Weekly Flylady Thread 14th March 2016

pigpen

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.

Here is last weeks thread and peaceful days for Bossy and GWS Natty

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!

Some of our abbreviations: DH- dear husband, OH- other half, KH/CF- affectionate term for ex husband or partner DS/DD- dear son/daughter, DGC- dear grandchild, WM- washing machine, DW- dishwasher, LR/DR- living/dining room, RoD- room of doom, Mr S/A/T/M/L/Al- supermarkets Sainsburys, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl, Aldi. You get the picture!

Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide

Right here we go...


Magnificent Monday - Living room, hall, stairs and porch!
Level One
Declutter ALL the floors!!
Clear the mantle of junk
Level Two
Vacuum/sweep all the floors.. stairs too!
Vacuum/sweep under furniture you can safely move!
Vacuum sofas
Level Three
Wash the windows
Wash any soft furnishings that need it
Wipe down ALL the paintwork!
Extras

1. Wipe and water plants
2. Dust all the electricals.. carefully.. don't want any frazzled flybodies
3. Binbag dance
4. HHI

Tuesday Twinkles - Kitchen and dining room
Level One
Clear and wipe worksurfaces
Scrub down the front of units and large appliances
Level Two
Wipe and replace small appliances
Clean oven and hob.. I saw a fab looking vid. today.. here
Wash windows and sills
Level Three
Wipe the table .. check the underside! :eek: and chairs.. don't forget their legs!... clean cloth if necessary
Sweep and mop the floor
Degunge the fridge!
Extras

1. Thoroughly clean the cupboard under the sink! (I absolutely do not have over 30 brand new microfibre cloths!)
2. Run the WM's and DW's through a clean cycle
3. Clean all the filters and door seals etc
4. Wipe the back door down.. inside.. and out!!

Wednesday ~ Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Declutter the floor
Remove and wash bed linen.
Level 2
Dust surfaces & make sure no cobwebs..
Wash windows and nets/curtains
Vacuum and turn mattress before replacing with fresh linen
15 minutes floordrobe clearance
Level 3
Vacuum floors in bedroom and on landing
Sort one area of clothes or linen storage making sure only what should be in there is, anything that's had it's day or doesn't belong there is removed
Sort through a box or bag of stuff you've not looked at in months.. I am certain you don't need most of it
Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. Finalise the easter plan.. have you got craft bit to make bonnets? When is your parade? Eggs bought?
3. Binbag dance! Yes 2.. maybe do one for charity shop and 1 for the bin?
4. Wipe grotty paintwork.. touch up any bits that are looking shabby

Thursday ~ Study or other reception room & bathrooms
Level One
Clear the clutter from all these rooms!!
Ring someone you love just to tell them so.. we never do this enough!
wash any curtains/blinds/mats etc that need doing
Level Two
Vacuum the floors
Clean bath, toilets, shower and sinks
Wipe down the tiles and defragment the pc while doing this.
Level Three
declutter and dust the pc desk
Wipe away cup rings and sticky things
wipe the keyboard, mouse, cables and sockets and suchlike.
Clean the windows.
Extras

• Clear a hotspot
• HHI
• Wipe cupboards and polish mirrors!
• Wash those stinky pet beds!

Friday ~ The Chicken Song...
Level One
Clear the floor in a neglected room
Change any bedding that hasn't been done recently
Evict some spiders!
Level Two
De-grot a hotspot!.. all of one.. the whole mound.. what did you find underneath?
HH-something.. study, exercise, challenge, garden, iron.. what did you do?
Empty and clean out a cupboard.. fling the stuff you don't need and put back neatly the stuff you do!
Level Three
Spend half an hour doing something for YOURSELF!.. hair, nails or simply a bath!.. What did you do?
S&S the kitchen and bathroom
Vacuum a fluffy floor!
Extras

1. Wash any windows you have left and can now no longer see out of! (that would be all of mine!)
2. Wash any curtains that need it and put up your winter weight ones
3. binbag dance
4. Wash the sticky paintwork in one room!

huston_kw

In this week, thank you for the list PP

Biscuit_monster

Thanks piggers , well do my best this week.

Pooped tonight after spending all day hacking down more overgrown bushes and stuff up the drive. Then we had to clear it all up. We had a bonfire!

It's been a beautiful day, would like another day of weekend please!

Bear_family

In this week!

Where do I find Toots' master list? It mention this list on the welcome page and includes every job imaginable, but I can't find a link to click on please?

Thanks,
Bear x

kazwookie

Evening

I'm in again in my own way.

Thanks for all the lists.

Wm is on
2 items listed on eby they have kindly given me 100 foc extra listing if I clicked on the link, so it would be rude not to use at least some of them
Shopping list for tomorrow is done

pigpen

bear.. the link is on the first post

Bear_family

pigpen wrote: »

bear.. the link is on the first post

Sorry, I can't find any link to click on the welcome post. It mentions Toots master list, but it isn't clickable...

MinnieMousesMummy

Good evening everyone, Thanks for the list Pigpen. Sorry I was missing last week, this was due to me trying to focus on uni work to catch up (which I have almost done). Please count me in for this week, as I really need to have a good go at the house again.

Magnificent Monday - Living room, hall, stairs and porch!
Quick shower
Let the chickens out and feed all animals
Get the kids up, dressed and out to where they need to be
Check uni emails and deal with anything important
Discuss important issue with dh, before he makes a decision
Clean out the fridge before food delivery arrives
Print off brief for next assignment and do plan
Get paperwork ready for uni on Tuesday
Spend 3 hours reading over uni notes and tidying things up
Paid stuff
Read mse email from last week, never got round to it (Sorry)
Fill in form for uni
Set up blog and write first post
HH looking for work
Declutter ALL the floors!!
Clear the mantle of junk
Vacuum/sweep all the floors.. stairs too!
Vacuum/sweep under furniture you can safely move!
Vacuum sofas
Collect the kids from childminder
Close the chickens away before dark
Wash the windows
Wash any soft furnishings that need it
Wipe down ALL the paintwork!
Wipe and water plants
Dust all the electricals.. carefully.. don't want any frazzled flybodies
Binbag dance
HHI
Catch up with thread
Update list and post list for Tuesday
Get an early night

Ok, I think that is everything that I need to get done. Now time for bed, as it going to be a very busy week.

FurryBeastOz

I'm in. Thanks. Got all my sewing done, and a bit more baking. 2 more recipes for tomorrow.

1/2 plants in - the front pots look a lot more cheerful. I will attack the back tomorrow. We have a few crocus' poking their heads through, but nothing more. I have some little violas to go in, and I need to hack back some dead stuff and scrub the propogator etc. Then I will reward myself with a trip to the Dobies website to order some vegetables.

Kitchen cleaned, off to bed with a hot chocolate and a good book.

Have a great start to the week everybody.

Mumof2_2

Many thanks for the list Pigpen - I'm in. Still trying to fly even though I have a fair bit of work in.

Lovely day today as we went to Avebury and walked around; I think we probably did about 4 miles in total. Off to bed shortly - night all x

dancemum

Bear_family wrote: »

Sorry, I can't find any link to click on the welcome post. It mentions Toots master list, but it isn't clickable...

Welcome X The master list would be different for each person. I have mine in a notebook. I walked around my house and listed the jobs that I needed/ wanted to do. Some jobs are long term aims and some repeat often. Any one off jobs are ticked off when done.


I'm in thank you Natty and Pigpen X

I have some ceilings to paint b4 unilad returns.