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Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd May 2016
pigpen
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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!
Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide
Ok here goes this week!
Bank Holiday Moonday
Level One
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Level Two
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
Level Three
Go enjoy the day with your family or friends
Extras
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Dust the fluffy electricals
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum the floor now it is visible
Pile all hotspots into one heap and sort through it all.. File/shred as appropriate
Clean any glass.. pictures, windows, mirrors etc
Level Three
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Wipe sofas and dusty places
HHC in the hallway..
Extras
Level One
Open the window and air the room
Strip off smelly bedding and sling it in the wash
Level Two
Vacuum the mattress and air the duvet (I dangle mine over the washing line if it's nice)
remake bed with the clean bedding
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Find 10 things to get rid of!
Level Three
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere and all the hotspots!!!
Remove some dust wallabies and wipe over the light shades
Extras
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!! I'm having my nails done this morning as usual
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets & pillows need freshening up too!!
Level Three
Rummage ALL the junk from one shelf and sort through it..
Sort through a toybox chuck out all the things they don't need any more.. charity or freecycle or whatever.
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras
Level One
Sweep and mop the kitchen
Empty and wash out all the bins
Level Two
Clear the bathroom floor and give it a scrub
Fill a binbag for Chazzer
Fill a binbag for the bin
Clear and wipe the desk, table or fire surround
Level Three
Update your Toots-list ... I don't think any of us have done this in a while.. We all have those jobs.. for those who don't know what this is.. it is a list of ALL the household jobs you want to do.. decorating, new windows, repairs, replacements, insurance stuff etc.. There is no 'master list' because everyone is individual.
Sort out a drawer, or a chest of if you have time!
Change any bedding that has been neglected this week.
Extras
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!!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!
Click here to read Toots wonderful welcome guide
Ok here goes this week!
Bank Holiday Moonday
Level One
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Level Two
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
Level Three
Go enjoy the day with your family or friends
Extras
- wash coats
- Sort bags and shoes
- Meal plan and budget for the month
- HHI
Level One
Open the windows and turn on some music!
Dust the fluffy electricals
Declutter the chairs, floor and fireplace
Level Two
Vacuum the floor now it is visible
Pile all hotspots into one heap and sort through it all.. File/shred as appropriate
Clean any glass.. pictures, windows, mirrors etc
Level Three
Vacuum under any furniture you can.. please don't injure yourselves!
Wipe sofas and dusty places
HHC in the hallway..
Extras
- Freshen up any soft furnishings
- Binbag dance... grab a bag fill it and fling it!
- Wash windows so the springy sunshine can get in..
- Wipe the woodwork in these areas
Level One
Open the window and air the room
Strip off smelly bedding and sling it in the wash
Level Two
Vacuum the mattress and air the duvet (I dangle mine over the washing line if it's nice)
remake bed with the clean bedding
Put the floordrobe in the wardrobe
Find 10 things to get rid of!
Level Three
Vacuum the landing and bedroom.. starting at the bottom of the stairs!!!!
Remove anything that should be elsewhere and all the hotspots!!!
Remove some dust wallabies and wipe over the light shades
Extras
- Wash any curtains that need doing
- HHI
- Clean the windows
- 15 minutes sort out of the landing gibble.. see if you can find something to rehome!
Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can see
Spend at least half an hour doing something for yourself!!!!! paint your nails, make an appointment to have your hair done, a lovely soak in the bath.. whatever you feel like!! I'm having my nails done this morning as usual
Level Two
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets & pillows need freshening up too!!
Level Three
Rummage ALL the junk from one shelf and sort through it..
Sort through a toybox chuck out all the things they don't need any more.. charity or freecycle or whatever.
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras
- Wash a set of curtains, nets, duvet or throw
- Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
- End of week fling!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
- half an hour in the garden clearing the mess and making it nice for spring to arrive.. the sooner your garden is nice the sooner it arrives! Honest!
Level One
Sweep and mop the kitchen
Empty and wash out all the bins
Level Two
Clear the bathroom floor and give it a scrub
Fill a binbag for Chazzer
Fill a binbag for the bin
Clear and wipe the desk, table or fire surround
Level Three
Update your Toots-list ... I don't think any of us have done this in a while.. We all have those jobs.. for those who don't know what this is.. it is a list of ALL the household jobs you want to do.. decorating, new windows, repairs, replacements, insurance stuff etc.. There is no 'master list' because everyone is individual.
Sort out a drawer, or a chest of if you have time!
Change any bedding that has been neglected this week.
Extras
- HHI
- Get stuff prepped for Monday school/work etc .. let's pretend we are organised!
- Vacuum a messy floor
- Clear out the porch!!
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Piggers - Thank you for this weeks thread. Natty - Thanks for last weeks thread.
Please count me in for this week, although I will be following my own list. I start a new job tomorrow and for some reason I have also decided to tackle the house in terms of decor and decluttering (I must be mad as I also have an exam at the end of the month for uni)
Bank Holiday Monday
Quick shower
Feed the animals and let the chickens out
Get the kids to childminder
Quick check of uni emails
New job
Do 1 load of washing
HH sorting through ds2's toys and get rid of any broken ones
Collect kids from childminder
Daily checks on sites
Spend 2 hours on course work
Close the chickens away
HHI
HH cleaning the kitchen
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
Check and wash coats
Sort bags and shoes
List 5 things for sale
Discuss idea for dd with dh
Catch up with thread and update list
That is my plan for tomorrow, for now however it is time for bed. Hope everyone has a good week x0 -
Thanks Pigpen
I'm in this week. Another busy one for me, and DD might be going away to her dads for the weekend so I need to keep on at her to get any homework done asap.
Monday I have my own list of things I need to get done before I can think about next week.
Mon:
Laundry - Dark, light, cloths, dark bedding, light bedding, throws
Change beds
Mr A shop
Baths & showers for both
Fix DD's school bag
Top up money for DD
Pressure wash yard
Cut DD's fringe
Change black ink & print instruction booklet for customer
This week:
Laundry - curtains (MB, DDB, LR), Blinds, nets
Clean outside front
Phone VIP line
Book Mr A delivery
Take birthday gifts to niece
Toots list jobs x2 - 1 down, shredding to do!
Tue: Order due
Wed: Out
Thur: Vote
Fri: DD away?
Cut DD's fringe!
Pressure Wash yard
Bank Holiday Moonday
Level One
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Level Two
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
Level Three
Go enjoy the day with your family or friends - DD wants to go out with her friends so I'm going to watch the snooker in peace instead
Extras- Sort bags and shoes
- Meal plan and budget for the month
- HHI
Tomorrows 6am alarm is going to be nasty for me at this rate lol I'm going to fold towels as an excuse to stay up later. See you in the morning :wave: Creeping back in for accountability after falling off the wagon in 2016.Need to get back to old style in modern ways, watching the pennies and getting stuff done!0 -
Super list given I cleaned both those rooms today and I want to get some marking done for Tuesday!
I also need to get end of month banking updated, tidy my handbag and work bag and support revising studentsDon't put it DOWN; put it AWAY"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
Janice 1964-2016
Thank you Honey Bear0 -
I'm here this week - thanks pigpen :A
Sorry I didn't make it onto last week's thread - assignment writing took over and flying was pretty much non-existent
Hugs to all especially CY and Valli and their families xx
Bank Holiday Monday
Level One
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Level Two
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
Level Three
Go enjoy the day with your family or friends"There's only one way of life and that's your own" - Levellers
"I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night" - Bon Jovi0 -
Evening all
Thanks for last week's thread Natty and thanks for this week's Pigpen
DH works the bank holidays, gets the days in lieu, as do most businesses here except the banks and the council :rotfl:
Kitchen and bathroom don't need much but I really want to get the accounts/banking/meal planning done.
Also this week I would like to sort out both freezers and a couple of stock cupboards, so I might make a start on that as well.
I have an appointment in the afternoon to get my ears lowered, so might do a bit of shopping and go to the library at the same time if it's not tipping with rain
Bank Holiday Moonday
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Extras
Meal plan and budget for the month
HHI
Sending hugs, vibes, sticks and spoons to all needing some
Hope you all enjoy your holiday Monday
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Morning all,
Been awol as we had an impromptu weekend away at classic car racing, so sorry for lack of posting. Thanks for the list Piggers , and for last week Natty.
House a complete dump, so as well as this list I've got my own as well.
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
[STRIKE]Go enjoy the day with your family or friends[/STRIKE] did this already
wash coats
[STRIKE]Sort bags and shoes[/STRIKE] ooo, did this last week
Meal plan and budget for the month
Hhi
Charity shop
Shoe bin
Wm x 10
Put weekend stuff away
Daily stuff
Walk dog
General tidy all through
Painting
Hoover everywhere
Ha!
better get on with it. Good luck with new job, mmm, and have a good day all x0 -
I'm in this week too, but will be flying off-piste as I really need to sort out the bedrooms one by one.
Enjoy the Bank holibobs everyone!0 -
Sounds like a great way to avoid studying for the exam, MMM.I have an appointment in the afternoon to get my ears lowered ...
Lowered? Is this a new plastic surgery thing that all the c'lebs will shortly be doing? I hope the appointment goes well.
I'm so sorry I'm not contributing at the moment, and I haven't even been able to read, let alone Fly properly. Turning over a new leaf today, so that'll be your listy, Piggers, and turning the superking around for a new arrival later this afternoon.Better is good enough.Note to self: Motivation follows Action, not the other way around.0 -
Morning all.
Second wash load on, I booked the Mr A delivery at midnight last night while I was watching the snooker. I just need to revise it as I'm pretty sure that by Thursday we'll need something other than 2 trays of dog food & toilet roll :rotfl: I spent an hour this morning laying in bed writing to do lists of the normal weekly jobs I never seem to get round to doing for each room in the house, the yarden, stuff I need to do on the computer and for work. Its a few sides of A5 but I've left room under each list to add more as I think of them. I'm hoping to get at least half of them crossed off this week.
DD has decided that she's not going out with her friends after all so she's going to help me get the jobs done. Next on my list is cutting DD's hair once she's washed it.
Mon:
Laundry - [STRIKE]Dark[/STRIKE], light, cloths, dark bedding, light bedding, throws
Change beds
Mr A shop - revise
Baths & showers for both
Fix DD's school bag - while watching the snooker
Top up money for DD
Pressure wash yard
Cut DD's fringe
Change black ink & print instruction booklet for customer
Bank Holiday Moonday
Level One
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Level Two
Sort stuff for school/work for Tuesday
Level Three
Go enjoy the day with your family or friends
Extras- Sort bags and shoes
- Meal plan and budget for the month
- HHI
Creeping back in for accountability after falling off the wagon in 2016.Need to get back to old style in modern ways, watching the pennies and getting stuff done!0 -
Morning all. Thanks for the list. Cheeky lay in this morning and not done a lot so far apart from putting a load of washing on.
List for today.,.,
Clear up kitchen
Wmx3
Wudupa
Dw
HHI
Clean dining table
Sweep dining room floor
15 min floordrobe clear in bedroom
Ds1 spellings and homework
Emulsioning the hallway and stairs.Grocery challenge- feb 2015- £133.07/£2500
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