Weekly Flylady Thread 18th April 2016

pigpen

Thank you to Natty for last week's thread

Do not lose heart if you cannot keep up with everyone else or reading the thread, don't try to reply to everyone and please remember to include something about flying in all your posts.

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.


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!

WM ~ Washing machine
TD ~ Tumble dryer
SC ~ Slowcooker
BM ~ Breadmaker
DW ~ Dishwasher
SOAADFA ~ Sit on 'bottom' and do 'nothing'
KH/XH/FW ~ Ex-husband and other not so polite versions
DH/DD/DS/DW/DP ~ Dear husband/daughter/son/wife/partner/whatever
OH/SO ~ Other half/significant other
NN ~ nice neighbour
Toxic (friend/mother/sister/whoever) ~ person in your life that seems to exist to make your life miserable
AF ~ Aunt Flo 'time of the month'.. nothing to do with flying but it comes up often.
ETA ~ Editted to add
gibble ~ miscellaneous crap that appears forever homeless
Dot-to-dot ~ pick a small area (not a whole room) like a chair/coffee/table/shelf/worktop or wherever- thats your first 'dot' - totally clear it - clean it - and only put back what should be there - deal with what you have removed (not just move it somewhere else) then if you have time move on and do the same to another 'dot' -the idea is just like a dot to dot puzzle, you aim to join up all the dots and have a tidy room. The trick is to keep each dot tidy until you get them all joined up!
RoD ~ Room of Doom, the one room that feels like it is a permanent pit and cannot be used to its potential!

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

Monday - bathroom and bog
Level One
Descale the loo.. And does inside the cistern need doing??
Empty bins
Decant and recycle those empties where possible!
Level Two
Descale the shower head!! I've seen one recently so disgusting I did not want to use it!
Shine time.. Mirrors, taps, tiles, shower!!
Clean windows
Level Three
Sweep/vacuum and mop!
Clean the outsides and insides of the fixtures! No good the inside being clean if the outside honks!
Extras

• Deweb the upstairs of your home!
  HHI
  Binbag dance!
  Catch up on calls!!

Tuesday - Kitchen.
Level One
clear and wipe worksurfaces.. its impossible to do a thing with those cluttered.. just sweep crumbs to the floor, you're doing that too!!
Clean the sink and marvel at its beauty and wonder how it gets so grotty in 5 minutes!
Level Two
Clean those units and appliances.
Clear and wipe window sills, if you have none or they are sparkly already the skirtings can be done instead!
Sweep and mop.
Level Three
Empty and clean out a cupboard.. it will very soon be insect time.. we don't want to invite them in!
deweb.. while we are not feeding insects we can make arachnids homeless!
Clean pet bowls and beds .. Mine won't even eat from dirty bowls! (and they attract flies!)
Extras!

• Filters and drawers
• deep clean/descale an appliance!
• sort any grotty food out of your fridge.. add to a meal plan if possible.
• Clean or replace the filters on the cooker hood you just enjoyed cleaning..

Wednesday ~ Master bedroom and Landing
Level One
strip the bedding and get it washed.. air the duvet
Mattress vacuumed turned vacuumed other side and redress bed
Level Two
Deal with the floordrobe
Wash the windows
Wipe all the doors and frames upstairs
Level Three
Vacuum floors
Tidy a cupboard/chest of drawers
Dust and deweb.. inc bed frame!!
Extras

1. Binbag dance
2. Binbag for charity
3. Sort out your own shoes and bags.. can any be rehomed?
4. Wipe hand rails on stairs

Thursday - Living pit, hallway, stairs!!
Level One
Declutter the floors!
Vacuum/mop floors & stairs!
Level Two
dust over all the electrical appliances.. be careful though I don't want any accidents!
Vacuum under the furniture you can safely move!
Clean the sofas
Level Three
Declutter the inside of a cupboard or drawer!
Degrot the under stair space/cupboard.. I'm good to you all I know!
Dust mantle and polish any display cabinets or bookshelves etc
Extras

1. Wipe and water the plants
2. Clean out the pets
3. Wash any smelly soft furnishings
4. Get a pile of filing done!!

Friday ~ A little bit of everything in my life...
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 .. or your bathroom mats.. or a duvet.. or your throws, do they need putting away until winter yet?
3. binbag dance
4. Wash the sticky paintwork in one room!

Dizzy_Imp

Ooh, ooh - I'm first to post!!!

I'm in again please x Lovely to see you back Piggers x

YORKSHIRELASS

Morning! Thanks for shiny new list Pigpen, hi Dizzy.

Paid stuff x 2 today, but DS1 isnt at work so that's one less taxi service to make. Hopefully the plumber is coming today to fix our bathroom so that we can actually let the water drain out of the shower and bath without having to scoop it out and tip it down the sink!

Better shift myself, want to get some beef in the sc so that we can have a stew for tea. I am at a committee meeting tonight so it's going to be all go today.

FurryBeastOz

Morning all. Happy Monday. Good to see you back piggers

I'm flying off my own list - seems to be working. I came down this morning to a lovely clean kitchen and tidy desk - ALMOST empty filing trays! Unheard of!

Finishing my tea then off to walk the beast before packing for the gym.

Have a great day everyone.

Mumof2_2

Hi all! I'm having a go at changing my tactics a bit - from 10 - 2.30 or so is going to be my 'office time' where I do my work and the bits in between and evenings are when I do my cleaning/walk dogs etc etc. Obviously this is flexible! What I'm going to do is print off last week's list and try to do levels 1 and 2 each week. At the moment the house is rather hectic - let's see how this goes.

Things with J not good I'm afraid. I was at an all time low Friday/Saturday but luckily picked back up again yesterday. He really batters my self esteem. As long as I don't talk about stuff he doesn't want to talk about we can be fine but as soon as I mention anything he doesn't like (his 'stuff') he goes silent and moody but the thing is we can't just ignore it. I know he wants me to get rid of Whiz but there's no way. I told him I love him but don't love his behaviours and don't know if I can live with it unless I see things changing. So far nothing really has changed despite my best efforts and I'm beginning to think maybe he loves his stuff more than me and the kids. I'm thinking I may go and see a solicitor just to get some advice and see what my rights would be if I did do anything. All very sad I'm afraid.

Hope all are well; sorry I've been so useless on here with keeping up and all. Not a good cyber buddy am I Have a good day all x

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all, thanks for lists.
Hope everyone well
I'll be in to catch up later.

Valli

Hugs mumof2

Re the solicitor, most do a free half hour initial interview (you may need to ask) so this is an opportunity to get advice/opinions from more than one, meet the solicitor and get a feel for them, as well as get questions answered. Don't forget to ask about their charges, too. Write down your questions, and save the tears for friends' shoulders, solicitors are far to expensive to cry on!

Thanks for this week Piggers, and last week's Natty. Life is becoming less blurred. The worry, of course, is still with us.

This weekend I got some stuff done. But there's lots to do including, to my shame, shifting 'put down' stuff. And ironing...

nicki_2

Morning all

Thanks for the list Pigpen, I'm in but working from my own lists for the first days at least.

Today is paid stuff as well as working through a mountain of washing. I've got a total of about 35 loads to do (including quilts, pillows and curtains as they were all washed between christmas and new year or there abouts). I started about 5pm last night when it suddenly dawned on me why my clean t-shirt I'd just changed into was a little whiffy! I'm already 5 loads down but being held back by a mountain of stuff I can't tumbledry which is currently filling my 2 washing lines and using up nearly all my pegs as its so breezy! I'm not even going to think about the ironing pile that will await me _pale_

This week:
Pay bills (CT, Ar, MC, HX)
Update finances (purchases over the weekend)
Book Mr A delivery (Troll, dog food, soap powder)
Phone VIP line for petshop and get my account unlocked :mad:
Laundry!!!!

Monday:
Phone dentists (9am)
Organise deliveries
Cards out to customers
Newsletters

Tuesday:
DENTISTS 11.40
Text mas customers to arrange delivery
Books to school
Books to customers
Deliveries to customers

Wednesday:
Mas deliveries
Bank
E Delivery

Thu:
Fri:

Right, I best get moving. Going to throw load number 6 (jeans wash 1 of 3 or 4! Yes we love jeans in this house :rotfl:) in and then phone the dentists so I can be getting on with work by 9.30 as its such a busy day. :wave:

ETA: Dentists call made. They've given me a half hour appointment tomorrow morning! I'm surprised as normally I have to wait a week or so. So adding that onto Tuesdays list. This also means I need to get certain wash loads done asap so I have clean clothes to wear tomorrow, towels done so I have clean towels to use.... thank goodness its a relatively good drying day even if the sun isn't out!

Frizzlef

Oh dear! Shouldn't have read the dentist story!!!!!
I had agonising tooth ache on Thursday. It has eased off a little but still a constant ache. I have an appointment for tomorrow and I am bricking it!!! I hate dentists but needs must! It is my very back tooth. Last time I felt pain like this it was either 'take it out' or spend £2000 for a specialist to do root canal. I went with the latter as it was a side tooth. Let's hope it's not the same ultimatum. Fingers crossed and any calming vibes would be most appreciated!

Anyway, thanks for the list piggers and thanks for last weeks natty.

List for today...
Wm x2
Dw
Wudupa

Wash bedding
Tidy dining room
Tidy family room
Tidy kitchen
Sweep downstairs
Hoover stairs
Wipe down kitchens sides
Dust living room

S and s toilets and sinks
Empty bins
Shine time.. Mirrors,
Extras
Deweb the upstairs of your home!
HHI
Catch up on calls!! Christening!!!!!

LameWolf

Mumof2 wrote: »

Not a good cyber buddy am I

Tosh! You're a great buddy, and don't you dare think otherwise! x

Piggers welcome back, dear friend; I love the title of today's list. "bathroom and bog" :rotfl:
Hah! Mr LW managed to totally p*** me off this morning (not actually his fault, I was in mortal agony with my shoulder, and he was standing around like a stuffed lemon, you know the way men do) so I took out my ire on the bathroom. Even had the plugs out and cleaned all the insides - to explain, they're not just ordinary rubber plugs, they are complicated little metal mechanisms that press down and sort of lock into place, and collect gunk like nobodies business.

Anyways, I think I've got to the bottom of the shoulder business now - lovely little thing called "frozen shoulder". I've downloaded a list of exercises that should help, so between those, the Oramorph and the Tiger Balm, hopefully I'll have this thing beaten yet.

Mumof2_2

Valli wrote: »

Hugs mumof2

Re the solicitor, most do a free half hour initial interview (you may need to ask) so this is an opportunity to get advice/opinions from more than one, meet the solicitor and get a feel for them, as well as get questions answered. Don't forget to ask about their charges, too. Write down your questions, and save the tears for friends' shoulders, solicitors are far to expensive to cry on!

Thank you; I'm researching local solicitors. Taking a good friend with me too which will help.