Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd September 2007

tracyg

Afternoon! Glad to see many of you all well! Feels like a real winters day today which I love. DS is out of sorts so having a good sleep and then we are going for a walk to fed the ducks, love the way days like this feel.

Pigpen another one here with a hangover
Lil me Glad last night was okay
Rach enjoy looking at weddings rings, hope you and OH sorted out the Denby thing, a local factory outlet has a lovley shop - not sure if they do wedding lists or not but maybe your OH would feel better if things were discounted?

Left DH to sort DS out this morning, had a lie in till 9 but snuck back to bed for an hour when DS had a nap and finally just starting to shake that yuck feeling. Did a quick fly around upstairs earlier, bathrooms done and everywhere else dusted, dusted and tied downstairs, ran hoover round, dogs throws shaken out and on line airing, WM been on and pegged out and all kitchen surfaces wiped and floor in there washed and buffed up. Once DS went back to bed we've sat and reworked out our budget. Just need to go through the cupboards and freezers and work out a meal plan for the month to try and spend as little as possible. Picked up loads of yellow stickered stuff so need to work it all in.

Right, will go and put a jumper on as its chilly here as had all the windows opening giving everywhere an airing. Enjoy your Saturday folks!

Squiggly_Diddly

Phew, I'm tired... but feeling pleased with myself!! :-)) (really gotta figure out how to do quotes & proper moving smiley people in my posts...)

I am looking forward to being sparkly-warkly, lol!!! Have got my Fresh Roses Yankee candle burning so it certainly smells lovely here....

I have heard of a few cases of pneumonia too - don't know why its suddenly getting people... It was (is) not nice :-( Just sitting down now with a cuppa and taking a break for a while. Must phone Champneys & see if I can haggle a deal with them!!

Went to Mr T's for a few bits this morning,, got a lovely new doormat with daisies on it & that will inspire me to sweep porch area & wash down front door tomorrow maybe.

More stunningly DD1 has been really helpful today without me having to ask her to help.... (this the child that vanishes the split second there is a mention of housework). Obviously wants something!! She has helped move a pine merchants chest back into the newly carpeted hall & we have stuck up some mirror tiles above it, a new clock, vase of flowers, a lamp & put the phone & a notepad/pens on there. Want to get a new keyrack and pop it there too. The aim is to have a nice neat/organised area that looks good & will develop along the lines of "launch pads" which is something I saw on another website (?organised home maybe). I wanted to do that first cos I feel at least if that is all done, it makes me feel better & I can tackle everything else bit by bit. And it does look nice :-)

DD1 has also phoned her father & asked him if he will take her to do a boot sale next weekend - so that will inspire me through the week to have a real clear-out. I can't stand all this stuff everywhere collecting dust - am just going to keep a few more special knick-knacks & be ruthless!!!

DD's 2 & 3 being shrieky & stroppy so I am taking to ignoring that behaviour & refusing to do anything for them..... Just printed out chore charts from chartjungle & also some flylady stuff. I find being able to tick stuff off real/virtual lists really does make things easier/clearer for me.

Hope all your days are going well & thanks again for the welcomes/motivation!

Squiggly

kazmeister

:coffee: on the tea this time, Just back from town. Didnt spend too much at all as nothing really inspired me and Saturdays in our shops are like in a jumble sale, I'll miss going in during the week now. Got DS more socks and OH 2 more pairs glasses as he broke another pair last night. Luckily with his job, he seems to be able to see better with the cheap ones then the £200 ones from opticians, he's forever leaving them at scenes of RTA's or in patients houses.

Well just had a text from him, bad news, had a phone call from customs and excise !!?? he's being taken to court for non payment of the overpaid tax credits we had! !!!!!!, you tell them your earnings, they work it out and pay you, then you spent it and they then tell you you owe them, and we only used to get £40 a month. They want somewhere between £200 and £400 cant remember exact figure, so he's told them he'd rather go to jail and live off his taxes for a while, he's paid enough £1300 for tax and NI last month.

Dont you just hate this country sometimes, makes me sick when they're talking of paying scroats 10% of the value of their houses for a deposit to buy if they stay out of trouble for 5 years. Honestly some people never earn a days pay or pay a penny in tax all their lives unyet good honest Fred Bloggs gets hammered and ends up getting poorer and further in debt. In OH's job he goes to people who've never worked and can still afford the 48" flat screen TV's and holidays all inclusive in the Caribbean and then have the cheek to call an ambulance because they want a sticky plaster :mad: :mad: :mad: . Thank goodness we've started talking about retiring to Sunny Spain within the next few years (not that we have any savings, muggins will have to get a job to supplement his pension)

Sorry rant over. Better go flycleaning and get it out of my system.

kazmeister

How much can I do before collecting DD at 5 o clock!

MY LIST OUTSTANDING

Bedroom is a hot spot so will have to move all bedroom stuff to weekend.
Remove bed linen and replace with fresh linen -
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs -
Vacuum floors in bedroom [STRIKE]and on landing [/STRIKE]- Landing done today
Vacuum mattress before replacing with fresh linen - weekend
Clean windows in these rooms -
Clear any one hotspot
Sort a wardrobe or part of, a drawer or set of drawer -

[strike]Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can get to[/strike] - both done
Anything that isn't in it's place where it should be, clothes, toys, books etc - slung all DS stuff on his bed so I could hoover and he can sort, attempting DD room but its a marathon
Dusting - DS room done
[strike]Strip beds and replace with fresh linen[/strike] - DS can do his when he's cleared it, DD's done
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Dust tops of wardrobes & drawers if you can reach without hurting yourself
Time for the Friday Flylady Fling, aim for 27, if you can't find that many, well done, you are obviously making a difference
Sort through a kids wardrobe or drawer, part with what doesn't fit or well past it's used by date - doing while attempting to tidy DD room
Clean any one (or more) window that needs doing

Dailies - Kids to do except stairs
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Uniforms ready for morning
Packed lunches for morning
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[strike]Get food from freezer for tea tonight[/strike]
S/S kitchen
[strike]S/S bathroom[/strike] - done
[strike]Clear table and wipe[/strike] - done
Empty dishwasher
Sweep floors all downstairs -
[STRIKE]Walk dog[/STRIKE] - done
[strike]Wipe stairs[/strike] - done


Hotspots still to do
Our bedroom
Old au pair room
DS old room

tiamai_d

Kaz, we have been overpaid by something like ££1300 over 4 years. They just take it back from each year's award. Taking you to court is a bit of a cheek is it not when they write off more than that from hundreds of people every year!

JillD_2

afternoon
wil read todays posts in a mo but wanted to post an update of my mammoth list as we've done a few bits off it over the last week.
Its looking good isn't it! I have never felt so organised in my whole life!!

My List - Done=78, ToDo=15:T

Yay I am winning BIGSTYLE!
- open a new account for maternity leave fund and move money in there
- get new curtain pole for our bedroom
- make Ruby Wedding album for Mum and Dad (it was 14 months ago )
- make sure everything is off old PC which kids now use
- get some stills off M&D wedding DVD for Ruby Wedding album
- write up baby books
- return DS slippers
- buy and put up new medicine cabinet
- collect freebie packs from pregnancy pack
- make some baby thankyous in advance of number 3!

Sewing machine stuff:
- make some trial breastpads
- make cushion covers for cushions for DD new bedroom

Garden:
- level patio with sand
- get hubby to dig me a new flower bed
- plant things in new flower bed!

Done: (leaving it here to make me feel good!)
[STRIKE]
- hang curtains in our bedroom
- get nursery fees ready to be paid
- clean steriliser and bottles etc
- return library books
- personalize DS schoolbag
- sort out receipts found in laptop bag
- seam curtains in our bedroom
- fill in paths with bark chips
- suss out how TENS machine works before big event!
- wrap kids presents "from" baby
- sort out DH wardrobe for extra storage
- find soace in our bedroom for spare bedlinen
- sort out receipts found in bureau
- filing cabinet hotspot
- make sure everything I need is off old laptop and decide whether to sell
- clear out bureau
- paint DS room
- cut grass
- hem curtains in DD new room
- weed paths
- weed and prune flower bed
- sweep up all debris
- move old tubs and discard dead plants
- wash buggy raincovers
- try paint samples on DS room
- select and buy paint for DS room
- label all DS school stuff
- sort out a hospital bag
- wash grobags, muslins, bibs and soft toys
- organise recipes
- get down grobags for baby from loft so I can wash tiny ones
- move DD height chart
- fix spare room cupboard door back on (it fell off this week)
- build cot
- get fitted for nursing bras
- buy apron for DS for school
- make mini album of holiday photos of kids for my Mum
- batch cook lasagne
- label all boxes of stuff in garage so we can find things
- batch cook cheesy quorn veg pie
- sort out overnight bags for kids in case we have to farm them out when baby comes
- wash boy newborn baby clothes
- move budgeting account money from low interest account to new higher rate one
- wash girl newborn baby clothes
- wash neutral newborn baby clothes
- hang swimming certificates up in kids rooms
- launder all baby covers for double buggy, moses basket, bouncy chair, play gym, car seat
- assess sheets for baby, do they need washing
- look for Avent bottles which appear to have got lost!!
- retrieve 2 buggies from under mountain of wood in garage
- get DVD in playroom sorted
- get down 0-3 boy and girl clothes from loft, to top up neutrals
- finish edging on rug for baby's room - will do whilst babysitting on Thursday
- print out a list of names and numbers for friends to look after kids when baby on the way
- clean baby bath stuff
- fix freeview in playroom
- sort out photos into nice storage boxes OH bought me
- finish and post letter to my Dad in hospital
- print out birth plan (for what its worth LOL)
- clean car seat and base
- buy newborn nappies and emergency formula
- get printer in study up and running again
- pay credit card bills
- pay window cleaner
- transfer all aranged play date things to diary and calendar
- shred big pile sitting beside shredder
- wash and put on spare room bed linen
- hang pictures in spare room
- hang curtains in DD new room
- stick up wall stickers in DD new room
- move DD door name plate
- put up baby's name plate
- clean room ready for baby
- get cot, moses basket etc down from loft and clean
- batch cook shepherds pie
- batch cook chilli
- batch cook sausage caserole
- batch cook quorn and veg caserole

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Dustykitten

quick update whilst on the pc renewing library books

[STRIKE]
Wrap present for party later
[/STRIKE]sort kitchen hotspot big job nearly done
file paperwork
sort desk
PTA cheque
padlock for DS2 locker DH has been dispatched
[STRIKE]
cheques school (various and numerous)
[/STRIKE]compete tax returns
sew more labels
locate pe bag
DS3 reading
DS1 and 2 planners and timetables[/quote]

kids paperwork from school is taking me forever. Have found out that DS1 and DS have a Friday inset end of November and DS3 has his on the Monday. Planning on going to centre parks and will just take DS3 out of school to con-incide with other's inset! We emptied the 20p jar which we have all been feeding for 3 years! It had £246.80 in not enough for centre parcs but about half. Need to look for a code and see what else we can sell on ebay and we will have made the diffence with any luck.

rach

poor you kaz - sounds like a worry you could do without.

we've had a good day so far. got up late and then walked into town along the seafront. looked at wedding rings and got prices so will go back and order soon. htink we're gonna stick with the little independent place where we got my ring. its nice to have personal service and use a family business i am hvaing platinum and OH 18 carat white gold. he is a bit worried about wearing a ring as he's never worn any jewellery but thankfully he has not mentioned not having a ring (i'd like him to have one!)

had lunch at the mexican where we had our first date and then had a quick look in debenhams. OH has said yes to denby i think he realised that its important to me to have nice stuff for once. its the main thing (apart from bedding and a food processor) that we'll have. i already have really good pans etc. am going to look into the factory outlets though and amazon does it too (they now do wedding lists!)

michelle - think i keep forgetting to say big congrats- really chuffed for you

right, i'm gonna enjoy time on the the internet whilst OH is watching the football.

kazmeister

tiamai_d wrote: »

Kaz, we have been overpaid by something like ££1300 over 4 years. They just take it back from each year's award. Taking you to court is a bit of a cheek is it not when they write off more than that from hundreds of people every year!

Know what you mean especially when Gordon Brown was quoted as saying they were going to let people off paying back thousands. And they cant reduce the next years award as we're not entitled to any.

Well just picked DD up in time, just got to the house to hear her friends grandad just died suddenly so all a bit of a shock.

Oh and I feel sick as ate 3/4 of a bag of Haribo while sitting at computer - :doh:

DD now done the door slamming bit as I laughed at her make up so will probably find my tidying has been thrown all round the room in a tantrum.

The trials of being a mum !!

vanilla

Removes crayon stains from walls

Dip a damp cloth in Bicarb and scrub the crayon
mark lightly to get rid of marks.

Thanks for that tried but didn't budge it, the crayon of course has to be dark blue.