Weekly Flylady Thread post xmas 27 Dec

froddington

I'm in - thanks Valli :A

iammumtoone welcome to the thread and welcome back Jayne

Not much of today's list need doing which is fine by me! I'm planning to tackle the cupboard and drawer in the front room and then a couple of boxes.

Tuesday Twinkles - kitchen

Wipe all door handles, switches and sockets
Wipe tiles and splash backs
Wipe windows and any other glass e.g. Doors
Vacuum floor

Mumof2_2

I'm in and many thanks for the list Valli plus last week's Natty. Just going to do some ironing; got a load in the WM and want to do another load of darks. Serves me right for no washing clothes for 2 whole days doesn't it!

Hi and welcome to you Iammumtoone - just jump straight in at the Level 1s and see how it goes.

Cold here today but frost is beginning to go now. Hoping to go for a walk this afternoon. Had a fabulous day yesterday as am big Rugby Union supporters and Bristol won their first Premiership match at home - we were there shouting them on and my throat still feels battered 20 hours later!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I'm looking forward to 2017 and starting a new year - leave 2016 behind which I've personally found difficult and I know a lot of others here have too.

bossymoo

Hi, thanks for the lists, I'm in please!

Welcome to new and returning flyladies.

I've pottered this morning, and took kiddies out for a scoot. Brrr it was chilly although not quite -6 :eek:

I've done one wash load this morning, and that's hung to dry, kitchen more or less organised although a couple of kids bits that need homes. I seem to be working with 4 bins at the mo - one for glass, one for recycling, one for food and messy waste, and one for clean packaging that won't recycle. It's working well at avoiding my black bin getting filled up - I can take the others to the tip next week and still avoid having grot in my car boot.

I've vacced the hall too - lots of general muck walked and scooted in. DR is clean and tidy, so really it's just a bit of clutter.

Furry friends need cleaning out today too. Saw boy pig leaping about this morning haha think he was giddy about salad and baby corn :rotfl:

Right, I'll finish my cuppa and see to a moochy, moody DS, I think he might have post-Xmas Blues. Lunch might sort him out

woody1612

Hi I'm new to this. But have decided that in the new year when back at work I need to organise my time better. Looking forward to reading all your comments, hints znd tips x

*Jellie*

Thanks for the lists last week Natty. Thanks for this week Valli- been thinking of you and others who may have found Christmas tough.
I've been really sick since 3am Boxing Day morning so I am not planning on flying until I'm fully recovered. Darling hubby has been chipping away at the cleaning up.
Welcome Woody and any other newbies

Honey_Bear

iammumtoone wrote: »

hopeing its ok to join you?

Really need to get house sorted next year so this seems like a good place to start. I will concentrate on level 1s only for now as a lot of these will need work doing before I can start on them. today I need to clear and tidy said tables/worktops before I can wipe them

Oooh, that sounds sooooo familiar, about needing to clear them before wiping them .... welcome, IamMumtoOne. :wave:

woody1612 wrote: »

Hi I'm new to this. But have decided that in the new year when back at work I need to organise my time better. Looking forward to reading all your comments, hints znd tips x

Lie is so much easier to organise when the house doesn't need it first! Welcome, Woody! :wave:

*Jellie* wrote: »

Thanks for the lists last week Natty. Thanks for this week Valli- been thinking of you and others who may have found Christmas tough.
I've been really sick since 3am Boxing Day morning so I am not planning on flying until I'm fully recovered. Darling hubby has been chipping away at the cleaning up.
Welcome Woody and any other newbies

*Healing vibes* Jellie.

Advice again please, Flyladies. We have a sink that is very slow to drain. I've bicarb'ed and vinegered it several times and it's a lot better, but it's still a bit sluggish, ie water hangs around a bit longer than I think it should, but vinegar goes straight down. I can't get a good attachment over the plughole with a sucker thing because the plughole's too close to the vertical side of the sink, and to complicate matters it's a pop up plug, so I can't stick a hook down there to see if there's anything to hoik out. Apart from nuclear chemicals, is there anything anyone can suggest to see if I can shift anything that may be half blocking it? It's been like this for weeks but yesterday it was really, really bad because bloke lodger had to shave his beard off before his Christmas Skype call home and that really caused problems so I know there's something down there that shouldn't be, but no idea what.

Anyway shower room scrubbed, ground floor carpets sucked, kitchen tidied, breadmaker on, bins emptied, recylcing sorted for tomorrow's collection, personal accounts brought up to date and I'm just about to go upstairs and roll my sleeves up in my office for a satisfying couple of hours while OH watches some bloketrash on TV. He doesn't take much time off from sitting at his desk so good on him and it means he won't be poking through my 'Get rid' pile while I'm doing it.

kazwookie

I'll wave in passing :wave:

Dizzy blimey I heard the UK was cold but didn't relise it was down to -6, I'll blow some of the heat here to you.

Thank you for all the list and the work that goes into them.

xx

Redshank

Hello,

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas I'm very demotivated and looking forward to getting the Christmas tree down :P Will try and motivate myself to clean and tidy. Ho hum....

Valli

HoneyBear

I have a pop up plug in my bathroom but I can unscrew the top part. Can you unscrew yours?
Failing that arm yourself with a bucket and carefully disconnect the trap under the sink and check it's not partially blocked. Do this when your stomach is feeling strong, and I speak from experience.
Also do this when DIY shops are open just in case you need to replace a gasket. Again I speak from experience.
Another option would be hot water and household soda (cheap in savers) as that's an excellent degreaser.

My kitchen is spotless!

Honey_Bear

Valli wrote: »

HoneyBear

I have a pop up plug in my bathroom but I can unscrew the top part. Can you unscrew yours?

I've tried and tried, but it's solid.

Failing that arm yourself with a bucket and carefully disconnect the trap under the sink and check it's not partially blocked.

Do this when your stomach is feeling strong, and I speak from experience.

Thanks for the warning! I'll do that when I haven't greedily eaten the rest of the Turkish Delight and feel ever so slightly squeezy. Fortunatley I've had a little play with it and it's not tightened so tightly that I can't move it, so that's on the cards for when the lodgers go out tomorrow. I'm hopeful that will be where the problem is.

Also do this when DIY shops are open just in case you need to replace a gasket. Again I speak from experience.

Wot's a gasket, please, and how will I know if I need to replace it?

Another option would be hot water and household soda (cheap in savers) as that's an excellent degreaser.

Is household soda also known as Soda Crystals, which I have a bag of, and how much should I use? Do I disolve it in the hot water, because I had to force feed the bicarbonate of soda underneath the pop up tap with the handle end of a teaspoon to get it down there the other day prior to the vinegar, until I thought of putting a cupful in a bottle of hot water and pouring it down prior to the vinegar.

And, final question, are soda crystals lumpy bicarbonate of soda, or are they different things? I've put loads of bicarb down and that, with vinegar, just isn't solving the problem.

My kitchen is spotless!

Congratulations on your spotless kitchen - mine isn't, but looks more organised, is tidier, smarter, easier to work in and much cleaner than it usuallly is. Spotless is a bit over-ambitious for me at the moment but I washed the floor, so I think I should get points for that.