Weekly Flylady Thread 15 August 2016

rainedaze

Morning all, an avid lurker registered and delurking as feeling brave and bored on a long boring shift at work. My aim is to de-clutter and clean my way to sanity as so sick of the feelings of dread when a friend or relative comes to visit, DH says I am paranoid but only way round this is a weekly cleaning rota and this seems a perfect place to start.

Magnificant Monday ~ Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Sweep and mop the floor
Level Two
Clear and wipe the worksurfaces
Clean the sink and slush the drain out
Level Three.
Clean the windows
Wipe the door handles
Clean the extractor fan/filter change?
Wipe the oven kn@bs, underneath too if you can
Extra Mission
Defrost the freezer and make a list of things to use up this week
Find 10 things to throw/give away.

nicki_2

Thanks for the lists Natty.

We're in this week of sorts. My personal to do list is growing rapidly and I really want to get as much as possible cleared off it, or at least transfer all my work related tasks which are not time sensitive to my work planner I had hoped to go out and run a couple of errands tomorrow with DD (stuff we forgot to get last time ) but considering the time, and the fact I still need to go and make my bed I don't think I'll have the energy to run to town! Upstairs got a good clean over the weekend, so there is just downstairs to do so I think that may be a better plan, along with clearing the ironing and the end of the laundry.

Might go poke hunting tomorrow afternoon as I've just discovered (while sitting here waiting for my phone to finish charging) some more local spots to visit It'll just depend on how productive Monday morning is.

Right, I'm going to go make my bed, and tidy up etc. Hopefully by the time I'm done my phone will be fully charged. :wave:

Matody

Thanks for the thread, I'm in again this week!

Morning ALL :wave:

My kitchen is still okayish from last weeks deep clean, so shouldn't take me too long today :j

kazwookie

Morning

Thanks for all the lists and the work that goes in to them.

I have work today! so off in a bit.

Tonight, I will start the attack on the house
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Starting with a food list
And WM

dancemum

Morning folks

Thanks for the list Natty and for last weeks Valli X

Wm filled. Will stick it on when everyone is dressed

Jazee

Morning all. Welcome newbies, thanks for the list Natty and hugs to whoever requires them.

So far today I have done the dailies, dusted the dusty bits in the LR and watered the garden.

Just firing up the paid stuff.

Have a great day everyone.

bossymoo

Morning,

I'm in thanks for the lists, ladies.

Hi to CY and hugs to Valli and sis, hope all goes to plan today xxx

DS is at sports camp so just me n DD. We've just sorted the basket of colouring pens etc and located missing ones. Not sure why we have 5 packs of felt tips but I've removed 4 and put them elsewhere. DD tested all her gel pens too and we've flung half a dozen of those and some marker pens past their best. All fits in the drawer now!

I swept and mopped all downstairs yesterday and I've washed the kitchen sink this morning so we're almost done in there. Freezer only been in a month so not defrosting that - haven't even read how to yet, lol!

Actually, I do have a double wall cupboard I've not yet sorted - so I can tackle that later - need to decide where things go for max convenience haha.

DD also has a swimming lesson soon - and we don't really know where we are going, so I'll look into that, and we're having a bike practice too, on the way home!

Honey_Bear

Thank you for last week's list, Valli, and this week's Natty. (((Hugs))) for you both, also, and CY. I'm an avid gymnastics fan, so Woohoo! for the chaps, but sad to see that none of the women's team made the individual finals.

Welcome RaineDaze! :wave: Decluttering makes actual cleaning quick, so I hope you find progress really soon. As to the feeling of dread when people come and visit - as long as you're welcoming, the kettle's hot and there's something in the biscuit tin, visitors really, really don't care whether you've dusted recently. (And if they do they're not people we should be worrying about, anyway.)

Linky for you, Jazee, although I adjusted the recipe quite considerably having read a few recipes and comments from various places all over the web. I think I read somewhere that microwave jam doesn't set solid, so I didn't bother about trying to achieve a proper set and this is plenty thick enough. Also, I read somewhere that someone was upset that their jam boiled over in the microwave, and I realised that was to do with the volume cooked being too great. I have no idea what power microwave the recipe was meant for - 1000w, 600w? I used my biggest glass mixing bowl.

I had nearly 600g of strawberries, so I did them in two lots. I cut the sugar by half, so 300g strawbs, 150g sugar, roughly pulse chopped the strawbs in the food processer (one recipe said 1/4 inch slices - life's too short to do it by hand) and let the chunks sit for half an hour in the sugar having coated all of the chunks with it. I then zapped it at 800w for 2 minutes (very sloppy), stir, 2 minutes (boiled up and very bubbly), stir, zapped again for about a minute, didn't boil up, just bubbled. I figured that was enough, potted it and slapped the lid on while it was still very hot. It made two medium sized jars and it's absolutely gorgeous. I'm now on the hunt for whoopsied summer berries, because apparently it'll work for anything.

I've scraped all of the silicone sealant out of the bathroom round the sink and bath this morning. The sink's fine but the bath clearly should have been done years ago because there's a lot of water and black mould underneath the sealant. Revolting. I'm rather hoping that putting new sealant on them will be easier than the kitchen and shower room were, but that was probably because the tube of sealant was 30 years old - the last remnants have been decluttered to the bin and I bought a new tube on Friday. Fingers crossed.

Spent most of yesterday flying but I can't remember what I did. Typical; once it's done it's forgotten about but it was jolly hard work, with only two jars of jam to show for it. Well, a lot less, actually, now that Lodger One and I have discovered how lovely it is and we needed something to scoff while Max Whitlock and Louis were doing their thing. *ahem*

LameWolf

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I'm in please Natty - DH is on holibobs at home with us this week, so I might get a bit of time to fly! BTW - he's all lovey-dovey again now. Who knows what goes on in his head? Not too much, I suspect:rotfl: Ta for the support, all

As the saying goes: "If brains was a disease, men would be healthy!":rotfl:

I'll be doing what I can manage this week - if the weather stays fine, the plan is to try and get something done with the front borders. Now Mr LW is retired, we can get busy on these - I was never able to do them when he was working, as I'm terrified to be out the front on my own.

Other than that, when I've posted this, I have my tax return to tackle. Oh joy! :cool:

Mr LW is just about to mow the back lawn - poo-picking is becoming more hazardous, as the grass is too long.:D

OK procrastinate no more - HMRC Torture Session for me now.

bossymoo

Phew! I'm hot!

Got a bit lost but made it to swimming with a minute to spare haha. DD managed really well - she swam 10m front crawl which I've never seen her do before! She was the littlest but managed to keep up just about lol. We came back via the footy field and she also managed about 4m of independent biking lol she didn't realise I'd let go

She's now eating chocolate buttons in a den in the LR thought she needed a reward for efforts!

Going to have an hour pottering then we'll go get DS. Anyone up for a hhc now?