will be the bathroom for me.

See you all on the next thread.

toochoosey

Tree and decs down awaiting their trip to the attic, hoovered right through downstairs and polished the LR.....................having a chill time now.................Before normality hits tomorrow!!!

Valli

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

Got a tub of Xmas chocs with best before of end April...would it be wrong of me to use them to put in party bags on 9th April?

Absolutely not! I would, without hesitation!

Have ironed this morning's TD stuff (well to be honest some of it was just 'shown' the iron!)
Check e mail to find that a game (BNIB) sold on Amazon on the 1st - how I missed the email yesterday I will never know. Anyway it's packed now and I shall take it to the PO tonight when I can face the rain!

mrs-moneypenny

Definately use the chocs as party bag filler
It's watch home in time for Christmas on iplayer as we missed t before
Going to play pandemic now a board game dd2s partner got and has out round.

Hope your boiler is sorted properly soon pigpen.

Mumof2_2

Chucking it down again now after looking much better this afternoon. Grrrr.

Been busy painting the under stairs area with the kids this afternoon - paint went everywhere but we had a nice time and it does look better. Found some bits from the back of the shelves to get rid of too but J hasn't gone through his stuff yet.

Doing prawn jimbalya from Mr M's LFHW website; smells nice and is easy to do. The proof of the pudding is in the eating though isn't it so will have to report back.

Mummyroysof3 as others have said definitely keep the chocolates, no problem at all.